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4G is getting slower...any ideas what it could be?

My EVO used to record 4G speeds anywhere from 8Mbps to 13Mbps here in Brooklyn, NY.
Noticed it didn't seem as fast the past few weeks and Speedtest shows im only getting around 2.5-3Mbps.
I've tried a bunch of stuff and nothing has seemed to help.
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My phone shows as having full 4G reception but the speed is just not there
My 3g speeds are also realllly reallly slow (around 0.5-0.9Mbps)
Please help me figure out whats up

Maybe more users are connecting to the 4g now.
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jkinnison90 said:
Maybe more users are connecting to the 4g now. Or some tower problems. There has been a lot of complains on 3g speeds lately.
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I use clearwire on my evo for 4g.

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I use clearwire on my evo for 4g.
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And how are you doing that?
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Iz stealing your 4G's..
Seriously there seems to have been a problem with the network today, was having an issue connecting to 4G in NJ, but once I got to midtown I was getting a connection, and decent data rates.

I was in Tampa last week and was getting about 3.5 down. That was the first time I got to use 4G so I don't know what speeds there have been like.
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Might want to note this.
http://www4.sprint.com/servlet/whit...=item_file&keyname=item_id&keyvalue='25625ay'
From http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=910550

its from the servers from so many users but Sprint have be doing new changes for the Wimax that could be y
Just note run a speedtest in the morning then run one afternoon
[QOTE=chrispino;10765787]My EVO used to record 4G speeds anywhere from 8Mbps to 13Mbps here in Brooklyn, NY.
Noticed it didn't seem as fast the past few weeks and Speedtest shows im only getting around 2.5-3Mbps.
I've tried a bunch of stuff and nothing has seemed to help.
Updated to lastest radios - Check
Update profile - Check
Check for RSA Keys - Check (have them)
My phone shows as having full 4G reception but the speed is just not there
My 3g speeds are also realllly reallly slow (around 0.5-0.9Mbps)
Please help me figure out whats up[/QUOTE]
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its because they are systematically replacing all the towers and infrastructure with the new upgraded equipment so that they can announce an industry first 1gb/s speed on feb7!!!

4G on Sprint anyway is so damn overated.
Had galaxy s for a while on TMobile.... and it was faster consistantly on 3G than my Evo on 4G. Don't even try then and match Evdoh to any other 3G.
Sorry... doesn't help your issue, I know.

[Q] Sprint Hotspot app on Evo?

I'm running mikfroyo 4.5, and I'm stoked about this rumor of the xoom wifi hitting sams club next month for 540. I loved the demo unit at the best buy closest to me, but of course in that one spot I didnt get 3g and I didnt bother trying 4g (pretty scarce in CT). Can anyone confirm that the sprint mobile hotspot app can give wifi to the xoom? I was reading another thread where the wifi tether app didnt so im a tad nervous.

I know the evo works with the xoom, but I use the built in cm hotspot.
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I am running the Sprint Lovers ROM on my EVO and have no issues giving WiFi to my Xoom. Cause there is no way I paying for the ridiculous data rates with Verizon, especially since I have unlimited 3G/4G through Sprint.

patass said:
I'm running mikfroyo 4.5, and I'm stoked about this rumor of the xoom wifi hitting sams club next month for 540. I loved the demo unit at the best buy closest to me, but of course in that one spot I didnt get 3g and I didnt bother trying 4g (pretty scarce in CT). Can anyone confirm that the sprint mobile hotspot app can give wifi to the xoom? I was reading another thread where the wifi tether app didnt so im a tad nervous.
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The issue using the Evo with the Xoom is the people using the Wireless Tether app, which in that case puts the Evo into 'Ad-Hoc' mode, whereas using built in tether on a AOSP ROM, for example, makes a normal 'Infrastructure' mode that the Xoom can connect to.
As I understand it, that is.

sorry someone answered this for me on the evo forum thanks..

I use fresh and setup wireless tether on 4g and the xoom flies with it.

[Q] Sprint doesn't allow 4G tethering?

Currently using Mikshift (latest) with BC's 1.8 kernel, although i don't really know if these has anything to do with my problem.
I have 4G on, and i have a fairly consistent "fair" connection. however, whenever i try to do a wired tether, as soon as i select the "tether" option on the list, the 4g connection drops, tries to reconnect and fails, then reconnects again as soon as i get out of tether mode.
tethering does work, but only with a 3G connection
is this a sprint policy, or is there something going on here? I'm paying $10 extra for stupid 4G, i better be able to tether with it.

Tethering with 4G right now, using PdaNet. Do it all the time.

You can't tether 4g with the built in sprint tether, you need to use a third party app. And for some reason the free third party apps don't work in 3g, so you have to bounce back and forth.
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Just use wireless tether
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Thanks for the responses.
I actually just opted to just 3rd party, easytether. Anyone know why 4g cannot be tethered? Is it just sprint being stingy?
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Why not use wireless tether...you can use 4g lol setup a hotspot for xbox..works
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The computer I needed to tether doesn't have wifi. (It's a desktop pc)
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Built in wireless tether with evervolv works very well, will update on 4g capability tomorrow afternoon
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Even with wireless tether I get a slow connection with 4 g I think they cap it

Wireless tether seems to work fine in both 3g and 4g modes for me, no problems here I haven't seen any type of cap.

Rob_ec said:
Even with wireless tether I get a slow connection with 4 g I think they cap it
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working on a mod to uncap data usage even though sprint claims to not cap data
linuxman84 said:
Wireless tether seems to work fine in both 3g and 4g modes for me, no problems here I haven't seen any type of cap.
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thats what i was tryin to say lol and good to hear

finalhit said:
I'm paying $10 extra for stupid 4G, i better be able to tether with it.
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Actually the $10 for Premium Data is what everyone now pays who either activated a new smartphone, placed one on their MIN or upgraded to one on of after 01/30/11. You were fed a nice pile of steaming BS thinking the extra $10 was for 4G. Think about all those customers who don't live within the Clear WiMAX footprint nor travel to one. They too forked out $10/month. I'd suggest getting Easy Tether Pro from the market and use that instead of the default app on the HTC EVO Shift 4G.

Sprint does not cap data usage on 4G devices. It is really unlimited...for now.

Not through the actuall device I get good speeds through the phone but when I use the wireless tethering to my laptop it doesn't even let me download anything past 200 KBs that's pretty slow considering when I use the phone it downloads way way faster than that.
wireless.praying.mantis said:
Sprint does not cap data usage on 4G devices. It is really unlimited...for now.
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[Q] Wifi Tether with 4G Speed

I'm running stock Froyo (rooted) and used Wifi Tether 3.0 pre 12 through 14. I can successfully get my phone to tether internet to my Asus Transformer but I can't seem to get over 3G speeds.
Wifi Tether seems to crash when I have 4G enabled so I have to start it up with 4G turned off. After Wifi Tether is enabled an my transformer is connected, I can then start up 4G. However it doesn't seem to make a difference is speed.
I tested my phone's 4G with the speed test app and alone it hits about 9mb-10mb. Once tether is enabled I get 500kb-1.2mb.
Anyone else having this issue or have any suggestions?
Many Thanks

Unfortunately, my experience is the same. The 4G on tether gives 3G speeds

Wifi tether 3 pre 14. Did exactly what you said. Activated on 3g then once it was up and running I turn on 4g..
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JohnCorleone said:
Wifi tether 3 pre 14. Did exactly what you said. Activated on 3g then once it was up and running I turn on 4g..
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is 3 kbs suppose to be 4g?

mrhocuspocus said:
is 3 kbs suppose to be 4g?
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That was taken at the end of viewing a You Tube Video so it had already slowed down. I can have multiple devices (had 5 linked up to it at a coffee shop) without any lag what so ever. It was actually giving better performance than the coffee shop's Wifi. That's why everyone was trying to grab my signal. I had forgotten to set my Wifi Encryption. EDIT..the Wifi 3 pre 14 actually gives twice the 4g tethering speed than my buddy's Evo that's running the latest and greatest ROM they have. We constantly use mine instead of his...EDIT 2..I actually have perfect 4g service and pay for Hotspot and this is the first and only time I have considered stopping that service as the Wifi Tethers have always been **** compared to it but not anymore
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I think I am on pre 12 and I get 4g speeds on tether, do you have a link to pre 14
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Is this what you are looking for?
WiFi Tether for Root Users 3.0-pre14 *** EXPERIMENTAL ***

weird, I'm on pre 14 now and get garbage speeds. I'm going to look into a few customer roms to see if I can get bluetooth tether to work and I'll see if there's a speed increase there. I've never been able to get bluetooth tether to work on stock froyo, tried about 3 different programs.....

DCRocks said:
Is this what you are looking for?
WiFi Tether for Root Users 3.0-pre14 *** EXPERIMENTAL ***
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Thought I read somewhere that there was a "caution" with these newer builds...don't remember what it was. Is it true they also offer regular infrastructure mode? And does it have security/mac filtering?
Don't want to mess anything up with my market version. Had it hooked up to CM7 nook color (1200 MHZ ocerclock) w/ GPS tether on top...... sweet G Maps driving Nav!! Hard to miss a turn with the 7" gigantic GPS!
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I haven't had a problem while running pre12 on Midnight 5.2. I normally see >3.5m on 4g service streaming from Netflix to my tablet.

So I flashed my phone with midNIGHT rom 5.3 and running Wifi Tether Pre 14 and now I'm getting between 2.2mb - 3.5mb down. Not exactly blazing fast but definately a far cry from my original 500kb lol. Still better than paying $30 for the actual tethering fee.

hoy128 said:
So I flashed my phone with midNIGHT rom 5.3 and running Wifi Tether Pre 14 and now I'm getting between 2.2mb - 3.5mb down. Not exactly blazing fast but definately a far cry from my original 500kb lol. Still better than paying $30 for the actual tethering fee.
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What are you using for speed tests? I've run speed tests with the Ookla/speedtest.net app, and gotten pitiful speeds, then fired up netflix and saw 4x the speed.

phdeez said:
What are you using for speed tests? I've run speed tests with the Ookla/speedtest.net app, and gotten pitiful speeds, then fired up netflix and saw 4x the speed.
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I have tested with Ookla and also CNET's speed test. The speed between the two are consistant as well as the download speeds that I see when downloading files.

Anyone experiencing data issues??

I heard from sprint it may be an outage.

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3G Data wonky in Denver
Having 3G issues here in Denver... both on my EVO and my wife's EVO Shift. We're both in different parts of town during the day.
I came back home to get some work done and 3G seems to be working just fine over our Airave device.

jlampitt said:
Having 3G issues here in Denver... both on my EVO and my wife's EVO Shift. We're both in different parts of town during the day.
I came back home to get some work done and 3G seems to be working just fine over our Airave device.
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Its working on the wife's evo, but I cant update my profile (error 1012).
I'm getting emails, im able to get into and browse the market, but I cant download apps, and I cant browse the net. Very odd.

Had the same problem and 4G was slow along with market problems. Thought it was my phone
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daprospecta said:
Had the same problem and 4G was slow along with market problems. Thought it was my phone
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Me too...wiped, reflashed rom reflashed radio
grrrr

same problems in austin, on 3g and 4g. works on airave but obviously that means nothing since it's basically just my wifi

Yeah same problem here in west Texas. Figured it was sprint...

Cannot make calls on mine. Saint Joseph, MO.

Problems here in Denver too. Specifically with the market.
We're comin from a pure power source.

Man I thought it was just me I'm lost I tried everything New Orleans

Was happening here in Philly... on my eVo and wife's Shift. 4g was fast, got 5 to 8 mbs download and less than 1 mbs on 3g.
Haven't check to see if things are back.
Decks Rom Rules, Other Roms Drool!!!
Thanks for tryin!!!