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Are you noticing a drop in 3g speeds in your area?

I work and travel in and around the washington dc area and I live in frederick maryland. when I first got the evo (day one), the 3g speeds in my area were really good. Say 2MB up and 2MB down. Now I get between 512K down and it's really erratic. Today I'm traveling and am in the NJ area and the speeds are horrible here too.
These are major markets for any carrier. Anyone noticing the same? Could it be congestion perhaps??

Haven't really been checking exact speeds, but just using the browser I have noticed it being slower lately. I was getting nervous it was something internal that might have changed from flashing all these different roms. I doubt it though, hopefully its the network getting ready for 4g!!

same here. when I first got the evo, very quick data speeds. close to 2mb down at work and still descent speeds at home. Now Im roaming in my house half the time, ran a speed test last night and twice got 25kbs, before I would give 750kbs - 1mbs! Called Sprint twice now and they said they have outages through Pennsylvania. Not sure whats up but they said it will be fixed soon. initially they claimed no issues then after prodding them to check the tower, they changed their tune a little. I do get good data in most places but clearly they are having problems in certain areas of Pittsburgh.

been really slow in philly past few days 3g and 4g. seems to have gotten better this morning... 4mbps on 4g and 1.2 on 3g

Blame the world cup
Pretty sure the drop on network speeds is from everyone watching the world cup on sprint tv...

Notice the same... very fast 3g (2mbpsish) speeds June 4th to 6th... after prl update and ota update... very slow (about 500ish)... I went into Samsclub the other day to get a second evo for gf... and noticed 2mbps on 3g again...
My geography hasn't changed...

I work in Hunt Valley, Maryland. The first week, my data was snappy. Now my 3g is crawling. CS did say there were towers down in that area. I live in York, Pa and my data still runs fast there so I'm guessing it is a tower issue. Hopefully they get this fixed ASAP...
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I live in Jacksonville Florida and have the same issues. DL is about 300 kbps average. This really sucks. Hopefully they are tweaking the towers for 4G or something. We have 4G now sprinkled around Jacksonville and Orange Park Florida. Rumor has it that Sprint is going to fully unleash 4G in August (Jacksonville).

I'm in the Denver Tech Center area and it seems like Sprint is fixing the 3G issues. I'm seeing about 1.5Mbps average now.

And you think you have bad 4G speeds...

Sprint says they have 4G in Boise, ID and the surrounding area including Nampa, which is where I live (About 20 mi. from Boise). I've been running speed test on 3g and 4g everywhere I go. I'm lucky if I even have the dot on 4G unless I'm in a sprint store or LOS of a tower.
So far, 4G is always half the speed of 3G, almost always. The only time it hasn't been much slower is when I was standing in the sprint store.
On 3G I avg. between 150 to 850 kbps down - 50 to 500ish up.
On 4G I've gotten anywhere from 150 to 3000 kbps down. But anything over 1000 kbps down was when I was standing in the sprint store or within sight of a sprint tower.
Ping is 200 at its low and has been all the way up to 800ms.
As far as which sprint servers I'm connected too, they seem to be anywhere from KS to CA and once in a while in ID or CO.
I don't know about you, but this seems to be wayy slower than what the rest of you are reporting as "slow", sadly. Because at this point, 3g is beating 4g and 3g isn't even close to its capasity. (Got 1.5mpbs down on my iphone 3G)
Wifi works great, 5 down, 1 up even with 0 bars cross the house, by the way.
I love the evo and android, and sprints pricing, but even with millions upon millions of iphones out there, att can somehow keep their speeds up.

I'm almost right there with you. I was driving down I-270 in St. Louis with full 4G bars and I was only getting 1.5 Mbps. I get that through 3G!!! So why am I enduring the pain of this battery life when I got the same speed from my blackberry?
Ok...that's not meant to be answered. I really really really love my Evo, but like any mobile device, it has its flaws.

i have a lot of family in both marsing and nampa, too bad they all have verizon, i myself live in fresno tx and area that is supposedly saturated in 4g according to both clear maps and sprint maps and i am not getting 4g at all, on top on that i one main sprint tower down the street and about 6-7 antennas (repeaters) in fresno, for any small town thats overkill and fresno is small i can get 4g if i walk down the street towards arcola (another small town next door) and in the opposite direction towards houston i get 4g but were i live nothing and the speeds....one 4g test says .65kbps up and 125kbps down

I usually get ~3mbs in st louis. I've had 9mbs bursts too.

Be patient..
I recommend being patient. In my area (where Clear has had a presence for while), as soon as the EVO came out, speeds hit the floor. My 3G was handily beating the 4G speeds I was getting up until a couple of days ago. My guess is that the influx of all these Wimax devices hit their network pretty hard and they're still doing whatever it is they do to bring the speeds back up.
On the brightside, I've gotta give them credit for at least keeping it stable. It may have been slow, but it always seemed to work when I switched to it.
I'm sure if it was AT&T we'd be screwed.

TeknoJnky said:
I usually get ~3mbs in st louis. I've had 9mbs bursts too.
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topdawgn8 said:
I'm almost right there with you. I was driving down I-270 in St. Louis with full 4G bars and I was only getting 1.5 Mbps. I get that through 3G!!!.
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I've only tested 4G through I-55 in Arnold and out in Fenton at Gravois Bluff. Moving I've never hit over 2-2.5mb, and stationary outside the Great Escape theater at Gravois Bluff I hit 3mb once. I have NEVER hit above 3, which is kind of a disappointment. It could just be the fact that Arnold & Fenton are both kinda on the fringe of 4G coverage, but still...
I'll be going into downtown Saturday for the Cardinals game and I'm interested to try it out then actually in the city. Hopefully it's a little better. Sprint, here's your chance to blow my mind with some amazing speeds
P.S. @TeknoJnky DAMN! You're lucky with those 9mb bursts! Thats as fast as my cable connection at home! Jealous...

I test my 4G speed, and it's usually 1/4 of the 3G speed, but i download webpages faster through the browser in 4G, despite the lower bandwidth score. It's a weird phenomenon, but another user on PPCGeeks mentioned the same thing.

tmo US 3g data speeds

so im using a HD2, with the energy rom and tmo just announced that they are rolling out hspa+ in my city (honolulu) so i figured id do a speed test now just to see the difference when they "flip the switches" on 7/21 (my birthday)
so i pull up dsl reports and run the Iphone (bleh)/smartphone speed test choose 3g and........ 126kbps well maybe its a fluke i rerun it and 51kbps WTF!?!?!?!!?!
so i remember mobilespeedtest.com and i try there and..... 134kbps.....starting to get annoyed and when i compare with other tmo subscribers the average is 580~
so my question is is there something i can do to "fix" my speeds? ive got full signal im always showing "H" oh and im using opera 10.0

In Lexington, Ky I get about 400 kbps. In Cincinnati, like 800-900. I just think Tmob's network is really crappy.

hahaha well your crappy is still 4 times faster than me
just odd its SO slow here where hspa+ is going live in a week

before TMO threw the HSPA+ switch here in Tampa, i regularly saw 600-800kbps download speeds. Now with HSPA+ it seems to average about 3mbps-4mbps and Ive seen it reach as high as 5.5mbps.
I just got through with a road trip from Tampa to northern Mississippi where i lost the HSPA+ coverage after leaving Tampa, i saw around a 1mbps in outskirt areas north of Tampa that doesn't have HSPA+ yet, and once we hit the interstate it was GPRS coverage for a majority of the trip with some EDGE coverage here and there. God i forgot how slow GPRS was!

oh i also forgot to mention im using the stock radio rom.....maybe a different radio would improve data speeds?

strickzilla said:
oh i also forgot to mention im using the stock radio rom.....maybe a different radio would improve data speeds?
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not sure it would really make a difference, im still using the stock shipping winmo and radio rom on mine.

im getting 831 kbps here in Ewa beach, Hawaii

blakdenali said:
im getting 831 kbps here in Ewa beach, Hawaii
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WTF?!?!!?!?! im in town near HCC, care to provide details as far as rom? radio? variances in different places?

My birthday's on the 21st as well, you know what this calls for....SURPRISE BIRTHDAY PARTIES!!!!

soooo apparently its just my apartment that sucks, left the house fro work today and didnt get 50 yards and my speeds jump up to 400~
as i keep walking outdoors my speeds go as high as 1.4 and never went below 400. so when i get to work i figure my speeds will go down as im indoors, wrong i kept getting speeds around 500 tho i didnt see the huge jumps that i did outdoors

We're on the list to have HSPA+ flipped on here in Austin next week, but I'm already starting to see the signs...I can now hit 3-5MB downstream just about anywhere in town.

3mbps-4mbps here in ATL
we are getting an average of about 3mbps-4mbps with HSPA+ in Atlanta, GA

Funny thing when I tether I get 12-15 Mbps. only when I tether tho even if its another phone
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[Q] Hspa+ deployed?

My phone's speed through the speedtest.net app at my home got better yesterday. A LOT better. I'm now reliably getting 3.5Mbits minimum, and got over 5 (5.11 was highest) 3 times. The ping is also good, ~125ms. I can find no explanation for these great scores other than "4"g finally being deployed. Anyone else getting better results?
For the record, the best score I ever got at home before this was 2.2Mbits.
upload still sucks... 300Kbits

nothing has changed for me..still paltry download and embarrassing upload.

Techcruncher said:
My phone's speed through the speedtest.net app at my home got better yesterday. A LOT better. I'm now reliably getting 3.5Mbits minimum, and got over 5 (5.11 was highest) 3 times. The ping is also good, ~125ms. I can find no explanation for these great scores other than "4"g finally being deployed. Anyone else getting better results?
For the record, the best score I ever got at home before this was 2.2Mbits.
upload still sucks... 300Kbits
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Are you sure that you weren't accidentally connected to wifi? Well, then again, that wouldn't explain the 300kbps

my area nw of detroit is hit or miss. sometimes i see 5mb speeds while other times i can barely break 400kb.
overall, my atrix works much better/fasterr than my att n1...

I was getting 2.5-3.0 Mbps when I got it and I live in a very small city. Just tested right now and got 3.5 Mbps and then 3.1 Mbps.

You can see the 4G coverage map at att.com/network
So far I see 4G released in greater Los Angeles, Bay area, "northern California" (Santa Rosa area), greater Dallas, Houston, Chicago, Buffalo, Providence (RI), Boston, Baltimore, Charlotte, and Puerto Rico.

I'm about an hour and change away from boston, and I see decent speeds. Faster than my verizon phone.
I'll be in boston next weekend for pax east, I'm pretty excited to see what kind of speeds I'm going to get.

I've always gotten 3mbs down and 300kbs up.
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My speeds tested with the speedtest app in Portland, OR (Vancouver, WA) which automatically tests from a server in Iowa (guess that's AT&T's connection point?). Anyways, not the speeds I expect, but I can live with them.
3053 D
167 U
2341 D
158 U
1674 D
129 U
2067 D
411 U
3369 D
304 U
For the record, I was in Santa Rosa, CA (one of their claimed rolled-out locations) for the past week. When downtown, I had great speeds. If you travel 1-2 miles away from downtown, coverage is hit or miss.
I was there for a week testing it and couldn't have been more frustrated. Constantly dropped calls because it kept switching between networks. I wanted a way to force it to stay on Edge while I was there so I could competently conduct business, but both AT&T and Motorola assured me that there was no way to force it to stay on Edge, as that feature was purposely disabled in the phone's settings.
My iPhone had that function and it came in handy when in bad areas. WTF?!
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Also, these speed tests in Vancouver, WA (Portland metro area) were tested now. Also, I spoke to 3 AT&T reps + 4 Motorola reps while I was in Santa Rosa, CA. As if it matters, but tracking the help from these companies is important at this stage I think

I noticed the same thing this morning. Im getting 4Mbps+ down, but still .3 up. Im just outside Chicago
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Maybe this is a good sign of things to come?

I can confirm that at the moment I am getting 3.4Mbps and that with 4 bars not 5 but yeah the upload still sucks

Huh. If this really has been deployed, maybe I should replace my Cingular SIM...

Just had 2 bars, ~200ms 3.4 down, .39 up
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Are you guys getting this speed with new APN setting or just the default? I'm in a 4G coverage area but am only getting about 1.5m down.

bleuiko said:
Are you guys getting this speed with new APN setting or just the default? I'm in a 4G coverage area but am only getting about 1.5m down.
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I'm using the wireless tethering mod in the Dev section. The one where you need the SQLite editor and root explorer.
EDIT: I actually hit 4.06 down, and 0.95 up Haven't hit those speeds since then, but my downloads are looking far better (2 mbps+ down, a little more than .3 up) compared to when I got the phone. (Was lucky to hit 1.5 mbps down, and .2 up)
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FWIW, I was sitting in Chicago's Midway airport yesterday (remember, Chicago is a "4G" city based on ATT's map). Well, I was consistently hitting 4.0 - 4.5 Mbps down and 300 kbps up while in Chicago on my Atrix. Latency was around 120 ms IIRC. This was very promising to see.
This morning, I'm back to ~2 Mbps down and ~150 kbps up in Denver (where "4G" is not deployed)

fraliex said:
You can see the 4G coverage map at att.com/network
So far I see 4G released in greater Los Angeles, Bay area, "northern California" (Santa Rosa area), greater Dallas, Houston, Chicago, Buffalo, Providence (RI), Boston, Baltimore, Charlotte, and Puerto Rico.
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Well i am in Houston, and get nothing here. Using the custom apn for laptopdock.
Seeing 5+ Download and 305k Upload.

To me it's not an issue of 4g or no 4g. I just want the speed my wife get's on her iphone. Sitting next to each other on the couch on the same [email protected] network!!!

scottrleo1 said:
To me it's not an issue of 4g or no 4g. I just want the speed my wife get's on her iphone. Sitting next to each other on the couch on the same [email protected] network!!!
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yeah, I agree. I want the speeds that I had on my Nexus One, but I'm just going to be patient and see if they get their act together with this phone. I love this phone regardless.

4G coming to Hampton Roads Virginia!

My girlfriend had to exchange her EVO 4G yesterday at an official Sprint service center, and she was told that a lot of the problems we are having around here is because they've been working on the towers to upgrade them to 4G. The guy said they were doing it 'quietly, not announcing anything yet'.
Hope he's telling the truth! So far the closest 4G to here is Richmond, VA. It will be nice to see if this phone actually does 4G, or if that's just what they've been telling me.

I think your GF was feed a load of ____!
Clearwire hasn't been expanding due to money problems and a spat with Sprint. WiMax also runs at 2.5ghz and it's separate from Sprint's CDMA network. Clearwire wouldn't need to touch Sprint's hardware to launch WiMax in any area.
Now if it were Sprint upgrading their base station with their Network Vision plan, that could cause outages since all new hardware is being installed. Still that wouldn't be it because Sprint has publicly stated they will not start those changes till the 2nd half of this year.
If you're lucky, it could be Sprint making the change to Network Vision, in your area, for testing. I doubt that's it though.

crabjoe said:
I think your GF was feed a load of ____!
Clearwire hasn't been expanding due to money problems and a spat with Sprint. WiMax also runs at 2.5ghz and it's separate from Sprint's CDMA network. Clearwire wouldn't need to touch Sprint's hardware to launch WiMax in any area.
Now if it were Sprint upgrading their base station with their Network Vision plan, that could cause outages since all new hardware is being installed. Still that wouldn't be it because Sprint has publicly stated they will not start those changes till the 2nd half of this year.
If you're lucky, it could be Sprint making the change to Network Vision, in your area, for testing. I doubt that's it though.
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False. Clear water is still expanding for the first half of the year. After that they are out of money.
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You should have better confirmation before you make a post declaring the 4G is coming Hampton Roads area. I've been getting that same line since I bought my EVO in June. And now since Clearwire is broke and they CEO just resigned, it doesn't look good for WiMax rollouts.
I got all hyped when I read the thead title. Come back when you have something official.

WAVY 10, our local news channel did some investigating in reference to the crappy sms and web service we have been dealing with. What they found was that Sprint network in our area can't handle the amount of new smart phone customers they have signed up with the evo and the epic. They are fixing the system and expect it to be back online correctly by April 1st. We will see!

They have been saying that forever too. Whenever there is a problem, give it a few weeks....then two months go by, and nothing.

4G is already in Hampton Roads. Downtown Norfolk has testing going on. It's not the greatest but it's something. I used it about a week ago while I was on Colley Ave. Coverage was in and out as I drove through downtown but it is working.

I too have been told, by a Sprint Rep in Norfolk at the JANAF shoppong center, that the network outages are caused by the area being upgraded to 4G and for support for more 4G phones. He told me that areas of Norfolk have 4G up unofficially for testing, and an announcment will be made in April.
I decided to test the 4G at a StarBucks near Colley and Princess Anne and it connected. The connection was spotty and Speedtest.net would not connect. The trajic part is as soon as I drove away from the Starbucks I lost the 4G connection and it told me disconnected but radio antenna still on. Its not like Richmond but its a step in the right direction.

We ahve it here in Raleigh and I enjoy it in the spots where it is available. Yeee Haaa, post #10, now I can actually post something usefull.

No 4G in VB yet..at least at lynhaven area 3G data speeds are horrifying though.
SpeedTest.net
Ping: 330
Download: 175 kbps
upload: 80 kbps
Such low numbers have been taking place the last couple months sickening really

Hampton
i havent gotten any 4g service they few times ive been to norfolk lately. Im in Hampton and i cant wait for 4g. But i honestly dont care if we get it. im sure i wouldnt use it alot cause of the battery anyways

look at clear's coverage map.....it shows a section of norfolk and gloucester as having 4g coverage

I live in Norfolk near the airport. i have never gotten any 4g connection. This weekend, I drove all through downtown and still did not get any 4g connection despite the claims in other posts. I will say that my 3g service has been really crappy lately. so i contacted sprint and they told me 4 towers were being worked on and should be fixed by april 1. The agent told me that she was annotating my call in my record and will be giving me a discount on my next month's bill because of failed service. She couldnt say how much but anything is better than nothing Yall should call as well. I'm just saying!

dolfan08 said:
4G is already in Hampton Roads. Downtown Norfolk has testing going on. It's not the greatest but it's something. I used it about a week ago while I was on Colley Ave. Coverage was in and out as I drove through downtown but it is working.
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This is true. Whenever I get off work and I'm stuck in traffic going westbound through the downtown tunnel, my Evo connects to 4G with full bars. The speed test results I saw were nothing special though. I only pulled 2.5Mbps down, but that's still better than my 3G speeds of around 200kbps....

sling said:
No 4G in VB yet..at least at lynhaven area 3G data speeds are horrifying though.
SpeedTest.net
Ping: 330
Download: 175 kbps
upload: 80 kbps
Such low numbers have been taking place the last couple months sickening really
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I will drive down colley this evening to confirm the claims. I will post if i do get 4g connectivity. I will also post my speedtest results if 4g is available. fingers crossed

Mad_Dog238 said:
I will drive down colley this evening to confirm the claims. I will post if i do get 4g connectivity. I will also post my speedtest results if 4g is available. fingers crossed
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It is true! It is true! There is 4g downtown Norfolk. I followed Tidewater drive... to Little creek... made a left on Grandby. I followed Granby to 27th then Colley. The second I hit Colley I had 4 bars at 4g. I pulled over at the Golden Nugget Chinese Restaurant and ran a couple of speed tests. The results 7m down 2mb up Wow! That is awesome comparing to Norfolk's typical 3g service ranging from 200k-700k! I had service from the original find of 9:30 PM to 9:45PM then the signal died. I am not sprint so have no explanation why it went away. I confirmed that it was not a wireless connection..it was in fact 4g. Sprint, when is it coming to the rest of Hampton Roads?

Have you tried to tether with wimax? if so what speeds do you get? The reason I ask is because while downtown i connected to 4g, turned on tethering, then connected with my ipad 2. i was getting crappy crappy speeds like 200k while on the phone i was getting 7mb simultaneously

Taken by Church St & 28th in Norfolk this afternoon:
Test Date: Apr 29, 2011 1:09:56 pm
Connection Type: EvdoA
Server: Richmond, VA
Download: 5187 kbps
Upload: 931 kbps
Ping: 200 ms

4G is in parts newport news, norfolk, and of virginia beach. If you can download the sensorly app (in the android market) and find the spots.

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4G is in parts newport news, norfolk, and of virginia beach. If you can download the sensorly app (in the android market) and find the spots.
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Or you can look at Clearwire's coverage map. As of today on the Peninsula it shows Clearwire / Sprint 4G coverage in parts of Williamsburg, Gloucester, and Newport News. In SHR it looks like there's some coverage around downtown Norfolk and in Virginia Beach (around Town Center and Oceana).