Someone asked about 4G speeds over the weekend. I could't find the thread, so I'll post them up here.
I live on the south side of Kansas City and at my house I pull between 3 and 5.5 Meg down pretty consistently.
At my dentist's office today I pulled between 2 and 3.5 on several attempts.
My upload speeds have been consistently between 850k and 1.5 Meg.
I'm looking forward to testing at my buddies house. We were able to obtain dl's over 8 last time I was there messing with his Evo.
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when i'm in Boston i average 10mbps on my Evo, next time i go i'll have my Shift and will be able to compare the two
Very cool. I plan on doing a side by side with his Evo.
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i got 7000kbps down and 1100kbps up today up here in minnesota the chicago speedtest server is the fastest i've come across. great ping times.
I got 9.5Mbps upload in Rochester. Very impressive.
Anyone in Nashville? I travel there sometimes.
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I got 9.5Mbps upload in Rochester. Very impressive.
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Rochester, NY or Rochester, MN?
Did a couple of test today. 5500 kbps at one point this morning. 9500ish around noon. 1000-1100 kbps up.
These were in LA.
This morning I got 5500 kbps down and 1100 up in Alexandria VA.
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riggsandroid said:
This morning I got 5500 kbps down and 1100 up in Alexandria VA.
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Just don't shift in your pants!
Argh when is San Diego going to get 4G?
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yokken said:
Rochester, NY or Rochester, MN?
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I would say that's in NY. I'm pretty certain there's no 4G in Rochester, MN.
I'm heading up to the Twin Cities tomorrow, so I'll have to try out the 4G and see what kind of speeds I get
I hit 10.28 dl and .99 ul in Orange County today with full 4G bars.
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Argh when is San Diego going to get 4G?
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Go chargers?
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silex said:
Argh when is San Diego going to get 4G?
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+1. Sprinkle some of that 4G over Northern San Diego/La Jolla too. UCSD needs some 4G lovin (;
Guys, check out the Map Viewer app for an unofficial coverage map. Works great!
I found this great Android app '4G,CDMA,GSM & WiFi Map Viewer' on AppBrain: http://www.appbrain.com/app/com.sensorly.viewer
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Western Chicago Suburbs here (Higgins corridor and north of Elgin on Fox River).
I drove around last weekend and monitored the 4G.
I'm mostly seeing 3-5 M upload and .5-1.5 M uploads (early Saturday morning)
Closer to noon I saw rates drop to 1-3 M uploads. I was driving in some pretty out of the way places and saw fairly good 4G coverage.
I was on I290 the other day and got one hit at 12 Mega (!). Just saw it once
and have not been able to re-create it.
My guess is the closer to Chicago you get, the higher rates you'll get.
Anybody have an idea if Sprint is reducing bandwidth when their network gets busy?
I've got the sensorly app, one of the better ones.
I'm hoping "Open Signal Maps" gets their act together because it is actually
trying to locate the towers on a central map.
Somehow I've managed to buy a house right in the middle of a group of towers
so that I only get 1 bar of 4G upstairs (3G only downstairs). Once I get on the road
I get good 4G coverage (2-4 bars)
4G speeds in shawnee ks suck but they are better than the 3 G ones lol
I usually see speeds between 6-8meg up in Cleveland. I use the Chicago server to test with.
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Hey guys, so i was driving home from the mall like an hour ago and i turned on my 4g cause i heard theyre getting it in northern VA.
anyways i had 1-2 circles of 4g!!!
my speed test is here
any body else too?
Nut sure how long it's been around, but since I've gotten the phone last Thursday I've had 0 to 2 bars in my house in Alexandria, va.
halorin said:
Nut sure how long it's been around, but since I've gotten the phone last Thursday I've had 0 to 2 bars in my house in Alexandria, va.
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same except in my house
route 7 runs past my street
on my street i dont have any but on route 7 i have signal its weird
In Clarendon and Courthouse neighborhoods of Arlington I get about 2mbps...
Not particularly spectacular, but the high speeds and faster phone makes it way faster than my iPhone 3G.
Virginia has 4G before Colorado? What is wrong with this picture.............
I live in herndon and I get 1 to2 bars averaging 2+ mbps not spectacular but faster then ATT.
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Virginia has 4G before Colorado? What is wrong with this picture.............
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Northern Virginia -- which is essentially a branch of Washington, D.C. There is nothing wrong with this picture
Musawi.y said:
Hey guys, so i was driving home from the mall like an hour ago and i turned on my 4g cause i heard theyre getting it in northern VA.
anyways i had 1-2 circles of 4g!!!
my speed test is here
any body else too?
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The signal strength is really just your strength to the tower, not your connection to the internet, just FYI I have had higher speeds with 1-2 bars than with a full signal. Anyway there are some spots in Houston, TX near where I work that I can get ~8-10Mbps down on, but I usually average about half that. Here are some pics, also btw a download test is a bit more accurate than those "speed tests" they can lie to you sometimes.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=6908657&postcount=8
Manassas, Va also has 4G. Just discovered this last week....hehe.
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Northern Virginia -- which is essentially a branch of Washington, D.C. There is nothing wrong with this picture
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Yup. Northern VA, Richmond, Hampton Roads >>>> Colorado . We don't have any 4G here in Hampton Roads that I know of yet (no Evo til Monday), but there is a new Clearwire antenna/tower near my girlfriends house. I hope there are many more of those to come and soon.
I want them to put one in in Springfield. That's where my office is and 4G would be awesome!
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There's definitely 4G at Franconia Springfield Metro Station in Virginia...and at the Telegraph Road Gate to Fort Belvoir...
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Yup. Northern VA, Richmond, Hampton Roads >>>> Colorado . We don't have any 4G here in Hampton Roads that I know of yet (no Evo til Monday), but there is a new Clearwire antenna/tower near my girlfriends house. I hope there are many more of those to come and soon.
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Apparently there are two antennas live in downtown Denver and others aren't live but have been spotted (including on the Sprint call center in the tech center) so its coming here too very shortly.
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Apparently there are two antennas live in downtown Denver and others aren't live but have been spotted (including on the Sprint call center in the tech center) so its coming here too very shortly.
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That's good to hear. I wish Sprint would give us a real roadmap of their 4G rollout. There's no point in hiding it when people know the towers are there and are getting 4G signals.
4 bars in parts of richmond
ViViDboarder said:
I want them to put one in in Springfield. That's where my office is and 4G would be awesome!
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Same here!
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Manassas, Va also has 4G. Just discovered this last week....hehe.
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I haven't seen any 4g anywhere in Manassas.. where you finding it?
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I haven't seen any 4g anywhere in Manassas.. where you finding it?
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I have been able to get WiMAX in Manassas on 234 near the Barnes and Noble. Also, just up the road in Centreville at 66 & 28. Good thing too because in both or those areas the 3G service is terrible. This is one main reason holding me back from upgrading to the Evo LTE or the Galaxy SIII since I will no longer have 4G.
I was just standing outside of the Exchange Place PATH station in Jersey City, NJ, and had 2 bars of 4G signal. I didn't do a speed test, but loaded up a few image heavy webpages. They loaded crazy fast.
Anybody else in the area should give it a go. It was a welcome surprise for me, as I work in the area every day.
EDIT:
Just ran a speed test.
5219 kbps down
1026 kbps up
this is very exciting, hopefully 4G isnt too far away from getting it for toms river lol
This is awesome! I work there!
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shift_ said:
This is awesome! I work there!
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Where do you work? My office is in 10 Exchange Place, right by the path exits.
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Any one in jersey city having a 4g issue. Sprint told me it's down. Any one having issues with there 3g? I called and they let me know of the problem so I got a $10.00 credit to my account.
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this is very exciting, hopefully 4G isnt too far away from getting it for toms river lol
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+ 1. My 3G speeds have been horrible lately.
Lately there have been a lot of people reporting that they have 4g in areas not listed in sprints 4g coverage map. So i want all of you people who do get 4g signal to put what city and state you get 4g in, along with the average speed you get, that way all someone could stumble across this thread see the list and say, "oh man theres 4g there! yay!"
So let me start
I get 3 bars of 4g signal in Anaheim, CA around the knotts berry farm area.
And then ill take yours guys info and put here
4g Coverage
Anaheim, CA (5 down/2.5 up)
San Jose, CA (5 down/2.5 up)
Nampa/Boise, ID (Full speed at sprint store, 2.5 down / 1 up everywhere else)
Lexington, NC (5 down/2.5 up)
Richmond, VA (5 down/2 up)
San Jose, ca full bars 5/2.5
richmond, va
5/2
I get 4G in Nampa/Boise, ID. I get 4G speeds when I'm in the sprint store, other than that, I get 4G speeds that are half the speed of 3G speeds, and the 3G speeds are getting pretty damn close to being dial up speed around here. It really is quite ****ty.
How are you guys getting above 1mbps on upload? I thought Sprint/Clear had capped the upload at 1mbps.
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I get 4G in Nampa/Boise, ID. I get 4G speeds when I'm in the sprint store, other than that, I get 4G speeds that are half the speed of 3G speeds, and the 3G speeds are getting pretty damn close to being dial up speed around here. It really is quite ****ty.
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that sucks man..you get 3g speeds with the 4g battery usage
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How are you guys getting above 1mbps on upload? I thought Sprint/Clear had capped the upload at 1mbps.
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whaat really???? thats lame..maybe because theyre just testing
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How are you guys getting above 1mbps on upload? I thought Sprint/Clear had capped the upload at 1mbps.
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I have no idea about the speeds. I was driving around the whole city(san jose, ca) with my applefanboy friend and i wanted to show off the phone and when he turned the 4g on it got signal. We opened the speedtester and bammm he stop talking about apple stuff.
I thought san jose was on the list for cities coming soon, but this was a fast launch unless is only testing phase.
Lexington,nc 5/2.5
They launched 4G here in Syracuse, NY almost a month ago.
I can't test the speed right now because I live right in the middle of a gap in the 4G coverage, but when out in areas with coverage I was getting speeds just a little faster than 3G in the same area.
Coverage here is horrible, even in the better 4G spots shown on the map I get a poor signal. I've never been able to get over one bar, and that one bar usually drops fast.
EDIT: Was in a 4G area today with a decent signal and got 1.99 Mbps down, and 0.8 Mbps up.
Nashville, TN and several of the surrounding areas.
First off, stop using the speedtest.net app to test speed, it is not accurate! Either use the flash speedtest.net or the HTML testmy.net if you want an accurate reading.
Second.
Denver - Broomfield around Interlocken and at Invesco field and a good 5 mile stretch down the highway.
All of downtown Seattle has excellent 4G
Tacoma, WA has great 4G
Bremerton, WA and Silverdale, WA has great 4G
I get 4G on the Northeast Corridor (Amtrak from NYC to Philly) from Elizabeth to Rahway, NJ.
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First off, stop using the speedtest.net app to test speed, it is not accurate! Either use the flash speedtest.net or the HTML testmy.net if you want an accurate reading.
Second.
Denver - Broomfield around Interlocken and at Invesco field and a good 5 mile stretch down the highway.
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LOL, I saw that there was 4G during a Rockies game a month ago. My 3G stopped working, (I think the network was overtaxed during the game), and I happened to try 4G and was able to continue using data. Great speed too. Never got around to testing it though...
Also, Tri-Cities (Pasco, WA) has 4G and its official too.
Winston Salem, NC 4./1
Greensboro, NC 3.5/1
High Point, NC 4/1.5
King of Prussia, PA - 3/1.5
Philadelphia, PA - 4/1.7
Where in Richmond are you getting 5 down? I can only get about 3 down max downtown and in the Fan.
I got pretty decent coverage in Chicago.
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First off, stop using the speedtest.net app to test speed, it is not accurate! Either use the flash speedtest.net or the HTML testmy.net if you want an accurate reading.
Second.
Denver - Broomfield around Interlocken and at Invesco field and a good 5 mile stretch down the highway.
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Make the font as big as you want, it will still be a free country..
So I know sprint its just testing..but turned my 4g on and download speeds peaked to 9.95mbps! I'm excited... Wishing cm6 supported 4g.. :-(
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So I know sprint its just testing..but turned my 4g on and download speeds peaked to 9.95mbps! I'm excited... Wishing cm6 supported 4g.. :-(
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What neighborhood/s were you in?
I'm sure I'll get nothing down in Quincy, but will be nice when I'm in town.
Thanks,
JAson
Woah!! I just turned on 4G at work for the help of it here in Norwood Mass and I got in the 10's!!! And I have a really good signal too!!! I hope I got it at home in New Bedford too, gonna try when I get home in the morning!! This awesome!!
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What neighborhood/s were you in?
I'm sure I'll get nothing down in Quincy, but will be nice when I'm in town.
Thanks,
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Saugus And East Boston
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I was in so woburn last night and I picked up 4g. Only prob though it was slow as hell. I had 2 bars of 4g, but was bringing xda website slowly. Turned 4g off, started using 3g and it was fast again. Not sure why (using Fresh).
Now you guys are making me jealous. I'm up in the area (Anywhere and everywhere from Revere up to Peabody/Danvers) just about every other weekend...
Maybe next time I head up I'll flash a stock ROM before heading up just to see how it is.
I'm an IT consultant in the greater Boston area, so i've been trying out 4G access nearly everywhere i've got clients at -
Some places off the top of my head :
Kendall Square - good (+5mbps)
Crosstown (Albany/Mass Ave) - Great (+7mbps)
Sullivan Sq Charlestown - Awesome (+10mbps)
Malden/Medford - Decent (3+mbps, haven't tried lately)
Winchester - spotty
Hancock tower - NADA, no 3G either though
Wakefield, Edgewater business park - good (+5mbps)
Cambridge a few minutes ago
9.17Mbps
It's official now!
http://www.clear.com/coverage?intcmp=index_d_prmnav_cvg
Maps have been updated, and I'm impressed. they managed to cover a huge chunk of Boston, suburbs and other cities. Even Framingham seems to be completely blanketed in 4g haha.
Corner of State St. and Congress, downtown Boston - 6.83 mbps down, 1.60 mbps up.
SO Psyched. 6.3 to 6.88 in Quincy. Did not expect much outside downtown, but boy was I wrong.
JAson
Sprint just launched 4G in San Francisco today!
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Still not getting a signal at lombard and van ness. Definitely got a solid connection in the financial yesterday though.
Yea just saw the news on engadget.com today and I was pretty excited. They said they're getting 7 mps down and 1.2 mps up at Potrero Hills.
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Oh what?! This is great news, now I have to test this when I am in school tomorrow. I will confirm signal later that day.
FINALLY!!
Not only am I getting 393.9 kB/s down from the Wichita, KS speedtest server (strangely the SF server only gets 180.6 kB/s down), but I can WiFi tether using 4G, I though that was restricted?!?! Sweet!!!!
PRI is still 1.34_003 but at this speed I dont really care.
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Not only am I getting 393.9 kB/s down from the Wichita, KS speedtest server (strangely the SF server only gets 180.6 kB/s down), but I can WiFi tether using 4G, I though that was restricted?!?! Sweet!!!!
PRI is still 1.34_003 but at this speed I dont really care.
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What is your speed using wifi tether? My tether is capped at about 40% what my phone can download.
2nd and Market. 3.7Mb down. 212k up.
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What is your speed using wifi tether? My tether is capped at about 40% what my phone can download.
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Test through tether: 3.59Mbps Down and .89Mbps up.
Test from phone: 5.07Mbps Down and .98Mbps up.
Fukk I guess nothing for Berkeley. LAME Sprint...
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2nd and Market. 3.7Mb down. 212k up.
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Was on O'Farrell and Grant (Market & 4th), got 4.4mbps, 600kbps.
I was passing by the baybridge and 101 connector and tested 4g with full signal and got 6.5Mbps down and 2Mbps up. Not too bad. But when I get closer to Octavia and Fell, signal dropped to 1 bar.
weird; I had a signal two days ago, but haven't had it since..
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i got 4G just tonight on howard and 4th st in downtown san francisco.
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i got 4G just tonight on howard and 4th st in downtown san francisco.
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Not bad. I was at Kabuki in Japan Town and was getting a very nice 5Mbps down with 1Mbps up. This looks promising! Still have yet to get any signal in my part of the sunset, though.
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Not bad. I was at Kabuki in Japan Town and was getting a very nice 5Mbps down with 1Mbps up. This looks promising! Still have yet to get any signal in my part of the sunset, though.
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tell me about it! i live in balboa park, way far from downtown.. lol
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tell me about it! i live in balboa park, way far from downtown.. lol
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Agreed. Glen park here and no go.
I get full bars in cupertino with about 7mps and 2mps...too bad I don't live here.
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I get full bars in cupertino with about 7mps and 2mps...too bad I don't live here.
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Yeah, seems like they're targeting more of a business kind of places in the cities they're deploying their 4G..
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Hyde and Eddy - No go. The Netarchy map says I'm less than a block away from a signal, but I don't see it.
If Clear builds out from currently operative spots, I'll see some signal sometime around... 2027.
We also have across the bay in Hayward. More coverage toward the hills @ on CSU Hayward. At School I was getting 8900kbps down and 1200kbps up. Fast as hell. I believe they have many towers near college campuses, as my friend get full 4g bars at San Jose State as well.