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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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Hrshycro said:
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
oxeneers said:
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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EtherealRemnant said:
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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EtherealRemnant said:
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..
http://www.speedtest.net/android/18235886.png theres mine
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11.4MB/s down, 944KB/s up, standing outside of the Clear complex in LV.
I am getting 6.5Mbps in Tampa.
I'm getting 5.6 down and 1.1 up in Vancouver, WA
Hey... This thing makes phone calls too!
Look Below
Friday down 8030 up 1049
Saturday down 10723 up 983
Sunday down 8553 up 1038
Monday down 9503 up 1040
I'm in New York and only two bars looks steady
i hit 11mbps right here in Fort Worth everyday on 820 woot!
i have 8 down almost 1 up
Here in NYC I get from 5 - 11mbps down and never more then 1.40 mbps up.
Tapatalk'd on Evo
6.61 down and 1.03 up
Steady 2 bars on 4g
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I can get 10 constant... bursts of 11 and 12 every now and then.
and I get a 10mb test when wifi connected to my home 15mb connection. I'm jealous
In Houston I never get more than about 3.5 to 4 mbps download depending on where I'm at in the city. Clear/Sprint pegs uploads to around 1mbps so no one will get anything better than that.
The interesting thing I have noticed is that I can have fewer 4G bars and get faster download speeds than other times when I have more bars. This leads me to believe that experiencing slow downloads with a strong signal to indicate congestion on the Clear network tower? Anyone else notice similar behavior?
7.268 up and 1002 down in sherman oaks, CA
I'd rather be focused on the ping times
thetakara said:
I'd rather be focused on the ping times
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I've heard that the ping speed is the more important number - any idea why? I seem to get about the same ping time, about 100 to 130 ms, whether I get 3Mbps or 8.
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I should of mentioned I'm in fair oaks ca in sacramento county a 4g test area not on the sprint list
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I'm getting terrible speeds 128 kbps down in Fort Worth, Tx..
see my thread
Ping latency normally around 350ms in Houston Rarely varies.
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.
I have had terrible download speeds on sprint for another half a year. Now I'm getting 1.5 mbps down and its been like that for a week.
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Sprint has been going through and updating their towers to handle more load.
For my area the estimated repair date is 8/31/11.
Not sure why people thought this was going to be a permanent issue.
My local tower went from 1k to 1.5k down to 28 to 67kb down since Friday. If it is still bad tomorrow I will be giving sprint a call.
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I don't know when mines is going to update lol,but that's good that sprint is improving
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I live in iowa do I don't know why mine would update first. I mean, I'm not exactly in the highest populated area
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I noticed the tower closest to my house was upgraded or something. Went from .3mbps to 1.75 but its in and out it seems. One day its good the next its back down to .1mbps or 100kbps which is pretty much unusable. When it takes 2 minutes or more to load google's mobile webpage something is bad wrong.
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Not better for me, still getting 50kbps down
Blameme said:
I live in iowa do I don't know why mine would update first. I mean, I'm not exactly in the highest populated area
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Sometimes it's not about population but what's cheapest and easiest.
I mean if it truly came down to population then NYC would be the first for every tower upgrade by all carriers.
But that's not the case.
Blameme said:
I have had terrible download speeds on sprint for another half a year. Now I'm getting 1.5 mbps down and its been like that for a week.
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I've seen brief moments of better speeds but they never stuck around.
I had some speed problems back in January/February, but it cleared up a while ago. Now it's not too bad here in San Antonio except for pockets of signal loss in weird places.
I had decent data speed since I sign up. But since couple weeks ago untilled still my data speed drop down 100 to 50. I'm not please about this but I have patiant and hopefully sprint will improve there data speed.
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My speeds fluctuate so much in my area, but 90% of the time im connected to wifi
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I've been putting upwith 50-100 kbps speeds for almost a year now at work. If they don't improve by next July, I'm heading back to Verizon.
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I've been putting upwith 50-100 kbps speeds for almost a year now at work. If they don't improve by next July, I'm heading back to Verizon.
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Yeah, I'm in the same boat, though there was one Friday a few weeks ago that I pulled over a Mbit per second and was able to stream something on Netflix in the afternoon. Was hoping they had finally fixed the tower by work but nope, Monday it was back in the dumps. If it's still like this when my contract comes up I'm going to have to consider changing carriers.
I am in St Louis and usually i average about 600 kbps but yesterday and today I am averaging about 1600 kbps and last nite I was averaging around 2200 kbps. I have never had speeds that high and I have been with sprint for over 9 years in St Louis. This is all on 3G, I cannot get 4g coverage at my house.
Where I work I usually roam in the office but now I am getting 1500 kbps on sprint.
Hopefully it will last.
in a small town nearby i use town because it isnt a city because its part of the city i live in but its a town. Yea one of those places..
Well anyways where I live i seem to be pretty far from a tower. im like a mile or something from it and i get around .3 m down. and when im in the other town which i can get within hundreds of feet of the tower i get 1.8 down an down the city has only 22k people so for me its the distance from the tower. and not many of them here.
This topic was starting to mix in with another monster thread, thought it would be nice to have its own thread for those of us that are wanting to follow it.
I'll get things rolling:
Houston - west outside beltway with only 2 bars of 4gLTE
Using Speedtest.net app
Test1
Ping 59 ms
Download 15339kbps
Upload 5818 kbps
Test2
Ping 65ms
Download 16973kbps
Upload 5298kbps
Test2
Ping 62ms
Download 17662kbps
Upload 2166 kbps
Washington, DC, Dupont Circle area
test1: 72ms ping, 30,614kbps down, 10,181kbps up
test2: 79ms ping, 22,639kbps down, 9,608kbps up
test3: 71ms ping, 35,140kbps down, 9,784kbps up
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Here are 6 screenshots of speedtests from last night to tonight. Only one LTE site online in my area....(right by my apartment) it's not officially live in my neck of the woods.
San Diego, CA - Fashion Valley area. =p
It definitely bursts speedy, but I'm not sure how long it'll stay this strong.
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Damn im jealous of those speeds. I live like 30 min out of philiadelphia (not even sure theres lte there) i get like 5mb down and less than 1 mb up. I think the closest tower is out of state for me
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jefferson9 said:
Damn im jealous of those speeds. I live like 30 min out of philiadelphia (not even sure theres lte there) i get like 5mb down and less than 1 mb up. I think the closest tower is out of state for me
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Where outside of Philly? I'm in zipcode 19403 (Norristown) and have yet to see even 1MB down (there is no LTE here). I'm kind of bummed about it. In Paoli tonight I saw 1MB down. No LTE there, either.
I am about half an hour east of Dallas, TX
Test 1:
Ping: 61ms
Down: 33269kbps (32.49Mbps)
Up: 14065kbps (13.74Mbps)
Test 2:
Ping: 63ms
Down: 32.12Mbps
Up: 13.12Mbps
For a sad comparison...
On Wifi:
Ping: 32ms
Down: 22.87Mbps
Up: 4.20Mbps
Shame I can't share my unlimited bandwidth from uverse with my cellphone...
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Where outside of Philly? I'm in zipcode 19403 (Norristown) and have yet to see even 1MB down (there is no LTE here). I'm kind of bummed about it. In Paoli tonight I saw 1MB down. No LTE there, either.
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Same zip! Haha guess im just lucky
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Los Angeles:
7.4 down and 2.0 up on average on LTE. disappointed . I was expecting more, these speeds aren't much faster than HSPA+, though more stable. I am thinking of returning this and getting the international one.
charlotte, nc
not so great here.
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Los Angeles:
7.4 down and 2.0 up on average on LTE. disappointed . I was expecting more, these speeds aren't much faster than HSPA+, though more stable. I am thinking of returning this and getting the international one.
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AT&T has always had a subpar network in California, it's due to the fun little regulations over there. They do try to improve it, but as they free up more of their limited spectrum they do have available over there you will see better speeds.
naturefreak85 said:
AT&T has always had a subpar network in California, it's due to the fun little regulations over there. They do try to improve it, but as they free up more of their limited spectrum they do have available over there you will see better speeds.
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yea, but by that time the sheep will get LTE and we all will be back down to 2-3mbs again due to congestion. sucks.
I only have LTE connection in the middle of downtown and the speeds are great. However outside of that it's hspa and so forth. Not bad.. I live in rhode island
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Damn, 12 mbs LTE kind of blows, I get 8 mbs on HSPA+ round these backwoods Michigan parts
I was finally in an lte area today and got 22 down and 7 up
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I was finally in an lte area today and got 22 down and 7 up
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22mbps is great. that'd burn through AT&T's 200MB/month plan in... just under 73 seconds.
<3 WiFi.
Austin, Texas:
Orlando, FL
Test 1 (near downtown):
Test 2 (Colonialtown):
Just last week I thought I was so cool pulling ~4/2 on the 'ol Captivate!
San Diego, near State university. I think my two-story condo maybe interfering.