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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
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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.
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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..
My 3G has been incredibly slow for over a month now. I've tried in many areas and I can only reach 200 kbps on a good day, with a huge latency. I also gave up on 4G and keep it off, cause whenever I then it on, it says "4G network connected" and, only seconds later, "4G network disconnected."
During this time, I've had at least t different custom Froyo ROMs installed, different versions, all with the same result. I remember my speeds were much higher when I was fully stock.
Could my radio be damaged and the phone needs replacing?
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Haven't had any problems with 3G in the SFl area personally. Haven't done any speed test though so can't say for sure.
As for 4G, not sure about Miami, but Broward is mostly limited to major roads and highways for coverage. Not sure if South Florida is officially a 4G area yet. Anything outside of those areas is rather difficult to get a stable connection. I usually get that behavior when I'm at the edge of coverage.
Ahh...My south Florida friends. With a community this large, it is tough to see localized conversations. I too have noticed quite a lag in the 3G network since upgrading to DK28. As far as the 4G, I also keep it off. When it does connect, it is pretty quick (compared to the 3G), but it has not been consistent enough to keep it on. I tried resetting the minimum signal hack that I found somewhere in here...but that didn't help much. For the most part, my web browsing isn't so bad. I really notice it with the Market and Pandora. Youtube is so-so.
I'm in tampa for the time bng and my signal is garbageeeeee
If I ever move down here, its verizon for me.
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I'm in the suburbs around Orlando, right where the 4G coverage starts to go spotty. I've never had much of a problem with 3G, and I've always gotten fairly constant speeds. 4G is a major issue, there are literally 2x2 feet pockets of 4G coverage scattered around the area. Those tiny pockets are the only areas in which you can get a Wimax connection, even with the signal fix.
Sad thing is, the entire area is "covered" on the sprint map.
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I'm in the suburbs around Orlando, right where the 4G coverage starts to go spotty. I've never had much of a problem with 3G, and I've always gotten fairly constant speeds. 4G is a major issue, there are literally 2x2 feet pockets of 4G coverage scattered around the area. Those tiny pockets are the only areas in which you can get a Wimax connection, even with the signal fix.
Sad thing is, the entire area is "covered" on the sprint map.
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Have you tried the 4g signal hack? I had spotty coverage as well and it really helped.
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In dc using hack. Same.problem.
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globalninja said:
Have you tried the 4g signal hack? I had spotty coverage as well and it really helped.
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Yeah I tried the signal hack and only got marginally better coverage. Its not a question of trying to make the best of a really weak 4G signal in my case, because there literally isn't any 4G signal. It just keeps scanning.
I used to live in Naples, 45mins from downtown, and my coverage (3g) was alright, about .6mbps down and .3 up... forget 4g.. didn't even get it.
Now in a suburb of orlando I have family and man, the signal there was HORRIBLE. I was getting 2mbps down, 1.1mbps up with 4g...and let's no even talk about 3g.
Here in denver(where I live now) I get 1mbps down, .8up on 3g and on 4g I get 6-8mbps down and 3.5-5mbps up.
Latency is terrible...anywhere. The lowest latency I get is here in Denver at 85-110... uhg.
slow in boca/delray/boynton
Its screwed in socal as well. I think it is nation wide problem.
Yea definitely sucks in boston... :/
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Go to city of Oakland park. At the intersection of northeast 6 avenue and prospect road there's a 4g capable tower there southwest of there by one block. I ran speedtest a block from the tower and it really worked great. The range of 4g is definitely not as far as 3g on sprint.
Wichita KS, I have had very slow speeds as well lately.
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I.don't have 4g but the 3g hack helped my speed a little bit. In my house in certain spits I.can.get about 800 kbps.
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My 3g is terribly slow. I'm in Detroit.
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Its the same **** here in Los Angeles and Orange County. Its not your phone but Sprints ****ty data network. Im going to eat the ETF soon so I can get off this ****.
Yeah and sprint is toying around with the idea of going LTE for 4g. Another sprint debacle? Last one they bought Nextel; next they went wimax; now they might go LTE.
From what I've found, wimax range is so short, I can have full 3g signal strength but barely any signal for 4g, if it's even available on that particular tower.
I'm about 30 min from down town orlando. My signal get ****ty in some areas, but I was able to tether a mac, to do a remote repair session for about a 1hr and a half drive. I believe I got disconnected once. The speed/quality of the speed flauxuates greatly. This was completly on 3g. When 4g works its faster. Seems to be a moving target right now was far as where it works.
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Been slow down here in Texas for awhile too. It's not the phone since 3g on my evo is slow as well.
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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
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2341 D
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1674 D
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2067 D
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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)
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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.
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I'd like to get a full 1mbps down over 4G. And once again...Sprint loses; it sucks to be first, I guess.
Sorry YOUR area sucks. 8-9Mbps here.
Of course Verizon's LTE is going to be fast, there probably isn't any traffic really going through it.
I'm sure it will go down some but those speeds are fast.
I get 5-10 depending on where I am.
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Sorry YOUR area sucks. 8-9Mbps here.
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Yeah, one of 10 areas that Sprint actually had rightish. Haha. What I don't get is, Clear is here and they have upwards of 5 - 10, so why have I never seen over 2, and 80% of the time, don't get one? I'm sure they throttle Sprint's traffic.
I have yet to even get 4g in my area...there is only one city in my state with 4g and I'm nowhere near it.
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Hrshycro said:
Yeah, one of 10 areas that Sprint actually had rightish. Haha. What I don't get is, Clear is here and they have upwards of 5 - 10, so why have I never seen over 2, and 80% of the time, don't get one? I'm sure they throttle Sprint's traffic.
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Maybe your not in a real good area, hell on my 3G with 2 bars im getting 1.4mbps down.
At home, pulling down around 5mbps, which is the same speed as my home wifi.
My max has been 8 mbps in Houston off Westheimer.
This thread is stupid.
I'm on T-Mobile pulling down 7.5 to 10mbps on average(MT4G), on my 3G Moto Cliq XT I'm getting 3.5 to 5mbps. Uploads for both are around 1.5mbps
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I get between 5-8mbps in Columbus, OH. Haven't checked 3g speeds in awhile.
Hrshycro said:
Yeah, one of 10 areas that Sprint actually had rightish. Haha. What I don't get is, Clear is here and they have upwards of 5 - 10, so why have I never seen over 2, and 80% of the time, don't get one? I'm sure they throttle Sprint's traffic.
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No throttling going on with wimax. You will see throttling on lte though.
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No throttling going on with wimax. You will see throttling on lte though.
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That's what I've read, but I have a hard time beliveing it, since I was at a clients house (she has clear w/ new modem), 1/2 mile away from a sprint/clear tower, modem had 5/5 bars, evo had 2/4 bars: I got .7 down, she got 4.8 down. :| Either it's throttled, or Sprint's servers suck ass.
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I'm on T-Mobile pulling down 7.5 to 10mbps on average(MT4G), on my 3G Moto Cliq XT I'm getting 3.5 to 5mbps. Uploads for both are around 1.5mbps
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I'd be perfectly happy if I got 5/1 on 4G.
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Maybe your not in a real good area, hell on my 3G with 2 bars im getting 1.4mbps down.
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Yeah, .5 million people in the valley (Boise, Idaho), and 3G has been 30kbps for months. This past week, however, I've seen 600/600 on 3G in a few areas, but then it randomly drops to 1x, too.
I've gotten 7-8 down a few times here but it's usually around 6. That being said, I can get 7 down on one server and .5 down on another not thirty seconds later. It all depends on the server and how many connections are between you and it. Closer is not always better either.
edit: That is pretty damn impressive though, Sprints definitely needs to widen the bandwidth or do something. I would love pings like that too...
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I've gotten 7-8 down a few times here but it's usually around 6. That being said, I can get 7 down on one server and .5 down on another not thirty seconds later. It all depends on the server and how many connections are between you and it. Closer is not always better either.
edit: That is pretty damn impressive though, Sprints definitely needs to widen the bandwidth or do something. I would love pings like that too...
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Yeah, the more I think about it, the more it makes sense. I think Sprint's servers are just f'ed up.
I know!
It went from about 11 mb down here to like 2-3.
I have seen 8-9 in town but typically at the house I see from 2-3. I live right outside of Austin tx.
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i usually see 5-7 when im on 4G around here.
You sprinters getting getting 6-10 down: how long does it take you to load say engadget.com (full site)?? K Now do the same on strong signal 3G. What's the difference in time.
Here in Chicago the difference is zero.
Speedtests are worthless....AS IS WIMAX.
(Note: I get strong 3G here)
rockky said:
You sprinters getting getting 6-10 down: how long does it take you to load say engadget.com (full site)?? K Now do the same on strong signal 3G. What's the difference in time.
Here in Chicago the difference is zero.
Speedtests are worthless....AS IS WIMAX.
(Note: I get strong 3G here)
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im not even going to attempt this cause 3G in my area is worthless at this point, were talking dialup speeds or less lol.
Oh my that's fast. I could stream Netflix with my phone through my Xbox....in HD. So jealous.
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Just ran 2 speed tests in downtown Chicago - full bars:
3G: .33 down, .23 down
4G: 2.49 down, 1.48 down
Yeah - that's premium data all right...
Has anyone verified this yet? I saw that it was supposed to be raised to 1.5Mbps today, and having been in an office building all day, I can't check it!
Based on a few speedtests I just ran... I'd say no (Sorry the color is a little off for some reason).
Not yet. Woot another 50kb lol
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Not that I expect any monumental performance changes, but I REALLY want to see an upload speed on my speedtest over 1Mbps.
ps - What ROM do you use ph?
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Im still getting around a meg
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Not here yet. There have been intermittent 4G outages here recently and I wondered if this change had something to do with it.
Not yet here either. I just tested to find out. 7.5Mbps down and it was at 1.2Mbps up for a few seconds, so I got excited, then leveled off around 0.98Mbps after that and finished reporting 1.0 on the head.
Just went to lunch and ran three tests around the Downtown Denver area.
Speeds spiked to a futuristic 1.02 but averaged no better than .97
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Not that I expect any monumental performance changes, but I REALLY want to see an upload speed on my speedtest over 1Mbps.
ps - What ROM do you use ph?
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Currently on Midnight 5.2 w/ Honeycomb Fusion theme. Didn't want to flash again until official GB drops...
That's still slow by comparison to other carriers...COME ON SPRINT!!! =/
I've barely got 3G right now and the signal has dropped way down. Either the tower here has chronic issues or they're up to something...I hope.
It's quite depressing. I have a friend with the Thunderbolt and my DL speeds regularly best his in areas with a strong signal here in Denver (of course he gets much better coverage) but his upload speeds average a minimum 3x faster. He went with me at lunch and where I was DLing at 6.5-7 he was getting 3-3.5, but upstream he gets the same speeds as downstream!
Sprint's going to eventually start losing customers if they don't do something about this poor data performance. Oh, how the mighty have fallen =/ Formerly the fastest network.
Hey DroidApprentice, I think you are on to something here. My upload speeds never topped 1000 before. Thanks for the screenshot. It inspired me to do some testing this morning and something definately changed...
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I sit under a WiMax tower.
I just got 1.49 and our tower is 2 streets over. 7 mbs dl on that same test.
So, it happened a week later than it was supposed to. I only hope it spells the end of the flaky behavior that almost made me believe I was having software or hardware issues on my phone.
And unfortunately, no improvement to ping, although I didn't expect any...
http://www.speedtest.net/result/1345636745.png This is My Home internet, 2nd test on home internet right after the 1st one MAJOR DIFFERENCEhttp://www.speedtest.net/result/1345660172.png
1st attachment my phone using WiFi
2nd Attachment 4G
3rd Attachment 3G
Now mind you guys my home internet is Clear Wireless, which sprint pays clear to use their 4G. Sprints 4G is Clear's 4G basically.
My 4G gets better speeds then WiFi lol should be other way around and i only had 1 bar of 4G during that test. And my 3G and 4G were in the same spot. 3G should have more bars i only had 1 bar for 3G. because 3G came out first it should cover most where 4G doesn't.
So can someone explain to me how on same internet 4G and Home 4G, i get almost 8Mbs @ Home but in same spot my phone gets half pretty much, but my upload is more on my phone than it is on my Home internet when its all the same lol
Notice how crappy my 3G is as well in that exact same spot the bars differ each day from 1 to 6 and its never consistent its all over the place