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Is my at&t data slow?

I have never been over 1.5mbps download on the nexus. I am in an unsaturated and smaller market it seems. (cant be for certain, charleston sc)
Is this speed normal? I thought I remembered seeing my friends droid on verizon get over 3 mbps. (although it was tethered to my computer)
sorry if this seems like a redundant question. I just want to know whether i should be worried given the radio issues with the tmobile version. I am reluctant to root it if I need to send it back.
If anyone can shed light on their experience with at&t 3g speeds that would be awesome.
cheers
gary
p.s. I used xtreme labs and speedtest.net apps. tonight i am getting .5 mbps. YUCK!

1.5 mbps seems to be OK, I dont know what they quote 3g at from AT&T (when I worked there they said it was 768kbps, but that was when 3g was first launched). In Tulsa I did 3.7 down, 1.3 up. Saturation and backhaul I imagine are the key factors.
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Best I've gotten in Cincinnati is this:
speedtest.net/android/1860842.png
Kinda sad isn't it...? I usually float around .4-.5 down. This is even when I get kicked up to hsdpa. I hope Cincinnati gets gets better speeds this year.

Thats about what i get when im traveling through large cities on 3g but where i live there is no 3g only edge and im lucky if i get 40-50 kbps lol

Enndr said:
Best I've gotten in Cincinnati is this:
speedtest.net/android/1860842.png
Kinda sad isn't it...? I usually float around .4-.5 down. This is even when I get kicked up to hsdpa. I hope Cincinnati gets gets better speeds this year.
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T-Mobile is working to bring more backhaul and much better speeds to most of their 3G markets this year...you should definitely see an improvement soon.

I just did a test and best I got was 1363. That's on at&t in DFW.
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DI18 fixed 3g upload speeds, but 4g download speed is cut in half!

anyone else in 4G land experiencing the same problem?

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anyone else in 4G land experiencing the same problem?
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Can you do this repeatably? I think this is probably a case of bad sample data. 4G speeds tend to fluctuate *wildly* because of a.) environmental impacts of a 2.5GHz signal (ever tried to measure actual WiFi performance on a laptop over 802.11n? You'll see what I mean - no two tests are remotely the same) and b.) Network congestion, usage, and number of devices, and c.) Signal strength. If you're indoors, don't even think about comparing 4G speeds, as the 2.5GHz frequency is terrible at penetrating buildings.
In order for your claim to be valid, it would be useful to have time-dependent data, and at least say, 10-20 test results. Then, the same after the update would be useful as well. I've seen 4G speeds on my Evo be 400kbit/s one day and 3.9Mbit/s another day, same place. My Epic 4G has given me speeds in excess of 5Mbit, but later tests didn't get the same performance.
I'm not saying that there's no chance you're right, but I'd say that *much* more data is needed. Try it again tomorrow, at different times, in different places. See how it stacks up. I'm just gonna put this as bad data. (Also, reboot your phone just in case you have a data hog running.)

Yeah you really can't tell anything by one or two tests. I just ran three tests and I got download speeds of 6300, 3200 and 5300. Uploads varied from 430kbps to 1300kbps.
I'm in a fairly poor signal area right now but even in good signal areas it can vary a lot. At work I get anywhere from 6000kbps to 9000kbps.

i just did 3 tests as well from inside my room with all but 1 bar and i am also in Brooklyn (a area that has 4g but it's not officially live yet) and my results were...
Download/Upload
7638/1142
6970/1128
8009/1119
I don't know what they were before but speeds like that are just fine for me i think it was just a random mess up for you

My 4g is fine.
1 bar
3791/1135
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hmmm.....
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My 3 upload got fixed but my dl speeds are horrible now. My upload speeds are higher than my dl speeds now!
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My 3 upload got fixed but my dl speeds are horrible now. My upload speeds are higher than my dl speeds now!
Sent from my Epic 4G
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Same here!!!

I'm good to go on all fronts. Uploads/downloads are good on both 3G and 4G with an increase on 3G ups and an increase in overall 4G speeds.
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[Q] What 3G speeds are you getting? Is this normal?

My girl just got a D2G at my suggestions (since she's on verizon and NEEDED a keyboard and didn't really like the Merge).
I have run her 3G speed test a few times outside and she can't even get to 1mbps? That doesn't seem right to me. I'm on t-mobile '4g' and getting a minimum of 3mbps (up to 6mpbs), and while that's at the low end of '4g' it's trouncing her speeds. I thought 3g speeds were better than that, and I expected her to get 3mpbs on the high end and 1.5mbps on the low end.
We live in Albany, the capital city of NY... and have 3g coverage from all major carriers.
Anybody getting better speeds?
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Yes, she turned her phone into a vagina.

Here in the big city of Topeka,KS I usually get around 1.5 mbps with my D2. Just ran a speed test on the iphone I tote around for work and it was a blazing 0.55 mbps.

Here in Central NJ I usually just leave it on wireless, but I just checked 3G speed and got a disappointing 0.87Mbps.
I'll be turning wireless back on now. Ah.. much better!

Ive got speeds of 1.5mb to 3.5

In in the cap city better known as Albany too and get good speeds over what you recorded either......might be something to let vzw know or try switching towers, might help.
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yunghostage said:
In in the cap city better known as Albany too and get good speeds over what you recorded either......might be something to let vzw know or try switching towers, might help.
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ALBANY!!!! Small world.... I live on Western by Mary Jane's book store.

Wifi+Bluetooth+4G+GPS=disaster or improvement?

Hi Folks. If anyone's interested I'm going to try a maybe dumb experiment which might help me and maybe even others.
tl;dr version: with barely any root and all 4 radios on for a change I wanna see if the Epic is actually a better phone more of the time.
Let me profile myself by saying I'm living in an area with poor Sprint coverage inside structures only within about 1.5 miles in any direction. The strange thing is that outside my house I can even just get the edge of a 4G signal, and driving about 1-2 miles in any direction improves things greatly for both voice and data. I'm just in a bad coverage area for Sprint CDMA, and actually Verizon users don't fare much better.
So I've basically reverted to RoamControl and WiFi to make my Epic tolerable inside. But now I'm going to experiment and see what happens when I ask my still-Eclair DI-18 Epic, on PRL 60676 rooted, to manage its own roaming and data. Will the phone frustrate the hell out of me for having "all systems go," or will it actually improve somehow? I never cared to find out before, but my experiment will at least help me keep track of the phone's limits and whether they get noticeably better when I finally load a new Android on here.

It'll frustrate you by running out of battery very quickly. And you can't have 4G and WiFi on at the same time - it won't allow you to.

Um.. wut?
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It'll frustrate you by running out of battery very quickly. And you can't have 4G and WiFi on at the same time - it won't allow you to.
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I realized that, although so far battery performance doesn't seem any worse (that may change). I can say about the weak Sprint signal that it's shocking again just how reluctant the Epic is to giving it up and going to roam. Also surprising is how I could place calls with barely any signal, although I'd have my doubts about receiving them.
I wondered again about whether 4G will have to be manually enabled when I'm out of WF range. Also, do any of the custom ROMs allow you to have both on, or is that a hardware limitation?

What do you mean by "better phone" in your original post?
I don't think I understand what you're wanting to accomplish by having your phone constantly checking for a 4G signal when there isn't one.
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Hahaha...time without signal, 91%. And yet battery like I said seems no worse than before. This is with 0-2 bars and only switching to roam with the deepest areas of the house.
I'm just doing this to get a better sense of how the phone performs in "default" both before and after any more changes. I figured keeping records of it here was just something to try.

Of course, Sprint doesn't like roaming (nor does any carrier) because it costs them a ton more for your call. So they have the threshold for switchover set well below where the service is actually functional for actual call.
Thank God for Roam Control. Now, if Greg would just make it controllable from Tasker...
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Anyone care to explain this? XD
Just happened a little while ago while using an app which may or may not have asked for my location. I did mention I'm on rooted stock 2.1, yeah. (chuckle)

Why is my data speed so slow?

Im usually on wifi at home so I didnt notice how slow my speeds were. I did a test today while I was running errands and every time got a REALLY slow speed. I have the latest radio and am running cm7 nightlies. Can anyone help me figure out why things are so slow?
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silentsnow31802 said:
Im usually on wifi at home so I didnt notice how slow my speeds were. I did a test today while I was running errands and every time got a REALLY slow speed. I have the latest radio and am running cm7 nightlies. Can anyone help me figure out why things are so slow?
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Try flashing one of the newer radios. Stickied in the development section.

neidlinger said:
Try flashing one of the newer radios. Stickied in the development section.
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Im currently on radio 26.09.04.26.

silentsnow31802 said:
Im usually on wifi at home so I didnt notice how slow my speeds were. I did a test today while I was running errands and every time got a REALLY slow speed. I have the latest radio and am running cm7 nightlies. Can anyone help me figure out why things are so slow?
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i have the same problem. my data is only working fine with a stock rom.

silentsnow31802 said:
Im currently on radio 26.09.04.26.
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Did you try one of the other three?
just because your on the "highest number" one doesn't mean it's going to work the best. i'd try out the other two. The other thing to consider is if you've gone over your 5Gb data limit they will throttle you.

neidlinger said:
Did you try one of the other three?
just because your on the "highest number" one doesn't mean it's going to work the best. i'd try out the other two. The other thing to consider is if you've gone over your 5Gb data limit they will throttle you.
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I will give the other two a try right now.
I am connected to wifi most the time so I HIGHLY doubt I went over my usage, I have once a few months ago when I didnt have home internet and it was WAY slower than the posted speeds. They throttle you down to like 3-4kbps. I did notice my phone was set to only operate on 2g networks but I disabled that and its still getting the same speeds.
Since it was set to 2g networks only why am I still able to see a H icon?
EDIT: Just tried all of the radios and they all give roughly the same speeds.
ANOTHER EDIT: Im now on stock radio with Royal Ginger 2.1. Speeds are: Ping:66ms Down:57kbps Up:170kbps

Your data speeds have so many variables. The biggest one I can think of would be your location. If you are in a basement, you can't expect to get good speeds on your data. I've noticed that my data speeds are fairly slow after an immediate flash. Could just be coincidence, but I'd recommend looking into all the variables.
At my house, I live in the basement. I get 1.3 megs tops down there for download speed. Out where I attend school, I get 2.7, and at times, I've gotten 4mbs. It's not so much a "flash, test for 5 minutes, flash different radio" process. Definitely requires patience.

i have this same problem! please help!