Is there anyway to understand throttle 3g speed. - Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot

I swear 3g is ridiculously slow. I'm starting to think sprint is doing this **** on purpose. Is there a mod that will speed this up. Or at least a way to roam on Verizon data speed.
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E The Magnificent said:
I swear 3g is ridiculously slow. I'm starting to think sprint is doing this **** on purpose. Is there a mod that will speed this up. Or at least a way to roam on Verizon data speed.
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You can roam on Verizon 3g by flashing a different PRL and using Roam Control. There are already a bunch of threads all over XDA that can help you with this. I would start by searching
Sprint doesn't throttle their 3g service. They just have a really, really slow 3g network. There's no mod that can increase your data speed because it's wholly dependant on Sprint's network in your area. You'll generally get better 3g speeds with TW roms rather than AOSP roms, if that helps at all. Otherwise, you just have to grin and bear it until 4g rolls out in your area. I'm in the same boat as you, by the way - my 3g is g*dd*mn awful and I don't have 4g yet. I'll usually flash the 00001 PRL if things get really bad, but never for very long because I have 5 lines on my account and I can't afford to have Sprint cancel me for too much roaming.
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maxpower7 said:
You can roam on Verizon 3g by flashing a different PRL and using Roam Control. There are already a bunch of threads all over XDA that can help you with this. I would start by searching
Sprint doesn't throttle their 3g service. They just have a really, really slow 3g network. There's no mod that can increase your data speed because it's wholly dependant on Sprint's network in your area. You'll generally get better 3g speeds with TW roms rather than AOSP roms, if that helps at all. Otherwise, you just have to grin and bear it until 4g rolls out in your area. I'm in the same boat as you, by the way - my 3g is g*dd*mn awful and I don't have 4g yet. I'll usually flash the 00001 PRL if things get really bad, but never for very long because I have 5 lines on my account and I can't afford to have Sprint cancel me for too much roaming.
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Link me to these prl please. I can't seem to find them.
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E The Magnificent said:
Link me to these prl please. I can't seem to find them.
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I hate to be "that guy," but you responded to my post literally 3 minutes after I posted it. I really doubt that you looked very hard for it in that time.
Start with this link and see where it takes you. There are more links too if you take the time to look for them.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2262450
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maxpower7 said:
You can roam on Verizon 3g by flashing a different PRL and using Roam Control. There are already a bunch of threads all over XDA that can help you with this. I would start by searching
Sprint doesn't throttle their 3g service. They just have a really, really slow 3g network. There's no mod that can increase your data speed because it's wholly dependant on Sprint's network in your area. You'll generally get better 3g speeds with TW roms rather than AOSP roms, if that helps at all. Otherwise, you just have to grin and bear it until 4g rolls out in your area. I'm in the same boat as you, by the way - my 3g is g*dd*mn awful and I don't have 4g yet. I'll usually flash the 00001 PRL if things get really bad, but never for very long because I have 5 lines on my account and I can't afford to have Sprint cancel me for too much roaming.
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I usually get better speeds on AOSP than I do on TW. How come TW supposedly gets better speed? Not trying to barge on you, just wondering :fingers-crossed:

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I usually get better speeds on AOSP than I do on TW. How come TW supposedly gets better speed? Not trying to barge on you, just wondering :fingers-crossed:
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I guess I always assumed that it was because of Samsung's proprietary bits that AOSP roms don't have, but the situation on AOSP roms has definitely improved as of late (for me, at least). If you're getting better data speeds on AOSP roms than TW roms, I'm totally jealous of you
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I guess I always assumed that it was because of Samsung's proprietary bits that AOSP roms don't have, but the situation on AOSP roms has definitely improved as of late (for me, at least). If you're getting better data speeds on AOSP roms than TW roms, I'm totally jealous of you
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Ah, I see. Or maybe I'm fooling myself. At least when I browse the Internet (using CM stock browser) and the YouTube app, it seems to load much faster. But I haven't been on stock in a while, so I may not remember

If you're in a crappy data coverage area nothing will help. But you could change the r/w permissions of the throttle folder to read only which contains a numeric file that I delete. Seems to help ymmv.

Make sure that lte is coming to your area, if it's gonna be awhile then leave the 3g is horrible but I haven't had the pleasure of using it since 4g lte rolled out a year ago. Once connected to lte on this phone or the s3 you will never see 3g ever in town.
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Very slow 3g speeds in my Sprint Epic....barely reaching 300kbps

Hey all,
With nothing else running, no matter what area I am in and regardless of the browser I use, I max out at 300kbps. Average is about 150kbps! I am using the mobile test from DSL reports. I am in the metro Detroit area.
When I use the same test on my iphone, I always get at least 1,800 kpbs!!
What gives? I know a 3g fix was released months ago, but that was before I got my epic.
Any suggest?
Thanks in advance,
Matt!
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I know right? Is it the phone or sprint? In speedtest I get 126 kbps down.
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Sprint's 3g sucks. A few days ago I took my Epic in to the ATT, T-Mobile, and Verizon stores around. I did side by side tests with the Ookla speed test app on phones with similar hardware to the Epic. Every other network's 3g performed better than Sprint's when I tested them with multiple speed tests.
No matter where I am I rarely get above 500Kbps over 3g.
This was all in San Antonio so YMMV.
depends on location and signal strength
3g sucks in Louisiana too...hell a lot of areas around here are still 1X! On a normal day around town you are lucky to see anything about 80 kilobit. The phone is really useless for apps unless you have a wifi connection. I use force roam a lot to roam on vzw evdo anytime I need to stream or download something.
It's both Sprint and the Epic. Sprint has pretty bad 3G speeds compared to other providers but the Epic makes it a lot worse. It has real sh*tty radios all around. My friend has an Evo and it gets double the speed (both up and down) in the same spot as me.
Its theepics radio.
The ping is horrible too.
I tested sidebyside with my sisters iphone 4, and her ping was 19ms. The epics? 200. Tried on wimax, the difference?about 20ms lower.
Did the test on my friends hero, his ping was 30ms and was pulling 2mbdown 1 up
Epic was 300 down on 3g and on wimax was 3mb down.
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digiblur said:
3g sucks in Louisiana too...hell a lot of areas around here are still 1X! On a normal day around town you are lucky to see anything about 80 kilobit. The phone is really useless for apps unless you have a wifi connection. I use force roam a lot to roam on vzw evdo anytime I need to stream or download something.
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It's strange, in the NOLA area my friend and I do speed tests in different areas in the city (pinging the same server). I get maybe 80kBs down and ~50kBs up (Pings ranging from 133 to 200+ milliseconds). My friend ends up getting ~200kBs down and ~700kBs up.
Of course those numbers vary, but my phone hit 200kBs 1 out of 75 pings. All others were less than 100kBs up/down.
I bring my phone into Sprint for service and the techie decides to compare speeds by bringing up the same website (MSN.com). It felt like it was a waste of time as both phones pulled the site up near the same time. I just don't understand this instability with pings and speeds in our area.
FYI: Be careful with data roaming. We are capped at 300MB a month for data roaming. Anything over is $0.25/MB.
KillerQ said:
Hey all,
With nothing else running, no matter what area I am in and regardless of the browser I use, I max out at 300kbps. Average is about 150kbps! I am using the mobile test from DSL reports. I am in the metro Detroit area.
When I use the same test on my iphone, I always get at least 1,800 kpbs!!
What gives? I know a 3g fix was released months ago, but that was before I got my epic.
Any suggest?
Thanks in advance,
Matt!
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Are you sure that you're actually on 3G service? Those speeds sound like 1xRTT. Your phone WILL NOT tell you that you're not in a 3G area. Only way to find this is in the phone's service menu. So, I repeat, your phone may read "3G", but you are infact probably using 1xRTT, not 3G (Ev-DO). 125kbit/s is average for 1xRTT.
Can you please share the method for getting into said service menu and how to check? This will be interesting to find if its in 1x or not ...
Thanks again
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KillerQ said:
Can you please share the method for getting into said service menu and how to check? This will be interesting to find if its in 1x or not ...
Thanks again
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Settinggs> About Phone
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Also, does anyone know what dbm and asu is? I have 4 bars and its 86dbm and 0asu and idk what that means lol
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Oh....I thought you meant the ## menus. I did look there but saw nothing referring to 3g or 1x.
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Settinggs> About Phone
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So where exactly do you see this on your phone within that menu? I've been looking between the "About Phone" menu and the "About Phone >> Status" menu, still don't see anything stating which network connection I'm using.
sorry, in the hero it would tell you in the status section whether you were on 1xrtt, 1x, EvDO Rev. 0 or EvDO Rev. A
The epic doesn't seem to have that :/ it just states If you're connected to the mobile networ
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Try *#INFO*1111# (*#4636*1111#) and choose Phone Information, under Network Type
Yay that worked! Yup I'm in evdo rev a and getting horrible speeds
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Can you please share the method for getting into said service menu and how to check? This will be interesting to find if its in 1x or not ...
Thanks again
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Koadic said:
Try *#INFO*1111# (*#4636*1111#) and choose Phone Information, under Network Type
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What Koadic said. They disabled the standard *#*#INFO#*#* that used to work on previous phones. You now need to append the *1111 and remove a couple of the *s and #s.
Be happy.
I get 30-50kbs down, but only when it works. Most of the time the connection times out.
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Yay that worked! Yup I'm in evdo rev a and getting horrible speeds
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Same here.

Improved 3G speeds in Florida!!

Recently i have noticed that sprints 3G speeds have dramatically improved.back then i would get 700-800kbps speeds now I'm getting 1-2MBps sppeds here in Miami.Also my 4G speeds have also improved and signal too.
UPDATE:I have NOT edited the 3G proxy everything is default
I will post screenshots later
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fadimo305 said:
Recently i have noticed that sprints 3G speeds have dramatically improved.back then i would get 700-800kbps speeds now I'm getting 1-2MBps sppeds here in Miami.Also my 4G speeds have also improved and signal too.
I will post screenshots later
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Sounds good, there's no doubt that the data issues have been improved in a lot of areas.
Hasn't made its way to Jax yet, lol.
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Chicago 3G speeds also took that same jump bout 4 months ago...
4G has also really improved just recently...not so much that's its faster, but signal remains much more consistantly.
Am much happier.
Lucky you. My 3G is still as fast as a frozen glacier.
Edit: Even you previous 700-800 kb speeds are 3 times faster than what I get.
rugedraw said:
Lucky you. My 3G is still as fast as a frozen glacier.
Edit: Even you previous 700-800 kb speeds are 3 times faster than what I get.
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Update your PRL and Roam,Sprint has Amazing Roaming Speeds on 3G
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fadimo305 said:
Update your PRL and Roam,Sprint has Amazing Roaming Speeds on 3G
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I have the latest PRL, but the "amazing roaming speeds" are because you are running off of Verizon towers when you're roaming.......it has nothing to do with Sprint.
Edit: Also, I don't want to force the phone to roam on Verizon in any way. Hopefully some of whatever you're getting comes my way sooner than later.
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Yea im also getting like 5-6mbps down on 4g before it was like 3-3.5
My 3G speeds in Orlando are kinda slow. Roaming or not, they are actually a little slower when roaming. So I just use 4G as often as I possibly can.
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Yeah figured 3G would pick up when customers are jumping ship. hahahahahahah
MY speeds in Jacksonville (Right along the line of ST Augustine) has increased GREATLY! My speeds went from 50-80 kpbs to 1800-220 kbps DL. And about 10 kbps upload, now 550 (on average). It's great! Beats Verizon's speed @ my house (tested w/ a friend's HTC Eris).
Overstew said:
MY speeds in Jacksonville (Right along the line of ST Augustine) has increased GREATLY! My speeds went from 50-80 kpbs to 1800-220 kbps DL. And about 10 kbps upload, now 550 (on average). It's great! Beats Verizon's speed @ my house (tested w/ a friend's HTC Eris).
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Damn. Maybe I need to flash back to sense and try to update my profile. Just did it like a month ago. Haven't seen a new one released :/
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There is a great deal of work being done on a great many of the Florida sites to improve speed, capacity and overall experience. Glad its being noticed.
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I have the latest PRL, but the "amazing roaming speeds" are because you are running off of Verizon towers when you're roaming.......it has nothing to do with Sprint.
Edit: Also, I don't want to force the phone to roam on Verizon in any way. Hopefully some of whatever you're getting comes my way sooner than later.
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my 1-2mbps speeds are not on roaming but on sprints normal network
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jayharper08 said:
Damn. Maybe I need to flash back to sense and try to update my profile. Just did it like a month ago. Haven't seen a new one released :/
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Good idea..........I haven't tried updating the profile.
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my 1-2mbps speeds are not on roaming but on sprints normal network
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Oh, ok.....I must have misunderstood what you typed earlier.
My max speeds when roaming hit 250 kbps, because when you roam, Verizon only shares their 2G (not 3G) speeds.
i'm in melbourne ,has anyone else noticed they can connect to wi
max?????running decks 2.3.4 and cm7 both upon booting automatically start 4 g and to my surpise lately it connects but gives different I.P. addresses.anyone else???
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My max speeds when roaming hit 250 kbps, because when you roam, Verizon only shares their 2G (not 3G) speeds.
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I'm able to get 3G roaming on Verizon. It's also double the speeds of sprint. I am using PRl 01115. it's nice
Marlowr05 said:
I'm able to get 3G roaming on Verizon. It's also double the speeds of sprint. I am using PRl 01115. it's nice
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Yes indeed VZW 3g is nice. Sprint in Louisiana is horrible...20 kilobit to 50 kilobits for me. Data is useless unless I force roam.
My speeds in Tallahassee were great for about the first 4-6 months of owning the phone, now it's merely decent and there's been no improvement.

Carrier Coverage App

You guys should try out this app. It reports coverage and performance in your area to give a better idea which carrier and device are the best for cell phone networks.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SiaXXOTkRow
APK
Mine shows 0 bars, lol
EDIT: It would appear the epic will only report zero bars, no matter what the signal strength is. Other Sprint phones work fine, something is borked.
First!
Just downloaded this app n I'm messing with it
Seems kinda cool
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I had to sync data before it showed any bars. Mine said 2.00, and that Jacksonville Florida is covered the best by Sprint. Idk if the app is just using my own carrier to display that though. I did this on a Nexus S 4G and now it's Sprint's top ranked phone in my area. LOL
Let's see if this one actually works. Sensorly reports all areas as 0/4 evdo coverage on the epic. No fix from the dev after many emails. Makes the maps untrusted big time. I tried the root metrics one and it does not report anything up in areas.
Wow...not what I thought at all...it doesn't map anything?
Clearwire also has a 4G coverage app on the market. "Got Clear?"
digiblur said:
Let's see if this one actually works. Sensorly reports all areas as 0/4 evdo coverage on the epic. No fix from the dev after many emails. Makes the maps untrusted big time. I tried the root metrics one and it does not report anything up in areas.
Wow...not what I thought at all...it doesn't map anything?
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It's meant to be a statistics app, for now. It will have more features later.
Yeah, this doesnt work. I always get 0 bars with epic.... other phones work though, according to that chart thing..
I think the same reason this doesn't work on the Epic is the same reason Roam Control won't work on the Epic in Texas. Something about the tower tech if I remember correctly. Not sure on the details.
Muckrak3r said:
I think the same reason this doesn't work on the Epic is the same reason Roam Control won't work on the Epic in Texas. Something about the tower tech if I remember correctly. Not sure on the details.
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Not related at all. Roam control works fine everywhere. Its just the modem fails to roam on the PCS band. Seen it for myself. Stock Epic and stock TP2 with the same PRL. The TP2 had full Verizon signal on 1900mhz. Epic was searching for signal.
Are you guys running stock or a modded ROM? A theme without a proper network fix would have this error.
Wtf, Sprint is going to get a bad reputation from this application because it doesn't work at all.
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And that's why its in closed beta......
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Whosdaman said:
Wtf, Sprint is going to get a bad reputation from this application because it doesn't work at all.
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It worked for my Samsung Nexus S, but not the Epic. I'd assume it could be something to do with being on a custom ROM.
Overstew said:
It worked for my Samsung Nexus S, but not the Epic. I'd assume it could be something to do with being on a custom ROM.
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I'm stock
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I'm stock
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Maybe just an epic bug? I love the epic but the evolution 4g has some scores posted, too.
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Whosdaman said:
Wtf, Sprint is going to get a bad reputation from this application because it doesn't work at all.
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Edited OP to let people know this isn't working right on the epic. I think this is an epic specific issue because Evo (4g and 3D) owners' scores appear normal and even pretty good ~3.5 bars. It appears that only the epic isn't cooperating.
Only one I have seen work on the Epic is Cellumap. Seems like the other devs need to ask that dev how he does it

Sprint 3g speeds

Much improved! I'm now getting just over 2 Mbps. Now just need ICS and this phone will be good to go for a couple more years...
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Lucky, I get 50~400 kbps
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I've been getting great speeds as well.
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What happened that led to these faster speeds all of the sudden?
Thanks,
Matt!
Sprint is upgrading their 3G network in advance of the iPhone launch next week. thisismynext.com had a few articles about it. I think it's both adding towers, and moving voice to a different frequency so data is not so congested.
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Its called sprint network vision. Nothing to do with the iPhone.
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The timing of the rollout of the network upgrades has everything to do with the iPhone--specifically, with being ready for the heavy additional traffic that will hit their data network as soon as they release the iPhone. Sprint said that specifically in their conference on Friday. Can you imagine the bad press Sprint would get if reviewers compared 3G speeds of the 3 carriers of the iPhone 4S and Sprint was showing <400 kbps?
Ouch I forgot how bad sprint 3g was 5mbps on Tmobile 3g and almost 9 on hspa.
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Wish I was getting speeds like that. I just ran a speakeasy test and got .2 mbps with full 3g bars. It has been like that for several weeks. Hope the upgrades hit metro detroit soon.
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cchase231 said:
Wish I was getting speeds like that. I just ran a speakeasy test and got .2 mbps with full 3g bars. It has been like that for several weeks. Hope the upgrades hit metro detroit soon.
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Same **** here in Miami. I called earlier about it and it didn't really get anywhere.
where are you located
I'm in Charlotte. It's true Sprint has slower 3G than T-Mobile, but of course we have 4G too. It's really only inside buildings that I'm on 3G, and my experience is most people's phones on other networks don't get reception at all inside.
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dwielunski said:
Much improved! I'm now getting just over 2 Mbps. Now just need ICS and this phone will be good to go for a couple more years...
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What are you getting for a ping? Download ping off the market and run a continuous ping to Google.com. I get 1mbit down with a fluctuating ping between 80-130ms. Spikes up past 400 once in a blue. Its not stable whatsoever. Pisses me off. I'd be able to enjoy this bf3 beta a bit better lol
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How about a change in radios? Might that help?
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dwielunski said:
I'm in Charlotte. It's true Sprint has slower 3G than T-Mobile, but of course we have 4G too. It's really only inside buildings that I'm on 3G, and my experience is most people's phones on other networks don't get reception at all inside.
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Highest i ever saw on wimax was 10mbps which I can almost hit on good hspa. :/
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If I had consistant access to 10mbps I would be fine with wimax. There is only one wimax tower near me me and its coverage stops about a mile from my home. Even when I can connect to it I have only seen speeds up to 7mbps, with 5 being the norm. Heck, I would even be fine with that if the coverage was even mediocre. However, the 4g coverage is atrocious around me and is unusable unless you are outside. Sprint has there work cut out for them, i think it will be years before we see any fast, reliable speeds. I just hope metro detroit is one of the first areas they upgrade since they hosed us on the wimax coverage, but I'm not holding my breath as I would think they would start upgrading towers before building new ones. Ill just have to keep taking comfort in the fact that my bill is half as much as it would be on verizon.lol
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Ping is in the low 100s on 3G. Actually a lot more consistent on 3G than wifi. What are those numbers supposed to be if you have "good" service?
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Ping is in the low 100s on 3G. Actually a lot more consistent on 3G than wifi. What are those numbers supposed to be if you have "good" service?
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CDMA EVDO Rev. A is capped at 3.1mbps, on paper. Where GSM 3G is at 7.2mbps. Technically, in good coverage, I should see at least 700kbps on Sprints 3G. Unfortunately for me, Sprints network is horrid.
I tried the NS4G under Sprint's trial (about 5 months ago). I couldn't even watch Slingbox or hardly stream anything due to the slow rev.A CDMA network.
I ran back to my AT&T NS.
I'm sure the network Vision project will bring good things, as will AT&T's (and Verizon's) network upgrades, but Sprint simply is not there yet.
Shame cause I like the way they roll. That and the fact that I had Sprint for many years until the O.G. iPhone came out on AT&T (been with AT&T since then). I've always wanted to return to Sprint, but I just can't given the slow 3G speeds currently. Plus it's nice to use simultaneous data and voice.
Obama
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Virgin Mobile now has 4G

Virgin Mobile has now rolled out a 4G phone. For us Epic 4G users running on Virgin Mobile, I was wondering if it was possible to call up Virgin, find a nice support technician, and squeeze some info out of them. Perhaps get them to add our mac addresses to the system and clear us for 4G use.
Since the price points aren't changing, I don't see what the problem would be. All they have to do is add our mac address to the system and we should be able to pick up the networks.
I'm not expert at this, and I may be missing something. However, that's what I at least think should fix the problem.
I may give this a spin sometime, just have to get an understanding technician.
What are your theories? Any ideas? Something you have been working on?
I doubt they use WiMax
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I doubt they use WiMax
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Boost does. It may be how Sprint is trying to make up for it's losses on Wimax since they switched to LTE.
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Is it LTE or Wimax?
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It's sprints Wimax... They invested too much in Wimax to just toss it out the window so they opened it up to us boost Virgin users to get some extra life out of it since sprint will be rolling out it's LTE soon.
And don't trust sprint or boost or Virgins site for Wimax coverage... They have switched on a bunch of Wimax towers that don't show up unless you look on clear.com
Like here in Lincoln Nebraska!
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Yes, they are using Wimax..
If you go to epic's virgin Mobile tut, Brooksysx talks about the whole she-bang in length, it's possible to use, but tedious to the average noob nonetheless.
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...and not they are getting the iPhone as well.

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