Just got LTE where I live but have horrible speeds - AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshootin

I live in a smaller city on the border of US and Mexico so I new LTE was going to take a while. Last week I noticed I was getting it and I was surprised so I started doing speed tests and wow is our slow. Oh well I chalked it up to maybe testing in the area and whatever but it is not getting any faster. Here is a screenshot of my speeds and I know its accurate because when I do the test with wifi its accurate. What do you guys think?
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You are on unlimited plan?
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lthary said:
You are on unlimited plan?
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I should be I grandfathered in. So to use LTE people need an unlimited plan? I should add that when I have gone to a bigger city (San Antonio) I did have LTE speeds.
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check under your phone settngs and see what your signal strength is
your pic shows very week signal
go around your area and see what other speeds you get, might be in a bad area like me
try another speed test app, that one seems to take a lot longer to a host for me lately

I have asked, maybe you have passed the 5 gb they are slowing you down
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If you are grandfathered in the unlimited plan, AT&T will throttle your data speeds down to Edge after a certain amount of data is used.

lthary said:
I have asked, maybe you have passed the 5 gb they are slowing you down
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I have used about 250mb in this billing cycle since a lot of my usage is wifi.
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3g speeds

For on I do not think lte is all that so how fast have yall gotten on your phones?
3g
I've gotten up to 1200 kbps down. I don't really see where I would really take advantage of lte speeds, I can do whatever I want on 3g (Netflix, Pandora). Maybe for tethering but I don't have much use for it being around wifi all the time.
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My 3g has never been more then 1500 kbps. Very slow compared to other carrier's 3g
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I pull 1600kb's down when at work consistently.
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I can get anywhere from 500 to 1500. Which has always been enough for me. I have only tethered a couple of times in a pinch and it seemed fine for that.
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Wow. You guys are fast. I get about 70-150 kB/s here.
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As in kilobytes right?
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Yes I should have been specific. I usually get around 1500 kbps sorry.
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Here in west wichita, kansas i get 1600 down, 1000 up pretty regularly
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Nothing scientific. Just what I get generally.
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The speedtest app is super inconsistent in my experience, try this out in your mobile browser:
http://i.dslr.net/iphone_speedtest.html
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k_nivesout said:
The speedtest app is super inconsistent in my experience, try this out in your mobile browser:
http://i.dslr.net/iphone_speedtest.html
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Did that too. A little better. But I only cracked 100 kB/s once. Even with a full signal. It's not that fast. Maybe someday we will get LTE down here. VZWs page says by the end of 2011. That's fine with me. I don't have an upgrade till mid 2012 anyway.
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Not sure what radio you're on but my data speeds were about where yours are with the new 05.06 radio. So much better on 04.08..
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~960kb/s in my house
when I am at work in the morning I normally get about 2 mbs but one morning I clocked a whooping 2.59 mbs.
I have hit 2200 several times but tend to stay around 1500-1600 consistently.

Check these sick 4G speeds! (Sprint)

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No I'm just kidding. Sprint 4G is terrible.
I have little hope of experiencing even ****ty 4G speeds. Consider it a privilege.
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I have little hope of experiencing even ****ty 4G speeds. Consider it a privilege.
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Are your 3G speeds worse than this?
If so....God bless
SComp23 said:
No I'm just kidding. Sprint 4G is terrible.
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I get over 12mbs where I live
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Speed test app is unreliable. Use web browser speed tests Better.
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My UK 3g test
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SComp23 said:
Are your 3G speeds worse than this?
If so....God bless
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I believe so - 3G averages 150-200kbps. Not sure how that translates to Mbps.
Try using the web site version, our speak easy.net, that app always locks and stutters,
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At least you all have 3g and 4g.. those ****ers in my country dont even have 3G.....
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These are my 4G speeds. and thats just with ONE bar of signal strength for it.
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Sucks for you guys
Atlanta 3g right next to to the tower, I mean right next to it.
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Using the Verizon PRL hack I'm getting download speeds of ~2.3mpbs and upload of about ~.70mbps on 3G. No 4G out here in Madison, WI.
thegtfusion said:
At least you all have 3g and 4g.. those ****ers in my country dont even have 3G.....
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Nope.... sucks
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christiantailor said:
I get over 12mbs where I live
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same here!

Post your speed results

Just interested in seeing some peoples speed results with specific carrier. I have Sprint, and I must say that speeds are suuuuper slow where I live. I just want to show people what a general good range of speeds are for carriers.
So I'll ask if you can post your speed test results, what carrier you have, along with City and state. Oh, and 4G or 3G.
Mine is from Riverside, CA (Sprint/3G)
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P.S. sorry if a similar topic exists, I'm on a mobile, so I cannot search
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Oklahoma city 4g. Verizon on HTC rezound using nils business sense 4 Rom.
Amaze, Jersey City, NJ
Sent from somewhere....if I could only remember where....
T-Mobile 3G I'm also in California.
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AT&T... 4g... I'm in Mississippi mane...
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Sprint, 4G LTE in WV!
I'm on sprint and was very surprised by this. I was in Inwood, WV when I picked up this 4G.
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Just interested in seeing some peoples speed results with specific carrier. I have Sprint, and I must say that speeds are suuuuper slow where I live. I just want to show people what a general good range of speeds are for carriers.
So I'll ask if you can post your speed test results, what carrier you have, along with City and state. Oh, and 4G or 3G.
Mine is from Riverside, CA (Sprint/3G)
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P.S. sorry if a similar topic exists, I'm on a mobile, so I cannot search
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But this testing I think depends (to get a real measure) of the area with good signal. That will give us a better results to compare it.
Strange that I'm located in okc but speed results prove best out of Kansas. Any thoughts? Also speed test says I'm closer to that location then I am to okc when I can see okc with my naked eye. Lol
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secaspider said:
But this testing I think depends (to get a real measure) of the area with good signal. That will give us a better results to compare it.
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Ever heard the phrase "your only as good as your weakest link?"
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My crappy internet is far from any of these...
Bahamas internet
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Verizon in Torrance CA
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cell128 said:
Verizon in Torrance CA
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I think that's the fastest I've seen
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LTE and Connection

I'm sorry if there's already a thread but when using the avatar rom I can't use LTE or HSPA or any att connection besides text and call
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Have you put the att apn settings in correctly? also, is it showing data with any icon at the top?
How do I find the apn settings? I'm sorry I'm used to gingerbread phones
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Joeyxc said:
How do I find the apn settings? I'm sorry I'm used to gingerbread phones
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Not familiar with avatar, but in the network settings there should be something like access points, there you would add an apn of your network.
Okay, since I have AT&T what would I enter?
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Joeyxc said:
Okay, since I have AT&T what would I enter?
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first, what apn(s) are already built in and which one are you currently on?
you can find at&t apns in a google search
After a little work I got it to say H+ above my signal but I can't get lte, any help?
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Joeyxc said:
After a little work I got it to say H+ above my signal but I can't get lte, any help?
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If you literally search for "AT&T APN", you'd get the answer.
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Straight talk apn

I currently have a AT&T s4 using ST.
My current apn is tfdata that can be found on the ST website. Is this the best one?
My phone says 4G but its.obviously not 4G speeds.
Also my simcard was the original big one and I cut it so could this be a problem of my slow speeds?
Thanks
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Does ST have LTE or even HSPA+.
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graydiggy said:
Does ST have LTE or even HSPA+.
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not sure but i get the 4g icon. so idk. im pretty new in the android community
Go to Settings/more/about device/status
Tell me what it says under mobile network state. Also, have you run any speed tests?
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tsuna27 said:
I currently have a AT&T s4 using ST.
My current apn is tfdata that can be found on the ST website. Is this the best one?
My phone says 4G but its.obviously not 4G speeds.
Also my simcard was the original big one and I cut it so could this be a problem of my slow speeds?
Thanks
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the most you will get is HSPA which shows 4G icon, the only Straight Talk that gets LTE is the Galaxy S3 and its on Sprint Network. The max throughput is around 7MBPS down and around 1MBPS up.
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Go to Settings/more/about device/status
Tell me what it says under mobile network state. Also, have you run any speed tests?
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This is what I have down right no
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