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So I ordered my N1 yesterday, and currently have at&t. wasn't too worried about the whole 3g thing, because I figured one of the smart guys here at xda would figure out a way to make it work. After looking in to it further, I realize the hardware just won't allow that. I would just switch to T-mobile, but they have no 3g coverage anywhere near me yet. this brings me to my question. is it worth switching to tmobiles coverage for faster 2g possibly, or in the hopes that they'll soon expand their network. I don't mind getting out of my contract with at&t, tmobiles rates seem to be a lot better. I'm just wondering if anybody has heard anything on T-mobiles future plans.
I think most anecdotal evidence by most users is that EDGE on TMO is much faster than ATT. Why? Even though the "transport" 2G technology is the same, ATT still suffers from not enough bandwidth at its towers for all the heavy 3G areas due to heavy usage. -- In other words, backhaul contention.
Also, the fact that in places where there is no TMO 3G... EDGE works quite well for the very same reason... Even with towers that only have several T1/DS1's in place instead of T3/DS3's or fiber
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Kermee
In NYC, where I have 3G coverage as well, EDGE tops out at 10-15KB/s
hurrycaine3000 said:
So I ordered my N1 yesterday, and currently have at&t. wasn't too worried about the whole 3g thing, because I figured one of the smart guys here at xda would figure out a way to make it work. After looking in to it further, I realize the hardware just won't allow that. I would just switch to T-mobile, but they have no 3g coverage anywhere near me yet. this brings me to my question. is it worth switching to tmobiles coverage for faster 2g possibly, or in the hopes that they'll soon expand their network. I don't mind getting out of my contract with at&t, tmobiles rates seem to be a lot better. I'm just wondering if anybody has heard anything on T-mobiles future plans.
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I personally have ran on EDGE for awhile on tmobile and have never had a problem with wifi while I am at home/school... however the 3g is nice, though my house seems to have 3g signals
its simple business really, though 1 man cannot make a difference... as the company grows, the service grows... verizon has the best service because it has the most customers... i think the reason tmobile has struggled in the US (as opposed to being the number 1 world wide carrier) is because of the lack of appeal from phones... with more phones rolling out and tmobile always having its doors open to unlocked phones i see the company gaining some momentum and it starts with these new android phones making it big as well as now having the fastest network in the nation...
ive had bad experiences with both verizon (contract issues) and att (terrible customer service), tmobile has yet to steer me wrong (other than not giving me an upgrade for the N1 haha)
with that said, try em out, idk if companies still let you trial their service for a week or so but you could ask?
i honestly cant tel a diff between edge and 3 g lol they both are friggin fast as hell
VoLoDaR1 said:
i honestly cant tel a diff between edge and 3 g lol they both are friggin fast as hell
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It all depends on what you're doing Tweeting and reading tweets... probably not so much
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Kermee
are you crazy? 3G is AT LEAST 10+ times as fast as EDGE.
I know on my touch pro using att 3g over edge. they have 3g where I work, but not at my house. so I always just use wifi at my house, but don't bother at work because the 3g is fast enough. I can definetly tell the difference. granted there is wifi almost everywhere these days, but with my touch pro I have to turn it off and on when I'm using it so my battery half makes through a day. It will be nice if the N1's is more of a automatic thing, if that makes sense. I guess if I knew that t Mobile would actually be implementing 3g in my area at all soon, it would be an easier decision, but I haven't found anything to make me think they'll be adding towers in York, PA any time soon.
Im in Dallas TX and just activated my phone. I was worried because people in some forums where saying phone kept switching to 2g. I just activated my phone and its been on 3 out of 4 bars on 3g last 30-40 minutes...I know this is kind of off topic, but thought it was important do to the nature of all the talk about speed on tmobile.
Ok im scared now, i just looked at the USA map on tmobile https://my.t-mobile.com/Plan/CoverageMap.aspx and looks to hardly be any 3g coverage! What! Tell me it aint so!
that's what I'm saying, I want 3g on this phone, but it's just not in my area on tmobile. we've established it's pretty much going to be impossible to get att's to work on this phone. It doesn't look like tmobile has 3g anywhere, atleast not hardly. what to do, what to do.
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Im in Dallas TX and just activated my phone. I was worried because people in some forums where saying phone kept switching to 2g. I just activated my phone and its been on 3 out of 4 bars on 3g last 30-40 minutes...I know this is kind of off topic, but thought it was important do to the nature of all the talk about speed on tmobile.
Ok im scared now, i just looked at the USA map on tmobile https://my.t-mobile.com/Plan/CoverageMap.aspx and looks to hardly be any 3g coverage! What! Tell me it aint so!
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thats called #4 carrier coverage
as for that map, its ancient... the thing has never worked properly and the maps take forever to load yet i wish i could get a decent detailed coverage map for tmobile somewhere...
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I know on my touch pro using att 3g over edge. they have 3g where I work, but not at my house. so I always just use wifi at my house, but don't bother at work because the 3g is fast enough. I can definetly tell the difference. granted there is wifi almost everywhere these days, but with my touch pro I have to turn it off and on when I'm using it so my battery half makes through a day. It will be nice if the N1's is more of a automatic thing, if that makes sense. I guess if I knew that t Mobile would actually be implementing 3g in my area at all soon, it would be an easier decision, but I haven't found anything to make me think they'll be adding towers in York, PA any time soon.
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OMG i live in york to lol. ive asked tmobile many times if we'll ever have 3g and they told me december 09 but that never happened. who knows if we'll ever get it. but edge for me on tmobile works good unless u use media functions like youtube and streaming video but its good for web browsing and email
Make sure T-Mobile has EDGE all around your area because I've found that there are many places that don't even have EDGE on T-Mobile and are GRPS only. That being said, I do find that usually T-Mobile EDGE is faster.... The difference is so small that I wouldn't change networks over it though..
I get around 25KB/s or so, which works fine for streaming music and such. This is quite a bit faster than the AT&T users seem to get here.
Yeah you should be happy with what you've got. EDGE isn't amazing but at least with the 900mhz range you've got coverage. I'm not sure about T-mobile US thought but it has to be better than UK. I live in the UK just outside of town with 3 basestations surrounding my house just out of range with 2100 3g and 1800 2g. I can get signal occasionally with my Iphone 3gs, until I touch it...
The coverage is okish but I get Black-spots everywhere; literally, I can walk round the corner away from a basestation and lose signal. I can only use my phone if I'm underneath a basestation and even then the crappy 4.2Mbit/s (It may even be less than that) limited basestations are overloaded. Each user is then further capped at roughly 1.8Mbit/s
That's 3G and above, which I rarely get as I mentioned. When you get 2G you get EDGE. When I get 2G I don't get EDGE, I don't even get 2.5G, I get slower-than-dial-up GPRS which is unusable. None of T-mo UK's basestations are EDGE enabled; with common black-spots and poor 3G reception, this makes for an appalling network. I can't wait to switch to Three UK. Blanket UK 3g coverage with amazing deals: £15/mo rolling contract with 300 mins, unlimited texts, Unlimited (7.2Mbit/s) data. The only problem is they have shockingly bad phones (no problem for me, or so I thought...)
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are you crazy? 3G is AT LEAST 10+ times as fast as EDGE.
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That pretty well sums up the problem with TMUS users.
They have no f***ing clue.
My samsung vibrant on t mobile
Vs
My wife's samsung fascinate on the nations largest 3G network.
Both pics were taken around the same time and right next to each other, I took the pc of mine from my wife's fascinate, and the pic of hers on my vibrant.
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only see one pic.
My wife's fascinate
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Cool Did you say where you live?
i was pulling down 6Mbps the other night
suck it, verizon
this is the reason i ditched verizon. most places i was hitting .6-.8 mbps and i almost hit 5mbps with tmo on my vibrant.
Verizon's service was a lot slower at times, but I REALLY miss having 3g literally EVERYWHERE
T-Mobile 3G isn't even in every major city here in Northwest Arkansas....let alone the rural areas
Tmobile has the fastest 3g around hands down. I have tried sprint and att. Both are slower, noticeably slower and the thing is t-mobile hasn't even started 4g or lte lol
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Tmo does have hspa+ though which can have an impact on data speeds depending on where you live
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Tmo will beat everyone on speed but man good luck on finding it. Sprint was slower but everywhere
T-Mobile is the fastest 3G carrier in the US right now IF you live in a HSPA+ area.
The real question is why does your wife have the outrageously high priced verizon while you sport the more economical t-mobile? Business issued?
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There are two main reasons Tmo typcially tops in speed:
Tmo has the fastest hardware right now. This will change, of course, seeing as both ATT and Verizon are working on their 4G networks and Tmo has no plans to go to 4G for the next two years. It is worth noting ATT and Verizon will have LTE not WiMax.
Tmo has a lot less customers so there is less demand on their towers. Less demand means faster speeds for those that do have Tmo.
T-Mobile is increasing 3G coverage a bunch recently. They just gave Puerto Rico 3G coverage and I've been hearing of other places getting 3G recently.
Verizon 3G is much slower here, you can hit 1.9Mbps but you're usually under 1Mbps like T-Mobile 3G before HSPA+. 3G coverage isn't all that either, EV-DO drops out sometimes at my house but I can't complain.
3G is also slightly on JI2 now that the -dBm reading is more accurate within the Android system. The Vibrant grabs onto a 3G signal much better than ANY phone I've had on T-Mobile. (G1, CLIQ, myTouch, TM506, TouchPro2, Nuron).
This is what I typically see with T-Mobile. Data speed is much better than all 3 of the carriers combined here for me. Still needs work in some areas though! Not going to lie.. but overall, it's better.
You would be lucky to get 500Kbps with AT&T or Verizon during peak hours. The Sprint EV-DO network is taking a huge hit due to the new smartphones on their network. It went from being underutilized to being over used.
As a former verizon/sprint/att/and uk versions f#ckee, ive never been more happy with a carriers service/price.
Tmo Hpsa ftw ..see sig
98classic said:
Tmo will beat everyone on speed but man good luck on finding it. Sprint was slower but everywhere
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Sad but true. I'm TM all the way, but F#$#, I hate how it's so limited still to a small area. Granted they are still expanding...Anyway, here's my pictures below...
I wouldn't quite knock Verizon...they'll kill TM on coverage on the mainland...but in some areas TM kicks @$$ over all....
Here's the true coverage ranking, hate it or love it, it's real:
1. Verizon
2. AT$T
3. Sprint
4. T-Mobile
Don't get me wrong, I get sick speeds...super fast...but only in certain areas...
My speed test pic is below...
Sprint coverage is way below T-Mobile coverage. 3G yes but I'd like to keep my calls.
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Sprint coverage is way below T-Mobile coverage. 3G yes but I'd like to keep my calls.
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As a trucker having gone through all 48 states with both carriers this is just not true
Well maybe in WU tmo might have slight better coverage
98classic said:
As a trucker having gone through all 48 states with both carriers this is just not true
Well maybe in WU tmo might have slight better coverage
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Roaming on Verizon in most of those states no?
When you lose the signal in a big city you can't just roam the rest of the time because the phone will try to pick up the weakest bit of Sprint signal. Sprint drops out often here. Deadzones in stores where T-Mobile manages a good usable signal? Check. Signal drop outs when driving down the road? Check. Lesser amount of coverage overall? Check. Dropped calls when signal fades and roaming switches over? Check.
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Roaming on Verizon in most of those states no?
When you lose the signal in a big city you can't just roam the rest of the time because the phone will try to pick up the weakest bit of Sprint signal. Sprint drops out often here. Deadzones in stores where T-Mobile manages a good usable signal? Check. Signal drop outs when driving down the road? Check. Lesser amount of coverage overall? Check. Dropped calls when signal fades and roaming switches over? Check.
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Lol must be the vibrant that sucks then cuz in a 1000 mile stretch of road I might get 3g 3 times for a few minutes, and speed is the worse while moving,. Just last night in portland, stopped, in the driver seat I had 3g, if I moved back to the sleeper 3 feet away it dropped to edge. Might be the phone that only gets 3g in wide open spaces like a satellite
I have used both for more than 30 days and have hi end phones on both. I will be rating calling and data, but mostly data.
Notes: unlimited data for both, 20% off verzion and bills are base 54.99 for AT&T and about 56 for Verzion.
I will start with verzion's pro's and con's:
Pro's:
1)Call's are loud and clear. Never droped one yet. Calling get's 10/10 so far.
2) Data:When It is working It's very fast and help's my home internet when it quits on me.
Cons:
1)Data: 3g is way slower than at&t/ 1DL vs 3-6DL and .5UL vs 1UL. 4G LTE has quit working 3-5 times a week and the speed don't AWAYS best h+ on AT&T.
2) Phones: 300 to start and no phone that is as smooth as the SGS2 in web pages.
Now At&t:
Pro's:
1) calling: loud and clear and able to call 911 in more places than verzion. ( I was in a few "dead zones" and on At&T I could still call 911 vs verzion saying no go.
2) Data on 3G is faster than verzions 3g and it shows. It has NEVER cut me off unlike the big red.
Con's:
1) Calling on lower bars it gets bader than verzion does on one bar. I have droped 2 calls in about 120-180 days.
2) Data: It's slower than verzion by a lot, but I just got LTE were I live. ( That does me no good for my GT 9100 that is only H+.)
Ok now for the ponits:
At&t:
Calling 8/10
Data:9.5/10
Speed: 7/10
%of time working:10/10
Verzion:
Calling 10/10
Data over all: 9.5
Speed: 9.7/10
%of time working: 7/10
over all At&T 9/10 and Verzion 9/10
Comments? and who else seem to be on the some boat when comes to what you see form both of them?
Thank you
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Phones used: Samsung galaxy 2 on At&t/ Droid RAZR on Verzion
Hmmmm.......I think you're forgetting a major grading factor. Coverage. I had both. ATT was pretty much worthless 80% of the time unless you were in a major city. Had the same problems with Sprint but at lease big Yellow was honest about it. I've seen ATT coverage map. Really ATT? Who are you fooling?
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Hold on, there's life outside of major cities???
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Hmmmm.......I think you're forgetting a major grading factor. Coverage. I had both. ATT was pretty much worthless 80% of the time unless you were in a major city. Had the same problems with Sprint but at lease big Yellow was honest about it. I've seen ATT coverage map. Really ATT? Who are you fooling?
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Weird, I was travelling a week ago, I had a 3G signal constantly, albeit not as fast as I'm used too (spoiled by LTE), but definitely usable.
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i havent had issues with either. in general if i was in a location with low reception with AT&T it was the same with Verizon.
SevenSe7enSeven said:
i havent had issues with either. in general if i was in a location with low reception with AT&T it was the same with Verizon.
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Their coverage maps are practically identical, with little differences.
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Their coverage maps are practically identical, with little differences.
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That's why I laugh when people say their coverages are so different.
The only real difference right now is their respective LTE networks.
I Am Marino said:
That's why I laugh when people say their coverages are so different.
The only real difference right now is their respective LTE networks.
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If someone says VZW has more LTE coverage, that's totally ****ing obvious, VZW has had LTE up for longer then a year, while AT&T has had it up for, 2 months?
When it comes to their 3G networks, if you placed the maps on top of each other, it's completely the same, other then VZW having a bit more around utah, nevada, places like that.
If I had graded coverage AT&T would win. I could tell why, but I know the big red is like apple that can do no bad/is like well you know.
Right now my H+ is doing fine with 1080p video from youtube and my razr is stoping every 30-90sec lol. Same vid about some spot, same 3-4 bars.
Edit: All the loading has put the razr about 4min back.
Edit2: now my S2 is at about 21min and the razr about 13min.
4ktvs said:
I have used both for more than 30 days and have hi end phones on both. I will be rating calling and data, but mostly data.
Notes: unlimited data for both, 20% off verzion and bills are base 54.99 for AT&T and about 56 for Verzion.
I will start with verzion's pro's and con's:
Pro's:
1)Call's are loud and clear. Never droped one yet. Calling get's 10/10 so far.
2) Data:When It is working It's very fast and help's my home internet when it quits on me.
Cons:
1)Data: 3g is way slower than at&t/ 1DL vs 3-6DL and .5UL vs 1UL. 4G LTE has quit working 3-5 times a week and the speed don't AWAYS best h+ on AT&T.
2) Phones: 300 to start and no phone that is as smooth as the SGS2 in web pages.
Now At&t:
Pro's:
1) calling: loud and clear and able to call 911 in more places than verzion. ( I was in a few "dead zones" and on At&T I could still call 911 vs verzion saying no go.
2) Data on 3G is faster than verzions 3g and it shows. It has NEVER cut me off unlike the big red.
Con's:
1) Calling on lower bars it gets bader than verzion does on one bar. I have droped 2 calls in about 120-180 days.
2) Data: It's slower than verzion by a lot, but I just got LTE were I live. ( That does me no good for my GT 9100 that is only H+.)
Ok now for the ponits:
At&t:
Calling 8/10
Data:9.5/10
Speed: 7/10
%of time working:10/10
Verzion:
Calling 10/10
Data:
Speed: 9.2/10
%of time working: 7/10
over all At&T 9/10 and Verzion 9/10
Comments? and who else seem to be on the some boat when comes to what you see form both of them?
Thank you
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Phones used: Samsung galaxy 2 on At&t/ Droid RAZR on Verzion
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Are you sure you DONT have HSPA+ in your area BUT you have LTE?
Because HSPA+ utilizes the SAME towers as 3G.
These ratings sounds about right; esp. since you used a non-iOS device to do your testings
I have both AT&T and verzion LTE in the city I live in, but my S2 only has h+21mbs.
I don't think I will be geting an iphone any time soon. the os is just as bad as andriod to me. ( Thats right they both suck vs win xp the solid as a rock OS. )
Hahaha.. everything has it's flaws. My theory is that.. there isn't one OS superior to another.. the one that aligns with your needs is the one that is superior.
I think your right and I can't wait for all the iphone fans to read that. LOL
XP SP3 crashed less than any OS I have ever used. (98,2000,vista,7,8,Andorid and IOS v5)
I've given up trying to explain it. Trust me, although I do love iOS for it's ease of use and the huge support avail for it, I KNOW how crappy the OS/Hardware is sometimes.
Let me put it into perspective.
An average day at work:
SIMS changed (Due to burn-out, Initial Troubleshooting for Warranty, etc..)
-iPhones: 40-50
-Androids: 0-1
-Everything Else: 0-1
It also doesn't help that Apple feeds into the minds of it's technology-illiterate zombies that all problems with the iPhone is anyone but theirs. I've even had customers come to request their SIMS changed because "Their iPhone won't sync with iTunes" & that the "Genius" at Apple said that's the reason. (mind you, my reply was invaluable to her because i'm not a "Genius")
PS. sorry for ranting. But yeah, Verizon is AWESOME in rural areas & LTE coverage, but if you so happen to be where civilization is, they're almost identitcally equal.
That must be a pain sometimes. I did not say in it in the reveiw, but I like At&T better now than I have ever did before. To me verzion=Apple. I will let the viewers of my comment think for them selfs what that meens.
Ok everyone, so let me start off by saying I own an One X/L on At&t which I dropped and shattered there screen... I had come to love my LTE, but now I'm faced with finding a phone for cheap, or attempting to repair it (which I'm kinda ready for something new anyways). My question is in regards to the lack of LTE radio in the Nexus 4, which I am incredibly interested in. Currently I'm using my wife's old iPhone 4s which also lacks LTE, but, is touted to have some form of "4g" according to At&t. I thought that the 4s had an hspa+ radio in it, just like Nexus 4... So my question is this... leaving my LTE behind til my next upgrade, would the data speeds on At&t with a Nexus 4 be the same as on an iPhone 4s, or is there a difference in the hspa+ radios that they use?
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Ok everyone, so let me start off by saying I own an One X/L on At&t which I dropped and shattered there screen... I had come to love my LTE, but now I'm faced with finding a phone for cheap, or attempting to repair it (which I'm kinda ready for something new anyways). My question is in regards to the lack of LTE radio in the Nexus 4, which I am incredibly interested in. Currently I'm using my wife's old iPhone 4s which also lacks LTE, but, is touted to have some form of "4g" according to At&t. I thought that the 4s had an hspa+ radio in it, just like Nexus 4... So my question is this... leaving my LTE behind til my next upgrade, would the data speeds on At&t with a Nexus 4 be the same as on an iPhone 4s, or is there a difference in the hspa+ radios that they use?
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While the Nexus 4 has a far faster standard of HSPA+ implemented, AT&T's HSPA+ maxes out at 21Mbps (theoretical, not real-world). This level isn't even in all HSPA+-enabled areas. The iPhone 4S supports either the 14.4 or 21Mbps HSPA+ standard, but phones rarely ever even get that high in real-world use.
Short answer: No, it won't be much faster, if at all, on AT&T's HSPA+ network compared to the 4S.
Thanks dude, I'm just trying to decide whether to blow the $300 on an otherwise badass phone, or just stick it out with this...
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Thanks dude, I'm just trying to decide whether to blow the $300 on an otherwise badass phone, or just stick it out with this...
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I have a Samsung Infuse 4g on AT&T HSPA+ network in Atlanta GA.
Honestly, the thing is damn fast... I can't vouch for pure speed because the device's CPU doesn't keep up, but I have never been in a situation where "OMG Wikipedia is taking foreverrrr"
The speed tests don't look as pretty, but in real world performance, its a non-issue. Youtube videos buffer just fine etc... (I don't watch HD videos because I dont have unlimited data)
Correct me if I'm wrong - But wouldn't the HSPA+ data speeds be the same as your OneXL with the LTE radio turned off?
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I have a Samsung Infuse 4g on AT&T HSPA+ network in Atlanta GA.
Honestly, the thing is damn fast... I can't vouch for pure speed because the device's CPU doesn't keep up, but I have never been in a situation where "OMG Wikipedia is taking foreverrrr"
The speed tests don't look as pretty, but in real world performance, its a non-issue. Youtube videos buffer just fine etc... (I don't watch HD videos because I dont have unlimited data)
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This is really the truth of it: unless you need FAST PAGES NOW or are on unlimited data with LTE and want to watch a lot of Youtube...LTE is kind of a moot point. Long-run, it is a better technology than HSPA & Co., but it's not a make or break feature now, IMO, for a whole bunch of reasons.
I will be switching from AT&T to T-Mobile prepaid when I get the Nexus 4. T-Mobile's HSPA+ is faster than AT&T's, and I'm on WiFi at my house where 2G (ugh) is the only thing available. I can send and receive texts just fine from home, though, on T-Mobile, which is all I would need.
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ralexand said:
Correct me if I'm wrong - But wouldn't the HSPA+ data speeds be the same as your OneXL with the LTE radio turned off?
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Pretty much.
ralexand said:
Correct me if I'm wrong - But wouldn't the HSPA+ data speeds be the same as your OneXL with the LTE radio turned off?
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Well yeah, but you can't just turn off LTE without rooting, and messing with APN settings and stuff. I've rooted all my Android phones up to the One X, but since there's no option for S-off or bootloader unlock I've just lived without root.
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Well yeah, but you can't just turn off LTE without rooting, and messing with APN settings and stuff. I've rooted all my Android phones up to the One X, but since there's no option for S-off or bootloader unlock I've just lived without root.
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Seriously, you can't turn off LTE? That's lame. Oh AT&T...
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Seriously, you can't turn off LTE? That's lame. Oh AT&T...
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Yeah, it's the same with my current AT&T Android phone as well. Stock ROM doesn't allow you to disable LTE independently. Other variants of my phone (LG P930) sold in other countries DO allow you to disable LTE, so AT&T went out of their way to disable that. It's ridiculous.
I just got an n9005 and while I understood it would not be 4G I expected HSPA+ at around 6 or 7Mbps which to be fair is about all my previous SIII 4G phone from AT&T would get, but when I swapped out the card, and entered the APN I can get now get HSPA+, but only at 0.62Mbps down and 0.6Mbps up, which well is not really worth it, I really do not want to switch phones, what a waste, and I understand HSPA+ it should be able to do 6+, yet I'm not seeing any close to that. I'm in NY City so signal is no issue, just can not work out why I have no speed at all on the N9005 unit.
Thanks,
ERIC
How old is your SIMcard? This is usually an Old SIM meets New Phone problem.
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I just got an n9005 and while I understood it would not be 4G I expected HSPA+ at around 6 or 7Mbps which to be fair is about all my previous SIII 4G phone from AT&T would get, but when I swapped out the card, and entered the APN I can get now get HSPA+, but only at 0.62Mbps down and 0.6Mbps up, which well is not really worth it, I really do not want to switch phones, what a waste, and I understand HSPA+ it should be able to do 6+, yet I'm not seeing any close to that. I'm in NY City so signal is no issue, just can not work out why I have no speed at all on the N9005 unit.
Thanks,
ERIC
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What is the HSPA+ speed on your previous S3?
It may be due to the heavy traffic on your network. Try to test on another time (late night) or another location?
You can also complain with you service provider for the issue. Other users may also face with the problem as you.
SIM is only a year old. As for the old phone it gets 3Mbps+ .
I will try late tonight to see what happens.
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ERIC