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What's the worst speedtest speed you've ever gotten on 3g?

So far on 3g I've never broken 1000kbps. yes thats kbps.
I just ran a few speed tests again.
5 out of 6 bars.
3 tests run.
Highest download speed: 26 yes TWENTY SIX kbps.
Upload was the normal 147.
IS THIS THE ENHANCED 3g/4g experience I'm paying for?!?

Sprint 3G sucks pretty badly compared to AT&T and T-Mobile. I've seen AT&T phones get over 1500kbps way more often than not.
With my phone I consistently get under 1000kbps with good signal areas giving me over 1300kbps and up to 2000kbps if I'm lucky.

Yeah, this was one of the major disappointments of coming from tmobile with 2-6mbps dls and not realizing how slow cdma 3g data was..probably the main reason im getting the g2 soon.
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Ha, I just got 592 down and 87 up.
Honestly, though, my house sucks for signal quality. My AT&T phones could barely even make a call out of here. My Epic sounds basically like a land line in comparison. But yeah, data speeds suck. It's not the Epic's fault.
Luckily I have wi-fi at home and at work and I'm in a 4G area otherwise.

arashed31 said:
Sprint 3G sucks pretty badly compared to AT&T and T-Mobile. I've seen AT&T phones get over 1500kbps way more often than not.
With my phone I consistently get under 1000kbps with good signal areas giving me over 1300kbps and up to 2000kbps if I'm lucky.
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You're comparing 2 gsm providers with a cdma provider. Cdma is not real 3g, so their gsm speeds are always better...personally sprint gives me the best service of verizon, usc, or att. My data speeds with sprint are twice what I ever saw with vz and I never had att 3g serviceat home, had to drive into town.
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98 down and 111 up. I upgraded from a Hero that didn't ever drop below 300 up or down.
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ansong said:
98 down and 111 up. I upgraded from a Hero that didn't ever drop below 300 up or down.
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My phone rarely drops below 600dl. One of the places I work I get decent speed at 1700 down (still upload capped). The 1 time I got no upload cap, my phone must have been downloading an update from Sprint (DI07) cause I got prompted to install it shortly afterwards. This has to account for something... I'll patiently wait for the fix though as I love the phone and rarely upload anything. E-mails still send fine (no pics, just text for work).

[Q] Virgin Mobile Speed tests

Can someone give me some of thier speed test results for the virgin Mobile network. I currently get 2 mb/s download and 1.6 upload with tmobile, But I will be ditching my tmobile plan and selling my Vibrant. Tmo has me pissed off.
I will be buying the intercept and i will also be tehtering with it. Does the Mobile AP work on the froyo update for this phone?

lol 65 views and no one can answer?

My father uses samsung intercept with virgin mobile. You can take a long piss in the bathroom before google.com loads on that phone. The phone is allright but their network is just horrible. Im looking at below .5 download slash upload speeds
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Virgin Mobile UK if that's who you mean are a Virtual Network using TMobiles network .
jje

Obviously depends on location, but here are some I took while at home and out and about around central Florida:
No linking allowed yet, pretty stupid.. Here:
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LostSoulFly said:
Obviously depends on location, but here are some I took while at home and out and about around central Florida:
No linking allowed yet, pretty stupid.. Here:
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I live in Winter Garden FL and get about 600k down and 120 up.

Well depending on the location and time of the day, i get download speeds between 250kbps to 1100 kbps and uploads between 150 to 450kbps.
Way better than t-mobiles piss ass speeds of 20kbps inside the house and work. If you need 3g speeds u need to go stand outside the building..
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the thing to remember when asking about dl and ul speeds on the intercept is also it was cheated in many departments one of those being radio. it's a EVDO rev. 0 not the newer, faster EVDO rev. A radio. This also limits the speeds you'll get compared to your vibrant. As always your mileage will vary based on signal strength as well

Roughly Los Angeles area here (San Fernando Valley to be more precise) and I get anywhere from 600-1400 down and about a consistent 120 up.

here close to dallas on my virgin mobile.. im getting 1.2 d and 400 up

orateam said:
I live in Winter Garden FL and get about 600k down and 120 up.
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Keep in mind my screenshots are for KB/s and not kbps.

Is this Tmobile's doing?

I went to download my first podcast today. It's about 25 MB and it's taking like 10 minutes to download. I tried a diff. podcast from a diff. site and the same slowness. I have full signal strength. Does Tmobile have some kind of restriction to speeds of downloading?

It's my first 3G enabled device so it's hard to say, but it seems like the internet is bit slow to me.. It takes quite some time to open full site like xda, for example. I don't know if that's normal, so that's my question.
I want to exchange it before 30 days if this is a problem.. but it seems like the internet is not up to speed.

web pages and everything is quick and snappy. faster than when i had sprints 3g. it's only when i download something such as a podcast.

dman777 said:
web pages and everything is quick and snappy. faster than when i had sprints 3g. it's only when i download something such as a podcast.
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You shouldn't be getting limited. Grab the speed test app off the market and see what it measures your speed at. I get 3-5 mbit at my home most of the time, sometimes faster, and I've never experienced a speed limit when downloading a file.

I got Download: 217kbps Upload: 59 kbps with speedtest.net.
With other units I got: Download: 0.15Mbps and Upload: 0.10
I have 4 full bars for signal.
I tried this with my Virgin Mobile Intercept and I got Download: 1.02 Mbps and Upload: 0.17 Mbps
Something is definitely wrong. I am running Trinity Kernel with CM7 rom. Would this problem be with my phone or with TMobile?

dman777 said:
I got Download: 217kbps Upload: 59 kbps with speedtest.net.
With other units I got: Download: 0.15Mbps and Upload: 0.10
I have 4 full bars for signal.
I tried this with my Virgin Mobile Intercept and I got Download: 1.02 Mbps and Upload: 0.17 Mbps
Something is definitely wrong. I am running Trinity Kernel with CM7 rom. Would this problem be with my phone or with TMobile?
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NAND it and then go back to stock to see if it changes, that would be my suggestion.

You have 4 full bars, but do you have the 3G icon displaying? Is it green?
Your speeds sound like you're stuck on EDGE.
Perhaps try cycling the 2G only setting on and off...

do a speed test and see what you are getting.

Out of interest are you in the uk? As I know T-Mobile restricted there data speeds for those that brought the nexus s form a third party seller like the carphone warehouse.
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john.heams said:
As I know T-Mobile restricted there data speeds for those that brought the nexus s form a third party seller like the carphone warehouse.
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This is true, but does this include the Nexus S, if it does include the NS then that is disgusting because the NS is only available from Carphone Warehouse in the UK, you can't get the NS directly from T-Mobile UK or any carrier for that matter as it is sold as unlocked and unbranded, so we have no other choice but to buy from a third party like Carphone Warehouse.

I know some people had to call T-Mobile when they got there phone because of slow internet speeds, something to do with the wrong data plan code.
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distortedloop said:
You have 4 full bars, but do you have the 3G icon displaying? Is it green?
Your speeds sound like you're stuck on EDGE.
Perhaps try cycling the 2G only setting on and off...
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That was it!!!! It was set to 2G only. Don't know how that happened! Thanks!

dman777 said:
That was it!!!! It was set to 2G only. Don't know how that happened! Thanks!
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Actually I had the exact same issue. I never check that setting so when my phone wouldn't switch off edge I took it into T-Mobile. Must say I felt very intelligent.
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I agree its rubbish as they only sell through third party places. I had to call tmobile and complain about the data speed, they said that because I was not on the web and walk plus package that comes as standered with their Android phones when brought direct from them I would get a cap on my data.
The web and walk plan is am extra 5 quid a month but if you complain and make a point you use a lot of data, its the reason you use tmobile ect..... they sometimes upgrade you for free.
It took about 20 mins on the phone them but I managed it in the end.
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dman777 said:
That was it!!!! It was set to 2G only. Don't know how that happened! Thanks!
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;-)
Glad to see it was a simple fix. Sometimes we all forget to check the easy things as the first steps in troubleshooting!

I recently switched from ATT. Before I switched, I had my Dell streak and Nexus S both active. Every speed test I did, Tmobile blew away ATT, sometimes by almost 1mbs. There were even instances where I had less bars on the Nexus, and it still beat the Streak, which was on ATT.

Internation Note and AT&T: speed comparisions

I'm looking at buying a galaxy note, but the international Galaxy Note is really the one I want. Unfortunately, I need data speeds. Not the 40mbps of LTE, but I need more than my 1.4/0.9 mpbs that I get now on my Samsung Captivate. What speeds do you guys get on your notes? What did you get on your non-HSPA+ devices? Was there much of an improvement? I tether, and the added speed would be handy, if it exists.

E_man5112 said:
What did you get on your non-HSPA+ devices?
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I think this GNote is HSPA+. My results from Speedtest in Atlanta, GA...(see below/attached).

I wondered the same before so scoured around a bunch and saw that ATT speeds can vary between 1mpbs - 7mpbs down, and .5-1.5mbps up depending on various factors.

It really depends on where you are. Most importantly, how many other AT&T customers share the same tower as you. Typically, in a big crowded metropolitan area, speeds are lower. My HSPA+ speed rarely exceeds 1mbps. Often in low 100kbps range.
That's why if you want speed, LTE is the only way to go. Even without counting on future proof, the fact that very few ppl are using the separate LTE network (no, it doesn't share the same network as HSPA+) at this time.

squeeze said:
I think this GNote is HSPA+. My results from Speedtest in Atlanta, GA...(see below/attached).
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Thanks. Do you remember what it was from your non-HSPA+ device?
k1ng617 said:
I wondered the same before so scoured around a bunch and saw that ATT speeds can vary between 1mpbs - 7mpbs down, and .5-1.5mbps up depending on various factors.
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Yeah, I'm aware of that. That's why I want to know what you got before HSPA+ and after HSPA+.
foxbat121 said:
It really depends on where you are. Most importantly, how many other AT&T customers share the same tower as you. Typically, in a big crowded metropolitan area, speeds are lower. My HSPA+ speed rarely exceeds 1mbps. Often in low 100kbps range.
That's why if you want speed, LTE is the only way to go. Even without counting on future proof, the fact that very few ppl are using the separate LTE network (no, it doesn't share the same network as HSPA+) at this time.
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That's unfortunate. I'm afraid I may be int he same boat. I don't feel I need LTE, but I need more than what my Captivate is giving me.

In DFW I usually get 6-8 mbps down and 1 up on my GNote.
On my skyrocket, which is LTE, I get 30-60 down and 10 to 15 up.
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E_man5112 said:
I'm looking at buying a galaxy note, but the international Galaxy Note is really the one I want. Unfortunately, I need data speeds. Not the 40mbps of LTE, but I need more than my 1.4/0.9 mpbs that I get now on my Samsung Captivate. What speeds do you guys get on your notes? What did you get on your non-HSPA+ devices? Was there much of an improvement? I tether, and the added speed would be handy, if it exists.
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You should read this. Should answer all your speed questions quite definitively!

I typically get this sort of speed on H+

Something must happened with AT&T in South Orange County, California, I used to achieve max 1.3 - 2 mbps, right now I am consistent and getting 3.2 and sometimes in some places even higher, the highest so far that I achieved was in Huntington Beach Home Depot parking lot ;-) 5.7 mbps.

Best speeds I got at the end of my driveway, just north of Baltimore, MD was 8mbps down and 2.5mbps up. But my average is more like 4 down and 1.5 up. I'm using an ATT iPad Unlimited Micro-SIM card.

Never has speed issues with my Note on ATT. Here's a recent test.

I'm in DFW...
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Spartan2x said:
Best speeds I got at the end of my driveway, just north of Baltimore, MD was 8mbps down and 2.5mbps up. But my average is more like 4 down and 1.5 up. I'm using an ATT iPad Unlimited Micro-SIM card.
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That's good news for me as i was planning on switching from Tmobile to att soon. Edge with Tmobile is just not cutting it.
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Thanks for all the answers guys
carlitos66 said:
Something must happened with AT&T in South Orange County, California, I used to achieve max 1.3 - 2 mbps, right now I am consistent and getting 3.2 and sometimes in some places even higher, the highest so far that I achieved was in Huntington Beach Home Depot parking lot ;-) 5.7 mbps.
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That's what I am getting now (1.3) so hopefully I'll end up with 3.2+ with the note. That would be enough I think.

I'm in Philly and my speeds suck no matter what. Location is the main thing to look at here.

E_man5112 said:
I'm looking at buying a galaxy note, but the international Galaxy Note is really the one I want. Unfortunately, I need data speeds. Not the 40mbps of LTE, but I need more than my 1.4/0.9 mpbs that I get now on my Samsung Captivate. What speeds do you guys get on your notes? What did you get on your non-HSPA+ devices? Was there much of an improvement? I tether, and the added speed would be handy, if it exists.
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Is your captivate stock?
Some of the custom roms will do wonders for your data speed
Ran a few speed tests side by side against a stock captivate and it was not even close specially in uploads

Im getting around 600 to 900 KB over UMTS,HSPA+ is still being implemented in my area as we speak

Ngambek2003 said:
Never has speed issues with my Note on ATT. Here's a recent test.
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What APN setting do you use?

ph00ny said:
Is your captivate stock?
Some of the custom roms will do wonders for your data speed
Ran a few speed tests side by side against a stock captivate and it was not even close specially in uploads
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Nope, currently running the AOSP ICS rom.

What's been your fastest LTE connection up to now?

As our phone has a new LTE modem, if your network infrastructure is sufficiently able, you may have noticed your mobile internet connection is a little quicker Let's see your best speeds. This was in North Tyneside, UK in the evening, nearly twice as fast as my 100 Mbps fibre optic connection

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As our phone has a new LTE modem, if your network infrastructure is sufficiently able, you may have noticed your mobile internet connection is a little quicker Let's see your best speeds. This was in North Tyneside, UK in the evening, nearly twice as fast as my 100 Mbps fibre optic connection
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Wow you must be on the 4g max plan. I'm hoping to get onto this soon as I only have upto 60mbs with ee currently

figo_rulz11 said:
Wow you must be on the 4g max plan. I'm hoping to get onto this soon as I only have upto 60mbs with ee currently
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I managed to get the phone and 25 Gb / 4g max data for £42 a month. Very pleased. I've seen some people in Taiwan getting 300+ mbps, but nothing like that in Europe yet.

Didn´t buy the phone for it´s max LTE capacity but hoped for a better connetion quality, since my provider limits my download to max 55mbp/s.
At least i have 40Gb for 20€. a month

Hii.
I was able to get 240mbit download and 32mbit upload. Orange Poland
Br.
Piotr

I have over 150Mbps download speed and over 50Mbps upload speed in Shenzhen with China Unicom.

I hit 99 MB/s, running Metro PCS in New York City

291 down, 45 up Tele2 Estonia https://imgur.com/2CAnmfT

I can barely get more that 2 bars but within that 2 bars, its a rocket, 150Mbps. Can only imagine what a full house will deliver.

There are great proofs that this XPZ can go fast but what about the reception quality versus others smartphones (S8, 1+5,...).
Does the XPZ have a better signal reception?

MickyMax said:
There are great proofs that this XPZ can go fast but what about the reception quality versus others smartphones (S8, 1+5,...).
Does the XPZ have a better signal reception?
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Ah that's a little more interesting, reception quality is a bit shoddy imho, but if you geta HD signal, it's crystal clear, the problem is I can't work out how it sometimes works and other times doesn't, it can sometimes do a weird under water sound effect when not on HD.

Hi, on Optus 4G Band 3 (1800MHz) here in Australia, sometimes it goes down to 17ms which seems to be the fairly low ping

Locally I usually get around 100mbps, maybe a bit more on a good day.

dazza9075 said:
Ah that's a little more interesting, reception quality is a bit shoddy imho, but if you geta HD signal, it's crystal clear, the problem is I can't work out how it sometimes works and other times doesn't, it can sometimes do a weird under water sound effect when not on HD.
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I believe the other person has to have VoLTE working on their end for it to be a HD call. If they don't have it then neither end can use it.

TIM in Italy
92.30 Mbps download 8.97 upload
Second best i lost lot of download speed but gain in upload
69.85 down 20.52 up
Ping always around 20-30

Evil_Sephiroth said:
TIM in Italy
92.30 Mbps download 8.97 upload
Second best i lost lot of download speed but gain in upload
69.85 down 20.52 up
Ping always around 20-30
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If you happen to go to Sanremo then there TIM has best network and should see much faster speeds. Villa Ormond for example

I live pretty near Sanremo (i'm near Genova) so maybe i give it a try one day.