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Sprint 3G speed in Los Angeles?

Anyone on sprint can comment on this?
What's the 3G speed in Southern California (LA and vicinity)?
I am coming from ATT and just wanted to compare the speed!

Orange county I get 700-1300 down about 300-500 up.

Bielinsk said:
Orange county I get 700-1300 down about 300-500 up.
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Orange county is kind far from LA but don't you think 700-1300 is kind of low compared to ATT? Did you use ATT before?

No, never with AT&T, and I am using a Hero not an Evo.
Thought you would want as much data as possible and didn't see any responses.
So disregard if this doesn't provide you some ballpark.
Its been fast enough that I never use wifi.

Downtown Los Angeles: ~1MB down, ~.4/.5MB up.

Bielinsk said:
No, never with AT&T, and I am using a Hero not an Evo.
Thought you would want as much data as possible and didn't see any responses.
So disregard if this doesn't provide you some ballpark.
Its been fast enough that I never use wifi.
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No I really appreciated your response. Thanks again. I use my phone more for data than voice. Just wanted to see whether I will lose any speed going from ATT to Sprint.
Anyway, I will have 30 days to decide so I should be good.

v2tech said:
What's the 3G speed in Southern California (LA and vicinity)?
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From La Mirada/Norwalk (5FWY/605FWY) I get 1.4MB down; .5MB up on my Hero. The EVO will be uncapped 3G as well, no? I've had ATT and T-Mobile, and my connection has always appeared to be faster. In my corporate building, amongst all the other users (ATT, T-Mo, Verizon) and phones (Eris, MyTouch, G1, N1, Pre, BB, etc), I've always had the strongest signal and fastest connection. Might just be the area though.

In westwood area, I get 300 - 400 kbps in the day.. and 1 mbps at night.. not that great

Dorick said:
In westwood area, I get 300 - 400 kbps in the day.. and 1 mbps at night.. not that great
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Yeah, that's very poor data speed!

I live in Alhambra, never check the speed, but it seems very fast. I can wathc spb tv, youtube and listen to the radio smoothy.

Sprint's 3g speeds are simply horrible in the entire SF bay area compared to to at&t (i know this is not the region you asked for).
I get 300Kbps - 1Mbps down (mostly 500Kbps) and 500-700Kbps up.
I checked pretty much all across the Bay Area. it is like 3g from the 90s....and might just be a deal breaker for me.
They do however have better coeverage than at&t in most places. not sure why their speed is so slow.
With at&t i get about 2-3Mbps down in most areas tested.

not sure up there but down here in FL sprint 3g is way faster than att 3g or tmo 3g.. i have the HD2 on tmo and a 3gs on att and evo ofcourse on sprint and im not sure if is the phone or the sprint network but evo kick the **** out of the hd2 and att on a test i did using the 3 phones.. evo loaded pages significantly faster than the other 2 carriers . in some sases way faster

v2tech said:
Anyone on sprint can comment on this?
What's the 3G speed in Southern California (LA and vicinity)?
I am coming from ATT and just wanted to compare the speed!
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dude were getting 4g theres absolutely no comparison sorry

shakuyi said:
dude were getting 4g theres absolutely no comparison sorry
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Not true, in the last month or so I have consistently been seeing 4+ download and 500k up on my iphone 3gs. So other than uploads, Sprints 4g won't be that much faster than what I am seeing now with AT&T. In the suburbs it is dropping to 1.4+ / 400k.

4G Youngstown Ohio

Got a little 4G love in downtown Youngstown Ohio today for the first time. I attached a couple of images of the speed test results I got. Not the best speeds EVER but darn better then 3G. Thank You Sprint.

in Springfield here and i get nothing

Wow, didnt expect 2 ppl from NEO on here. Anyways, I dont think sprint cares much for anyone not in the three C's. I really thought we would get wimax here in akron when CLE went live.

Y-town? Nice. That's my hometown. Been in VA for about a year now though.

I tried in Campbell and got connected and got an IP. Signal quality was poor and I was only able to get 822kbps down. I couldn't even web browse because I was losing signal.
I got home on the south side and couldn't even connect to 4G.
Will we receive a text message from Sprint or any other indication when 4G is fully live here?

Went to YSU here, why the heck would sprint/clearwire waste money on 4g in Youngstown before Akron.

wildgillis said:
Went to YSU here, why the heck would sprint/clearwire waste money on 4g in Youngstown before Akron.
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Obviously, because it's the home of Al Bundy.
Actually we have a thriving tech hub downtown. Makes sense to me.

zone23 said:
Got a little 4G love in downtown Youngstown Ohio today for the first time. I attached a couple of images of the speed test results I got. Not the best speeds EVER but darn better then 3G. Thank You Sprint.
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Really!? Youngstown gets 4g before Akron?... Not cool sprint, not cool.

Seems most of us geeks are from Ohio.
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wildgillis said:
Went to YSU here, why the heck would sprint/clearwire waste money on 4g in Youngstown before Akron.
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I would hardly consider it "wasting money". How about because its between Cleveland and Pittsburgh and they probably want 4G between the two. Seems to make sense to me. I love how some people feel their city is more important than all the others. Akron is not that great sorry.

TMartin03 said:
Seems most of us geeks are from Ohio.
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It would seem that way. Must be the lousy weather.

skylar.sutton said:
Really!? Youngstown gets 4g before Akron?... Not cool sprint, not cool.
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Maybe that's why Lebron left! No 4G!

Good one except they have had 4G in Cleveland for a while now.
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zone23 said:
Akron is not that great sorry.
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Never said it was... but I will say this:
Akron (inc. Metro) Population: 700k
Y-Town (inc. Metro) Population: 100k
It seems pretty obvious which NEO area should be next in line for 4G

skylar.sutton said:
Never said it was... but I will say this:
Akron (inc. Metro) Population: 700k
Y-Town (inc. Metro) Population: 100k
It seems pretty obvious which NEO area should be next in line for 4G
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Don't feel bad, SE Michigan towers over any other part of michigan with half the states entire population @ ~5 million people. No 4g love for us , and sprint just turned on 4g in flint, which is the most broke ass city in the state.
I am going to have to take a trip down to toledo to scope out their new 4g. At least you lucky bastards have like what 5 or 6 major cities covered

skylar.sutton said:
Never said it was... but I will say this:
Akron (inc. Metro) Population: 700k
Y-Town (inc. Metro) Population: 100k
It seems pretty obvious which NEO area should be next in line for 4G
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If I had my way I would turn on the whole state. I don't get it at my house so I would have to go down to the University to use it. We are renovating a plaza downtown so I might get to use it.

zone23 said:
I would hardly consider it "wasting money". How about because its between Cleveland and Pittsburgh and they probably want 4G between the two. Seems to make sense to me. I love how some people feel their city is more important than all the others. Akron is not that great sorry.
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I dont even live in Akron I live in Cleveland and could care less about either city.
From a business standpoint I wonder why Youngstown would get 4g before Akron. I lived in Youngstown for 4 years for college I'm not trying to trash it. If they were actually going to add 4g all the way along the turnpike I would understand that but considering clear is teetering on bankruptcy I don't figure they have the money for that. And as someone else pointed out Akron has a significantly larger population and likely a similar area to cover although I haven't looked that up.

zone23 said:
If I had my way I would turn on the whole state. I don't get it at my house so I would have to go down to the University to use it. We are renovating a plaza downtown so I might get to use it.
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Whole state sounds good to me but isn't happening anytime soon.

Honestly I see most metro areas of the state getting it soon. I am in Springfield which is in between Columbus & Dayton. Dayton doesn't have it yet, but Columbus does. I hope they build towers west instead of going straight to Dayton. They will probably have Dayton go live and then fill in between. I could never expect my dying city to get 4g before Dayton. Maybe Sprints big announcement is going to be live 4g everywhere. A lot of places have been popping up lately & a lot of them are smaller too.
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They should hit all of the cities around universities first -- the younger generation are the ones using the data the most and thus the ones that need it.
Next up should be: Akron and Kent.

Nexus One Performs Like 4G

I did a test with my nexus one and G2, I don't know how but my Nexus still out performed my G2 Am I Glad To Be An Owner Of A Nexus1
Nexus One:
DL-4.46
UL-0.99
G2
DL-3.74
UL-1.37
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I live in a suburb of Boston and have great HSPA+ service. My N1 is getting on average during peak hours 4.2 DL and a constant 1.3 UL. I am very happy with those numbers. T-Mobile has a solid Network and blows away AT&T, Sprint and Verizon in my area. I live only 10 miles out of Boston and one mile away from RT 128. Suppose to be strong areas for all the Carriers.
Thank You T-Mobile.

Confused
If the T-mobile or Att network your using has an average of 7.2mbps or less, wont the Nexus One get the exact same download speed as any HSPA+ phone?
The only time an HSPA+ phone would ever "outpace" the N1 in download speed would be if the network is built up past 7.2mbps right? Like if the average speed was 10mbps THEN the HSPA+ would finally kick in but until 7.2mbps the Nexus One will keep up with any HSPA+ phone right?

I didn't know the G2 was LTE enabled
HSDPA+ is 3G btw.

I don't know, my thoughts were G2: better phone, better performance. LOL (Simpled Minded) Huh? It doesn't make sense to buy a 4G phone then! Forget 4G
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LOL at thinking those measly speeds are 4G!
4G speeds are more like 30MB/s down and 15MB/s up.
Look at some of the Verizon LTE (a TRUE 4G network) speed tests.

GldRush98 said:
LOL at thinking those measly speeds are 4G!
4G speeds are more like 30MB/s down and 15MB/s up.
Look at some of the Verizon LTE (a TRUE 4G network) speed tests.
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Well even Verizon's LTE network is still around 7-12 Mbit, not MB/sec... and no where near true "4G."
The ITU's newest standard now allows "evolved 3G technologies" such as HSPA+ to eventually qualify for "4G" nomenclature, but this is still quite some time from now, given that it's roughly 1/10 of the required speed for mobile applications. What's funny, though, is that T-Mobile's HSPA+ is generally faster than Sprint's WiMAX in many areas, despite the fact that under the old classification system WiMAX could eventually become 4G whereas HSPA+ could not.
IMT-Advanced basically became what the old "4G" classification was, including the 100 Mbit mobile and 1 Gbit fixed speed requirements, as well as goodies like VoIP and OFDMA.

Wow Professor Will, So All This Hype About 4G is probably for months or even years to come! I'm not buying another supposedly 4G Phone until its like an guarantee that I see a huge difference in speed!
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wtharden said:
Wow Professor Will, So All This Hype About 4G is probably for months or even years to come! I'm not buying another supposedly 4G Phone until its like an guarantee that I see a huge difference in speed!
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yeah pretty much, i thought it was common knowledge for all of us phone geeks. tmobile's 4g is nothing but 3G HSPA. and unless the towers have enough backhaul to support fast speeds, a 3G phone will perform like a 4G phone until the theoretical limits for each are hit. havent seen that happen anywhere yet in the USA that i can tell. its all gimmic marketing crap.

RogerPodacter said:
yeah pretty much, i thought it was common knowledge for all of us phone geeks. tmobile's 4g is nothing but 3G HSPA. and unless the towers have enough backhaul to support fast speeds, a 3G phone will perform like a 4G phone until the theoretical limits for each are hit. havent seen that happen anywhere yet in the USA that i can tell. its all gimmic marketing crap.
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Call it what you want, I'm very happy with T-Mobile. In my area they are faster then all others. They have the best plans and prices blow all others away. I think if more people gave them a chance they would be very happy. Not to mention they support the Nexus One.

vinnyjr said:
Call it what you want, I'm very happy with T-Mobile. In my area they are faster then all others. They have the best plans and prices blow all others away. I think if more people gave them a chance they would be very happy. Not to mention they support the Nexus One.
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+1 Also, very satisfied with TMobile in my area!

galaxys said:
+1 Also, very satisfied with TMobile in my area!
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+2 dittos.

vinnyjr said:
Call it what you want, I'm very happy with T-Mobile. In my area they are faster then all others. They have the best plans and prices blow all others away. I think if more people gave them a chance they would be very happy. Not to mention they support the Nexus One.
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I'm very impressed with t-mobile and give them all the credit in the world for what they've done with their data speeds. ATT is a joke when it comes to being a leader like that. They do nothing but follow the other carriers and react rather than set the standard. But I'm sad t-mobile started this fake 4g thing.

Extremely satisfied with my Nexus One on TMO. I'm roughly 20 miles north west from northeastern Philly and just like the other users have said T-Mobile has the best coverage in my area compared to Verizon and AT&T. My work phone is a Blackberry Tour running on Verizon's network and the network coverage blows compared to T-Mobile's in my area.
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Rogers in canada is crazy fast... It seems my upload is capped at 1mbit up but download speeds have gotten upwards of 4 even 5 mbit down!
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Coachella valley how slow 3G speeds you gives 4G

Sprint is running currently all of the data traffic on a extremely small amount of servers. This means that everyone that is trying to use the internet on their cellphones on sprint is running on the same highway. So speeds are going to be really slow. What does this mean for us? Sprint is upgrading and testing new 4G towers and servers. This is an internal data BTW. Places like the top of LQ Cove have weak 4G signal and places like the Costco JackntheBox area have strong out door signal. North indio as well as the K-mart area in indio have weak 4G. So switch over to 4G in those areas and test it. Please comment bellow if you have found places with 4G signal in the Coachella Valley. What a coincidence that we are starting to get 4G since before Coachella fest.

What??????

How cool a fellow xda'er in the valley
I live in palm springs and some days get nice speeds and other days... not so nice. Lol. I hope they're gonna bring in 4G soon valleywide! I'm dreaming, but hey...
I figured slow speed was due to them testing the network.

Mark_in_Tulsa said:
What??????
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I think he said something about the Nexus and how Cyanogen is an overhyped rom?

josh995 said:
How cool a fellow xda'er in the valley
I live in palm springs and some days get nice speeds and other days... not so nice. Lol. I hope they're gonna bring in 4G soon valleywide! I'm dreaming, but hey...
I figured slow speed was due to them testing the network.
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oh wow how nice i thought i was the only one in the valley
apparently parts of palms springs and cat city around the 111 area have had 4G since the evo came out

DirtyShroomz said:
I think he said something about the Nexus and how Cyanogen is an overhyped rom?
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yeah thats totally what i meant to say lol

I thought I was the only one too lol
But yeah I used to check all the time for 4G in different parts of the valley but got tired of being disappointed so I quit looking lol... I think I'll start looking again since it's been a while
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yeah please do i usually have 4g on my phone on constantly but i switched to VR GengerSense rom with no 4G so i cant use it lol which means im stuck at 1X speeds till the tower at indio is back up and running
i was at LQ cove yesterday hiking towards cahuilla and i had the kingdom rom on my evo wich had 4G and i got full archs which was weird lol

Currently in Cathedral City, next to Date Palm, I am getting a fair signal and hitting speeds averaging 125 kB/s down and 15 kB/s up.

T-mobile 5g speed test a mile from the Hudson River on the New Jersey side.

On tmobile
5g speed test a mile from the Hudson River on the New Jersey side.
This test was taken in my car by the way.

this is a terrible result

Yeah,
Just got my S20Plus yesterday, 5g where I live not too good either, got 47dl and 23ul. Today I will be closer to a bigger city and test it there.
I think all the hoopla about 5g is crap,
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kenfb1 said:
Yeah,
Just got my S20Plus yesterday, 5g where I live not too good either, got 47dl and 23ul. Today I will be closer to a bigger city and test it there.
I think all the hoopla about 5g is crap,
Ken
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Ok,
Best I got so far in my area was 80.8 DL and 31.7UL.
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kenfb1 said:
Ok,
Best I got so far in my area was 80.8 DL and 31.7UL.
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P.S. This is on Tmobile

fearbasel04 said:
On tmobile
5g speed test a mile from the Hudson River on the New Jersey side.
This test was taken in my car by the way.
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I'm getting like 30dl and 8ul in ft Lauderdale. I figured it would be way better. First day the speed test app was showing 80+dl but ever since it has been significantly less. T-Mobile as well.

Y'all are getting some horrible "5g" speeds. That's basically what I get on LTE. This is what I've been getting so far. Still not really close to that 1gb/sec speed advertised, but much faster than my S10+ was.
Edit: I'm in Dallas, on Sprint network.

mistermidas said:
Y'all are getting some horrible "5g" speeds. That's basically what I get on LTE. This is what I've been getting so far. Still not really close to that 1gb/sec speed advertised, but much faster than my S10+ was.
Edit: I'm in Dallas, on Sprint network.
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How is the speed indoors? Maybe when tmobile and sprint merge we will be happy lol

fearbasel04 said:
How is the speed indoors? Maybe when tmobile and sprint merge we will be happy lol
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In spots where I get 5g, it's basically the same.

I disabled 5G and the speeds I get a quite a bit higher.

So there is no 5g where I live but lte at my house is awesome

New high speed for me, once again Dallas area.

Illinois University village speeds on T-Mobile
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So it seems t-mobile merger with sprint helped. My speeds have doubled through out the day.

kenfb1 said:
I think all the hoopla about 5g is crap
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T-mobile's push into 600Mhz 5g is more about coverage and building penetration than it is about speed increases. Speed increases should come as they expand into Sprint's mid-band spectrum. The significantly increased efficiency of 5g should also help when lots of people pack into special events that would have overloaded 4g airwaves.
I can say that I have noticed some reduced drop-outs inside some troublesome buildings.

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So it seems t-mobile merger with sprint helped. My speeds have doubled through out the day.
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Can't wait for this to get to Phoenix. Though in actuality, I don't know that I'll notice much. Only time I use provider data is when I'm streaming music in the car. All other times I have WiFi. Well, at least 98% of the time. But it'll still be nice those rare times I need it, as long as I'm not paying any more than I do for LTE.