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T-Mobile Network Upgrade

I don't know if anyone else has noticed, but anything related to the internet is about 10 times faster today for me... I thought i had my wi-fi on until I read a post about T-Mobile's 7.2 rollout. I suggest you all check out your speeds.

Speed checked, maybe this had somethign to do with the service outtage the other night LOL

Speed Increase? Not here
I purchased my TP2 in part because T-Mobile's web site indicated full 3G coverage here in Centerville, Ohio. I've had the phone for a week now, and have YET to see the 3G connection on the phone. The E is all I ever see, and that speed has not increased since the outage.
Maybe your local tower was upgraded.

Zylograth said:
Speed checked, maybe this had somethign to do with the service outtage the other night LOL
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I was thinking that very thing. Except without the "lol"
Maybe your local tower was upgraded.
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Engadget is reporting that none of their tests are showing the new speeds yet, so it does appear to be limited to certain markets at this point.

so how do i increse my network speed if i have a speed of 177 with 3g

T-mobil HSPA roll out
T-mobile has started to roll out HSPA 7.2 mb in all 3G network areas. Go to www.tmonews.com to read up on it. They are trying to get most of the network up by the end of DEC. HSPA is much faster than 3g...about 3x.
Richard

To have 177 you must have a poor RF.
Honestly, I have 5mbps over Wi-Fi and that's more than the TP2 can handle for browsing. It doesn't load pages much faster vs a good 3G signal.

well i got 544 now that i have hspa turned on

Damn, I am in seattle and I range from 500kbps to over 3kbps via mobilespeedtest.com

here in phoenix i can get 3mbps on the handset and up to 9.3mbps thering on my laptop i even started playing call of duty using ics and see little lag. i am debating on canceling my cox subscription. i noticed this the day after the data outage. i can post speed tests if you dont believe me

i shouldnt have spoke so soon i only could get a max of 8.7 just now but im only at 3 bars on h on this side of my house... ill run further tests later...
here is test on speedtest
here is test on bandwithplace
Last Result:
Download Speed: 1988 kbps (248.5 KB/sec transfer rate)
Upload Speed: 355 kbps (44.4 KB/sec transfer rate)
Saturday, November 28, 2009 7:11:36 PM
dsl reports did not work because it said m,y connection was too fast for a mobile speed test

That is very nice, considering T-Mobile had their HSPA network crippled at a 4th of that a few months ago.
Testmyiphone.com works well, but the TP2 never ever registers higher than 2.17mbps over Wi-Fi. There is a limitation or something happening there because my iPhone averages over 4mbps(Wi-Fi) on the same site/same connection. Nevertheless it's accurate - over 3G here I get about 600-700kbps so no upgrades have been put online here.

T-Mobile 3G Users Welcome to HSPA 7.2 Mbps

So anybody who gets T-Mobile 3G now is able to take advantage of The new upgraded HSPA 7.2Mbps 3.5G network. Phone that are able to take advantage of this are the HTC G1, HTC MyTouch, HTC Dash 3G, HTC Touch Pro 2, Samsung Behold 2,and I believe the Blackberry 9700.
Check your speed using you phone browser at www.mobilespeedtest.com
Here is my speed in Miami, Fl.

Must not be in every market. 3g In phoenix seems to top out around 250kbps...at least right now.

Should in all 3G markets. It might be rolling out to different cities throughout the day.
http://www.tmonews.com/2010/01/t-mobile-officially-upgrades-to-hspa-7-2mbps/
Also try doing the 1Mb or larger test.

Yeah you're probably right. I'll just keep checking through the day. These speeds will nearly make the fee for 3g worth it.

Mine is 541kps, is that good? lol Have no idea about phone speeds.

The way ISPs advertise speeds is in bits. When we download is its bytes. So 7.2MBPS should be equilvalent to 7200 / 8 = 900 Kbytes a sec. So 900kbps should be max on our phones which is in between dsl and cable modem speeds. This is of course on the Tmobile Network. The fastest I got on my Tmobile TP2 was 800kbps full 3G bars.

I'm in the Tampa Bay area with full 3g bars. I did the 1MB test and got 717kb's per second. Not sure how to tell if I improved from before tmobile "upgraded" to hspa

mpicart said:
I'm in the Tampa Bay area with full 3g bars. I did the 1MB test and got 717kb's per second. Not sure how to tell if I improved from before tmobile "upgraded" to hspa
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Sound just about right for 7.2MBPS.

WOW!!!! 6283 kbps here in PA

i have 727.273 with about 2 bars..is that good?

michealmyers said:
i have 727.273 with about 2 bars..is that good?
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Me too, just about the same, which is an upgrade at least 50% from before. I can't wait to try it out at work tomorrow with a full signal!!!

1774kbps in phoenix right now...pretty decent...

I have always used :
http://www.dslreports.com/mspeed?jisok=1&more=1
However the site posted here gives me much better results, so I think I prefer it. Bit odd though.

Ok guys. When you test it out it gives yous the small download test. You need to retest at 2Mb or higher to see the real speed. I used the 7Mb test to test my connection and was consistently getting 6500Kbps - 7000Kbps

I noticed quite a difference between Opera and Opera 10 Beta. What's the most accurate browser to use?

To get a "true" test I use Internet Explorer

Too bad all this speed won't mean **** because our CPU is slow. You will only take advantage of these speeds when you tether to your computer.

Not sure the test is reliable, got so many reading on my end. 700+kps, sometimes 25kps (huh????) sometime 650++, etc.

I've tried 3 times using dslreports simple mobile test. 1MB and got
~700kb
~800kb
~900kb

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I've tried 3 times using dslreports simple mobile test. 1MB and got
~700kb
~800kb
~900kb
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Yeah I'm now getting all over this range.
I am unable to test with PIE for some reason though. Just hangs at "running test"

Samsung Epic 4g Modem Data Performance Comparision.

For testing I will run 2 different speedtest apps for data transfer speed, then I will use the stock web browser to test how long loading a full webpage takes.
Speed will be posted below as measured in mbps. Webpage loads will be measured in seconds.
Modem Ping Download Upload Xbitlabs.com
DK28 125ms 1.8 Mbps 0.6 Mbps 13 seconds
EB13 120ms 1.9 Mbps 0.6 Mbps 13 seconds
EC05 140ms 1.8 Mbps 0.6 Mbps 16 seconds
EE03 116ms 2.0 Mbps 0.6 Mbps 9 seconds
EF02 140ms 1.9 Mbps 0.6 Mbps 9 seconds
EF10 144ms 1.5 Mbps 0.7 Mbps 14 seconds
EG22 130ms 2.0 Mbps 0.6 Mbps 9 seconds
EH06 150ms 1.8 Mbps 0.3 Mbps 12 seconds
EH17 145ms 1.7 Mbps 0.5 Mbps 14 seconds
I performed all of the 3g speedtests using the leaked android 2.34 EH17.
As you can see the results that I was able to achieve are really good.
I am located in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, and the 3g speeds over here
are usually horrible, but in this particular area I was able to get great results.
I will be performing another set of data testing near Baker, La.
Over there the 3g speeds are slow and unstable, and although 4g is
available in that area I will be testing as far as possible from the 4g tower to
find out which modem can perform the best with very low 4g signal.

Inspired by HafizNafes, I decided to try a few of these where I live as well, in Raleigh. Sadly, 4G is not available at my house. Using Airave for 3G tests, so included a WiFi to show speeds for comparison.
Epic 4G Stock EC05, Genocide 2.0 Kernel
SpeedTest app, connecting to Greensboro (NC) server
Average 3G Connection tests (to Airave)
EC05: 318ms/P, 1.48Mbps/D, 0.45Mbps/U (5 samples)
EE03: 327ms/P, 1.43Mbps/D, 0.45Mbps/U (4 samples)
EG22: 302ms/P, 1.33Mbps/D, 0.49Mbps/U (4 samples)
EH17: 342ms/P, 1.51Mbps/D, 0.46Mbps/U (5 samples)
WIFI: 68ms/P,22.25Mbps/D, 0.98Mbps/U (3 samples)

Copied over from the thread I started in general (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1328260)
Location: Greenville, SC
Tweaks Tests
Test 1. No reboot, no adds, EC05 Server: Toledo OH
9:55 AM
209,523,528
Test 2. Reboot, no adds, EC05 Server: Toledo OH
10:00 AM
231,381.6,413.2
Test 3. Reboot, no adds, Fresh EC05 odin with EFS Clear Server: Augusta, GA
10:15 AM
184,414.6,533.4
Test 4. Reboot, Supercharger V6 version 8, EC05 Server: Atlanta, GA
10:52 AM
205.8,404.2,605
Test 5. Reboot, SCV6, 3G Turbocharger3 update 11 setting 1 (fast). EC05 Server:Ringgold, GA
11:12
322.4,527,605.6
Test 6 Reboot, SCV6, 3G T3 update 11 setting 3 (fastest) EC05 Server: Atl, GA
11:24
196.8,319,489
Modem Test (abbreviated)
EC05; Retest for control; Time 13:24; Server Augusta, GA
288.4,221.4,456
EH17; Time 13:50; Server Atlanta, GA
272.4,164,342.2
EG22; Time 14:20; Server Bixby, OK
231.6,280.4,437
Gingerbread Tests
Gingerbread EH17 With EH17 Modem Tests
Test 1: No addons, very stock GB, Background Data off. Did 10 runs instead of 5, was getting very inconsistent results. 5 results had DL's less than 100, one as low as 35, and one run DL was 544. Confusing. Upload was relatively consistent.
311,162.6,316.7

Looks to me like you are having serious problems with your data speeds.
Any thing less than 600 kbps on sprint network is not good.
I also have problems where I live but at least I am able to use 4g here in baker louisiana.

HafizNafes89 said:
Looks to me like you are having serious problems with your data speeds.
Any thing less than 600 kbps on sprint network is not good.
I also have problems where I live but at least I am able to use 4g here in baker louisiana.
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Unfortunately here in Greenville, SC, those data speeds are a fact of life, best I can tell. I would very much like to see someone else here in Gville post some data results that show different, but I dont know anyone personally here that has a sprint phone. It does not seem to matter what rom, modem, tweaks i use, those are the speeds I get. These test mirror tests I did about 2 months ago as well. Oh, and an added bonus, our sprint stores here are abysmal, staffed by idiots, and I have to pay 10 dollars a month for 4g that it is not available anywhere in the entire state. All this talk about not having a data cap or throttling on the sprint network is irrelevant for me, because without 4g and with 3g speeds like that, I could never reach a cap even if one existed. At least here, Sprint is a massive joke on all fronts, and I wish I had never signed a contract with them.

I think that sprint is broke and they cannot afford to serve reliable high speed data to all of their customers. Next time I complain to them im going to make sure I tell them that.
I dont know why would sprint spend $6 billion to start selling iphones when they could have used that money to go all over the country fixing their 3g. But they keep denying that something is wrong with their 3g and telling customers to make sure that their prl is updated, which means nothing if sprint acually had data towers in our areas.

Any data for the EI22 modem?

In the same area I pulled 2.2 mbps download and 1.0 mbps upload using the new modem.
but it was during the morning at about 8am.

HafizNafes89 said:
I think that sprint is broke and they cannot afford to serve reliable high speed data to all of their customers. Next time I complain to them im going to make sure I tell them that.
I dont know why would sprint spend $6 billion to start selling iphones when they could have used that money to go all over the country fixing their 3g. But they keep denying that something is wrong with their 3g and telling customers to make sure that their prl is updated, which means nothing if sprint acually had data towers in our areas.
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This is So Ture i live in newton nj and still No 3g but Sprint Still Claims there is 3g in the area..... and with the new "PRL" surveys is Worst then Ever

I have a motorola photon now and 3g speeds in my home area are still less than 150kbps.
sprint should lower are bills until they can get their stuff fixed. Its not fair that we have to pay more than t-mobile users with such horiffic service.

however in downtown my 3g speeds are incredible. the same can be said for 4g.
EI22 modem.
3g: 2.5 Mbps download 1.5 Mbps upload 95ms ping
4g: 9.2 mbps download 1.2 Mbps upload 100ms ping

T-Mobile Galaxy Nexus Users REPORT HERE

Hello fellow T-Mobile Gnex users. I just received my GSM Gnex last night.
What kinds of speeds are you guys getting in speed tests, and from what city?
I have not changed as settings as of yet, but wondered if there were any that needed to be changed to achieve the best possible speeds, such as APN settings.
Also, were there any specific radios/ "Testing" menu settings changes that you had to change?

In Anaheim, CA.
Outdoors I hit 10mbps versus indoors I hit 3-5mbps.
I didn't modify the APN. I'm on epc.tmobile.com

>8mbps down
>2mbps up
indoors. dallas, tx.
i put my sim in and haven't done **** to the phone.

New Yersey
>10mb
>3mb

Thanks for the replies guys. My office is a cell-phone dungeon (Stuck on edge in here). Once I get outside/ "downtown" for my city, I will report in with speeds.

I'm slow I guess...
In Atlanta, getting 4-5mb down and 1-1.5mb upload. Using UGKL1 radio. KK6 caused signal drops (only solution was a reboot) and KK7 was useless - only 2.5mb download speed.

sf bay area -- get between 5-11 down and 1.7 up
have played with with a variety of settings including apn, but doesn't really seem to matter wrt speed

IN Dallas Texas ... Finally about to order my GSM Galaxy Nexus Tomorrow.Was wondering where did you order yours??? Cant wait to look at my Nexus One, Nexus S, and soon to be Galaxy Nexus all laying together .....

best1923 said:
IN Dallas Texas ... Finally about to order my GSM Galaxy Nexus Tomorrow.Was wondering where did you order yours??? Cant wait to look at my Nexus One, Nexus S, and soon to be Galaxy Nexus all laying together .....
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ordered from amazon. i don't remember the seller's name but it was fulfilled by amazon. got a diztronic smoke tpu case with it as well. like $690 total shipped.

8 down and 3 up.
St. Paul MN
Sent from my Galaxy Nexus using xda premium

This is the best speed I've pulled thus far. 12.7 down 3.6 up.
I'm in Atlanta using kk6 radio. After changing to the kk6 radio, I noticed my speeds seemed to improve and so did the bars displayed for signal strength.

In pHX Arizona
13.2 mbps on average 8-9mbps
3-5mbps up

I'm in NYC. The highest I've gotten in Manhattan was about 11.45 Mbps downstream, and this only happened once. T-Mobile's data speeds vary wildly throughout the city and are nowhere near the speeds that forum members from other cities are reporting. On my block (I live in Brooklyn), I've been getting about 1.5 - 1.7 Mbps downstream. A couple of blocks to the North, the downstream speeds are about 4.5 - 6.0 Mbps. A couple of blocks to the East, the speeds drop to about 0.06 - 0.1 Mbps (this is not an exaggeration). I was thinking of switching to Verizon when the GNex was announced, but decided to get the GSM version and ride out the rest of my contract with TMo. I have a two-line family plan, and my wife's line will be out of contract in October. Unless TMo gets their affairs in order, I doubt I'll be renewing.

sad.... 3.6mb down and .8 mb up....
Virginia beach, Virginia

kgbkny said:
I'm in NYC. The highest I've gotten in Manhattan was about 11.45 Mbps downstream, and this only happened once. T-Mobile's data speeds vary wildly throughout the city and are nowhere near the speeds that forum members from other cities are reporting. On my block (I live in Brooklyn), I've been getting about 1.5 - 1.7 Mbps downstream. A couple of blocks to the North, the downstream speeds are about 4.5 - 6.0 Mbps. A couple of blocks to the East, the speeds drop to about 0.06 - 0.1 Mbps (this is not an exaggeration). I was thinking of switching to Verizon when the GNex was announced, but decided to get the GSM version and ride out the rest of my contract with TMo. I have a two-line family plan, and my wife's line will be out of contract in October. Unless TMo gets their affairs in order, I doubt I'll be renewing.
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Here is NYC:

7 Mb down
2 Mb up
Honoken, NJ

Miami, FL 7mbps down - 3 up
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Houston
3-9 down
1-3 up

I just did a speed test outside of Chelsea Market (15th St. and 9th Ave.) and was lucky enough to get 4.4 Mbps downstream, with a ping of 1900 ms. This is one of the better results I've gotten in NYC. I have no idea how other TMo users are getting high speeds - I know it's not my SIM card, as my wife is getting speeds similar to mine on her G2.

kgbkny said:
I just did a speed test outside of Chelsea Market (15th St. and 9th Ave.) and was lucky enough to get 4.4 Mbps downstream, with a ping of 1900 ms. This is one of the better results I've gotten in NYC. I have no idea how other TMo users are getting high speeds - I know it's not my SIM card, as my wife is getting speeds similar to mine on her G2.
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Eh? the tests I got today are 6-7 Mbps. I even got speeds of 8-10 at one point (not today because I wasn't in that area).

Download/Upload Speeds

So what kind of download speeds are you getting? I'm sad to report my iPhone 3GS downloads faster than this phone where I live. This thread is my hope to reach out to the world and see that the phones can download faster than 1.5 mbps.
Thank you all!

Uh yeah,
I'm not in a 4G LTE area, but my "4G" HSPA+ speeds are depressing too, but not quite that bad.
I'm at 3mb down and 1mb up, which is still a joke for a 21.1mbps HSPA+ device.

20.56 mb down 8mb up LTE dallas
Sent from my Lumia 900 using XDA Windows Phone 7 App

22.28 Mbps down; 3.28 Mbps up - New York, NY- 258 ms (Dist-2.30 mi)

10.84 Mbps down; 6.54 Mbps up; LTE Washington, DC

19.5 down and 5.8 up on LTE Atlanta area.
Sent from my Lumia 900 using Board Express

how may i test my speeds?
please advise
thank you

Bandwidth App
http://www.windowsphone.com/en-US/apps/bd5202c2-c401-e011-9264-00237de2db9e

16.8/7.1 in an elevator in Seattle....I'll try again outside.

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nevermind

Instead of an app, try visiting:
1. mobilespeedtest.com
OR
2. Geekaphone.com
Here are my scores in Columbus, OH 4G HSPA+ 1: 14425kbps 2: 1695kbps

14.0/4.65 LTE Las Vegas
Sent from my Lumia 900 using XDA Windows Phone 7 App

15.56 dn 3.00 up with 140 ms on LTE West Los Angeles

18.29/down 5.01/up over LTE - 11.15/down 4.98/up over 4G - Orlando.
Sent from my Lumia 900 using Board Express

Oakville, ON - CA D: 20.38 Mbps U: 5.51 Mbps Latency: 174 Network: ROGERS Using BandWidth.

It's weird, my SGII Skyrocket got around 20mbps and this phone only gets 3-4. I think AT&T does funny things with the data profiles.

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16.8/7.1 in an elevator in Seattle....I'll try again outside.
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Outside
22/6.5
is that ok?

22.69 down/ 4.98 up - LTE Houston, TX

Depends.... at my job in the Financial District in NYC I get ~15mbps down/4 up on LTE.
At my apartment in Brooklyn, I get ~21mbps down/6 up.
Go fig.

So why is it I used to get 20MBPS with my GSII but with this phone I'm lucky to get 4? Should I factory reset?