[Q] Sprint 3G always really slow? - Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

I'm coming from HSPA+ speeds on T-Mobile, so I was wondering if EVDO speeds on Sprint are supposed to be this slow? EVDO should be capable of at least 1 Mbps.
I'm consistently getting less than 300 kbps download, so are Sprint's EVDO speeds really closer to EDGE than 3G?
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etirkca said:
I'm coming from HSPA+ speeds on T-Mobile, so I was wondering if EVDO speeds on Sprint are supposed to be this slow? EVDO should be capable of at least 1 Mbps.
I'm consistently getting <300 kbps download, so are Sprint's EVDO speeds really closer to EDGE than 3G?
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I would say it depends on the time + place your using 3G at. I sometimes get as low as your saying but sometimes can get over 1MB but only at certain times and certain places.
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They are usually pretty good. Id suggest trying the 3g turbocharger. Its never disappointed me. I usually can only get around .60mbps.
This is with it :
This is with out it :
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Honestly, sprint is just awful in some areas. I'm okay with it because I pay a lot less and usually have wifi anyway, but yea, the service is just pathetic.
In LA, I regularly get 5-50 kb/s download and upload with 3g. If I'm lucky, I'll get around 300--this happens maybe 1/10 days. This is in a flat, well populated area of Los Angeles, not a boonie by any means. It's really disappointing.
4g, when it (rarely) works, is also way slower than I had hoped for... maybe 1.8 down, 200 up.
Funny thing about unlimited data is that with crap speeds like this, I could probably download all month long and not reach the limit of other providers...

I am occasionally able to hit 1000 kbps up and down but at my house it's normally about 300 kbps each. I had 4G today and it was a pitiful 500 kbps down and 50 kbps up with a ping of 500. Be glad you have data at all...
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Xinlitik said:
Honestly, sprint is just awful in some areas. I'm okay with it because I pay a lot less and usually have wifi anyway, but yea, the service is just pathetic.
In LA, I regularly get 5-50 kb/s download and upload with 3g. If I'm lucky, I'll get around 300--this happens maybe 1/10 days. This is in a flat, well populated area of Los Angeles, not a boonie by any means. It's really disappointing.
4g, when it (rarely) works, is also way slower than I had hoped for... maybe 1.8 down, 200 up.
Funny thing about unlimited data is that with crap speeds like this, I could probably download all month long and not reach the limit of other providers...
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You would think that in LA we'd get better service?! I usually get 0.5 mbs up and down on 3g and 4-5mbs down and 1-2 mbs up in my area though...

Sprint putting up lte... that's been the cause of all the crappy data... I'm almost certain somebody had a picture of them putting stuff up in los Angeles and their 3g was down and 4g was pitiful.
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You would think that in LA we'd get better service?! I usually get 0.5 mbs up and down on 3g and 4-5mbs down and 1-2 mbs up in my area though...
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No kidding. The population density here seems like it would be a good cost-value job to throw in more towers...

Network vision is underway in LA, which will affect certain areas and connectivity
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It's official. Sprint has the worst 3G and 4G speeds among major carriers. :thumbdown: I'm not surprised at all.
http://m.gizmodo.com/5902947/which-carriers-have-the-fastest-3g-and-4g-connections/gallery/
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Not compared to ****ty ATT Hspa! Absolute crap in Daytona area. Barely get Sprint 3G speeds out of it. ATT has barely started their LTE rollout.
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etirkca said:
I'm coming from HSPA+ speeds on T-Mobile, so I was wondering if EVDO speeds on Sprint are supposed to be this slow? EVDO should be capable of at least 1 Mbps.
I'm consistently getting <300 kbps download, so are Sprint's EVDO speeds really closer to EDGE than 3G?
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It's true. Sprint really is just that awful. Sprint's "3G" is slower than AT&T's 2G. I'm still happier than I was with AT&T, though, since I always have some kind of data signal on Sprint. I might be roaming, and I might get only 5kbps down, but at least I have something. On AT&T I would frequently have ZERO signal and my phone was a worthless oversized paperweight.
Sitting in my own living room, where I have 5 full bars of Sprint 3G signal, I have similar speed to what you posted. Yours might be a bit faster, actually. This is completely normal average speed -- I am fairly certain that Sprint is NOT doing these "network vision" upgrades in east Texas anytime soon, if ever. Contrast that with Verizon -- my buddy was sitting right next to me with maxed out LTE signal, pulling 30mbps on the same speed test. That's faster than my Roadrunner Elite. He then dropped to Verizon 3G and got about 5mbps down. On both tests, his ping was <100ms and mine was >500ms.
I firmly believe that the only reason Sprint still offers "unlimited" data is that there is no need for a cap -- you are limited directly by the speed of your connection and you cannot reasonably even come close to 5GB of data usage in a month. Unless you have consistent Wimax signal, which I estimate maybe 1% of their subscribers have.

etirkca said:
It's official. Sprint has the worst 3G and 4G speeds among major carriers. :thumbdown: I'm not surprised at all.
http://m.gizmodo.com/5902947/which-carriers-have-the-fastest-3g-and-4g-connections/gallery/
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tmobile seems to want to have it both ways. they call their hspa+ 4g, but then throw it in to comparisons against other carriers 3g.
le boo.
from the article... T-Mobile's HSPA+ 21 service won in the 3G bracket of our study, and the company's high-end HSPA+ 42 service competed reasonably well with other providers' 4G service.

3g speeds are poor in some areas but recently have seen a slight improvement in my area. I'm hoping the network vision upgrades will help like they say it will.
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Obviously there is no credibility to that article. There are several places around Daytona that I get over 1Mbs on 3G. I can just as easily measure ATT's 4G in my area to show it slower than Sprint's 3G. Most of the time I have to toggle airplane mode on the stupid ATT phone from work just to get it to load my work screen.

Different areas have different speeds... I get 1.5-2 mbps on 3g.... of course about 2 months ago I was only getting .30 mbps on 3g... 4g is super fast though. Lol
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I had been using the EL30 modem for quite some time and 3G speeds were horrid around the Chicago suburbs. Like bad bad. If I wasn't on 4G, I didn't even want to use my phone for anything data related.
I know NV is being deployed around this area right now, but I recently switched to the FC09 modem, and it's a night and day difference. I used to get around 0.1Mbps if I was luckly. Lately, since the switch, I've been getting more closer to 0.8-1.0Mbps which I'm quite happy with considering it's 3G.
4G I usually pull around 5-7Mbps down (but have hit 10 a few times; that's a full 1MBps down) and I usually cap it at the 1.5MBps up. That's faster than my wifi at home through AT&T UVerse.

Average Sprint 3G data speeds decreased from 2011 to 2012. Maybe because of the influx of iPhone customers?
Welcome to Sprint. Where the 3G is 2G, and the 4G is 3G.
http://www.pcworld.com/article/2538...peed_showdown_which_networks_are_fastest.html

So my question to you is; why'd you leave T-mobile? If they were so great for you, you should have stayed with Big Magenta.
I'm not being flippant here. Carriers are like organized religion. What works for one person offends someone else. In the end, all of us get through to The Supreme Being.
I, personally, always find myself on Wi-Fi so I don't give a crap.
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orlzzt said:
So my question to you is; why'd you leave T-mobile? If they were so great for you, you should have stayed with Big Magenta.
I'm not being flippant here. Carriers are like organized religion. What works for one person offends someone else. In the end, all of us get through to The Supreme Being.
I, personally, always find myself on Wi-Fi so I don't give a crap.
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You're right. I should have stayed.
With my corporate discount, my equivalent plan on Sprint is cheaper, so I switched. It's too bad that article showing crappy Sprint data speeds didn't come out earlier, I probably would have stuck with T.
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Thinking about abandoning my SGS2 on ATT for Sprint

I'm on ATT with an SGSII right now and get ****ty data performance. Voice isn't that much better. I get like 1 - 2 Mbit download speeds, and the phone is capable of something like 18Mbit. I'm thinking about making the move to Sprint. Anything I should know? Anyone using an Epic 4G Touch in the SF Bay Area?
As far as data goes, you'll most likely not get those speeds on Sprint (as far as 1-2 Mbit) but just like anything YMMV (a lot here complain about their data speeds and they don't even get close to those speeds).
But to my knowledge, the AT&T version gets way more support in development due to it being GSM like the international SGS2, so ports are easier and what not. So if you like rooting you'll probably miss that.
If data speeds are your primary reason, then do not switch. There's a very good chance that your speeds would be even worse with Sprint. They're working on it, but their data network sucks right now.
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If data speeds are your primary reason, then do not switch. There's a very good chance that your speeds would be even worse with Sprint. They're working on it, but their data network sucks right now.
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relative to where you are, i great great 3g and 4g speeds.
just like any other cell phone provider.
To the OP. I would say go buy one and test it out first in the places you go daily. I have no issues at all where I am with call quality or data speeds. Also the simply everything plan cant be beat.
However, as stated, the ATT version gets, MUCH more dev support because its GSM, and it will likely get updates first.
BUT, it is great to have the extra .2 of in inch on the screen and also to have an LED for notifications
On sprint, you will get 1-2 Mbit MAX download speeds. In almost every case, less than that.
If you have wimax in your area, then you could get anywhere from 5-15 Mbit (it varies greatly, and depends on signal strength). Most of the time when you're indoors you won't get great 4g signal strength.
If you consistently use more than 2gb of data per month, then sprint is a decent option, or verizon if they are still doing double data deals.
Last I heard sprint recently improved in SF bay area, so you may have good results.
http://www.marketwatch.com/story/sp...coverage-in-san-francisco-bay-area-2011-12-08
Sprint is also cheaper than AT&T, and many employers offer discounts for sprint.
If speed is your concern in good 4g areas all my tmobile friends get 15mb /2mb on thier sgs2
I have the sprint one i usually get 300kb-800kb/500kb in the day time
at night(2am-6am) 1000-13000/ 800-1000kb
I'm about to switch because of the throttling that att is about to start doing. Grandfathered into unlimited, but they don't like us using more than 5gb.
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If speed is something you desire, two words:
Don't
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As a 13 year Sprint customer, I have to say that I've never been more disappointed with their service. My 3G speeds have been terrible, and inconsistent on top of it (from bad to worse). I cannot in good conscience recommend that anyone switch to Sprint at the moment.
Hopefully they'll fix whatever's been broken for the last 60 days or so (and it could just be the iPhone effect), and I'll be able to once again recommend Sprint. At the moment, not so much...
I miss att i got the epic 4g touch and wish i was still on att. I would trade you if you switch i had good att speeds in union city ca 94587.
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I would not switch for data speeds. This is what I get right next to a tower at work. Granted I get maybe 250kbs at home, but I never get more than 40kbs while at work, sometimes like 10-15kbs. And its a heavily populated area. they are doing upgrades, or so they say.
Here's an overview of my last speed runs, not impressive...
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Yeah, for your own sake, do not switch just for the data speeds, not worth it, anything else Sprint is good.
Depends on where you are. I'm in Charlotte NC and Sprints data sucks ass. In the Northeast from Baltimore to New York is crazy fast especially in D.C. I been up there and sad to come back to slow molasses ass data. Thank god for wifi. Try the Epic Touch for two weeks and then decide.
4g from my house.
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I advise going to the Sprint store where you live and testing data speeds on the floor phones.
Then, if it's satisfactory, you always have 14 days if things change depending on other areas to travel frequently.
It really isn't helpful to you if someone that's on the other side of the country is telling you about their data speeds.
All carriers, even Verizon, vary based upon area.
As far as with the Epic Touch, make sure it's up to date so you don't have any LOS issue and you'll love the phone.
You really have to get one and try from home,work,etc and remember you only have 14 days to return. Here are some average marks for me...middle of the pack tests. 4g on different server about 150 miles away. That's why I have high ping...
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Lmao. Visit the sprint section before you think of it. May as well go to Verizon because you won't be happy with sprint data speeds at all. Ps winmax kills your battery something fierce
Around here Sprint has been sucking, but, I've tried Verizon recently...Sprint is actually extremely competitive with Verizon (3g) data speeds around here these days. I thought Sprint sucked around here, it ends up the grass is, in fact ,always green on the other side....in fact, it is actually as green and often greener on the Sprint side.
Is my point to OP that Sprint is good for his purposes? Lol. No, far from it. In fact quite the opposite. I could switch to AT*T for cheaper than my Sprint line (for tiered data, guh) but much much better data rates, or Verizon for better coverage and only slightly more expensive...but...I haven't. Why? When the meat hits the metal I've got something that is already great for me (acceptable speeds, relatively speaking) and have something I would hate to lose (unlimited data).
I think from the sound of OP that he has something that is great for him (can live with his tiered or throttled data) and has something he would hate to lose (2-4+mbps data rates).
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I advise going to the Sprint store where you live and testing data speeds on the floor phones.
Then, if it's satisfactory, you always have 14 days if things change depending on other areas to travel frequently.
It really isn't helpful to you if someone that's on the other side of the country is telling you about their data speeds.
All carriers, even Verizon, vary based upon area.
As far as with the Epic Touch, make sure it's up to date so you don't have any LOS issue and you'll love the phone.
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There's Matty giving the best answer again.. Nothings changed.
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Bigjim1488 said:
Lmao. Visit the sprint section before you think of it. May as well go to Verizon because you won't be happy with sprint data speeds at all. Ps winmax kills your battery something fierce
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wimax isn't too bad like it was on last years wimax devices. It sleeps frequently and battery lasts pretty long under moderate usage. Its probably better on battery than Verizon's LTE phones
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Sprint data... worse lately?

Has anyone else noticed just how much slower sprint is lately? I mean, we all knew that they've began having major issues last year, but now, seems worse. I literally can't get above .15mbps on any of my three phones. That's in most of the Denver/Aurora area. Before it was slow, now it is just not usable.
The only excuse Sprint ever has is the network vision, but really? I'm pretty fed up with this dial up.
I'll atop ranting now, am still under contract with them .
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Same thing with me in metro Detroit
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Damn, I know in Atlanta it is rather bad as well.
Just hard to remain optimistic, specially knowing that the unlimited model, while nice, isn't going to help with speed. Just too many people can abuse the already suffering network. While limits suck, they really force people to watch their data use, or pay for higher usage.
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I live near la and they've been doing their network update here. I've been getting speeds around 1500 kbps but for the last couple weeks I'm only averaging at 300 kbps now
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I live near la and they've been doing their network update here. I've been getting speeds around 1500 kbps but for the last couple weeks I'm only averaging at 300 kbps now
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Even at 1500, still pretty crappy when compared to ATT and TMO network speeds over hspa.
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It's like that in Jacksonville, FL too. Speeds have went down by nearly half.
To be honest I feel like there more consirend about virgin mobile and boost mobile than us ...since the fact people now a days don't want a contract and sprint keeps giving them phones that are similar to ours hence LG marquee and soon to be HTC evo design ...not to mention there both gonna have wimax ...aint that a slap in the face
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To be honest I feel like there more consirend about virgin mobile and boost mobile than us ...since the fact people now a days don't want a contract and sprint keeps giving them phones that are similar to ours hence LG marquee and soon to be HTC evo design ...not to mention there both gonna have wimax ...aint that a slap in the face
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I checked out tmobile prepaid, and prepaid just makes more sense seems like. Yea, you pay full retail price if you want a nice phone, but you don't need to pay any hidden upgrade fees, or weird surcharges sprint has, nor is it as expensive. And I can't speak for everyone, but I honestly don't see network vision doing anything but allowing sprint catch up to the point where most others are already at, except for years later. And if they keep this unlimited model going, I only see the network continuing on suffering. Sure, Lte would be nice and the fact that all new high end sprint phones are lte capable. Unless you're in major 6 markets though, yore stuck on crawling 3g till at least 2014, that's when they plan to roll out lte here in Colorado, not to mention it will only be the initial roll out, only among major highways, even spottier than wimax.
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The thing I've noticed about CD a devices is that they don't drop calls nearly as often as GSM models do. I've noticed this with several devices amongst my family. I'm not saying cdma is immune to it, just that they tend to transfer from tower to tower better.
With that in mind, I'd probably go to Verizon if I switched... but I can't stand the amount of things they will charge you for. They charge to block numbers, GPS, etc. T-Mobile sounds ideal as far as pricing goes but if GSM drops calls often then I'm not too sure.
A few months ago i was on cricket with the og epic, i was tired of they crappy service so i was looking to switch. Sprint grabbed me with their truly unlimited data. Guess i should of researched speeds as well =/ but i have hopes for sprint, im stuck with them for 2 years and network vision should (hopefully) hit buffalo ny by then. if i dont get a significant increase in data quality i will most defiantly go with verizon. They may be a bit more expensive but hey, the phrase "you get what you pay for" may apply here
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The thing I've noticed about CD a devices is that they don't drop calls nearly as often as GSM models do. I've noticed this with several devices amongst my family. I'm not saying cdma is immune to it, just that they tend to transfer from tower to tower better.
With that in mind, I'd probably go to Verizon if I switched... but I can't stand the amount of things they will charge you for. They charge to block numbers, GPS, etc. T-Mobile sounds ideal as far as pricing goes but if GSM drops calls often then I'm not too sure.
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Really?! I prefer GSM over CDMA any day. Unless, we are talking about CDMA-Advanced. My reasoning is the whole data speed aspect. With GSM, your 3G speeds are much better due to HSPA and HSPA+ technology. On Sprint, have you ever seen speeds over 2.5mbps in an excellent coverage area with no network load? The max CDMA network that Sprint has can go is 3.2, which is theoretical. TMobile HSPA+21 network can reach 10-12mbps without many issues. HSPA+42, 19-25 in my area during off hours. Verizon CDMA, while much more consistent, isn't much faster than Sprint.
I understand your argument with dropped calls, but I actually have found the opposite to be true. I have less dropped calls while on the go on my T-Mo company phone (GNexus), vs any of the Sprint devices I have. And that is among same area. I am guessing our experiences differ due to coverage in respectable states.
Sprint was good here for a week or less when NV was apparently being worked on in my area.. now it is even worse than before! I'm not sure what they did to the nearest towers but everyone I know around complains lately that their signal inside their house is worse and not as reliable. I've been considering jumping ships to a different carrier, perhaps the T-Mobile prepaid plan... considering I only use like 40 mins a month and only need dependable fast data on the good. Sprint better hope LTE and NV starts working here in the L.A area
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Same thing with me in metro Detroit
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I'm in metro Detroit as well, and data was at least useable in the middle of the night. Now it is horrible all the time. It took me 5 hours to download most of a ROM yesterday, only to drop the download. Grrr
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I used to hit around 1 Meg in the morning. From this speed it drops into nearly single digits throughout the day.
My 3g speeds have gotten cut in half in San Diego this month. I don't even know what its like using the 4G option on this phone which leaves me a little bitter at this point. In fact, listening to others talk about 4G in their areas feels like a series of short stories, wise tales, and mere fables. I'm probably gonna switch to T-mobile once the GS3 drops next month since they are finally getting a decent phone line up. I'm getting tired of the emasculating feeling of begging my girlfriend for data as she hits the WIFI tether Icon of her Verizon unlimited droid all the while knowing that the 4G option in my notification bar is simply a useless battery draining light.
Ans I thought I had it bad lol. The funny thing is that I can take my tmobile phone ans my sprint phone to the sprint store ans tmo would test at least 2x faster vs sprint on wimax, that's with full bars since they have signal boosters at their stores.
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These are the fastest speeds in my area that I've gotten in a couple months. My upload is normally less than .10 Mbps.
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Sprint is becoming a victim of the iPhone own success the way AT&T did when the iPhone first came out. Sprint went from being 4th place in the networks to 1st almost overnight due to having unlimited data and high quality phones. Unfortunately they weren't prepared for it network wise.
I keep getting emails about them building/buying/renting new towers here in Los Angeles, but thus far I haven't seen any quality updates.
My recommendation is to call and complain. Most of the time they'll give you an Airrave for free to keep you as a customer.
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Sprint is becoming a victim of the iPhone own success the way AT&T did when the iPhone first came out. Sprint went from being 4th place in the networks to 1st almost overnight due to having unlimited data and high quality phones. Unfortunately they weren't prepared for it network wise.
I keep getting emails about them building/buying/renting new towers here in Los Angeles, but thus far I haven't seen any quality updates.
My recommendation is to call and complain. Most of the time they'll give you an Airrave for free to keep you as a customer.
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I think that sprint lineup is far from being the first.
A lot of people buy in the whole unlimited data thing, that's just how Americans are. Why have limits when you can have unlimited? Those people don't think about speeds, they think that all data is same lol. Sadly, they also usually don't even get close to 2gb, which is the lowest tier cap by competitors.
Yay, I have unlimited. What is it good for when everything takes ages to do? Videos aren't even worth the effort over sprint mobile data. Having a tmo ans a sprint phone side by side, I can buffer a YouTube in 720p on tmo and watch 2 minutes of video before sprint would load same video in sq.
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Sprint speeds have been terrible in Houston TX for some time now. my contract is up in September, if LTE doesn't fix things I will be leaving. Been a sprint customer for 13 years!
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My conversation w/ Sprint

Does anyone else have similar feelings?
http://community.sprint.com/baw/message/499256
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Ah I remember the exact moment I decided to leave Sprint. They released a list of 100 cities that would be getting 4G LTE a few months ago.
I saw that Columbus, Indiana and Cleveland, Tennessee were on that list...but Columbus, OH and Cleveland, OH were not. I live in Columbus, OH. I read that article and went to tweet about it and Sprint's 3G connection timed out and I couldn't update my Twitter to complain.
I'm on T-Mobile now. HSPA+ may not be the 30mbps that everyone wants, but I gotta tell ya, the 15mbps that I'm getting is a hell of a lot better than the .125mbps i was getting on Sprint's 3G. If I had Sprint, the XDA app wouldn't have even opened and I wouldn't have been able to see this.
Just my experience. The ETF sucks, but I'm still much happier than I was 2 weeks ago.
Yeah... and its kind of sad that even if we were to get Wimax that it would still be slower than HSPA+ (3g faster than 4g!?!?)
The nexus 4 on T-Mobile or straight talk is sounding pretty nice right now.
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Complaining won't fix anything, you have the choice to wait for the network upgrades to be completed or pay the etf and leave. I have no issues with sprints service, I get consitantly over 1mbps dl and 700+kbps up on 3g, and cdma 3g is limited to 3mbps anyways. There's no other carrier that would let me use 100-250gb of data a month with no penalties. I have 5 lines and we all use a ton of data a month, hell one of my lines is all data every month since its only use is a hotspot for our house, that line sees easily 80+ gb every month no calls and no texts. Honestly if you don't like the service pay the etf and move to a capped plan that costs more, or wait til the NV rollout is completed.
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There's no other carrier that would let me use 100-250gb of data a month with no penalties.Honestly if you don't like the service pay the etf and move to a capped plan that costs more.d.
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I think you may have missed some breaking news here or there, because pretty much anyone can get that on T-Mobile now (VZW and AT&T don't have it yet, though)
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Yeah, T-Mobile doesn't work in my area, and after 10gbs they throttle your speeds to 2g not to mention t-mo and vzw have terrible customer service. I had t-mo a few years ago and had 1000sms/mo and they switched it to include incoming SMS in the 1000 and not just the outgoing with no notice and stuck me with a 200 overage so I dropped em like a hot potato. They don't even have coverage within 20 miles of my house anyways
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all carriers have terrible customer service that's aimed to funnel your money into your bank accounts. to say that a mobile carrier has good customer service is to say that you've never really dealt with their customer service. both t-mobile and sprint have kept me on the phone for hours only to have no answers to my problems.
As for the throttling, dude, they stopped that too.
http://www.theverge.com/2012/8/22/3258573/t-mobile-unthrottled-unlimited-data-plans
like I said, there have been some new stuffs released, gotta keep up with it. otherwise you may end up sounding uninformed. I have to use 9000GB of data before I get throttled to 2G, that's what the picture above is supposed to show. In the old days, that would be "1.6GB out of 10GB", telling me how much I have to go before I get throttled. Now, I don't get throttled unless I provide internet service to my entire block for a month. Different times.
PoorCollegeGuy said:
all carriers have terrible customer service that's aimed to funnel your money into your bank accounts. to say that a mobile carrier has good customer service is to say that you've never really dealt with their customer service. both t-mobile and sprint have kept me on the phone for hours only to have no answers to my problems.
As for the throttling, dude, they stopped that too.
http://www.theverge.com/2012/8/22/3258573/t-mobile-unthrottled-unlimited-data-plans
like I said, there have been some new stuffs released, gotta keep up with it. otherwise you may end up sounding uninformed. I have to use 9000GB of data before I get throttled to 2G, that's what the picture above is supposed to show. In the old days, that would be "1.6GB out of 10GB", telling me how much I have to go before I get throttled. Now, I don't get throttled unless I provide internet service to my entire block for a month. Different times.
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They never stopped throttling, it says right in your screen cap u get 10gbs high-speed internet dude, that means after 10gb your speeds are throttled. I've never had an issue with sprints customer service in 15+ years. Everytime I call it takes maybe a minute to get a rep on the line and they have my issue resolved as fast as it takes to do whatever is wrong, it took less than 10mins from dial to hang up to activate a new phone and switch 2 others around when I activated my sgs3 Monday night. Now vzw everytime I have to call them for my mom its 2hrs of yelling back and forth with some rude ass moron on the other end, and tmo it was like pulling teeth to get anything fixed usually they'd say they corrected whatever it was but really didn't do sh!t they'd just lie to get you off the phone.
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I'm in Miami and LTE for sprint is around the corner but **** sprint been a customer for 11 years bill has gone up now I pay 200 plus a month for 4 lines. Moving to T-Mobile once I can buy four nexus 4 phones. Done with sprint and slow data been playing the waiting game for years. My 3g on gal nexus is horrible and on the epic touch my max 4g is 1.5 Mbps
T-Mobile has unlimited 4g no throttle and my bill will be less. And most important will have a current phone and real 3g speed and 4g. If you think sprint LTE will be fast your smoking something. Down the street on Flagler LTE gets 3mbps. Maybe its not up but I doubt it will go to 30mbps.
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I'm in Miami and LTE for sprint is around the corner but **** sprint been a customer for 11 years bill has gone up now I pay 200 plus a month for 4 lines. Moving to T-Mobile once I can buy four nexus 4 phones. Done with sprint and slow data been playing the waiting game for years. My 3g on gal nexus is horrible and on the epic touch my max 4g is 1.5 Mbps
T-Mobile has unlimited 4g no throttle and my bill will be less. And most important will have a current phone and real 3g speed and 4g. If you think sprint LTE will be fast your smoking something. Down the street on Flagler LTE gets 3mbps. Maybe its not up but I doubt it will go to 30mbps.
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Funny my lte hits 27mbps on sprint and the damn rollout is only at 25% of the towers complete. It averages about 22mbps but will hit 27 later at night.
Edit: look at the t-mo screen cap up the thread there it says right under the 1.6gb used that the data is throttled after 10gb. 10gb high-speed data means after 10gb its no longer high speed which means it's throttled and they throttle u to edge 2g speeds which is equivalent of sprints 3g
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I also heard from other folks that tmobile prepaid does throttle but heck idk since I really dont trust any other carriers besides sprint. I have no issues with them just the lack of slow 3g around my home area but so far when I get to the corner of my house and at work I get 4g lte since they already started working on the towers here in miami.
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I'm in Miami and LTE for sprint is around the corner but **** sprint been a customer for 11 years bill has gone up now I pay 200 plus a month for 4 lines. Moving to T-Mobile once I can buy four nexus 4 phones. Done with sprint and slow data been playing the waiting game for years. My 3g on gal nexus is horrible and on the epic touch my max 4g is 1.5 Mbps
T-Mobile has unlimited 4g no throttle and my bill will be less. And most important will have a current phone and real 3g speed and 4g. If you think sprint LTE will be fast your smoking something. Down the street on Flagler LTE gets 3mbps. Maybe its not up but I doubt it will go to 30mbps.
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Dude you have to understand that we are only on 3% and its early. At the corner of my house and at work im getting an average of 12-15 mbps and a peak of 19mbps now for this early stage at 3% thats damn good I know for sure its only going to get better soon.
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Funny my lte hits 27mbps on sprint and the damn rollout is only at 25% of the towers complete. It averages about 22mbps but will hit 27 later at night.
Edit: look at the t-mo screen cap up the thread there it says right under the 1.6gb used that the data is throttled after 10gb. 10gb high-speed data means after 10gb its no longer high speed which means it's throttled and they throttle u to edge 2g speeds which is equivalent of sprints 3g
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Where do you get these speeds? Also in my area I doubt it could ever reach these speeds because there is no cable internet and the fastest ISP is att with 1.5mb. Also don't trust the speedtest.net it shows fast speed but your real world speed is probably half that. Like when I go near a tower with 4g I get like 18down but that's not real world.
And T-Mobile confirmed there is a new data plan unlimited 4g no throttle. I don't have the service yet so I can't tell for sure but I have checked many times. And I doubt sprint 3g will ever be good it has been bad for so long. Tired of waiting with sprint. Need a nexus 4 and T-Mobile will do even of it is 10gbs which they swear its not.
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Where do you get these speeds? Also in my area I doubt it could ever reach these speeds because there is no cable internet and the fastest ISP is att with 1.5mb. Also don't trust the speedtest.net it shows fast speed but your real world speed is probably half that. Like when I go near a tower with 4g I get like 18down but that's not real world.
And T-Mobile confirmed there is a new data plan unlimited 4g no throttle. I don't have the service yet so I can't tell for sure but I have checked many times. And I doubt sprint 3g will ever be good it has been bad for so long. Tired of waiting with sprint. Need a nexus 4 and T-Mobile will do even of it is 10gbs which they swear its not.
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I get it in a few spots in town(bradenton FL) but not at my house yet I can get it solid at my friends house right off of i75 and SR 64. Will get it at home between now and march when its complete right now there's a total of 16 towers live in the 5counties that are in my rollout, sw Florida from bradenton to Naples well manatee county to Naples area most of the live towers are down the i75 corridor. Ericcson is the subcontractor handling our rollout, and they are just barely ahead of schedule it was supposed to be testing now and live towards the end of Nov but they've turned on a few towers already. I know its not roaming on lte cuz sprints roaming agreement for lte doesn't start until 50% of the rollout is complete nationwide
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Fataldesain said:
Where do you get these speeds? Also in my area I doubt it could ever reach these speeds because there is no cable internet and the fastest ISP is att with 1.5mb. Also don't trust the speedtest.net it shows fast speed but your real world speed is probably half that. Like when I go near a tower with 4g I get like 18down but that's not real world.
And T-Mobile confirmed there is a new data plan unlimited 4g no throttle. I don't have the service yet so I can't tell for sure but I have checked many times. And I doubt sprint 3g will ever be good it has been bad for so long. Tired of waiting with sprint. Need a nexus 4 and T-Mobile will do even of it is 10gbs which they swear its not.
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Look at the time I just went to the corner of my house and just ran a test and took the screenie.
Edit if your patient enough to wait a bit I say go for it but you you aint well you have your reasons to move on forward and leave sprint.
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When NV is complete sprints network will be as good or better than vzw. From what I've seen already its just as good as vzw in the areas it's up. The main thing is anywhere sprint has 3g now they will have LTE which means they will have more LTE saturation than any other carrier in the US. Plus NV is a complete backhaul and upgrade to the 3g network as well for improved capacity as well as bandwidth so 3g will be consistent in speeds over 1.5mbps instead of slowing as towers get crowded
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When NV is complete sprints network will be as good or better than vzw. From what I've seen already its just as good as vzw in the areas it's up. The main thing is anywhere sprint has 3g now they will have LTE which means they will have more LTE saturation than any other carrier in the US. Plus NV is a complete backhaul and upgrade to the 3g network as well for improved capacity as well as bandwidth so 3g will be consistent in speeds over 1.5mbps instead of slowing as towers get crowded
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That's great news thats why im just being patient and enjoying my note 2 lol I see alot of good things coming ahead for sprint thats why im sticking with them but I can understand some folks frustration and such with the 3g service at the moment
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They never stopped throttling, it says right in your screen cap u get 10gbs high-speed internet dude, that means after 10gb your speeds are throttled. I've never had an issue with sprints customer service in 15+ years. Everytime I call it takes maybe a minute to get a rep on the line and they have my issue resolved as fast as it takes to do whatever is wrong, it took less than 10mins from dial to hang up to activate a new phone and switch 2 others around when I activated my sgs3 Monday night. Now vzw everytime I have to call them for my mom its 2hrs of yelling back and forth with some rude ass moron on the other end, and tmo it was like pulling teeth to get anything fixed usually they'd say they corrected whatever it was but really didn't do sh!t they'd just lie to get you off the phone.
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That isn't 10GB in the screen cap, it is 10000GB or roughly 10TB. T-Mobile doesn't throttle anymore. Just saying.
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Evil and yellow what you have to understand is your one of the lucky few. Even when LTE is up it is going to get slammed because for the past year they have been selling late phones so once it up sprint is going to have to change the unlimited data. And sprint every quarter for years is losing Money so that does not make me feel good. Makes me think they can't wait to raise the price.
Sprint gave me 100 to stat today but honestly tired of them not getting phones first, slow data, and no more perks. I get the same treatment as if I just walked in the door. What T-Mobile told me today would be cheaper and I can buy a nexus 4 for 300 bucks. If I get even 5mbs down I'm more than happy because that has hardly even happened on sprint and that is when I'm next to a tower. Tired of the pipe dreams. If sprint has fast data it won't last unlimited.
At T-Mobile they told me today 4 lines 1000 min 2 lines 2gig 4g (parents) and 2 lines unlimited 4g no throttle for 160 a month two year agree meant and I bring my own phones so I get a credit each month since not buying phones. Sprint can't beat that.
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yellowman82 said:
That's great news thats why im just being patient and enjoying my note 2 lol I see alot of good things coming ahead for sprint thats why im sticking with them but I can understand some folks frustration and such with the 3g service at the moment
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I've rarely had slow 3g on sprint, at home its always over 1mbps 2mbps later at night. The only times its ever slower than 1mbps is when we get bad storms and a tower goes down and everyone is pushed onto the other tower. But I live in a sparsely populated area east of bradenton and basically share my main tower with about 50 or 60 houses. The only 2 carriers with coverage at my house are sprint and at&t. At&t constantly drops calls here, vzw only has 1 to no bars of 1x and T-Mobile doesnt have any service at all, you have to roam on at&t. Even when I'm in Tampa or Hollywood I still get between 700kbps and over 1mbps down, it maybe because I'm on a business account with a corporate prl tho
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When NV is complete sprints network will be as good or better than vzw. From what I've seen already its just as good as vzw in the areas it's up. The main thing is anywhere sprint has 3g now they will have LTE which means they will have more LTE saturation than any other carrier in the US. Plus NV is a complete backhaul and upgrade to the 3g network as well for improved capacity as well as bandwidth so 3g will be consistent in speeds over 1.5mbps instead of slowing as towers get crowded
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of course NV will be a savior for sprint. but the problem is that it should already have a network thats able to compete. Sprint cant say come join us because we are better then prepaid and then get ****tier speeds then cricket. Also people still have a bad taste in their mouths over the wimax screw up. Honestly, they should of focused on getting their 3g up to snuff before ever considering rolling out 4g.
i for one will tell sprint to go screw themselfs if i dont see my city on the lte rollout list within the next 6 months or if i dont see significant increase in 3g performance.

I am tried on knocking sprint about their slow data speeds.

I am slowly becoming a fan of sprint's internet speeds. Please check out my signature line for the speed I got on my laptop computer. I am thoroughly impress with the speed I am getting. I was knocking sprint because I was getting faster internet speeds from my home internet but now I am getting faster speeds from my phone internet. If sprint can duplicate this standard everywhere they my have a chance of being the number one cell phone provider one day.
ill continue knocking them for a lack of LTE and unusable speeds on 3G
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and thats 3x faster than what i usually pull in NYC
Dude thats horrible
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Best speed I've gotten over the last month was a 422/308 kbps in jersey
I've gotten as low as 20kbps and my highest speed was 800, on average I get 200-300kbps on one phone and 500kbps on the other (samsung sph-a900 and apple iPhone respectively), and ~6months+ ago (for 6 years) I was getting ~1.2mbps with spikes upto 1.5mbps. (And at Lunch/dinner time the speed drops to about half of the average) Have not had a chance to try LTE yet because it's not available here.
I am finally starting to pull some decent speeds. My 3G speeds have been increasing and I get LTE around my area. My prior Wimax phones got no love. Soon as I took the GNII to work, 4G popped up.
Highest I have gotten in my area is 8mbps, slowest about 1.3mbps. On 3G I routinely stay over 500kbps and sometimes in the 1.5mbps around town. All far better than what I used to get.
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Screw u guys. Half the time my speed test app cant even find the server. Thats why we get unlimited data cause they know its impossible to pull a gig a month. We r suckers. All I do is ***** about sprint and im on my 5th 4g phone. Oh well
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Screw u guys. Half the time my speed test app cant even find the server. Thats why we get unlimited data cause they know its impossible to pull a gig a month. We r suckers. All I do is ***** about sprint and im on my 5th 4g phone. Oh well
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I was pulling upto 20gb/month a few years ago when I was getting 1.2mbps and avoiding slow WiFi (most of the hotspots around here are 300-600kbps) now that my data speed is 400-600 dep on time and phone I try to use hotspots more and I only pull a couple gb/month at max (though to be fair I use less mobile data overall, for a month I test-drove AT&T and was pulling upto 5mbps on HSPA+ and upto 27mbps on LTE and I still stayed WELL within my 3gb limit (and even really pushing hard to burn though the data at the end of the month by streaming HD videos I barely got to 2.5gb)
Also, just for the record, it's "100gb/month" of data (as per reports on androidforums) for 3G - no idea what the cap is on LTE
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Screw u guys. Half the time my speed test app cant even find the server. Thats why we get unlimited data cause they know its impossible to pull a gig a month. We r suckers. All I do is ***** about sprint and im on my 5th 4g phone. Oh well
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I've used 23gigs thank-you
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ill continue knocking them for a lack of LTE and unusable speeds on 3G
and thats 3x faster than what i usually pull in NYC
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I think I can shed some light ther pm me ur zip and city and I can see whats going on when I get back to work tomorrow
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Read an article today how boost mobile or virgin mobile is throttling their speed after the user consumes a certain amount of bandwidth.
The speed would be throttled down to 256kbps.
I LOLd. I wish I get 256kbps from sprint.
As an aside, both those networks run atop the sprint network...So they get the same speeds as sprint users.
swyped all these spelling errors from my galaxy note 2
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I've used 23gigs thank-you
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Ive never passed 2gigs and im on my phone constantly. Mostly watching fb or YouTube trying to load then telling me to try again.
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will do
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I think I can shed some light ther pm me ur zip and city and I can see whats going on when I get back to work tomorrow
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I have two note 2 phones.
One on sprint the other on solavei. Which is tmobile really.
The solavei phone kills sprint in data speed. Constantly getting 10-15 mbps all day.
Lately my sprint note is to slow for decent test.
I love unlimited data but is it truly unlimited if your connection is piss poor slow?
The solavei plan is Unlimited 4g
Talk text web $60.00 per month taxes included.
No $10.00 per month smartphone fee. I have been a sprint customer for 14 years but for the first time considering leaving.
Even when the lte gets worked out . The data plans will most assuredly change. I just hope they get it together soon.
Bought the fiancé an note 2 also unlocked it threw in solavei sim card and shazam
Look at those internets fly lol.
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Good news!! there's 3g upgrades going on a few miles away about 1.8 to be exact bad news........ The tower closes top you have afew more weeks to go.. If everything goes as plan
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I have no g's in my area,0g
Actually saw my phone pick up 4g for the first time today on the freeway but by the time I pulled up speedtest I had lost connection.
This is my average speed at home.
humdrum2009 said:
I have two note 2 phones.
One on sprint the other on solavei. Which is tmobile really.
The solavei phone kills sprint in data speed. Constantly getting 10-15 mbps all day.
Lately my sprint note is to slow for decent test.
I love unlimited data but is it truly unlimited if your connection is piss poor slow?
The solavei plan is Unlimited 4g
Talk text web $60.00 per month taxes included.
No $10.00 per month smartphone fee. I have been a sprint customer for 14 years but for the first time considering leaving.
Even when the lte gets worked out . The data plans will most assuredly change. I just hope they get it together soon.
Bought the fiancé an note 2 also unlocked it threw in solavei sim card and shazam
Look at those internets fly lol.
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I hear you on that. I tested out the internet on my ATT iPad3 (HSPA+ and LTE) and I gotta say it's very tempting to switch (Pulled 4-5mbps on HSPA+ and 20-25mbps on LTE) if ATT would offer me a bit more data, like T-Mo does @ 5gb/month (T-Mo reception is **** here) I'd probably switch. There comes a point when you say "if I cant really physically use more than 5gb/month of data, why am I paying for it?" I'm really hoping LTE is as big of a game-changer as Sprint claims (I've seen some impressive speeds posted on HoFo) but given what happened with Sprint's implimentation of WiMAX, I'm not holding my breath...
Lte speeds here in nyc.
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Indianapolis.
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Those of you on T-Mobile, please rate, discuss, and critique their entire network. I am looking for Note 3 user's opinions on EDGE, HSPA+, and LTE performance. I am interested in building penetration and 4G/4GLTE consistency.
I am looking at ditching my two AT&T lines because I am so sick of the throttling, locked bootloaders, and high monthly prices. We can save about $50/ mo with T-Mobile. However, I am fully aware of the cons to T-Mobile. I know EDGE is inevitable. I know for a fact that T-Mobile has EDGE only on the below coverage map of my house. My sister has an S4 with T-Mobile and gets 5 full bars of EDGE. Seems they run that at full blast compared to AT&T. Anyway, the AWS (1700/2100) band doesn't reach as far as the 850/1900 bands AT&T uses. That's why we get good service from them at home, despite T-Mobile using the same tower.
So I would appreciate some honest opinions of those of you who use T-Mobile's 4G and 4G LTE data services. I am curious if they have gone to 10x10 LTE yet, or even 20mhz.
Thanks
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EDIT: I got my answer. T-Mobile sucks so bad by me, its not even funny. I just popped in a T-Mobile pre-paid card into my iPhone 5s. Here is my input from the Howard Forums. Just for the side note, the iPhone 5S uses the same bands at the T-Mobile branded Note 3.
So I have been dying to try T-Mobile on my iPhone 5s for a while now. Finally got it unlocked and stopped at the T-Mobile store today. The manager (Erik) was a total douche. I immediately asked about their monthly 4G. Obviously, this meant no commission for him. He said I would NOT get LTE on my unlocked AT&T iphone 5s. I politely told him that the AT&T/T-Mobile iphone 5s are the exact same model. He said LTE required a different processor. I just was like, WOW, and left it at that. I get everything all setup and my iPhone 5S says "T-Mobile 4G". I then walk out the door and it now goes to LTE. I said, HEY DUDE, it gets LTE. Then he said, yea but it won't be able to take advantage of it. I said, yea to bad, a minute ago it needed a special processor. He looked really pissed and I said see ya.
Ok, that was funny, but that's not the point of my thread. The point of my thread here is to discuss the network quality of T-Mobile, preferably in Northwest, Indiana (Chicago suburb). I am driving away and the damn thing goes back and fourth from "4G" to LTE killing my battery. Ok, I get that, its a brand new technology. So I just turned it off. I was getting about 11 down on just HSPA+. So I'm sitting at the traffic light and I notice that spotify just stops. My phone still says "4G", but now I have no data connection. Now it just says, T-Mobile ****, showing 4 bars. Then I get E. I'm like WOW.
I decided to drive to the local AT&T/T-MO tower by my house. This tower is about a half a mile from my house. I always sit on 3 bars of AT&T LTE and HSPA+ in my house. Sitting in my car about 300 feet from the tower, my iPhone 5S is displaying 4 T-Mobile bars and 4G only. The speeds were averaging from about 5-11 mbps. I was getting the same speeds during a call, which is a huge step up from AT&T. So I drive down the street, about 2 years away, and now I have2 bars and the 4G is cutting in and out. Just down the street its now on EDGE. Its EDGE city all the way to my house. The EDGE is completely useless. Absolutely no data. Thankfully calls and texts can be made.
So, I still have a full month with their unlimited everything prepaid plan. I always knew the area in which I live kinda sucked, I just didn't think it was this bad. The iPhone 5S supports AWS HSPA+, which even seemed spotty. I will still test T-Mobile's network out at school and other places, but boy am I ever glad that I did prepaid before porting any numbers over.
AT&T is evil. AT&T locks their Android boot loaders and now is forcing all customers to their over priced mobile share data plans. I tried to escape them, but its just not possible right now. T-Mobile cannot provide a consistent experience in a very populated Chicago suburb. It's kind of sad. I wish they would completely abandon the AWS frequencies and they are just awful. The overall signal is just so weak, even with the tower in sight.
So spending $80 today actually saved me a big headache because I was going to port to T-Mobile in the near future. I just can't get over how inconsistent their network is. Don't get me wrong though, its amazing when it works. The HSPA+ is much faster than AT&T and has lower latencies. However, the LTE needs a lot of work. The LTE was no faster than the H+. I average about 40-60mbps down on AT&T's LTE network.
Just my thoughts. Maybe someone will think twice who is considering T-Mobile in Lake County, Indiana.
Cheers
since TMobile uses higher frequency (shorter wavelength) bands 1700/2100 and 1900, the signal can't penetrate to basement. I live in a apartment and TMobile signal is super weak while ATT is always at constant 2 bars. When I'm outside, TMobile signals are always good.
T-Mobile Pros: new and better tech of 4G LTE so faster speed, very fast HSPA+ as backup, wifi calling on all Android phones.
T-Mobile Cons: bad signal in obstructed area
The reason I'm using T-Mobile is because it is a lot cheaper.
PS. I love my Note 3
I have 1 bar in my apartment and the speeds are great
2-4 bars on the first floor at work - given that 4G LTE is stronger downtown and as I go up the floors...it gets even better. I do not have a basement so I do not know about that.
I am not sure what edge is...
I live in Charlotte nc and I pretty much have 4g everywhere I go! I work at the airport and get the fastest download speeds here. When I leave the Charlotte area I pretty much lose 4g which means I pretty much don't have data but I can still make calls. I went to Myrtle Beach over the weekend and couldn't get a data signal over 2g during the drive to save my life but I still prefer their unlimited coming from verizon. the signal in Charlotte is the same if not better. But If you travel alot you may not want to switch. I don't vacate to often so I don't mind.
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I'd like to know why they run their EDGE network at full blast? Do they do that with LTE yet?
Indoors I get good signal... In a hospital building now on the 4th floor with 4 above me and I'm still getting 28mbps
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The lower the Mhz the better penetration power, however the worse sound quality. That what I was taught in college.
damedolla2 said:
I live in Charlotte nc and I pretty much have 4g everywhere I go! I work at the airport and get the fastest download speeds here. When I leave the Charlotte area I pretty much lose 4g which means I pretty much don't have data but I can still make calls. I went to Myrtle Beach over the weekend and couldn't get a data signal over 2g during the drive to save my life but I still prefer their unlimited coming from verizon. the signal in Charlotte is the same if not better. But If you travel alot you may not want to switch. I don't vacate to often so I don't mind.
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I'm in Charlotte too. I get 4g everywhere and lte pretty much everywhere seems like the south side has the fastest lte speeds. Upwards of 36 down near Archdale
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Ok, I understand how the signal works, but why do I get 5 bars of EDGE at my house when I could force the phone to HSPA only and barely get 1??? The tower has been completely upgraded to HSPA/LTE. I just with it preferred 1900 HSPA.
At work I get one bar with LTE in my breakroom. However I get 4 to 6Mbps. On H+ I get 3 to 4 bars and get 5Mbps. Right outside the door and a few feet away 3 to 4 bars LTE and 20 to 30Mbps.
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I'm in Minnesota and just switched from AT&T to T-Mobile after giving them a test run for a month. Overall, no difference between the two in coverage in the metro area. Haven't ventured out too far though. My dad goes south for the winter and has said the coverage has surprised him (he switched with me to T-Mobile). Glad I made the switch, now just waiting til next month to move the rest of my lines.
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I just left VZ for the same reasons, overpriced & data taxi. VZ did get better signal in some areas but their 3G CDMA network is slow compared to T-Mobile's HSPA+ network here in Phoenix, AZ. I have only have had T-Mobile service for a week now and like it better over VZ already. UNLIMITED!
Around the metro Detroit area, data speeds are consistent and very fast. No problems for me ever with calls either. Although if you get out into the sticks, data slows to edge speeds, but calls have been fine.
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Around the metro Detroit area, data speeds are consistent and very fast. No problems for me ever with calls either. Although if you get out into the sticks, data slows to edge speeds, but calls have been fine.
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I'm not out on the sticks. I just know they're not very consistent. But this time I actually am gonna try them out. See how they are for the 14 days then make the decision to move over my AT&T lines.
It's really a no brainer. No matter how you look at VZW and ATT are going to have to change.
Tmobile is cheaper and has 2x the bandwidth as ATT, our 3G network as in HSPA+ is so fast that if you're going to watch movies and you suddenly don't have LTE, it won't stop to buffer because 3G is just as fast.
I paid 90$ for one line that was Unlimited everything Talk, Text, Web. 2.5GB of HotSpot. Regular insurance without Jump.
Now with three lines we pay 230$ same thing all unlimited.
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Just left Verizon as well - sick of those guys and being tied to them for two years at a time. Expensive - treats their vet customers like we're holding them back from something... its ridiculous
I'm in Cincinnati, Ohio and I'm pretty much all over the area - Northern Kentucky, Southeast Indiana - even Northern Ohio and really get 4G all the time. I see edge in transition to less populated areas - be it Highway or back roads but as soon as I get there - 4G! They're all dense focuses of people so not shocked that its true but pleasantly surprised that it tends to be 4G / wifi or edge. .. And edge seems to be decent. No hiccups going from one or the other and wifi calling is pretty amazing. Very happy about the switch
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You all should install and use the Sensorly app in order to see and get your coverage & speedtest data out there. No guessing.
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You all should install and use the Sensorly app in order to see and get your coverage & speedtest data out there. No guessing.
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I would wager real world use over numbers any day :good: but it does look like another resource. I used open signal to see coverage and while Verizon has the most coverage - 4G hasn't been as steady in all that space in my area. It seems more of a where do you need it thing then a "nice to know I can make calls in the middle of a body of water" lol
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I would wager real world use over numbers any day :good: but it does look like another resource. I used open signal to see coverage and while Verizon has the most coverage - 4G hasn't been as steady in all that space in my area. It seems more of a where do you need it thing then a "nice to know I can make calls in the middle of a body of water" lol
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Biggest whiners seem to want 3G in the middle of nowhere from T-Mobile. EDGE is fine as long as it works. It's just annoying when AT&T has my whole area blanketed in LTE. They use the same tower and the best T-Mobile could do is EDGE. But I have wifi.
Can HD voice be used over EDGE?
Check on Ebay for a T-mobile repeater.
I got one for about $100
I had one bar in basement and barely got any service.
With the repeater installed 4 full bars now in the basement and fast as hell data.

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