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Stronger signal and higher speeds...?

Since I got to work this morning me and all of my Sprint subscribing coworkers are experiencing better signal strength and higher speeds than usual and is especially noticeable in places notorious for crappy signal... The same at my apartment.
Either a new tower went up.. Which is doubtful... Or is this part of the rollout of the system upgrades?
Central CT here... Anyone else noticed anything?
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Can anyone else confirm this?

Still ballz slow in northern wisconsin.... But they said they where making "changes" in my area what they mean by that only dan hesse and god knows
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Damn, I am waiting to make the jump from VZW to this phone.... With speeds like the ones that are being reported I don't know if that's even logical.

My 4g is flying. Usually I only get about 6mbps and right now I just hit 14, with 1 bar. 3g is more or less the same
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Maybe everyone should post where they are located also?

I'm only talking 3G.... And we have horribly overcast skys and rain which usually murders signals... I've got a good feeling about this... I'm afraid to update my PRL lol
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How fast are you talking? Like normal 3G speeds or faster?

Mine aren't better, but something is going on. Signal has been very erratic on both my GSII and my 3D. In the process of working on towers?

I'm lucky if I get 2 mb on 4g in St. louis.
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Mine defintely went up. Yesterday on speedtest I got a 102kb down. This morning in the same spot I got 128kb down. Watch out I'm flyin now!!!
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eakrish said:
How fast are you talking? Like normal 3G speeds or faster?
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3G speeds still, but, respectable. I ordinarily pull 200kbps to 400kbps with 0 to 1 bar at my desk. I'm getting 600 to 1300kbps with 1 to 3 bars.... Buried deep in a steel building. Outside I'm seeing full bars and hover around 2mbps where I usually get 600kbps ish with 2 or 3 bars. Heavy overcast with moderate rain.
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I'd be interested to see how the speeds hold up later on in the day. Mine are always respectable in the morning and then go to sh*t in the afternoon hours.

Well, how are they holding up?

GadgetMonger said:
Mine aren't better, but something is going on. Signal has been very erratic on both my GSII and my 3D. In the process of working on towers?
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Ditto here, Minnesota
Something is afoot!

I can confirm this and i am in dfw area.
Ppl rooted their phone and blaming on developers for loss of signals past couple days.

Still slow if not slower than usual where I live in Culver City.

wingzfan said:
Mine defintely went up. Yesterday on speedtest I got a 102kb down. This morning in the same spot I got 128kb down. Watch out I'm flyin now!!!
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note the value of the emoticon...without it, you were about to get BLASTED!
btw, my 3g on speedtest typically registers like 50kbps, but in actuality, I do way better on app dls and webpages. I do trust the 4g readouts, though, which tend to be around 4-5 mbps.
location: fort lauderdale, fl

Yeah, mine went up 4 mbs... Houston Tx.
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Anybody else noticing an increase in data lately?

Just monitoring my data lately.... seems to be getting better lately! I will keep testing up until the big announcement.
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Hmm
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I did a week or two ago...but, since that day not at all. It just seems to be getting worse.

daneurysm said:
I did a week or two ago...but, since that day not at all. It just seems to be getting worse.
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Well I can only hope it continues!
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craigbailey1986 said:
Well I can only hope it continues!
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My data getting worse?
Thanks pal, lol.

Bought the phone 3 days ago. Slowest 3g data i ever seen on a phone. Sometimes no bars at all when i know i have excellent coverage area. SMH

dallastx said:
Bought the phone 3 days ago. Slowest 3g data i ever seen on a phone. Sometimes no bars at all when i know i have excellent coverage area. SMH
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call tech support, or better get them on chat. It's easier.
....tell them you have abysmally slow data speeds and want a data refresh. Every time I have activated a phone on Sprint since the E3D came out (that's been like 6 or 7 phones, lol) I have had to do this because of ABSURDLY slow data speeds....and this helped a ton.
If that doesn't help then maybe it's a hardware defect...if that doesn't help then the Sprint blows in your area.

Yup me and my friend are getting almost double the 3g speed and better 4g speed for the past week or two

Wow...i spend so much time on wifi that i havent really noticed, but i just installed speedtest and ran a battery of tests...holy crap
https://picasaweb.google.com/m/view...key:Gv1sRgCKz61KqTpabupgE/5658674949149447362
Even the ping has drastically improved...crazy
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My 3g has been super fast over the last few days.
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I'm not sure where people that are getting better data live. If it's in a major city it would make sense though. I would bet that places like NYC, LA, Miami ect may be getting the network beefed up in anticipation of the Iphone.
The last thing Sprint needs is to get crappy reviews on the Iphone due to a sluggish network.

My 3g is next to useless. And I live in San Antonio.
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dallastx said:
Bought the phone 3 days ago. Slowest 3g data i ever seen on a phone. Sometimes no bars at all when i know i have excellent coverage area. SMH
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Bars have nothing to do with data...I have seen 0-1 bars and still pulled 600kbps DATA

Dvin211 said:
I'm not sure where people that are getting better data live. If it's in a major city it would make sense though. I would bet that places like NYC, LA, Miami ect may be getting the network beefed up in anticipation of the Iphone.
The last thing Sprint needs is to get crappy reviews on the Iphone due to a sluggish network.
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I live in Conley ga which is about 5 miles long lol... but it's only about 15 miles from atlanta so I don't know....
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Here near Columbia 3g is useless...still.
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I'm in Milwaukee. 3g is barely passable I unless you are near a freeway or the airport... Then I can pull 250kB down.
The rest of the time I average 30kB out less.
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I live in the middle of Phoenix, AZ and i get about 0.50mbps down on average and we dont have 4G here.

Dvin211 said:
I'm not sure where people that are getting better data live. If it's in a major city it would make sense though. I would bet that places like NYC, LA, Miami ect may be getting the network beefed up in anticipation of the Iphone.
The last thing Sprint needs is to get crappy reviews on the Iphone due to a sluggish network.
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I'm in Culver City - not far from LA - I'm getting 400k with 3G and rarely get 4G.

My data speeds have doubled in the last 5 days. I'm loving it.
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depends on my location, but my sprint speeds are very good in boston

Coverage in Virginia and near

We had a bad storm here in Virginia Friday, ever since service has been very spotty sometimes will have data sometimes i won't and if I'm real lucky nothing at all but when i do have data these are my speeds
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I'm in Northern VA and it's been about the same here. But still a lot of places without power. Give it a day or 2 it should be better.
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5FOOTER said:
I'm in Northern VA and it's been about the same here. But still a lot of places without power. Give it a day or 2 it should be better.
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Yea I know, in my town on one side there is power and the other there isn't. that's what I thought the loss of signal was coming from the power outages in the surrounding areas but from reading in the spring community forums sprint employees are saying it's because of them updating equipment
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kazp3r17 said:
We had a bad storm here in Virginia Friday, ever since service has been very spotty sometimes will have data sometimes i won't and if I'm real lucky nothing at all but when i do have data these are my speeds
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Every sprint user in the DMV AREA is having horrible signal! I used to have good 4G at my buddy's house but not after that storm hit! So give it like a week some places in DC still having outages
5FOOTER said:
I'm in Northern VA and it's been about the same here. But still a lot of places without power. Give it a day or 2 it should be better.
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kazp3r17 said:
Yea I know, in my town on one side there is power and the other there isn't. that's what I thought the loss of signal was coming from the power outages in the surrounding areas but from reading in the spring community forums sprint employees are saying it's because of them updating equipment
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kazp3r17 said:
We had a bad storm here in Virginia Friday, ever since service has been very spotty sometimes will have data sometimes i won't and if I'm real lucky nothing at all but when i do have data these are my speeds
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Many places have horrible coverage. Though my signal from the Samsung is much weaker than my Palm Pre. Does other find that the signal strength sucks with the Samsung Galaxy SII Epic 4G's?

bobwonderful said:
Many places have horrible coverage. Though my signal from the Samsung is much weaker than my Palm Pre. Does other find that the signal strength sucks with the Samsung Galaxy SII Epic 4G's?
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My signal cane back last night. But Its the seems the same with me the signal strength is not that great i only get 1-2 bars at my house with the ps2 but with my old moment, og evo, and evo 3d I get 3-4
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My signal came back earlier this week stronger than ever. It is almost like sprint told the repair people to complete the network vision upgrade for my area while up there.
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how fast are your 3G speeds?

Hey so I have a question for you guys. How fast are your 3G speeds? I'm asking because my gs3 won't go over 600 kb even at my best service. And my wifi is also extreamly slow. The wifi doesn't make sence to me Cuz my Droid x2 uses the same wifi and it gets triple the speed that my gs3 gets. Any one have the same problem or have a solution for this?

My WiFi is fine. 3g sucks.

Los Angeles 90019
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Here's our blazing 3G speeds in Raleigh, NC.

MadFlava said:
Here's our blazing 3G speeds in Raleigh, NC.
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Damn. Not even 56k.

I almost fell over when I ran this at my work...on one bar lol. Running totally unrooted stock LG8.
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Just ran the wifi one and earlier this morning did the speed test down the road from my house.
Edit: However... look at some of the other tests down below...signal blows up around here, although I keep getting told just wait for LTE... I'm waiting...

MadFlava said:
Here's our blazing 3G speeds in Raleigh, NC.
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LOL, that's about what I get when I'm roaming on your network(I'm with US Cellular). I thought it was just cause I was roaming.

I can't say the words "Sprint", "3G" and "Fast" in the same sentence without laughing (or crying) :laugh:
This is in the Denver area:
Ping: 366 ms
Down: 23 kbps
Up: 326 kbps

woodardhsd said:
LOL, that's about what I get when I'm roaming on your network(I'm with US Cellular). I thought it was just cause I was roaming.
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Nope.. its because the network here absolutely sucks. Ive done battle with Sprint for over a year about the crappy signal here and gotten nowhere.

Here are mine. Funny thing is I live in a very small town in Western New York and we got 2 Network Vision towers put up recently with 4 more on the way lol. But hey I'm not complaining
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Here's my results from around the St. Louis area.
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I'm also in St Louis, here are my 3G speeds and Wifi speeds
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Did another 3G speed test (out of the valley) and got much better results.
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I get about 600 here in phoenix. No 4g here

I've seen MAX almost 2 Mbps. Average speed is about 1. Pittsburgh area.

I just got 446 kbps this morning but 9507 kbps tonight. No 4g and 905 nightly cm10. It seems things run better a day or two after flashing. Could be my imagination.
OK forget it, I had the wifi turned on ... "if it's too good to be true..."

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I puked some coffee when I got this today. Proof that the Vision tower upgrades are a funky reality at the moment.
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I was in NYC, and got 1.9 mbs down in Queens, and the Bronx, as well as in DC last week.

Fastest 3G I've ever had.

In here at the Thunder Canyon Brewery in Downtown Tucson Arizona.
Got some good 3G speeds.
Well not that good but fastest I've had haha.
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Slower than my avg lol. I avg 2.2down and 1.5 up consistently
I like to break stuff!

Nice.
Wish I had constant speeds like that.
Tucson is so behind.
Wish we had 4G already.
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devynbf said:
Nice.
Wish I had constant speeds like that.
Tucson is so behind.
Wish we had 4G already.
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I live in the middle of nowhere so our towers are packed beyond capacity and NV upgrades started a few months back
I like to break stuff!

I consistently get less than 10% of your download speed

At least Tucson has usable 3g. Come to Phoenix and you will average .3 mbps.
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ac16313 said:
At least Tucson has usable 3g. Come to Phoenix and you will average .3 mbps.
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Holy crap.
Sprint needs to get on this ASAP.

devynbf said:
In here at the Thunder Canyon Brewery in Downtown Tucson Arizona.
Got some good 3G speeds.
Well not that good but fastest I've had haha.
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Let's talk about pain... specifically the 2nd picture (I guess I'll get some responses like 'at least you have A signal'):
(Note that the first picture shows a speed test with LTE connected...)

devynbf said:
Holy crap.
Sprint needs to get on this ASAP.
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Yes they do , fast. What is funny is that my upload speed is double what my download is. Check it out.
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Anything below 100k is from my desk at work in downtown Portland, Oregon. Gotta love the 7/473 one. The 300k+ ones are from my living room in the burbs where I have wifi so I never use 3g there. I hope the LTE service is not so lackluster at work...

I'm in phoenix and my speeds are perfectly fine.

I would espect better speeds for paying 10 extra dollars a month for advance data. I have to use wifi most of the time when i am indoors.

drpal181 said:
I would espect better speeds for paying 10 extra dollars a month for advance data. I have to use wifi most of the time when i am indoors.
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well, my fastest speeds are at work (the tests at around 3am)
I work inside of a big steel building where sprint is basically the only carrier that gets perfect service inside my building. They've been upgrading the tower near my work a lot too. Last year I wasn't even getting half my current speed

My fastest speed might come close to matching your slowest test. The test result I see around hete are barly three digits, at 500kps down and 300up.

fenixjn said:
Let's talk about pain... specifically the 2nd picture (I guess I'll get some responses like 'at least you have A signal'):
(Note that the first picture shows a speed test with LTE connected...)
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At least you have a signal
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I feel kind of bad for you guys... I average about 2.5 down at my house on 3g I'm Baltimore, 25+ on lte ..
Swyped from my Galaxy Note II on the Now Network

My area doesn't have lte. Lol.
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I hit this a few times.
Sent from the best phone on the planet, Apple take Note...........

My 3g tests used to go to reston... lol. A little better speeds but I get lte everywhere now...
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Really depressed
TirithXiato said:
My 3g tests used to go to reston... lol. A little better speeds but I get lte everywhere now...
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After reading all of these posts, I'm quite depressed and upset.
No LTE for Corpus Christi, TX
3g .03 mb
boo