Coverage in Virginia and near - Samsung Epic 4G Touch

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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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
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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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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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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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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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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
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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

Question on sprint data woahs

Is sprint data woahs a speed issue or a capacity issue. Seems like data speeds are better late night and early mornings. But during peak times its slow......anyone have any thoughts on this. Because honestly data speeds were fine until a couple months after the evo dropped and sprint became the only unlimited data provider...
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speeds started sucking when the iphone came out..... tha is all
T.C.P said:
speeds started sucking when the iphone came out..... tha is all
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I disagree
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paniro187 said:
Is sprint data woahs a speed issue or a capacity issue. Seems like data speeds are better late night and early mornings. But during peak times its slow......anyone have any thoughts on this. Because honestly data speeds were fine until a couple months after the evo dropped and sprint became the only unlimited data provider...
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Data speeds have been an issue in some areas since the beginning of the year.
It's a capacity issue.
They've been working on it and network vision will solve the issue.
T.C.P said:
speeds started sucking when the iphone came out..... tha is all
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No, that just made it worse.
Channeling Joey Lawrence?
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Maybe they're throttling your speed since you don't know how to use the dictionary app...woes, not WHOA's!
I kid i kid lol
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squshy 7 said:
Maybe they're throttling your speed since you don't know how to use the dictionary app...woes, not WHOA's!
I kid i kid lol
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Like AT&T is doing to their heavy data users now...sending them a text then throttling the heck out of them
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squshy 7 said:
Maybe they're throttling your speed since you don't know how to use the dictionary app...woes, not WHOA's!
I kid i kid lol
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omg i can't believe i did that. lol i know it's woes lol
I first got Sprint when evo dropped... returned it and cancelled because I couldn't even stream Pandora at my gym lol. Ended up getting it again with another device through work basically, still sucked. Moved to a new area, is better, but still sucks compared to data speeds offered by other carriers in same area. Right before iPhone hit, got way worse, I actually even began roaming some places, that's how bad it got. Lately, it has been even worse. Places I got decent download speeds I now get maybe 20-400kbps, while tmobile and att pull 2-7mbps all over town. And no, it isn't my device, same issues on evo, epic 4g, epic touch, nexus s, photon, arrive...
Point is, sprint in Colorado is getting worse by the month. We used to think they ere upgrading, but it has been too long. I know it is same case for Atlanta.
Why so I stay? Service is practically free. If it wasn't, I'd pay more just so that I wouldn't have to be on damn wifi to load Facebook even.
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huskerpat said:
Channeling Joey Lawrence?
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ROTFL!
Never thought I'd see a Blossom reference on XDA, hahaha!
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Well the 3g on the iPhone is just as terrible I sold one yesterday and sir I didn't even work. Lol
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Doesn't get any better on 3g in Jacksonville. My latest speed fest average was 54kbps down and
100kbps up. Luckily I can get 4g and am getting 3mbps/1mbps on it
Ben
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sprint speeds in the boston area are fast and seem to be getting faster, 9222 down on 4g and 1051 down on 3g today
tensux said:
sprint speeds in the boston area are fast and seem to be getting faster, 9222 down on 4g and 1051 down on 3g today
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I hate you
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https://network.sprint.com/
Check to see if you'll be upgraded soon.
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i actually dont trust speed test app's, to really test the speed, i wireless tether to my laptop and then download from the newsgroups to see what consistent speed i can get. i am downloading a movie right now at 6.6mb

Short rant about network vision

So they are doing network vision updates in my area.
The area's that are done are pretty nice. No boost in signal which is fine, but the data speeds are fantastic! Unfortunately that's downtown only. The rest of the city on the other hand though had it's tower's taken offline for the upgrade and the towers serving us is now just the ones downtown. At home i went from 4ish bars to roaming missing calls, texts and such. Wouldn't care but I missed a few phone interviews today and pretty livid about that.
Hopefully I'll be reaping those benefits soon, and hopefully they are deploying lte not just upgrading the cdma.
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There are some of us who experience no signal all the time and it's not from towers being taken down to be upgraded as well so cheer up
im0rtalz said:
There are some of us who experience no signal all the time and it's not from towers being taken down to be upgraded as well so cheer up
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Word. I second that.
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My "4g" experience with sprint, is 600ish Kbps at best down, yet somehow 1.2-1.4 Mbps up. Eh, at least I get descent call quality.
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Lock into roaming! You won't miss a thing!
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Calls here at school in Fresno, CA have taken a dump but I didn't know Nv was coming so soon
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abegoods said:
My "4g" experience with sprint, is 600ish Kbps at best down, yet somehow 1.2-1.4 Mbps up. Eh, at least I get descent call quality.
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99% sure upload is throttled to 1.5 Mbps. Being the total capacity of each tower is not being hammered for upload you usually see the 1.4* Mbps like I do. Download on the other hand is getting hammered.
Before anyone compains omg throttled. That is how it is supposed to be done, when you have a limited resource you qos throttle it.
4g in my area LA works well. In doors its pretty **** but 3g is terrible
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morphis568 said:
So they are doing network vision updates in my area.
The area's that are done are pretty nice. No boost in signal which is fine, but the data speeds are fantastic! Unfortunately that's downtown only. The rest of the city on the other hand though had it's tower's taken offline for the upgrade and the towers serving us is now just the ones downtown. At home i went from 4ish bars to roaming missing calls, texts and such. Wouldn't care but I missed a few phone interviews today and pretty livid about that.
Hopefully I'll be reaping those benefits soon, and hopefully they are deploying lte not just upgrading the cdma.
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Ask sprint for an airave
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im0rtalz said:
There are some of us who experience no signal all the time and it's not from towers being taken down to be upgraded as well so cheer up
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Because there are some of us that check coverage maps, before we sign a carrier's contract.
That is obviously Sprint's fault.
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Because there are some of us that check coverage maps, before we sign a carrier's contract.
That is obviously Sprint's fault.
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The coverage map for my area still shows Wimax as being available. 2 years later still nothing. So.... Some of us do check, and get done in by false or misleading info. Which ironically is sprints fault
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captblaze said:
The coverage map for my area still shows Wimax as being available. 2 years later still nothing. So.... Some of us do check, and get done in by false or misleading info. Which ironically is sprints fault
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Too many people making excuses for corporations these days.
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azyouthinkeyeiz said:
Because there are some of us that check coverage maps, before we sign a carrier's contract.
That is obviously Sprint's fault.
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Because their coverage maps are soooo accurate.
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Lte speed test Atlanta

Was in Atlanta for a short time today. Wish this was Jacksonville Florida lol.
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humdrum2009 said:
Was in Atlanta for a short time today. Wish this was Jacksonville Florida lol.
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Did you test the LTE in Jacksonville yet?
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Did you test the LTE in Jacksonville yet?
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I tested twice and live in the heart of jax getting less than 7 the whole time.. is that normal
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digiblur said:
Did you test the LTE in Jacksonville yet?
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New test taken just now literally across the street from a sprint store haha in jax haha
32256 area
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Do you mean normal for Jacksonville or normal for LTE? As far as LTE, I guess it varies...Like I live in a spotty LTE area right now and pull anywhere between 5-9mbps but when I go down near Jerome Ave in the Bronx, I'm always pulling 20's. Today I got 33.29mbps in that same neighborhood. We'll all get there...hopefully sooner than later.
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Do you mean normal for Jacksonville or normal for LTE? As far as LTE, I guess it varies...Like I live in a spotty LTE area right now and pull anywhere between 5-9mbps but when I go down near Jerome Ave in the Bronx, I'm always pulling 20's. Today I got 33.29mbps in that same neighborhood. We'll all get there...hopefully sooner than later.
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Well I just noticed 4g come on today so I'm sure jax well only get better as towers turn on
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Well I just noticed 4g come on today so I'm sure jax well only get better as towers turn on
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Yep. Not a whole lot on just yet but enjoy the fact they are letting you guys test it way early.
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Lord Syrics Jr. said:
New test taken just now literally across the street from a sprint store haha in jax haha
32256 area
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Where was this? Can you map it next time via Sensorly?
I have been actively discovering lte sites in Jacksonville for a few weeks now. Is this off the i95/ BayMeadows exit?
This is the BayMeadows tower for me.
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I haven't seen Lte in jax
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I haven't seen Lte in jax
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Where in Jax are you? There's a lot of lte active now. Check out the Sensorly maps. (Sensorly.com or download the app from Google play.)
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I haven't seen Lte in jax
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Looks like 3 or 4 sites so far that people have found.
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Damn some of these lte speed tests are slower compared to Verizon/AT&T. Hopefully when the Sprint upgrades roll out a bit more, speeds will be faster.
That's from Arlington, VA.
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Ascertion said:
Where was this? Can you map it next time via Sensorly?
I have been actively discovering lte sites in Jacksonville for a few weeks now. Is this off the i95/ BayMeadows exit?
This is the BayMeadows tower for me.
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This is South side and bay meadows.. the publix there.. now I'm not getting above 6.5.. How did you get so high
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This is South side and bay meadows.. the publix there.. now I'm not getting above 6.5.. How did you get so high
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LTE is very signal strength dependent. EvDo RevA's (Sprint's 3G) speeds don't deteriorate unless it reaches a very low signal threshold. Next time you connect to the LTE site at Publix, open up your debugging menu and screenshot the LTE engineering screen and post it here.
With 6mbps, you have a rather low (-110dBm to -115 dBm signal strength). If your signal strength is high, then you should experience better speeds.
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Damn some of these lte speed tests are slower compared to Verizon/AT&T. Hopefully when the Sprint upgrades roll out a bit more, speeds will be faster.
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Sprint's in a position where they simply don't have the spectrum to deploy anything greater than a 5x5mhz carrier per market. This means LTE speeds will max out at about 38mbps, and even this is under extremely favorable conditions.
But worry not for Clearwire alone has more spectrum than Verizon does, and Clearwire, starting mid-2013 will be deploying LTE advanced on a 20x20mhz carrier! This means speeds will be up to 90mbps. Hang in there because even with Sprint's LTE maxing out at 38mbps, it's still very fast and the best part...unlimited.
Ascertion said:
LTE is very signal strength dependent. EvDo RevA's (Sprint's 3G) speeds don't deteriorate unless it reaches a very low signal threshold. Next time you connect to the LTE site at Publix, open up your debugging menu and screenshot the LTE engineering screen and post it here.
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How do I show this?
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Haha yes!! Just now at work (publix location)
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Haha yes!! Just now at work (publix location)
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##debug# dialer code, sprint is the password. Lte engineering screen will have everything listed there.
Nice speeds.
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But since LTE will be on every tower unlike the other carriers, there will be less people on each LTE carrier than the other guys.
And do you really need higher than 35 megabits on your phone... hell no. I'd be happy with 3 or 4!
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But since LTE will be on every tower unlike the other carriers, there will be less people on each LTE carrier than the other guys.
And do you really need higher than 35 megabits on your phone... hell no. I'd be happy with 3 or 4!
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Haha yeah I don't really see the point in it either except for downloading large files.
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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'):
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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.
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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.
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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'):
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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

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