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[Sprint] LTE Network

UPDATED: POST YOUR SPEEDS HERE! Sprint LTE is live! Post your screenie for all of us not in the initial roll out areas to drool over!
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Has anyone had or seen LTE service with Sprint on their GS3 yet?

Yes, only as they are testing tho. They have not turned them on to us yet. Very Promising!! More info a S4GRU.com.

It's comforting to know that after I receive my 32GB, I will just replace refreshing the myorder site multiple times a day with refreshing the spring coverage map multiple times a day.

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Sleestax said:
It's comforting to know that after I receive my 32GB, I will just replace refreshing the myorder site multiple times a day with refreshing the spring coverage map multiple times a day.
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Your sick!! lol

Not too long ago I had been seeing several random places popping up with network testing going on happening somewhat frequently, but lately it seems to have gone quiet. Wonder if it's the calm before the storm.
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Those upload speeds look promising. Hopefully once they get LTE up and running smoothly we'll maybe get to see some speeds like these AT&T & T-Mobile guys are posting. :jealous:
EDIT: Case in point:
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Dang.
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I'm surprised there isn't more chatter about Sprint's LTE plans on this forum. I think the success or failure of the NV program will make or break this phone, and Sprint itself. For sure it affects my own decisions about both. The timing will be critical.
p.s. I second the recommendation about the s4gru.com site. It is must reading for anyone who cares about the Sprint rollout, and who wants to make an informed choice. There is also a deep font of knowledge there about RF stuff.

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I'm surprised there isn't more chatter about Sprint's LTE plans on this forum. I think the success or failure of the NV program will make or break this phone, and Sprint itself. For sure it affects my own decisions about both. The timing will be critical.
p.s. I second the recommendation about the s4gru.com site. It is must reading for anyone who cares about the Sprint rollout, and who wants to make an informed choice. There is also a deep font of knowledge there about RF stuff.
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I agree 100%. The rollout of NV & LTE is the crux of Sprint as a network thus far. Def going to be a make or break time for Sprint in the next few quarters, especially with regard to timing. They need to make a significant impact, and soon.
Also, just saw where Buffalo, NY got some love.
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July 15 launch date for Sprint's first LTE markets
Sprint to Unleash the Speed and Power of 4G LTE in Atlanta, Dallas, Houston, Kansas City and San Antonio on July 15
--Sprint press release

Anyone know what to expect as far as battery consumption goes once LTE goes live? Will it be on par with what we see now on 3g or 4g? Better, worse? Ideas?
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It will be the same as 3G. It will switch and run like it too. Just faster. It will be nice. Stronger and at 1900. Nothing like Wimax. They tested out at Alliance in Ft worth. Been playing with it a lot.
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So you're an actual tester?!?
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Just while they had it on. It was up for almost 2 weeks.
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Someone in another thread was talking about Sprint's backhaul revisions & how much difference this was going to make during the rollout. Anyone with some insight in this area care to comment? What can we realistically expect to see?
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Two more weeks til LTEween, LTEween, LTEween. Two more weeks til LTEween. Silver Shamrock!
Also, how are people seeing LTE testing? Did you get into settings and change your network to LTE/CDMA? I don't see an LTE radio option (yet) on my sammy. I'm assuming Sprint will push out some update with their LTE light-up (which is also why I'm holding off with root).

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Looks no better than T-Mobile's HSPA+ network.
oh well, still better than the 0.60 Mbps I'm currently getting in Phoenix =/

caileb said:
Looks no better than T-Mobile's HSPA+ network.
oh well, still better than the 0.60 Mbps I'm currently getting in Phoenix =/
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I'm averaging .2-.3Mbps in hawaii...disppointing. In San Fran when I was on vacation, I was getting 1.2-2Mbps in the Grand Hyatt. It felt like I was back on T-Mobile lol

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Two more weeks til LTEween, LTEween, LTEween. Two more weeks til LTEween. Silver Shamrock!
Also, how are people seeing LTE testing? Did you get into settings and change your network to LTE/CDMA? I don't see an LTE radio option (yet) on my sammy. I'm assuming Sprint will push out some update with their LTE light-up (which is also why I'm holding off with root).
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Lol @ Silver Shamrock! Once in a while that song'll be going through my head and I'll wonder how it got there. Then it takes me forever to get it out of my head...like now! :banghead:
Not GS3 related, but the EVO LTE shipped with the LTE/CDMA setting enabled so some people with it (or who had it before the GS3) may be able to get the LTE signal in an area that's been going through testing.
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Expect greatness.
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LTE in Minneapolis

Today morning I got LTE reception on my phone. Only side effect was my phone thought I was in eastern time zone.
Got speeds like 40mbps
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That is awesome!
I'm down in Owatonna/Mankato and they don't even have VZW 4G down here yet. The lady at the AT&T store said that it would be rolled out by the end of 2012, but I don't know how much she really knows hehe. HSDPA is pretty good down here though, only place I've dropped to edge is driving in between Lesuer, Steele, and Waseca county.
I hope southern MN gets lit soon. I hear that AT&T doesn't have the greatest data coverage in Iowa/Wisconsin.

Ohh WoW .. my brother should be excited to hear this .. he has the One X and has been waiting patiently for LTE in his area.

Wha?? I work downtown and i'm not getting LTE. I'm genuinely excited though if its that close.

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Wha?? I work downtown and i'm not getting LTE. I'm genuinely excited though if its that close.
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Since they are just testing it would make sense to do it early in the morning so that it affects least number of users.
This was at airport in case you are wondering.
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Since they are just testing it would make sense to do it early in the morning so that it affects least number of users.
This was at airport in case you are wondering.
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Yeah .. I just got this from my brother .. where he is, he doesn't get it yet .. but he did mention that the LTE was live at the Minneapolis Int'l Airport .. however, he said its been live there for the past 2 weeks .. thats when he was last at the airport !!!

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Yeah .. I just got this from my brother .. where he is, he doesn't get it yet .. but he did mention that the LTE was live at the Minneapolis Int'l Airport .. however, he said its been live there for the past 2 weeks .. thats when he was last at the airport !!!
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Awesome! I'll be at the Minneapolis Int'l Monday! Will be my first LTE experience I guess.

I let Minneapolis to head to Chicago for the week. To my surprise at security check when I pulled out my Note to scan my Delta boarding pass I saw LTE lit up. Speed was amazing as I have seen in KC and Chicago before. However, when I go to my gate in G Concourse LTE was gone. Hopefully this means its coming soon.
Attached are two screencaptures. One proves its MSP and the other shows speed test. My phone also rolled to EST time zone as well.

Interesting.! No go in Minnetonka
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None for me yet. Hopefully this means they're rolling it out soon! I can't wait

Well thats fantastic...at least when I go home I know I will have LTE...not so much where I am stationed but im a glass half fll kind of guy..ha

I was hoping Minneapolis would get it sooner than later. It is a major metropolitan area.

Ran a speed test in terminal C14 of Minneapolis international and pulled 54 down, 12 up!! Top 3 are from there. Much better than my home town on the bottom few! Lol.
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Nothing here in Eagan yet. The airport is just a few minutes away I might have dip my toes in the AT&T LTE water though...
I've heard from AT&T reps (after I already had my phone) that they've been told 2012, and logic states we'll get initial rollout in summer and not winter.
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Over a month at MSP
Don't get too worked up. Seems like people have been getting AT&T LTE reception at MSP for over a month now.
http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=1344987
July 11th, according to the post by copperlab. I wonder if they just stuck a cell at the airport to save face for people passing thru...but I still have high hopes.

I got to try LTE for the first time when I visited Cleveland few months ago. It was f'ing glorious.
Why no LTE in Seattle, at&t? wtf!
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Its currently airport only. I believe it's part of the MSP remodel. You can see a set of antennas near the G gates if you look out of the window at the parking garage.

Got it in the UofM area today. Speeds were not super high though. (Top two are from today)
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LTE speeds for Rogers users or others in Ontario

Just curious what some of you Rogers users ( and some other lte users on other carriers in Canada) are getting for your LTE throughputs on your S3's?
Rogers used to pretty poor at first launch but I must say that now they have vastly improved and I'm now averaging 30-45mbps in the GTA with peaks in the mid 50's!
Very happy about it..now I just wish they would expand their coverage for lte just a bit cuz it ends two blocks from my new house!
Post your speed test results if u like.
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I'm with bell on a GSIII and my girlfriend is with Rogers on HTC One X. I get a maximum of about 25mbps and she got around 30mbps last night. Indoors we typically only get HSPA+, LTE is mostly outside or in the car. We live along the Lake Shore, east of Park Lawn.

I usually get 40+mbs at the minimum. Very happy with a 6 gb plan
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Yeah, I'm hoping they expand the network quickly, I don't get any coverage where I am (approx. 2h north of the GTA). Though it does help my battery life
I'm pulling about 7mb/s with HSPA+

Im on Bell and generally hit 25-30 down around the gta... have hit high 40s a few times...

I'm in Vancouver and the speed is quite amazing as I got 45ish Mbps at home. 25-30 Mbps at office or at the restaurants.
It outruns my home network by almost 3 times.......

I'm on telus in toronto and getting 50+ as well on LTE and 40-50 on hspa+ (which i prefer)

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Intercrew said:
I'm on telus in toronto and getting 50+ as well on LTE and 40-50 on hspa+ (which i prefer)
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Is Telus using Bell's LTE's towers or do they have their own?

At Mount Pleasant and Davisville w/cyanogen 10
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In Toronto I have been averaging around 25mbps on LTE. My fastest so far has been 49mbps. I can't believe how many of you are consistently getting over 40mbps with speeds breaking 50mbps! I guess Rogers has already achieved some congestion in TO.

Yeah exactly what I'm thinking. I've tried rolling back to stock ROM (from CM 10) to see if that would improve the speed, but no affect.
Not that it affects anything I do on a daily basis, but it's still annoying
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sm00nie said:
Yeah exactly what I'm thinking. I've tried rolling back to stock ROM (from CM 10) to see if that would improve the speed, but no affect.
Not that it affects anything I do on a daily basis, but it's still annoying
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Good point! We are comparing speed results that make no difference to how one's device functions (unless one is heavy downloading on the network). I try to download very large files through WiFi only to conserve my previous data.
But yeah, good speed test numbers are cool.
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I'm on telus in toronto and getting 50+ as well on LTE and 40-50 on hspa+ (which i prefer)
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wow, you can get 40ish Mbps on HSPA+ on telus???? I didn't know they are that good??? isn't the theoretical max speed on HSPA 42Mbps???

In Calgary I get on average 16 down, and 4 up. It was only recently lauched here so assuming it will get better (not complaing, this is SO fast). It's better than our old Optik with Telus on a wired computer, lol.
Was using Stock when I did last speedtest.

Using ROGERS Wireless
I'm in Richmond Hill area.. My LTE connection is not exactly stable, sometimes it would just jump back to 3G...
On LTE get around 25-40 mbps down, and 5-10 mbps up
Once it goes back to HSPA, I get around 5-8 mbps (this is pretty slow)...
I too got the $30 6GB plan promo a few weeks ago.. ^_^

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Is Telus using Bell's LTE's towers or do they have their own?
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Telus rents physical space on bell towers but uses their own equipment ( microwave drums, fibre to the tower etc)
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Here's my result from Gatineau, Qc. Masson area.
From the bottom, Wifi, Lte, Hspa, Wifi, Lte. On Lte I had only 4 bars.
Here's in Mbps:
From bottom, Lte, H+, H+ only and Wifi

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I'm on telus in toronto and getting 50+ as well on LTE and 40-50 on hspa+ (which i prefer)
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Weird since our phone only has 21mbps hspa modem. Screen shots to show those kind of speeds on hspa? Seems kind of impossible to me. No offense. Normally you see 40-50 on LTE. I'm thinking you meant 4-5mbps on hspa+
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Data speeds awful on note 2

I've been getting some pretty bad data speeds here is a screen shot. Anyone else experiencing the same issues? All tests I had 3 to 5 bars of 3g. My Evo was never this bad in the same spot.
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I've been getting some pretty bad data speeds here is a screen shot. Anyone else experiencing the same issues? All tests I had 3 to 5 bars of 3g. My Evo was never this bad in the same spot.
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I dont think it is a phone problem, from the looks of it you have poor signal strength. Unless you can compare side by side with a comparable phone like an Iphone or S3,. But more or less it is a sprint problem there data speeds have been on the decline.

Yup, normal for sprint. Your pings are pretty good actually. Mine can be up to several seconds. During the day my data drops to <10kbps, like a 9600 baud modem from 1993. Enjoy Sprint.

I'm getting good signal and my Evo data speeds were never this bad. Here is another shot

This is a sprint issue
Horrible data everywhere.
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sprint freakin sucks then. My evo 4g wasnt this bad. I guess i was lucky im starting to miss the data speeds on that phone now.

Mine aren't too shabby
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My evo 4g wasnt this bad.
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Were you in a Wimax market with the Evo?

Yes i had wimax but never used it because of battery drain. The speeds on my old Evo were all 3g and i would always get atleast 1mb down now im barely getting .1mb down

Yes sprint data sucks..

Don't have an explanation then... 3G speeds for me have always been fairly consistent. If anything I found the Evo to be a little lackluster in this area. I wouldn't say the 3G speeds I get on my N2 are groundbreaking, but they're adequate.
I'm just waiting patiently for LTE to launch in my area.

Just like most of what they're saying in this thread...Sprints data is horrendous!
BTW...I'm also getting a Note II this coming month!
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Don't have an explanation then... 3G speeds for me have always been fairly consistent. If anything I found the Evo to be a little lackluster in this area. I wouldn't say the 3G speeds I get on my N2 are groundbreaking, but they're adequate.
I'm just waiting patiently for LTE to launch in my area.
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Doing the same. Get about 100kb/s at home and 1.9mb/s at work. Cant wait for LTE to roll out.
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In the city I live it my data is great, when I get into Milwaukee your better off not even to try any data.

Hey OP when you click on your result in speed test what do you get? RevA, ehdrp?

Force roam it
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You think speeds are bad on the note, try the iPHONE 5 on sprint lol, data wouldn't even load for me unless on wifi. Thank God the note 2 came out before my 14 days were up lmfao
THIS NOTE 2 IS SENT FROM A GALAXY WHERE SAMSUNG SPRINTS TO THE TOP, AND JELLY BEANS EAT APPLES!!!!

I saw this thread a few days ago. I went out yesterday for a drive. LTE radio on Note 2 is stronger then nexus LTE radio. Hard to go anywhere in my area and loose LTE. Regular 3g works good as well. I couldnt be happier knowing the issues with other phones connected to sprint networks. Had a Epic Touch and Nexus. Both had horrible signals.
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This is stupid.. I just signed up with sprint my 14 days aren't up yet, I had better service with tmobile LG N4. I am having .64mbps down.. I'm going back to tmobile.

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This is stupid.. I just signed up with sprint my 14 days aren't up yet, I had better service with tmobile LG N4. I am having .64mbps down.. I'm going back to tmobile.
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Sweet
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LTE Speeds?

I'm just outside of Raleigh, NC, and these are my speeds to the server at Duke.
These seem slow compared to my Droid RAZR. Is it because of the metal back?
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22 is slow? I think not.
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Def not the phone this is in south eastern iowa
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Ping times aren't usually that high. Mostly in the 60-70's.
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22 is slow? I think not.
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"...compared to my droid razr." He didn't say it was slow in general.
OP, I've noticed a decrease in speed with my One, compared to other phones from what I remember (it's been a while since I've done a speed test with another phone), however it could be that more and more people are getting LTE capable phones at a fast pace, which can result in slower speeds. Network congestion and whatnot.

Dang... Those are pretty good speeds. I'm in the mountains outside of Seattle. Used to be a lot faster until all the damn neighbors got 4g phones!
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One thing I learned is speed test is never accurate and you will constantly see the network in many areas the lte speeds are never constant. Where I live my speeds has been 12 best and that's with the bolt, rezound, and one. So to many variables to say its the phone but I have seen the gnex suffer with speeds. I would ask if the op right after testing the one did he run it on his droid?
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Speed tests are pretty accurate. Just depends on congestion. Seattle has a greater pop. than Raleigh which has a greater pop. than SE Iowa and the speeds are inversely proportional to that. I just pulled 30mbps in KC but its also 5:35 am. During the day I can only get around 17mbps.
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I get about 8 down max around west gate road, near RDU in Raleigh.

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I get about 8 down max around west gate road, near RDU in Raleigh.
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I live over around North Raleigh/Wake Forest. Interesting to hear the speed difference on the opposite side of the city.

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I live over around North Raleigh/Wake Forest. Interesting to hear the speed difference on the opposite side of the city.
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I live in far up north raleigh, near Falls Lake. At home I usually get around 6-8 down. 4G is really not that great where I live.

You think that's slow? Heh, good thing you don't live in the northeast. The 4G network has gone to crap here from Washington DC all the way to Boston. There are places where you can hit below 1 Mbps, or worse, completely unusable during the daytime. I can only get 20 when I'm either standing below a tower or in the middle of a cornfield out west.
Even Verizon admits it's getting really bad in large cities.

I just tested mine. I live in Sussex County, NJ, which is in the sticks.
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This is mine from yesterday near my work. But at home I just pulled a 9.5mbps down and 3mbps up.
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It's all the iPhone losers sucking our bandwidth for Facebook!

My results from around queens NY
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I get about 22 down 12 up in San Diego, down by the border.

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My results from around queens NY
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I get that in Jamaica around the Van Wyck too. Otherwise, I'm usually anywhere from 10 to 20.
Have you tried in the city? Speed are atrocious there.

i get around 9 down near the dc area. 6 down in my house