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Anybody else living in the inland Empire experiencing horrible sprint service? I've looked at there towers and noticed, they don't have much here. Sometimes 3g data speed is so slow it takes ages just to load Google home page :/ any input would be helpful. I don't know if it's my modem affecting the data speeds or if it's the service.
Where are you? By inland empire, do you mean the great plains of the America (Empire)?
Can you do a speedtest and show what you're getting?
iSkylla said:
Where are you? By inland empire, do you mean the great plains of the America (Empire)?
Can you do a speedtest and show what you're getting?
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Pretty sure it's in California
Yes inland Empire in California. Any of you experiencing bad service? I go to school in Ontario and I get phenomenal 4G speeds. But I'm at school so I'm not always able to do what I want on my phone. After School I go home in Moreno Valley, and the service there is just horrible.. Almost to the point where I want to cancel my 2 year agreement. And I have been a loyal sprint customer for 8 years.
I live in the LA area and i get good speeds everywhere except in my house i dont get 4g and 3g is like dial up for me. Check out my speedtest below. I have wifi in my house so ehh no biggy.
The phone is so awesome
Im willing to wait for LTE to start spreading in LA i still got along time before i can upgrade so in the mean time i can deal wth it sprint unlimited is why im here and no longer with Tmobile.
travel to Long Beach frequently, and my 3g is actually fairly decent. around 300-600 kbps? thats 2x faster than what im getting in phoenix... i hope its not getting bad as part of Network Vision, heading that way in 2 weeks...
I live in the I.E. and yes sprint has horrible coverage in alot of places. That's the reason I got a airwave free for my home,cuz I get almost no service otherwise. If you look at the tower upgrade thing it says my area is gonna get a few enhancements over the next 6 months. So you should check your area and see if moval or the cities/places you frequent have planned upgrades before you cancel
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Alright I will. Airwave? You got an Airwave free for your home? Please explain this.... I'm a little confused, what is that? and 6 months of superrrrrr slow service is a lifetime.. I need my E4GT. :/
I don't think and Airrave will help with data issues.
Do you have good voice reception?
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Anybody else living in the inland Empire experiencing horrible sprint service? I've looked at there towers and noticed, they don't have much here. Sometimes 3g data speed is so slow it takes ages just to load Google home page :/ any input would be helpful. I don't know if it's my modem affecting the data speeds or if it's the service.
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Ya my wife and I both get pretty crappy service in Riverside. I was just in La this last weekend and was so envious of the 4g and the full bars of 3g I had! I'm lucky to pull 2-3 bars most of the time
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I don't think and Airrave will help with data issues.
Do you have good voice reception?
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Yes I get good voice reception, do you mind filling me in on what that is? I usually have data off when I go home. Cause there's no point at all having it on if it takes 5mins to load just the Google home page. When I'm in Ontario I have phenomenal 3g and 4G speeds. But once I hit Moval it just takes a dump. It's very very aggravating..
I live in corona and get ok speed.. Im usually hooked up to wifi .. When im not i get ok speed..
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i live in the IE and 3g service is alright not as fast as i wish but its not that bad well atleast for me and their is no 4g here but once i step into ontario area or go more west im able to get 4g which the speed is good.
its not dial up so you should try updating your prl, modem
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Cali +1 from the DIEGO to THE BAY no other place like it.
I live in Riverside and I have two bars in my house and around Riverside, Moreno valley and San bernardino I get full bars everywhere and average 1.1 mbps on 3G
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I live in the Inland Empire (Hemet) I am cancelling my Sprint Service because of the ungodly Data speeds. frequently 200kbps or less. I'm moving over to T-Mobile. I called Sprint the other day to ask what my ETF fee would be. The representative started arguing with me about T-mobiles fake 4G and how its not a real solution. I came back with two things first "What 4g? I dont have any 4g where I live. I don't even have 3g. The speeds I am getting are Edge speeds" and then Secondly "T-Mobiles fake 4g is real and tangible now. Its also faster then any 4g speeds I have ever clocked on sprint in Brea, Long Beach, Sacramento, Chicago and Manhattan. The question is, "Fake 4g Now or Real 4g Never?"
My friend has a Comet (Google it, its a pathetic entry level android phone) he is able to get consistent 2.5Mbps down anywhere in my town. Also a Coworker has the Galaxy S2 on T-Mobile. Clocking around 14Mbps on T-Mobiles fake 4g network. I never saw more then 7 on Sprints 4G, Ever.
The Airave is a joke. You essentially turn your internet into a cell tower. think about this.... you pay sprint for service that you provide yourself by using the internet that YOU pay for...... hmmm seems like a cop out for them to offer that as a fix all for their poor towers.
I use to love Sprint back in the days of the Hero. When I could easily get 1.2 Mbps down anywhere I went. I dont know if they are just overloaded in the area, or the towers are in need of some TLC but I just cant take it anymore. GSM here I come.
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I live in the Inland Empire (Hemet) I am cancelling my Sprint Service because of the ungodly Data speeds. frequently 200kbps or less. I'm moving over to T-Mobile. I called Sprint the other day to ask what my ETF fee would be. The representative started arguing with me about T-mobiles fake 4G and how its not a real solution. I came back with two things first "What 4g? I dont have any 4g where I live. I don't even have 3g. The speeds I am getting are Edge speeds" and then Secondly "T-Mobiles fake 4g is real and tangible now. Its also faster then any 4g speeds I have ever clocked on sprint in Brea, Long Beach, Sacramento, Chicago and Manhattan. The question is, "Fake 4g Now or Real 4g Never?"
My friend has a Comet (Google it, its a pathetic entry level android phone) he is able to get consistent 2.5Mbps down anywhere in my town. Also a Coworker has the Galaxy S2 on T-Mobile. Clocking around 14Mbps on T-Mobiles fake 4g network. I never saw more then 7 on Sprints 4G, Ever.
The Airave is a joke. You essentially turn your internet into a cell tower. think about this.... you pay sprint for service that you provide yourself by using the internet that YOU pay for...... hmmm seems like a cop out for them to offer that as a fix all for their poor towers.
I use to love Sprint back in the days of the Hero. When I could easily get 1.2 Mbps down anywhere I went. I dont know if they are just overloaded in the area, or the towers are in need of some TLC but I just cant take it anymore. GSM here I come.
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Ya I know what you mean. I have friends here in Moval and they have Verizon and T mobile and they get great service. Haven't asked them on the 4G service though. I did some research on the towers and noticed there aren't many sprint towers here.. They're all towards the west... :/ LA being the best spot for 4G... Wish I lived there.
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i live in the IE and 3g service is alright not as fast as i wish but its not that bad well atleast for me and their is no 4g here but once i step into ontario area or go more west im able to get 4g which the speed is good.
its not dial up so you should try updating your prl, modem
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I just remembered that.. I went flash crazy this month.. And forgot to update my PRL. I've always read that it's good to do that after flashing a rom. And about the modem.. I'm on El29. So far that I know it's the latest and "greatest" modem SO far.. Sorry for the noob question.... But what EXACTLY is PRL. And why should we update it after flashing a rom?
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Houston... damn fast where you can find it. My personal best so far is 31535kb/s down 12002kbps up with 49ms ping off of Almeda and 610 near the medical center. I am impressed so far, they just need it on more towers. Seems like they only have 1 in every 3 upgraded max.
s4gru is a great place for updates on LTE, if you have sprint and are on XDA I would be surprised if you are not also registered there.
*edit* just noticed all the LTE threads in general, I was wondering why a sticky for LTE! Now I see... people must be excited.
When I get lte, I feel that I'll be at the top of the speeds chart again. I already have maxed 3g speeds at my house.
That sucks. our Dallas LTE thread was closed and now were stuck in a General. Personally i would prefer to have a thread with each city so i can focus on my issues and location not a general every LTE discussion..
Hope the Moderator who closed our Dallas LTE thread is reading and will open ours back up.
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That sucks. our Dallas LTE thread was closed and now were stuck in a General. Personally i would prefer to have a thread with each city so i can focus on my issues and location not a general every LTE discussion..
Hope the Moderator who closed our Dallas LTE thread is reading and will open ours back up.
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I am agnostic on the issue at XDA. On the flip side, the proliferation of threads was getting very confusing, even though many users shared common issues such as the need to update to LG8.
If you want to explore LTE in detail, including lots of threads and LTE network expertise, I suggest that you try the S4GRU.com site and consider becoming a sponsor to gain access to the detailed area-specific maps. Sprint's LTE rollout is the primary focus of that site, and general forums like this one will never match its content.
Im a member of their site, not a sponsor though. I was looking for an open forum to discuss what we had been discussing in the closed Dallas LTE forum.
So to all those who were in that forum lets do like boomerbubba suggest and go to the other place to continue our discussion.
This is in La Porte (outside of Houston) at East Pasadena and Underwood.
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That sucks. our Dallas LTE thread was closed and now were stuck in a General. Personally i would prefer to have a thread with each city so i can focus on my issues and location not a general every LTE discussion..
Hope the Moderator who closed our Dallas LTE thread is reading and will open ours back up.
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We discussed this in PM. It seems you should not have too much difficulty searching the 6 , now 7 posts here for your area.
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We discussed this in PM. It seems you should not have too much difficulty searching the 6 , now 7 posts here for your area.
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Houston... damn fast where you can find it. My personal best so far is 31535kb/s down 12002kbps up with 49ms ping off of Almeda and 610 near the medical center. I am impressed so far, they just need it on more towers. Seems like they only have 1 in every 3 upgraded max.
s4gru is a great place for updates on LTE, if you have sprint and are on XDA I would be surprised if you are not also registered there.
*edit* just noticed all the LTE threads in general, I was wondering why a sticky for LTE! Now I see... people must be excited.
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agreed i hit about 34k one evening over on Jones and 1960!
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I made the post Prior to our PM..
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I know, but answering in thread so I don't look like a hit and run moderator.
Getting good speeds in Raytown MO. About 20 minutes from the Sprint Headquarters.
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No signal in Richmond , TX .
However, signal seems very strong withing the 610 loop (UH-main campus, Buffalo Speedway&610)
Near boston. I was in Nashua Nh And 4g kicked in (weird). I didnt get to run speed test I just bought the s3 but the internet was flying. I will test when Im there again.
I was getting some pretty good speeds today in Lowell, MA... 25 miles outside of Boston. I'll have to try Nashua as I live in the town over, but it's a no go at my place
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makes me sad that baltimore was the first Wimax City (or at least one of them) yet we havent seen nor heard a word about LTE. WIsh they would let us roam with LTE because verizon's LTE in baltimore/washington is beast.
I take that back, apparently we are getting in in September... Should be good then. Ill update as it comes in.
Hopefully the DC area will be lit up soon. Getting the phone hopefully by the end of the month and 4g should be popping up
I'm in DC also... I've been waiting since day one.. I can say that all the DMV tower are ready for LTE. They did a test run last week in NW. Every phone is switch to 3g only with you first get it. I switch n saw a one bar signal. I walked to the sprint truck n ask she how was it going with the test run? She said Great. Fixing the Wimax tower. I told her really, it looks like the LTE is on and running. It was on for 45min. It like I was on my WiFi. Sprint don't Fail me like wimax.
Well South Carolina has yet to taste the sweet nectar of WiMax and LTE. Sprint has never attempted to roll out some WiMax here and I'm not even looking forward to seeing LTE ever come here either.
So there is no LTE in the DC/MD area? I thought there was....dang. Ill be up there this weekend on vacation and was hoping to test it out
Okay, question here about 4G and 4GLTE, I bought an S3 as an upgrade and enjoy the phone but the 3G only sucks (until LTE rolls out here) so I switched back to my S2 which has 4G. My question is when LTE rolls out here, (been pushed back again and again) will I receive a notification so I will know to switch back, also when LTE goes live what do I have to do to my phone for it to start working on the LTE network? PRL?
Thanks from the Sprint Nashville market
Bookmark this site and check often....I'm seeing major updates for Austin daily... nothing official though.
http://www.sensorly.com/fullscreen/map/4G/US/USA/Sprint/lte_310sprint
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LTE for Sprint was projected to be in Orlando Florida by now but it was pushed back until the end of the year makes me sad.
LTE is the only thing I miss about Verizon. Speeds are just amazing!
As soon as Sprint really kicks their LTE Roll out into high gear they will be one rocking company! Unlimited Data FTW!
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Sigh...nothing even close to the LA area...although WiMAX never made it to where I live anyway, so I'm not holding my breath that LTE will...but still ...hopeful
Tell my boss that! We both got a gs3 but im on boost mobile and my 3g is fastee than his lol
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LTE didn't quite work...
LTE was supposed to roll out in Waco, TX, and Sprint's map claims it's there, but my GS3 wouldnt pick it up... :/ Any ideas why?
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LTE was supposed to roll out in Waco, TX, and Sprint's map claims it's there, but my GS3 wouldnt pick it up... :/ Any ideas why?
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Did you turn on the LTE radio? Mine was disabled by default. I haven't turned it on yet since I expect we won't get it for a while here.
If I am running Blazer ROM or any of the other customs, do I have to go back to stock to do PRL or Profile updates in order for LTE to work?
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If I am running Blazer ROM or any of the other customs, do I have to go back to stock to do PRL or Profile updates in order for LTE to work?
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Nope. you can update both without any problems. I'm on Blazer ROM as well.
also... make sure that under *Menu >>More Settings >>Mobile networks >>Network Mode >> you have it set to LTE/CDMA
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Bookmark this site and check often....I'm seeing major updates for Austin daily... nothing official though.
http://www.sensorly.com/fullscreen/map/4G/US/USA/Sprint/lte_310sprint
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Thanks for the helpful site, gonna check often as I have been promised "by the end of the year"?!
Wondering if Vegas will get LTE.
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thanks for the link
Thanks for the link for sensorly
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Sensorly lies! I live in one of the blue spots on that map for Austin and I haven't seen LTE at my home.
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I'm one of those whose testing created some of Austin's Sensorly tracks. I think there are several things going on:
1) The number of live LTE towers in Austin and Round Rock is still extremely small and the coverage is thin. Even some of the tracks I recorded, I cannot always replicate later.
2) These sites are still officially in development, so they may go offline sometimes. The tracks you see on Sensorly are not random, but reflect testing deliberately performed by geek enthusiasts to discover the unofficial LTE signals.
3) Sensorly does not record signal strength, only points where it detected any LTE at all. So these tracks may be minimal strength. And the points get extrapolated to fuzzy blobs in the Sensorly map display, which are even worse when zoomed out at all on the website. If your home is inside one of the blobs, that is an overgeneralized anomaly. But somebody probably detected LTE one time on a nearby street.
4) The GS3, even when running the latest LI3 firmware with all the fixes, still has trouble reconnecting to LTE again after it loses the signal. Sometimes I have to stop and toggle the data radio to force it to reacquire 4G.
So overall, GS3 users should not look at today's Sensorly maps of the area and expect them to describe routine LTE service yet.
p.s. If you are serious about tracking the Sprint LTE rollout, don't expect much information in this generalized forum. Go to S4GRU.com.
http://www.sensorly.com/map/4G/US/USA/Sprint/lte_310sprint
It's not official because those are just test towers that Sprint is keeping lit, but it gives us NYC guys some hope that LTE will fully roll out sooner than later. Since I've been checking, the area around Bryant park popped up, and both Bronx/Harlem coverage seems to have grown. I've had the Note II since launch and this thing is just a beast, the only thing holding it back is LTE coverage. When it's hooked up to WiFi it absolutely decimates any other smartphone that I've played with.
This roll out is too slow I heard theres really only one test tower in Bronx . I live in Brooklyn and spend a lot of time in Manhattan seems like ill have to take a train ride to the Bronx just to get a little taste of LTE.
The test towers in Harlem are very real. My cop buddy was on patrol there and found it while driving around yesterday. Personally, I'm not a fan of going to sketchy neighborhoods so I'm going to check the spot by Bryant Park next time I'm in that area.
Im sorry 38,579+ towers in two years slow? About as slow as a rabbit on speed. Also, with the investment they just got. They'll most likely be slapping rockets and skates to the rabbit.
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For the Queens guys (like myself), it looks like LTE is starting to trickle out in the Whitestone/College Point area (weird the map shows the strongest coverage on/around the Whitestone Bridge...lol). I'm not sure if this is an error, but being that I take that bridge all the time and live only 10 minutes or so from the area, I'm going to go check it out this weekend. Will report back with my findings.
For the Bronx guys it would seem your coverage area has grown significantly since I first posted. You lucky bastards.
LTE has to come in Staten Island soon and North Jersey!
the 3g is making me miss my dial up modem from 99, im in staten island and im getting 28 down/ 300 up on a regular basis now, that horrible, i even might just esn swap back to my s1/s2 for go back to wimax
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the 3g is making me miss my dial up modem from 99, im in staten island and im getting 28 down/ 300 up on a regular basis now, that horrible, i even might just esn swap back to my s1/s2 for go back to wimax
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Qft.... Sad but true.
4G / LTE @ harlem
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Qft.... Sad but true.
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along Broadway Ave...137th street City College [1] train subway station
diapholom said:
along Broadway Ave...137th street City College [1] train subway station
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< = Jealous :silly: .. Still sitting on 3G, They are scheduled to start in my city in a week or two... CANNOT WAIT
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along Broadway Ave...137th street City College [1] train subway station
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This is looking good. Slower than AT&T and Verizon but still good.
Got my first taste of LTE when I was doing some work @ Bronx HS of Science last week but I wasn't too impressed to say the least.
Clocked 4M down and 1.5M up (that's the best of 5 tests too), nowhere near my expectations. I've easily gotten those speeds on WiMax.
I'm heading to Manhattan on Friday. How's the data looking for MSG & W 63rd ish areas?
Bro I'm in SI too and I have such ****ty service on most of the Island. Forget LTE, I would like some decent 3g
I live close whitePlains road lm about toTake a walk to checkout the speeds
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Nice to see it's spreading closer and closer to me...Then I won't have to go outside or be by my window :laugh:
The most I get by my house is 9+ down & about 3 up.
I did hit 31.67mbps down & 10.43mbps up when I was down by Jerome and Burnside in the BX earlier. That was saweeeet!
Seems like Sprint is showing the most love to the hoods 1st. Burnside wow!!
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Need my Upper East Side fix! Let's get some LTE testing love over on E70th and 1st.
I was in a area of S.I. where a new tower or a upgraded tower was in place. If you go outside you get full 3g speeds. If you go inside a building my 3g went from full 3g down to 4-5kBps....terrible...
No LTE in brooklyn
I go between Manhattan, Brooklyn, and Queens not one drop of LTE. I was by MSG no LTE I wanna know how sprints giving the BX LTE but yet not manhattan seems ass backwards.
Hi, I've been thinking of switching to Tmobile from Verizon and pulled the trigger on GS4 (ordered 2 for me & my brother).
We both live in NJ and work in Midtown Manhattan. I'm not sure if this is unusual, but our data service has been VERY spotty and we're having hard time even connecting to data. Sometimes browsing seems fine, while other times I get no data at all. Voice works fine. This applies to both indoor and outdoor. I read some threads on howardforums and other sites where people say Tmo in Manhattan is great except in a few buildings. Is this true?
I probably should've done a test drive beforehand, but one of my colleagues assured me his Tmo was fine. He said it's been exceptionally unstable for the past few days..
Tmo rep told me I could return within 14 days without restocking fee, so I'm not sure what to do. I understand Tmo LTE will be rolled out here around June; is it going to help a lot?
Verizon LTE in NYC is terribly slow, but it's at least stable. Any opinion would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks!
TMO in the big apple
I live in queens and frequently visit nyc and I can confirm that I pretty much always have perfect 4g cell reception. The only times I have spotty reception are in the subway (and only certain subway lines! I seem to get decent reception on the F/E) and when heading out deep in to east long island
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I live in queens and frequently visit nyc and I can confirm that I pretty much always have perfect 4g cell reception. The only times I have spotty reception are in the subway (and only certain subway lines! I seem to get decent reception on the F/E) and when heading out deep in to east long island
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Hmm yeah I've seen a lot of people saying that. I doubt this is a phone issue since both of our GS4s are behaving that way. We get full bars, 4G with arrows flashing on the notification bar, but no data...
Tried modifying APNs, but still no luck..
Which could possibly be causing the problem??
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Hmm yeah I've seen a lot of people saying that. I doubt this is a phone issue since both of our GS4s are behaving that way. We get full bars, 4G with arrows flashing on the notification bar, but no data...
Tried modifying APNs, but still no luck..
Which could possibly be causing the problem??
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Tmo 4g is generally slow in manhattan. Often times on any phone I have i'll get stuck in "it's sending upstream but nothings coming downstream " mode
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Tmo 4g is generally slow in manhattan. Often times on any phone I have i'll get stuck in "it's sending upstream but nothings coming downstream " mode
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i get around the 3 boroughs (ny/bk/qns) and I can say the only place where the internet craps out is deep into midtown manhattan
I live and work in Manhattan I always have constant 4G every test of done between HTC Amaze to the new galaxy s4 has been minimum of eight megabits downstream and two to three megabits upstream majority of the time its 15 megabits plus I have never found spotty 4G anywhere in New York City when you leave New York City I can guarantee you your service will go down when I Drive upstate New York my service is in and out constantly. I live in lower Manhattan and I work in midtown Manhattan just my 2 cents.
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I go to school in mid town and I must say for the past couple days it's been horrible the service is horrible hopefully they fix it soon it might be all those new iPhone users lol
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I go to school in mid town and I must say for the past couple days it's been horrible the service is horrible hopefully they fix it soon it might be all those new iPhone users lol
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Just talked to tech rep at Tmo and he said I'm right in the middle of 4 2G towers with closest 3G tower 2 blocks down. I'm a block away from the grand central..
Anyways he said there's nothing he can do from his end and recommended using wifi in the office. Probably won't get better until they roll out LTE by this summer...
Im 59th Street and the service is 4G status but internet is down to like 2g speeds i cant even load a instagram picture
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Im 59th Street and the service is 4G status but internet is down to like 2g speeds i cant even load a instagram picture
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Generally, the more people on the same tower, the slower the internet goes
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Generally, the more people on the same tower, the slower the internet goes
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Yeah i think i know that but still t-mobile service has been lacking or it just might be the re-framing hasn't been completed yet and the city shows a little lte here and there so the phone might be trying to switch back and fourth causing the speed issue..