The disparity between download and upload is driving me insane.. I've tried everything I can think of to no avail... Could this just be my local tower? It has been this way for months since I moved in.
Why would upload always be at least twice as fast as download?
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Maybe a lot of people use that tower or it's quite overloaded with not enough sufficient backhaul...
I actually get them in some areas but its usually the highly congested areas.
Yeah, check the last few pages of this topic http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1771294
Well... That is unfortunate. Hopefully this fix will make its way to aosp and cm in the near future because this is abysmal
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I have 4 full bars and my 3g keeps dropping, not fully connecting, and downloads around 5kilobytes a sec. I went from cm7 back to my nand of stock sense and still have the problem. I can barely load xda.
Anyone got any ideas why?
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Maybe there is some kind of outage where you live?
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Yeah what above said. I get 2 bars avg in my house and get about 800kbps, 4 bars I get 1mbps, They may be working on the towers out there also
Any chance you might have given them reason to throttle you data connection down?
I also experience dramatic drops in data speeds at peak times and it is location specific where I live. At 2300 in my neighborhood I get great speeds, but at the same time at work (which is full of people still awake and likely using their network) I get really bogged down.
Either a possible factor?
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I think the reason why people get horrible speeds at work is because there is probably too much electronic interference.
But then again, when someone says "work" I imagine someone sitting in a cubicle.
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bluedegeon said:
Yeah what above said. I get 2 bars avg in my house and get about 800kbps, 4 bars I get 1mbps, They may be working on the towers out there also
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Interesting, 4 bars at my place equals 1.5 to 2.5 mpbs and 1 bar equals around 7-800 kbps.
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Interesting, 4 bars at my place equals 1.5 to 2.5 mpbs and 1 bar equals around 7-800 kbps.
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TheAtheistReverend said:
Any chance you might have given them reason to throttle you data connection down?
I also experience dramatic drops in data speeds at peak times and it is location specific where I live. At 2300 in my neighborhood I get great speeds, but at the same time at work (which is full of people still awake and likely using their network) I get really bogged down.
Either a possible factor?
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besides the "3G hack" is there anyway to prevent from being throttled on a non rooted 2.3.3 dinc2?
I was under the impression that even with the hack you can get throttled
But I also understand you need to be using GBs/month to make that happen. Most people would have a hard time getting there.
I stream Pandora ALL the time, and I usually get between 1 and 2 GBs of useage. I'm also using my phone for most of my internet browsing.
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I think the reason why people get horrible speeds at work is because there is probably too much electronic interference.
But then again, when someone says "work" I imagine someone sitting in a cubicle.
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Well my work is far from a cubicle....
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Well my work is far from a cubicle....
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Same here.
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There's a lot of things that will influence your throughput. Signal strength is only one of a few. Signal quality and available bandwidth will also influence it. A strong signal with a bit of noise will cause problems.
Try *228 option 2, then reboot, and see if it helps.
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There's a lot of things that will influence your throughput. Signal strength is only one of a few. Signal quality and available bandwidth will also influence it. A strong signal with a bit of noise will cause problems.
Try *228 option 2, then reboot, and see if it helps.
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Did that and I lost signal indefinitely till I did a full reset.
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Kaze105 said:
Interesting, 4 bars at my place equals 1.5 to 2.5 mpbs and 1 bar equals around 7-800 kbps.
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There's only two verizon towers in my city if that helps lol. I don't know much about towers but I know one of them is 4G because we have 4G here
I live in Orlando area, and I'm having issues with 3G today as well. Phone keeps trying to sync also. I think Verizon may have network issues today. I haven't installed any new apps, and I only use 1 widget that syncs, which is Twitter.
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I live in Orlando area, and I'm having issues with 3G today as well. Phone keeps trying to sync also. I think Verizon may have network issues today. I haven't installed any new apps, and I only use 1 widget that syncs, which is Twitter.
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I'm in Cali and had the same problem late last night. I think they are doing something with the towers cause my signal is fine now.
I'm getting throttled and it sucks. I have been getting 1x internet everywhere I go ever since I reached 3GB in the first week.
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I'm getting throttled and it sucks. I have been getting 1x internet everywhere I go ever since I reached 3GB in the first week.
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Well that's a no-brainer. WTF did you do? Torrent pr0n whilst tethered?
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Well that's a no-brainer. WTF did you do? Torrent pr0n whilst tethered?
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Verizon is cracking the whip on "free" tethering. I read in an article that it can be tracked if your phone is on gingerbread. I'm not sure, maybe one of the devs could weigh in, but I read there was code written into GB to help them track it. If I can find the article, I'll link it.
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Verizon is cracking the whip on "free" tethering. I read in an article that it can be tracked if your phone is on gingerbread. I'm not sure, maybe one of the devs could weigh in, but I read there was code written into GB to help them track it. If I can find the article, I'll link it.
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Please do, cause on my Rom I use, everything Verizon is removed
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Does anyone know how long you should wait after flashing a new modem before think it sucks and flash a different one
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A full day with completely great weather. Maybe two because god only know how internet traffic is. A week if you want to be all scientific and such.
If possible try it out before 7am, or after 11pm. I have had modems make me think they suck only to find out they are the best of the worst at a given time. I'm still on el29 as it is the best in my area it seems, used to think it stunk, but after a few days i realized it gave me the most consistent(still terrible, thx sprint) download speed during peak usage times. I also always look at download speeds from the market getting apps as a comparison to say speedtest.net, as most speed apps are fairly unreliable.
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i am on Frosty 4.1.1 and my data speeds are so slow. half the time i cant even get data. I live in Baltimore md. and we just had a bad storm so i am wondering if that could have something to so with it.. I just started my billing cycle so im not being slowed by t-mo. any ideas would be appreciated and thanked.
Very high probability that the storm is causing peoblems. The entire N.E. is going to be suffering from degraded services for a while, as I understand it anyway.
To be sure though give us a little mire info. Do you usually get 4g? Does it say 4g now but just not deliver? You could call tmobile and see what they have to say.
And maybe someone else here may be in your area that can give furgher insight.
How close are you to the areas that got hit really hard?
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Make sure your IMEI is present. But I suspect Doc is correct.
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Very high probability that the storm is causing peoblems. The entire N.E. is going to be suffering from degraded services for a while, as I understand it anyway.
To be sure though give us a little mire info. Do you usually get 4g? Does it say 4g now but just not deliver? You could call tmobile and see what they have to say.
And maybe someone else here may be in your area that can give furgher insight.
How close are you to the areas that got hit really hard?
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Agreed, I didn't have service for a while. Just got it back today.
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Thanks, I appreciate the input. And yes, in a very good 4g spot and the phone is saying It's on 4g but like you said, it just doesn't deliver.
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Yeah, I'm guessing its most likely storm related. Even if you're just sorta close to an area that got hit, I would think it could still cause problems due to bottlenecks on the network, heavier use of the network, and just a host if other problems that could occur.
It wouldn't hurt to call tmobile though, just to be certain. They should be able to confirm the problem and tell you if it is related to the storm damage.
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Yeah, I'm guessing its most likely storm related. Even if you're just sorta close to an area that got hit, I would think it could still cause problems due to bottlenecks on the network, heavier use of the network, and just a host if other problems that could occur.
It wouldn't hurt to call tmobile though, just to be certain. They should be able to confirm the problem and tell you if it is related to the storm damage.
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Yeah last storm we had which knocked out the tower T-Mobile wasn't aware of it. And also I'm all the way in pa. And my speeds were horrible during and after Sandy.
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Good point. Even if its not storm related, but is a tower problem, its best to call tmobile as they don't always know there's an issue until its reported.
Say its an easy, quick fix, but they don't know about it, it could take days longer than necessary while you have worthless data speeds!
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When are our phones going to get the 4G lte upgrade?
Now that you're done gut laughing, how come when I flash a rom with a full wipe, my data speeds will be awesome even on 3g, but then later on that day or maybe the next day or so, the speeds just turn right back into the slow ass normal sprint crappy speeds? Anyone else notice this at all? Are there any logical reasons for this? It's so extreme I would almost call it throttling my speeds cause its so significant. It will happen at my house or at work where I know it's not just the change in location that affects the speed. Will go from restoring all my apps in next to no time, to barely downloading a <1 mb app update in less than 5 to 6 minutes.
I notice it on any rom really as long as I do a full wipe. Aosp or tw, it doesn't matter ether or.
And upon searching the web for this issue I found people asking quite frequently about lte on our phones and found it quite comical.
Thanks for any info!
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Maybe it's dependant on the time that you're using said data? I imagine it'd be slower with more people on, and peak times should be at 8pm+
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Anyone else notice that on large file downloads on 4g, after a few minutes you get throttled to 3g speeds? This includes YouTube and large apps on the play store. And once it's done, the speeds go back to normal.
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Beremat said:
Anyone else notice that on large file downloads on 4g, after a few minutes you get throttled to 3g speeds? This includes YouTube and large apps on the play store. And once it's done, the speeds go back to normal.
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Illuminati.
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Picture says it all lol
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I don't get it??? And I have a thread full of speed test posts.
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looks like someone got throttled. that's only time I've ever seen speeds that slow.
Well how much data have you used? Also, how far are you in your service month? Maybe try not using much, if any, data for a day or two and see if your speeds increase.
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Well how much data have you used? Also, how far are you in your service month? Maybe try not using much, if any, data for a day or two and see if your speeds increase.
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Try switching to Sprint. That should work out /great/ for you.
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If you want help with this you can post more info maybe switch apn or something maybe a rom you're on, give us some info to help you...
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I get speeds like that sometimes, and I have unlimited data so its not throttled.. After a while the speeds go back up
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Looks like a spike that happens from time to time. Radio tower work, server work or a large amount of users using tons of bandwidth at once. Or well, all 3. Just play the waiting game with this and post back.
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