I think all Sprint users are aware that our network's 3G speeds are abysmal. However, I had an opportunity to test the maximum 3G speed of my phone this morning, and I was pretty surprised by what I found.
Sprint was kind enough to send me an Airave (Femtocell) so that I could actually use my phone while at home. Aside from giving me 5 bars of signal, it also provides 3G network coverage. For those not familiar, all data and voice covered by the Airave are routed over an independent broadband connection. Because of that, I reasoned, my 3G should max out at either the phone's upper threshold or my peak broadband speed.
Here were my results:
Wifi - 5.101 mbps (down), 1.714 mbps (up), 95 (ping),
EvdoA - 1.769 mbps (down), 0.647 mbps (up), 220 (ping)
EvdoA - 1.283 mbps (down), 0.700 mbps (up), 232 (ping)
Wifi - 6.123 mbps (down), 1.601 mbps (up), 96 (ping)
Wifi - 5.164 mbps (down), 1.834 mbps (up), 83 (ping)
Wifi - 7.571 mbps (down), 1.624 mbps (up), 102 (ping)
As you can see, there was a considerable difference in speed. Now I am sure that some of this is femtocell related, but I would expect to see 3G data speeds closer to my local network max.
Has any one ever squeezed faster 3G speeds out of their phone or is the 1.7mpbs mark about as fast as our radios will support? Any thoughts on why the Airave would dish out such a low speed? Also, any guess why the latency is so high?
On my OG EVO a while back, I was able to get 2mbps in New Haven, CT. Never saw those speeds on 3G ever again anywhere else I've tried (NYC, Atlanta, Pittsburgh, Chicago).
As far as the airave is concerned, I wouldn't use it for 3G anyway (obviously you have a wired broadband connection). My understanding is that the airave is intended to give you voice coverage in weak signal areas. Latency on 3G for me is like a flip of a coin. Sometimes I get under 100ms. Sometimes its a few hundred. In the same location too.
Currently
Ehrpd: 2223dl 998ul
(That is pretty much my average speeds at home)
At work I get an average of 2500-3200dl and no less than 1000 on upload. WiFi I get an average of 17,000-20,000
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tsdeaton said:
Currently
Ehrpd: 2223dl 998ul
(That is pretty much my average speeds at home)
At work I get an average of 2500-3200dl and no less than 1000 on upload. WiFi I get an average of 17,000-20,000
Edit: neither my home or work location has an airrave device
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That is the fastest 3G I've ever seen on a Sprint Network. Simply amazing.
[QUOTE="pjsnyc, post: 38872028, member: 1356623"]On my OG EVO a while back, I was able to get 2mbps in New Haven, CT. Never saw those speeds on 3G ever again anywhere else I've tried (NYC, Atlanta, Pittsburgh, Chicago).
As far as the airave is concerned, I wouldn't use it for 3G anyway (obviously you have a wired broadband connection). My understanding is that the airave is intended to give you voice coverage in weak signal areas. Latency on 3G for me is like a flip of a coin. Sometimes I get under 100ms. Sometimes its a few hundred. In the same location too.[/QUOTE]
I was just testing it out of curiosity. It's kind of an odd feature, since you'd likely have wifi available if you have a broadband connection. Maybe they offer it for people who don't own a wireless router?
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I hardly go anywhere that doesn't have WiFi. My WiFi at home pushes 60Mbps download and 11 Mbps upload. Work WiFi is about 30Mbps download and 5-6Mbps. When I get on 3G (Don't have LTE just yet) I get maybe 1Mbps and around .5Mbps. I am obviously spoiled by my home/work WiFi. I caught LTE a few times in Tampa and the numbers looked promising.
I've scored 2700 at my house, and that's around what I usually get at home, although it doesn't really matter to me as I get ~22 down on LTE at home and the same on WiFi. I live in a suburb of Los Angeles if anybody wanted to know
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I wonder what is is about the Airave that cuts the numbers back so much then.
My home wifi will give me about 20 mbps DL. LTE in my area has given me up to 28 mbps DL. I have terrible signal here at home (1 bar) and I pull 1 mbps DL. I'll check it later when I leave home.
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Home WiFi tops out around 30Mbps and the fastest I have seen on 3G is 2.5Mbps down. Ironically, I know exactly where I have to stand to get that 3G speed.
I average around 1-1.2 Mbps on 3G unless in the building where I work which in some cases reduces my 3G all the way down to 100 Kbps, aka, worthless. That however, is not so much a network issue as it is me being pretty close to the middle of the building and Sprint's spectrum not being able to penetrate the building well.
Evdo rev a's max is 3.1 Mbps down I believe.
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My home wifi will give me about 20 mbps DL. LTE in my area has given me up to 28 mbps DL. I have terrible signal here at home (1 bar) and I pull 1 mbps DL. I'll check it later when I leave home.
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Sprint seems to be lighting up LTE in my area in stealth mode. I get LTE in more places but it keeps dropping back to 3G, then back to 4G. I dont get much more than 20Mbps. There must be a way to force it to stay on 4G if in range. Gets annoying to keep losing connection.
I have full bars of 4G at my house.
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I have full bars of 4G at my house.
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Does your connection switch between 4G and 3G for no reason?
I can have full bars of 4G and POOF, back to 3G.
uNiXpSyChO said:
Does your connection switch between 4G and 3G for no reason?
I can have full bars of 4G and POOF, back to 3G.
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Only if I'm at work. In my house it stays on 4G majority of the time. But to be honest I don't even use it. My WiFi runs at 50mbps so I use that.
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im lucky if i get 1.2 down .5 up on my 3g
Connection differences with decent signal.
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Yeah, the xda app is freaking out on me. Sorta fixed now.
Edit: should be fixed now... What a pain...
Edit 2: here's a 3g test on a closer server.
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This is was I get on an average good out at work. I have gotten as high as 2.2mbs but don't have a screen shot of it. I am sure it would go even faster under better circumstances,
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Connection differences with decent signal.
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Holy hell I can't wait to get my hands some 4G, that is awesome!
That upload speed was low... Usually it's closer to 10 mbps. I have terrible signal in my house, otherwise I'd probably consider canceling my home isp and just use tethering.
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so I just picked up a g2 yesterday and impressed with it's performance in every way so far besides the HSDPA... I got the g1 a few months after its release and always had 3g data with it. Sometimes the speeds would move a little slower than others but it standardly got 200-300kb/s down. (which was better than my dsl connection at the time < 1Mbit) So in the last 24 hours I've been going all over chicago and the suburbs of it and getting HSDPA but the speeds suck really bad. I'm cranking out less than 1mbit. Is there a fix for this or something? I really don't get why it's going so slow when tmo just opened a new HSDPA network here like a week ago... any suggestions or input on how to make this new data experience a little better would be greatly appreciate. Thanks.
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so I just picked up a g2 yesterday and impressed with it's performance in every way so far besides the HSDPA... I got the g1 a few months after its release and always had 3g data with it. Sometimes the speeds would move a little slower than others but it standardly got 200-300kb/s down. (which was better than my dsl connection at the time < 1Mbit) So in the last 24 hours I've been going all over chicago and the suburbs of it and getting HSDPA but the speeds suck really bad. I'm cranking out less than 1mbit. Is there a fix for this or something? I really don't get why it's going so slow when tmo just opened a new HSDPA network here like a week ago... any suggestions or input on how to make this new data experience a little better would be greatly appreciate. Thanks.
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I live in Chicago as well, and I had concern that there was a lack of HSPA+ in the city... And you just confirmed it!
I'm with you guys, but I live out in the burbs. According to the coverage map, HALF my town has HSPA the other is still in 3g. Well I live in the part that still has 3g. Anyway I was at my friends house and full bars w/ HSPA and my speedtest showed no more than 900 kb/s.
I had the same questions and from what I have found is there are no notifications for 3G on the G2. So when it shows H it could be 3G and maybe HSDPA, and HSPA+ this explains the speed results. I downloaded a cool widget which always shows you what you are on. Sorry don't have the phone with me right now and don't remember the name but I got it out of a thread here.
EDIT: It's called Mobile Signal Widget See here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=9052996&postcount=10
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I'm with you guys, but I live out in the burbs. According to the coverage map, HALF my town has HSPA the other is still in 3g. Well I live in the part that still has 3g. Anyway I was at my friends house and full bars w/ HSPA and my speedtest showed no more than 900 kb/s.
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If you're actually getting HSPA+, then you'd know it from speed tests. For example, I've gotten 16Mbps from it. That's faster than our home internet lol (Comcast - 15Mbps)
There's a difference between UMTS and HSDPA right? Because when I'm in my room, it says UMTS... when IU'm outside in my area... I see HSDPA... and when I'm on HSDPA is when i'm getting 2mb down and 1 mb up... I recently visited Maryland, and there i got 4mb down, and 1 mb up (on HSDPA)
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If you're actually getting HSPA+, then you'd know it from speed tests. For example, I've gotten 16Mbps from it. That's faster than our home internet lol (Comcast - 15Mbps)
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According to my Mobil Signal widget and the Phone information in About I was on HSPA.
ibemad1 said:
If you're actually getting HSPA+, then you'd know it from speed tests. For example, I've gotten 16Mbps from it. That's faster than our home internet lol (Comcast - 15Mbps)
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Picture or it didn't happen.
The phone's limited to 14.4mbps if I recall correctly; that is also theoretical speeds too.
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Picture or it didn't happen.
The phone's limited to 14.4mbps if I recall correctly; that is also theoretical speeds too.
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I unfortunately don't have a picture, but I myself still don't know if what it said was entirely correct. I'll try to get a picture next time I'm in that area. On the other hand I could just make a picture in photoshop right now... (OVER 9000 MBPS :O lol)
I was using mobilespeedtest.com's 7MB test.
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I unfortunately don't have a picture, but I myself still don't know if what it said was entirely correct. I'll try to get a picture next time I'm in that area. On the other hand I could just make a picture in photoshop right now... (OVER 9000 MBPS :O lol)
I was using mobilespeedtest.com's 7MB test.
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Haha.
Well at the moment HSPA+ isn't fully implemented just yet. I'm wondering if the areas that is covered by T-Mobile's Very Fast Web is updated HSPA+.
Well just did some testing.. And here its one of my results for my town..
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Don't use mobilespeedtest.net guys. I've seen speeds of over 30000 kbps.
Use the speedtest.net app.
updates...
ok some stuff i noticed today, (my 2nd day of use with this handset) I went out to Aurora IL today to pick up my brother and while sitting in the car I ran the speedtest app again. Most people who frequent the speedtest.net site from the chicago area know that there's a server for testing in aurora/chicago/lincolnshire. The app told me i was less than 5 miles away from where it pinged. My test results were much better. I got about 6.5mbits. Weird thing is that my home is only 12 miles from the chicago server (also where the hspda network is supposed to be located) yet aurora is much further west. Not sure what's with it. Hope it's just a delay in getting it up and fully running.
Was out at the bar down the street just now and noticed that I get roughly 4~5mbits. Maybe it's just my location D:
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ok some stuff i noticed today, (my 2nd day of use with this handset) I went out to Aurora IL today to pick up my brother and while sitting in the car I ran the speedtest app again. Most people who frequent the speedtest.net site from the chicago area know that there's a server for testing in aurora/chicago/lincolnshire. The app told me i was less than 5 miles away from where it pinged. My test results were much better. I got about 6.5mbits. Weird thing is that my home is only 12 miles from the chicago server (also where the hspda network is supposed to be located) yet aurora is much further west. Not sure what's with it. Hope it's just a delay in getting it up and fully running.
Was out at the bar down the street just now and noticed that I get roughly 4~5mbits. Maybe it's just my location D:
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Too many buildings or trees in your way? lol j/k
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Too many buildings or trees in your way? lol j/k
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maybe, kinda sucks. I get full bars and everything. Every place I've lived always has had some sort of phone issue with connectivity. Guess I'm just doomed!
gaarry said:
Don't use mobilespeedtest.net guys. I've seen speeds of over 30000 kbps.
Use the speedtest.net app.
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When I initially used the speedtest.net app right before the mst.net it gave me speeds of 908kb/s. Full bars and everything.
ibemad1 said:
If you're actually getting HSPA+, then you'd know it from speed tests. For example, I've gotten 16Mbps from it. That's faster than our home internet lol (Comcast - 15Mbps)
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DAMN!!! Are you serious, where you live at?
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I agree that the high speed is quite sad. I live in Salt Lake City, which they say has good coverage, and it's nothing too exciting, it's about the same as my Mytouch3G did
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If you're actually getting HSPA+, then you'd know it from speed tests. For example, I've gotten 16Mbps from it. That's faster than our home internet lol (Comcast - 15Mbps)
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Maybe you mean 1.6 mbps? Isn't a standard Cox connection 1.5 mbps? Correct me if I'm wrong. I've never had cable. Always DSL.
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Maybe you mean 1.6 mbps? Isn't a standard Cox connection 1.5 mbps? Correct me if I'm wrong. I've never had cable. Always DSL.
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Comcast offers five packages:
Performance: 12 Mbps download/
2 Mbps upload
(up to 15 Mbps/3 Mbps with PowerBoost)
Performance PLUS*: Becomes a new Blast! customer with speeds up to 16 Mbps download/2 Mbps upload
(up to 20 Mbps/4Mbps with PowerBoost)
Blast!*: up to 16 Mbps download/
2 Mbps upload
(up to 20 Mbps/4 Mbps with PowerBoost)
* Ultra 22 Mbps download/5 Mbps upload (up to 30 Mbps/7 Mbps with PowerBoost)
* Extreme 50 50 Mbps download/10 Mbps upload
I have the Performance Plus or Blast! I'm not sure, but my speeds are a constant 20 mb/s on speedtests.
for the hell of it i just did a speedtest on my Inc2 and these were the results:
Ping - 219ms
Download Speed - 0.29 Mbps
Upload Speed - 0.26 Mbps
my phone is currently showing 3 bars.
when i had the Thunderbolt it was showing like 7 Mbps DL & 2 Mbps UL in this area(without 4G).
does anyone else have crap speeds to?
You are comparing a 3G phone (Inc2) to a 4G phone (Thunderbolt)... Ofcourse its going to be slower...
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he said without 4G... should be the same.
I find it highly suspect that a 3G connection was generating 7mbit. The maximum burst rate (meaning: not streaming rate) is 3mbit for EVDO Rev.A. Both the Thunderbolt and the Incredible 2 have 3G radios using Rev.A, not Rev.B.
I've noticed sometimes the connectivity indicator has a delayed update and I can be connected to 3G before the icon changes from 1x to 3G coming out of the parking garage at my office (I can tell because streams that don't work on 1x would start up fine).
I've been able to get over 1mbit consistently on my Inc2, and have been able to exceed 2mbit in some areas.
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for the hell of it i just did a speedtest on my Inc2 and these were the results:
Ping - 219ms
Download Speed - 0.29 Mbps
Upload Speed - 0.26 Mbps
my phone is currently showing 3 bars.
when i had the Thunderbolt it was showing like 7 Mbps DL & 2 Mbps UL in this area(without 4G).
does anyone else have crap speeds to?
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yea... mine has been annoying me too. I always seem to get a higher upload than I do download speed.
This is after 4 tries back to back, all of them upload speed was higher.
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Even though Tmobile sucks when it comes to coverage area, I kind of miss the 3g speeds I had with them. My Vibrant would hit 5 mbps constantly
Just used the same SpeedTest.net app, after three back to back tries:
Down: 1742, 1192, 1894 kbps
Up: 589, 675, 543 kbps
Ping: 185, 140, 220 ms
Full bars in northern NJ
Full bars
signal around -71 dBm
Ping: 211ms
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yea... mine has been annoying me too. I always seem to get a higher upload than I do download speed.
This is after 4 tries back to back, all of them upload speed was higher.
Houston, Tx by the way
Even though Tmobile sucks when it comes to coverage area, I kind of miss the 3g speeds I had with them. My Vibrant would hit 5 mbps constantly
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what rom are you on?
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what rom are you on?
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Stock rooted Gingersense, I took a screenshot back at my desk where I have no bars but was outside when I ran the test.
Had full bars and i'm on the new radio.
You need to turn on Roaming I know it doesn't make any sense
Wireless & Networks - Mobile Networks - Data Roaming Checked & CDMA Options - SYS select automatic. There I bet it's fixed.
I live in Philly across from a major hospital with thousands of people inside.
I have 3 bars at my house usually. When I first got my OG Droid it was faster than my DSL at 2200k. Then after I guess more people got smartphones it got slower and slower.
I was getting max 200k oftentimes 80k at my house since Fall '10. At work it is much better around 1200k stable but at 5pm at work used to kick me off the network. No biggie right I have wifi at home. Well it is a pain if you take a walk outside and there is a dead zone around your house.
So I decided to try a friends Sprint phone. SAME EXACT signal readings same speed. Got an Inc 2 finally I thought my droid was crap. Same thing with new phone.
Then I started trying everything. Turned on Roaming as noted above bingo!
I have a feeling Sprint / Verizon towers are used jointly? Like you need roaming for things to work properly in downtown philly. I don't know but I don't loose connection anymore whenever I have bars showing. Where in areas that there are a large number of people I had problems previously at peak hours. Now everything is stable now.
It doesn't make any sense to me at all. It is turned off by default on all phones?? But the difference is like night and day. I mean I know Verizon/Sprint share networks but that should only be in the boonies? I would love an answer. Just don't go overseas with that enabled.
i am satisfied with my inc2 data speeds. i put my inc2 next to an evo 4g (running in 3g mode because there is no 4g in my area)...and the inc2 loaded all the websites i tested quicker than the evo.
the inc2 was showing 1 to 2 bars, the evo showing full bars... i would click on a link at the same time on both phones and inc2 won everytime.
I average a MB up and down, zero complains. Running 2.3.3 (recent upgrade).
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I used to get atleast 1MB with 3+ bars on stock froyo before S-OFF, but after I installed CM7 Beta 1 I'm getting lower bars than I did before, is that happening with anyone else, or is it one of those things you just randomly notice?
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I used to get atleast 1MB with 3+ bars on stock froyo before S-OFF, but after I installed CM7 Beta 1 I'm getting lower bars than I did before, is that happening with anyone else, or is it one of those things you just randomly notice?
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Don't look st the bars. They are set to show so many based on signal and that changes from Rom to Rom (why a dx can show 4 bars but I have 2) go to settings about phone and look at your signal strength.
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Wireless & Networks - Mobile Networks - Data Roaming Checked & CDMA Options - SYS select automatic. There I bet it's fixed.
I live in Philly across from a major hospital with thousands of people inside.
I have 3 bars at my house usually. When I first got my OG Droid it was faster than my DSL at 2200k. Then after I guess more people got smartphones it got slower and slower.
I was getting max 200k oftentimes 80k at my house since Fall '10. At work it is much better around 1200k stable but at 5pm at work used to kick me off the network. No biggie right I have wifi at home. Well it is a pain if you take a walk outside and there is a dead zone around your house.
So I decided to try a friends Sprint phone. SAME EXACT signal readings same speed. Got an Inc 2 finally I thought my droid was crap. Same thing with new phone.
Then I started trying everything. Turned on Roaming as noted above bingo!
I have a feeling Sprint / Verizon towers are used jointly? Like you need roaming for things to work properly in downtown philly. I don't know but I don't loose connection anymore whenever I have bars showing. Where in areas that there are a large number of people I had problems previously at peak hours. Now everything is stable now.
It doesn't make any sense to me at all. It is turned off by default on all phones?? But the difference is like night and day. I mean I know Verizon/Sprint share networks but that should only be in the boonies? I would love an answer. Just don't go overseas with that enabled.
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if I enable roaming though it gives me a warning about extra charges. is that true?
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if I enable roaming though it gives me a warning about extra charges. is that true?
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well yes, if you're roaming.
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if I enable roaming though it gives me a warning about extra charges. is that true?
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Verizon has a roaming agreement with sprint. I think it would only come into play overseas. In Europe that setting could get you in to trouble.
Had Roaming on from NY to SC not a peep from Verizon billing.
It's much faster right less data drops too.
Yianaki said:
Verizon has a roaming agreement with sprint. I think it would only come into play overseas. In Europe that setting could get you in to trouble.
Had Roaming on from NY to SC not a peep from Verizon billing.
It's much faster right less data drops too.
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Yianaki said:
Wireless & Networks - Mobile Networks - Data Roaming Checked & CDMA Options - SYS select automatic. There I bet it's fixed.
I live in Philly across from a major hospital with thousands of people inside.
I have 3 bars at my house usually. When I first got my OG Droid it was faster than my DSL at 2200k. Then after I guess more people got smartphones it got slower and slower.
I was getting max 200k oftentimes 80k at my house since Fall '10. At work it is much better around 1200k stable but at 5pm at work used to kick me off the network. No biggie right I have wifi at home. Well it is a pain if you take a walk outside and there is a dead zone around your house.
So I decided to try a friends Sprint phone. SAME EXACT signal readings same speed. Got an Inc 2 finally I thought my droid was crap. Same thing with new phone.
Then I started trying everything. Turned on Roaming as noted above bingo!
I have a feeling Sprint / Verizon towers are used jointly? Like you need roaming for things to work properly in downtown philly. I don't know but I don't loose connection anymore whenever I have bars showing. Where in areas that there are a large number of people I had problems previously at peak hours. Now everything is stable now.
It doesn't make any sense to me at all. It is turned off by default on all phones?? But the difference is like night and day. I mean I know Verizon/Sprint share networks but that should only be in the boonies? I would love an answer. Just don't go overseas with that enabled.
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It is often the case that providers will share towers. Many communities hate the sight of towers in their area (they're ugly...yes, this really does happen) so they are forced to keep them to a minimum. They share towers but not necessarily radio equipment, so you may not be necessarily be running through Sprint on a Sprint tower.
Not terrible. Houston
Sprint used to cap WiMAX uplink to 1Mbps but I'm consistently getting up to 1.5Mbps using various test methods lately. On downlink, my old EVO would get a peak of 10Mbps on 4G. Lately on ET I tend to get 7-10Mbps downlink but it peaks up to 15Mbps, which I've never seen on EVO.
Sprint is announcing the Network Vision rollout this Friday but reports say they've already started rolling it out in some areas. I wonder if I already have it - live in midtown, work in downtown KC.
Sprint increased the speed a few months ago. I've been getting 1.5 up for some time now.
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10mb/s down? I've never gotten much above 5 and I'm in a big city with almost 100% 4g coverage. I'd kill to see 6-8mb/so downloads. 5 is the max for me.
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10mb/s down? I've never gotten much above 5 and I'm in a big city with almost 100% 4g coverage. I'd kill to see 6-8mb/so downloads. 5 is the max for me.
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Is this inside or outside speeds? Which city are you talking about? Just curious because I get spotty 4g but when I'm in the right part of the city 10 mb/s is easily achievable. I get 6-7 mb/s in my backyard with 2 bars of 4g. Too bad i have wifi access back there.
Ive seen 10mbps-15mbps on 4G, as high as 18 once. This was before the tower was 'officially on'. Since it went 'officially on' it pretty much stuck at 10-12mbps...Keep in mind this was in direct line of sight of the tower when I got that, speeds dropped as I got farther away obviously.
I sure hope this big announcement and plan have been well thought out and implemented cuz this iPhone thing (which not being IP5 and not being exclusive to Sprint at all make the billions commited to iPhone purchases seem like as bad of an idea as it was) is going to rape Sprint's spectrum like never before. Tower capacity and backhaul capacity is going to be put to the test.
Who knows how many subscribers they planned for, who knows how many they'll get...but I do know one thing for sure, if they underestimated it at all we're all fncked. I sure hope all of these random reports of sudden increases in speed are an indicator.
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10mb/s down? I've never gotten much above 5 and I'm in a big city with almost 100% 4g coverage. I'd kill to see 6-8mb/so downloads. 5 is the max for me.
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In NYC I get about 6-8mbps when I'm inside and 8-11mbps when I'm outside
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In NYC I get about 6-8mbps when I'm inside and 8-11mbps when I'm outside
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Wow, tell me which part of NYC it is and I will move there Probably downtown or midtown. Get 1.5-4 indoors UES, 0 connectivity indoors UWS
dohturdima said:
Wow, tell me which part of NYC it is and I will move there Probably downtown or midtown. Get 1.5-4 indoors UES, 0 connectivity indoors UWS
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Work and go to school in midtown. At home in queens I get the same speeds. Not all over queens but by my house. I think there is a tower close by
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now if only i got 4g where i live
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Sprint increased the speed a few months ago. I've been getting 1.5 up for some time now.
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Yeah, This thread is old news. Sprint changed the Up Speed months ago LOL.
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Fortunately I get great 4g in this small town
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Mine just hit 15 in a spotty area inside just now.
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I have been getting 1.4mbps consistently from the day I got epic touch. I remember the limit was in place last year when epic 4g launched, but it must have been removed months ago.
I get from 9mbps to 12mbps indoors where I live on 4g. My 3g speeds are horrible as of recent though, like .3 to .5 mbps
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I want to say that the upload speed bumped up to 1.5 a couple of months ago but the 4G download speeds seem to be improved.
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Is this inside or outside speeds? Which city are you talking about? Just curious because I get spotty 4g but when I'm in the right part of the city 10 mb/s is easily achievable. I get 6-7 mb/s in my backyard with 2 bars of 4g. Too bad i have wifi access back there.
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I'm in Orlando. I travel all over the city (and surrounding cities) for work and I have never seen anything above 5mb/s. I use speedtest.net site, bc the app doesn't work on our touches. Am I doing something wrong?
As for inside or outside, I can barely hold a 4g signal inside my car, inside I don't even usually try. BTW this has been on the OG Epic and the Epic Touch. I usually don't even waste my time turning 4G on.
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I'm in Orlando. I travel all over the city (and surrounding cities) for work and I have never seen anything above 5mb/s. I use speedtest.net site, bc the app doesn't work on our touches. Am I doing something wrong?
As for inside or outside, I can barely hold a 4g signal inside my car, inside I don't even usually try. BTW this has been on the OG Epic and the Epic Touch. I usually don't even waste my time turning 4G on.
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What do you mean it's not working on our phone?
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What do you mean it's not working on our phone?
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Speedtest.net app always just says connection unavailable or something of that sort.
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I'm in Orlando. I travel all over the city (and surrounding cities) for work and I have never seen anything above 5mb/s. I use speedtest.net site, bc the app doesn't work on our touches. Am I doing something wrong?
As for inside or outside, I can barely hold a 4g signal inside my car, inside I don't even usually try. BTW this has been on the OG Epic and the Epic Touch. I usually don't even waste my time turning 4G on.
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I'm flying out to Orlando @ the end of month. I'll see if my Epic Touch experience the same issue.
I'm coming from HSPA+ speeds on T-Mobile, so I was wondering if EVDO speeds on Sprint are supposed to be this slow? EVDO should be capable of at least 1 Mbps.
I'm consistently getting less than 300 kbps download, so are Sprint's EVDO speeds really closer to EDGE than 3G?
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I'm coming from HSPA+ speeds on T-Mobile, so I was wondering if EVDO speeds on Sprint are supposed to be this slow? EVDO should be capable of at least 1 Mbps.
I'm consistently getting <300 kbps download, so are Sprint's EVDO speeds really closer to EDGE than 3G?
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I would say it depends on the time + place your using 3G at. I sometimes get as low as your saying but sometimes can get over 1MB but only at certain times and certain places.
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They are usually pretty good. Id suggest trying the 3g turbocharger. Its never disappointed me. I usually can only get around .60mbps.
This is with it :
This is with out it :
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Honestly, sprint is just awful in some areas. I'm okay with it because I pay a lot less and usually have wifi anyway, but yea, the service is just pathetic.
In LA, I regularly get 5-50 kb/s download and upload with 3g. If I'm lucky, I'll get around 300--this happens maybe 1/10 days. This is in a flat, well populated area of Los Angeles, not a boonie by any means. It's really disappointing.
4g, when it (rarely) works, is also way slower than I had hoped for... maybe 1.8 down, 200 up.
Funny thing about unlimited data is that with crap speeds like this, I could probably download all month long and not reach the limit of other providers...
I am occasionally able to hit 1000 kbps up and down but at my house it's normally about 300 kbps each. I had 4G today and it was a pitiful 500 kbps down and 50 kbps up with a ping of 500. Be glad you have data at all...
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Honestly, sprint is just awful in some areas. I'm okay with it because I pay a lot less and usually have wifi anyway, but yea, the service is just pathetic.
In LA, I regularly get 5-50 kb/s download and upload with 3g. If I'm lucky, I'll get around 300--this happens maybe 1/10 days. This is in a flat, well populated area of Los Angeles, not a boonie by any means. It's really disappointing.
4g, when it (rarely) works, is also way slower than I had hoped for... maybe 1.8 down, 200 up.
Funny thing about unlimited data is that with crap speeds like this, I could probably download all month long and not reach the limit of other providers...
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You would think that in LA we'd get better service?! I usually get 0.5 mbs up and down on 3g and 4-5mbs down and 1-2 mbs up in my area though...
Sprint putting up lte... that's been the cause of all the crappy data... I'm almost certain somebody had a picture of them putting stuff up in los Angeles and their 3g was down and 4g was pitiful.
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You would think that in LA we'd get better service?! I usually get 0.5 mbs up and down on 3g and 4-5mbs down and 1-2 mbs up in my area though...
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No kidding. The population density here seems like it would be a good cost-value job to throw in more towers...
Network vision is underway in LA, which will affect certain areas and connectivity
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It's official. Sprint has the worst 3G and 4G speeds among major carriers. :thumbdown: I'm not surprised at all.
http://m.gizmodo.com/5902947/which-carriers-have-the-fastest-3g-and-4g-connections/gallery/
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Not compared to ****ty ATT Hspa! Absolute crap in Daytona area. Barely get Sprint 3G speeds out of it. ATT has barely started their LTE rollout.
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I'm coming from HSPA+ speeds on T-Mobile, so I was wondering if EVDO speeds on Sprint are supposed to be this slow? EVDO should be capable of at least 1 Mbps.
I'm consistently getting <300 kbps download, so are Sprint's EVDO speeds really closer to EDGE than 3G?
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It's true. Sprint really is just that awful. Sprint's "3G" is slower than AT&T's 2G. I'm still happier than I was with AT&T, though, since I always have some kind of data signal on Sprint. I might be roaming, and I might get only 5kbps down, but at least I have something. On AT&T I would frequently have ZERO signal and my phone was a worthless oversized paperweight.
Sitting in my own living room, where I have 5 full bars of Sprint 3G signal, I have similar speed to what you posted. Yours might be a bit faster, actually. This is completely normal average speed -- I am fairly certain that Sprint is NOT doing these "network vision" upgrades in east Texas anytime soon, if ever. Contrast that with Verizon -- my buddy was sitting right next to me with maxed out LTE signal, pulling 30mbps on the same speed test. That's faster than my Roadrunner Elite. He then dropped to Verizon 3G and got about 5mbps down. On both tests, his ping was <100ms and mine was >500ms.
I firmly believe that the only reason Sprint still offers "unlimited" data is that there is no need for a cap -- you are limited directly by the speed of your connection and you cannot reasonably even come close to 5GB of data usage in a month. Unless you have consistent Wimax signal, which I estimate maybe 1% of their subscribers have.
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It's official. Sprint has the worst 3G and 4G speeds among major carriers. :thumbdown: I'm not surprised at all.
http://m.gizmodo.com/5902947/which-carriers-have-the-fastest-3g-and-4g-connections/gallery/
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tmobile seems to want to have it both ways. they call their hspa+ 4g, but then throw it in to comparisons against other carriers 3g.
le boo.
from the article... T-Mobile's HSPA+ 21 service won in the 3G bracket of our study, and the company's high-end HSPA+ 42 service competed reasonably well with other providers' 4G service.
3g speeds are poor in some areas but recently have seen a slight improvement in my area. I'm hoping the network vision upgrades will help like they say it will.
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Obviously there is no credibility to that article. There are several places around Daytona that I get over 1Mbs on 3G. I can just as easily measure ATT's 4G in my area to show it slower than Sprint's 3G. Most of the time I have to toggle airplane mode on the stupid ATT phone from work just to get it to load my work screen.
Different areas have different speeds... I get 1.5-2 mbps on 3g.... of course about 2 months ago I was only getting .30 mbps on 3g... 4g is super fast though. Lol
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I had been using the EL30 modem for quite some time and 3G speeds were horrid around the Chicago suburbs. Like bad bad. If I wasn't on 4G, I didn't even want to use my phone for anything data related.
I know NV is being deployed around this area right now, but I recently switched to the FC09 modem, and it's a night and day difference. I used to get around 0.1Mbps if I was luckly. Lately, since the switch, I've been getting more closer to 0.8-1.0Mbps which I'm quite happy with considering it's 3G.
4G I usually pull around 5-7Mbps down (but have hit 10 a few times; that's a full 1MBps down) and I usually cap it at the 1.5MBps up. That's faster than my wifi at home through AT&T UVerse.
Average Sprint 3G data speeds decreased from 2011 to 2012. Maybe because of the influx of iPhone customers?
Welcome to Sprint. Where the 3G is 2G, and the 4G is 3G.
http://www.pcworld.com/article/2538...peed_showdown_which_networks_are_fastest.html
So my question to you is; why'd you leave T-mobile? If they were so great for you, you should have stayed with Big Magenta.
I'm not being flippant here. Carriers are like organized religion. What works for one person offends someone else. In the end, all of us get through to The Supreme Being.
I, personally, always find myself on Wi-Fi so I don't give a crap.
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So my question to you is; why'd you leave T-mobile? If they were so great for you, you should have stayed with Big Magenta.
I'm not being flippant here. Carriers are like organized religion. What works for one person offends someone else. In the end, all of us get through to The Supreme Being.
I, personally, always find myself on Wi-Fi so I don't give a crap.
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You're right. I should have stayed.
With my corporate discount, my equivalent plan on Sprint is cheaper, so I switched. It's too bad that article showing crappy Sprint data speeds didn't come out earlier, I probably would have stuck with T.
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ive tried rtn reset
ive tried scrn reset
ive tried data profile resetting
ive tried pulling battery
ive tried adjusting build prop
ive tried calberating signal
ive tried goig back to stock EL's-FI
ive tried updating prl and profile
ive tried wiping cache
ive tried clear data from google FWS
According to this video google has enabled ipv6 for android 4.0 devices, i just dont know forsure if the sgs2 Sprint has support for it. Anyways check out this video it has to also have more valid packets in the traceroutes as well. And here is a link to get you going with sprints IPV6 i guess you have to call them to get it switched over https://www.sprint.net/index.php?p=ipv6 Sprint tec support has no idea what to do with switching im gonna try another tec LOL if you visit that link on your mobile phone you will see it at the top if your on a IPV4 or IPV6 and my phone says IPV4
here is explanation of ipv6 on utube.
http://youtu.be/-Uwjt32NvVA
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Tmobile got this update with there ICS 4.0.4 And i just got off the phone with sprint mobile broad band tec and he said that our phones should be on a IPV6 as well with the ICS update and to call this number 18007267864 if your phone is running on ipv4, its samsungs tec support line and theyre able to resolve the issue, im checking into now........LOL just as i suspected well the only thing we can do is have you ship the phone to us.....bla bla........only or repair center would have those kinds of answers to your questions......no you cant talk to them theyre our secret phone scientists, we dont offer them to the public......LOL...
What's your location?
At home i get 4 bars, which is a beast connection to me nd when i'm at school(Jobcorps) i get 1 bar and i can barely get on facebook
i get 4/5 bars at my location. Ive always had good signal throughout NorthCounty SD until now. IDK if i messed up some deep internel setting or maybe fried my antenna because sprint says theres no network issues in the area so hope i can get some help.
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what ive also noticed is when i get a solid connection on 3g it will run all day and night i just do my little calberating signal dance and the bad is if i switch to wifi and then back to 3g my 3g will start acting the way the logcat logged phone responding in previous post.
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I also live in north county. My signal is never really excellent, but I have horrid 3g speeds in most places. Especially in Esco at my house. But when I was at Palomar my speeds weren't bad. My wife has an evo that seems to load things faster than me.
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that sucks
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Its likely just a network thing. Same this happened last Spring when I was in Austin. They were doing some network updates and 3g was plain garbage for a few months in areas where it was previously good, worse in others. Then all of a sudden it was fine again. Still Sprint though lol
I guess you could try other modems. Have you done this yet.
The bars are no indication of Sprint 3g reception. The bars indicate VOICE reception. You'll need to go to settings and look at the signal strength in dbm in order to check it out.
Also ... Sprints network is almost universally slow (sub 100 kbps) except in low demand areas, areas where there has been band aid fixes (extra T1 lines), and areas where network vision upgrades have been completed (1.5mbps -> 2.0 mbps on average).
As stated, if you're in an area undergoing NV upgrades then 3g and reception can be wonky as they fix up the towers.
I agree, sprint is slow. I don't think its any specific device/radio/rom. Slow is slow. Even if a speed test app says I'm getting blazing fast 3G, I still can't browse fast worth a damn.
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I agree, sprint is slow. I don't think its any specific device/radio/rom. Slow is slow. Even if a speed test app says I'm getting blazing fast 3G, I still can't browse fast worth a damn.
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That's cause of all the iPhone people... they're clogging the network.
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I live in north county. My speeds here aren't great. But using sprints proxies and the fc15 modem I can stream youtube unless I go past rancho penasquitos. Miramar is bad too.
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lol, the iphone invasion. maybe these logcats can help find what can be added to a build.prop code so jumping between wifi and 3g wont kill the 3g data transfers, idk, what i do know is that this has to mean something.
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welcome to sprints crappy network
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welcome to sprints crappy network
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Well that depend on location... Here in Arecibo, PR service is exelent. :beer:
3G up to 2.75Mbps (30.6GB in 22 day)
Reception:
Inside home 2 - 3 bars
Outside 4 - 6 bars most of the time Full
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I found out another way to tinker it and it seems to be working so far ive done it a couple times now. I had it on wifi and then switched to 3g. i couldnt get a horrible signal even. all i did to fix was turn on airplane mode then rebooted phone waited until my phone loaded up and then turned airplane mode back off and now all of a sudden 3g is good. Ive tried this twice and it works im gonna try it maybe 10 more times just to see if thats it. Please if you try post your results as well
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lol. if you have to try that many times your phones either messed up or its sprint.. but your theory doesnt have any hard evidence besides you have airplane mode on and reboot n turn it off.. i can only pull 1x speeds with full bars.. definately cant watch any video and like your name.. No 4g For Me lol
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Well that depend on location... Here in Arecibo, PR service is exelent. :beer:
3G up to 2.75Mbps (30.6GB in 22 day)
Reception:
Inside home 2 - 3 bars
Outside 4 - 6 bars most of the time Full
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PR is a NV market and deployment is going pretty rapidly. LTE is popping up in a lot of places and fiber/micro back haul has dramatically increased 3g speeds. Won't be suprised if they finished upgrading the entire market by early next year.
Anyways...this is what sprints 3g network will look like once they finish the NV upgrades... not the sub 100 kbps connections we get ...
Updated Original Post with some more Info on ipv6 and linked video to googles june 6 2012 open ipv6 deployment and explaination about pastebin links.
Makes me wonder if sprint and samsung are gonna be on the same page, maybe it will show in the Official JB update
thanks again
Omar04 said:
Well that depend on location... Here in Arecibo, PR service is exelent. :beer:
3G up to 2.75Mbps (30.6GB in 22 day)
Reception:
Inside home 2 - 3 bars
Outside 4 - 6 bars most of the time Full
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That is great and what I expected by now for 3g speeds in major USA cities. The best 3g I have seen is about 1.25Mbps
Ive had my issues with this phone also. The questions i had was 1 Sprint? 2 The phones radio 3 rom/kernal/modem. I live in a real good sprint area. i usually run 1-2.5mb down. I do notice that all 3 epic touches ive owned had wacky radios. Signal goes up and down. That is part of problem. Ive had some roms/ kernals that WOULD not have any good speed at all. I was just on a rom and source kernal and Speeds were terrible. At the same same location i flashed back to stock and used kies to update to bone stock fi27 and poof 2mbps down where it was 200k max. Try stock and see. Also the speed test app IS a joke. its awful. Try this test it seems to be very reliable. http://i.dslr.net/tinyspeedtest.html The screen shot below is in my house for some reason i get very low signal but outside its 4/6 bars. Still 1.4 mb down! I blame the ****ty at&t EDGE tower 100 ft from house.
I notice the fi27 modem goes to sleep and has trouble waking up. Not an issue with fh13 which is neck n neck tie for best modem with el29.