Well as the title pretty much says it, I am wondering if anyone is in the Phoenix, AZ area and what their speeds are on 3G. I'm asking because when I do manage to get 3G service, I have a whopping 5-15kbps average, with tops of 150kbps at like 3am when, I suppose, there is hardly anyone utilizing the network.
If anyone is in the area I'd love to hear your experience with Sprint and 3G. The way things are here, I'm pretty much just waiting for my contract to expire.
Happy I moved back to Chicago from phoenix omg to damn hot. I'm surprised your phone can take the heat. Well when I lived there sprint 3g was horrible I lived on north 28 drive down the street from a bus station and the mall.
In Chicago lte is blazing fast and I haven't seen 3g in months on my phone.
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Happy I moved back to Chicago from phoenix omg to damn hot. I'm surprised your phone can take the heat. Well when I lived there sprint 3g was horrible I lived on north 28 drive down the street from a bus station and the mall.
In Chicago lte is blazing fast and I haven't seen 3g in months on my phone.
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Trust me you are glad you moved out, apart form the heat Sprint's data connection sucks. Dial up is at least more reliable than the 3G service we have pretty much throughout the county. We've been promised 4G and LTE for about four years now...
I was between Phoenix and Surprise last week on a trip. Man, I thought our data speeds in central Wisconsin were bad. There were some times I couldn't get any data as it bounced from one bar of sprint to roaming. Awful. Feel bad for you. If I lived there, I probably would leave sprint.
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I was between Phoenix and Surprise last week on a trip. Man, I thought our data speeds in central Wisconsin were bad. There were some times I couldn't get any data as it bounced from one bar of sprint to roaming. Awful. Feel bad for you. If I lived there, I probably would leave sprint.
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If it wasn't for unlimited data and a hopeful spirit for improvement I'd have left quiet a while ago. I've been even connecting to 1x recently, I had almost forgotten it still existed.
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Thanks for the heads up. I wasn't quiet sure where to post.
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I was wondering if anyone else has this phone on Tmobile in the chicagoland area? I was wondering how the reception for calls and data quality is.
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wrong forum and mine sux a$$ in pa
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I was wondering if anyone else has this phone on Tmobile in the chicagoland area? I was wondering how the reception for calls and data quality is.
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I'd suggest going into a local, or even a couple of T-Mo stores to do some speedtests. Also try posting in the correct forums next time (General).
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wrong forum and mine sux a$$ in pa
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I always hate going to pa. its like t-mobile doesn't exist there...
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I'd suggest going into a local, or even a couple of T-Mo stores to do some speedtests. Also try posting in the correct forums next time (General).
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Should be the Q&A forum. SGS3 has worse reception than the SGS2. Also has a left hand grip signal drop issue. This causes the phone to switch to EDGE a lot. Check this thread out. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1756280
I would say very good. Perhaps not excellent, but very good, imo.
crap speeds in denton texas..
4G at all times in NW Burbs of Chicago. Honestly best reception on any T-Mo phone I've owned in 10+ years.
4G all time in the tristate except in high heights and subway.
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Super fast speeds. Los Angeles, CA
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I do know better, I just had a few tabs open and click on the wrong one. I guess So far IL has 1 good result. I have heard some negatives about tmobile overall, but what I read online was fairly positive. So I am still deciding on which carrier to try.
I took the liberty of e-mailing the president of Samsung about this issue. I called Samsung and they provided me with this e-mail after I professionally told them about the issue and how more then a few people were having this issue. I will be informing about any updates.
Chicagoland is so big that it is hard to generalize. I've been with TMO since the voice stream days in the western suburbs and have been generally been pleased with it. I've had the gs3 for a week now and reception is the same as my htc hd2. Data of course is much faster.
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Anyone seen this yet. Also improved 3g speeds. Anyone confirm. I just left sprint for t-mobile a month ago too
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I spend a lot of time in the city but haven't seen anything yet. You can bet all ya'll be the first one to hear when I do.
nothing here in SF
the areas i spend the most time are SOMA, near civic center, downtown and the inner sunset.
it seems like they're testing the peninsula areas first.
Nothing within the East Bay (Walnut Creek) yet. When Wimax launched we got it out here along the 680 freeway pretty quick. Hope LTE follows the same pattern.
Nope have not seen any LTE.
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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 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
Does anybody happen to live in New Jersey that has T-Mobile? I would like to switch from verizon but I am worried about coverage issues. Specifically I would like to know if coverage is good in Monmouth County. Thanks! If you know any information about coverage or surrounding areas please leave a reply, it's greatly appreciated.
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Does anybody happen to live in New Jersey that has T-Mobile? I would like to switch from verizon but I am worried about coverage issues. Specifically I would like to know if coverage is good in Monmouth County. Thanks! If you know any information about coverage or surrounding areas please leave a reply, it's greatly appreciated.
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Go to T-Mobile.com and check their coverage.
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Go to T-Mobile.com and check their coverage.
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Like I can trust the carrier, their maps will make it look like they have excellent coverage and in reality they do not.
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Like I can trust the carrier, their maps will make it look like they have excellent coverage and in reality they do not.
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Thats false advertising. I have no issues using it Just gotta zoom in far enough cause some places look good, but when you zoom in, you see its like boarderline good. so just zoom in.
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Does anybody happen to live in New Jersey that has T-Mobile? I would like to switch from verizon but I am worried about coverage issues. Specifically I would like to know if coverage is good in Monmouth County. Thanks! If you know any information about coverage or surrounding areas please leave a reply, it's greatly appreciated.
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I'm in NJ and I made the switch recently. Despite everyone telling me I'd get terrible coverage, I've actually found it better than I had with Verizon. Don't get me wrong -- Verizon's LTE completely blows away HSPA and + in terms of speed, but so far I've gotten far more consistent 4G coverage than I had with LTE.
That being said, I'm located in Middlesex. So I can't say how good T-Mobile is down in Monmouth. Up here though it's excellent. I go from Scotch Plains --> Newark/Parsippany areas for work and I get excellent 4G coverage everywhere I go.
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Does anybody happen to live in New Jersey that has T-Mobile? I would like to switch from verizon but I am worried about coverage issues. Specifically I would like to know if coverage is good in Monmouth County. Thanks! If you know any information about coverage or surrounding areas please leave a reply, it's greatly appreciated.
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im in central nj and coverage is very weak where i am.
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Thats false advertising. I have no issues using it Just gotta zoom in far enough cause some places look good, but when you zoom in, you see its like boarderline good. so just zoom in.
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If u look at my house on tmobiles coverage map I'm supposed to have "excellent" 4g coverage but I barely get 1bar of 4G. It's not always accurate.
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If u look at my house on tmobiles coverage map I'm supposed to have "excellent" 4g coverage but I barely get 1bar of 4G. It's not always accurate.
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Can't test from in your house. Do you think T-Mobile goes inside your house and tests the connection? I too have "good" service, inside i cannot get HSPA outside i get 1~3 bars. So the map is accurate. Granted, not perfect.
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Can't test from in your house. Do you think T-Mobile goes inside your house and tests the connection? I too have "good" service, inside i cannot get HSPA outside i get 1~3 bars. So the map is accurate. Granted, not perfect.
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I said at my house not inside my house. T-Mobile admitted to me their service map isn't 100% accurate
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Im in northern passaic county and its spotty but the wifi calling makes up for it. I get good service in oakland though were I work. I had verizon before and had great reception but I pay a lot less now so im ok with it. Its not horrible.
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Newark NJ get 10mb down, work in Fairfield NJ get 5/6mb down... pretty reliable. sometimes spotty at work(knew this from their coverage map, which to me it's its extremely accurate) but mostly reliable.
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I am in bergen county and I have great coverage better than I had with verizion lte
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I live in Monmouth County, and T-Mobile sucks here. Had it for a long time, tried to get them to come out and see why the service sucked so much, and all they gave me was bs. So finally I made the switch to Verizon and couldn't be happier.
Lol not sure what answers you were expecting with that kind of question, but I understand ur concern.
Hudson/bergen County here. Service is good 2ishMB down 300ish KB up. Average/high. To be honest, with what I pay, its MORE than enough. $150 unlimited everything for 3 people. Verizon can suck a bag of ..........
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Haha sorry about that, won't happen again!
How is the T-Mobile network in the south suburbs, like northwest, Indiana? I plan to ditch AT&T and TRY T-Mobile in my area tomorrow. So sick of AT&T's throttling and horrible call quality and GS4 limitations.
I'd like to get some advice on those of you using the Gs4 on T-Mobile in or around Chicago. I noticed that those of you using T-Mobile's H+ network seem to have very inconsistent pings and download speeds with EDGE poking its head in every now and then. I also would love to get some feedback on the T-Mobile wifi calling option.
I successfully rooted and flashed Task650 rom and hope the T-Mobile S4 isn't difficult to root and flash, hopefully not since the bootloader isn't locked.
I work in the Homewood/Thornton area, but I'm usually always on Wi-Fi. No problems with the network the times I do stray from the office. Speed wise is not the greatest but on par with every other phone I've had. Claims 4g, I'm getting about 4Mbps down and 1.5 up.
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I've had over twenty mbps down with new modem and updates
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I am in chicago heights area and absolutely no issues. I get double digits all day long. You do have a 30 day trial to actually try it.
For the two days I was in Chicago, I thought the service was pretty good. Fair warning, the 103rd floor of the sky tower thing, the phone signal and 4G get a bit choppy. (you'd think it'd kick butt since it's all encased in glass, but whatever.)
Also, LOL @ Sprint being the fastest 4G LTE in Chicago...
Nw Indiana here. Been with Tmobile for 10 years and have no intentions on leaving. I average pings in the 40s to 60s with 16 down and 8 up.
As been said go for the trial and see how you like it.
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Nw Indiana here. Been with Tmobile for 10 years and have no intentions on leaving. I average pings in the 40s to 60s with 16 down and 8 up.
As been said go for the trial and see how you like it.
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Any LTE anywhere? How about dipping into EDGE anywhere? I think I will try them out tomorrow.
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I live on the south side of Chicago. Travel and work in south / southwest suburbs and have no issues. Highly recommended T-Mobile.
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I work all around Chicago and northwest suburbs, Schaumburg, Barrington, Elgin, Hanover, elk grove, honestly the service every where but real south Barrington has been pleasing, as of two days ago from my home in Schaumburg I get LTE. Around 24mb down and 8mb up. Very pleased with there service compared to others in the area.
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What are you all have for apn settings. I'm using the fast.t-mobile.com but my speeds are not great.
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