I just ran a speedtest on my 3G and got 108kbps. This is horrible, especially when I see others with 1.5mb on 3G alone. I'm lucky to get that on 4G.
Even when I'm at home on my wireless internet, it seems like when updating apps my speed is throttled at 400kbps. At least that's what it looks like it's going up in increments.
Any help would be greatly appreciated!!!
I just ran a speedtest on my 3G and got 108kbps.
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Welcome to Sprint. Get used to it, I haven't got above 150kbps in over a year on 3g.
Could it be my ROM that is affecting my 3G? I updated radios and did the data reset with my MSL and still get HORRIBLE 3G speeds. I tested my 4G and it was 3.4mb down...
I'm currently using Mikrom btw
Im currently on the latest Miui 109090 and savaged-zen 2.0.2 cfs havs gb+ kernel. I noticed my 3g was horrible so decided to do a speed test and Im averaging around 250 ping, 150kbs upload and about 200kbs download. Why is my 3g so incredibly bad? is it sprint or my rom/kernel?
Knucklez09 said:
Im currently on the latest Miui 109090 and savaged-zen 2.0.2 cfs havs gb+ kernel. I noticed my 3g was horrible so decided to do a speed test and Im averaging around 250 ping, 150kbs upload and about 200kbs download. Why is my 3g so incredibly bad? is it sprint or my rom/kernel?
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Was it that slow before the combo your on? I think its sprint though.
My knocked up EVO
Knucklez09 said:
Im currently on the latest Miui 109090 and savaged-zen 2.0.2 cfs havs gb+ kernel. I noticed my 3g was horrible so decided to do a speed test and Im averaging around 250 ping, 150kbs upload and about 200kbs download. Why is my 3g so incredibly bad? is it sprint or my rom/kernel?
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Pretty sure its Sprint. My speeds have abysmal in the past few weeks. Never had these issues before. They dont seem ROM related
Prolly all the iphone hippies...
My knocked up EVO
It's Sprint. My 3G has gotten worse but my 4G has taken an even bigger hit. I've also noticed more that I'll lose 3G and drop to 1X in an area I KNOW has 3G coverage, and sometimes it won't switch back unless I toggle the mobile data on and off.
My 3G tests have ranged from 175 kbps (5:30 PM) to 860 kbps (11 AM). While I used to be able to hit up to 8 mpbs on 4G, my last two tests showed me at 1860 kbps and 1740 kbps. That is slower than any other carriers 3G, like really Sprint? Wimax is a ****ing joke (probably more due to the spectrum used but still)
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Prolly all the iphone hippies...
My knocked up EVO
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Hilarious!!!
You guys are doing better than me.......I'm down to 54kb. Checked wifes intercept and it is a little better but.not much. I'm so sick of this!!!!!
Anyway thanks for listening lol
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Yep, way better than mine. I havent gotten above 100kbps since last November.
ok.. thats "good" i guess.. I was this close to wiping everything and starting from scratch, but I guess this horrible service is normal.
What dbm are you guys getting? im at -99
Pretty sure it's Sprint as others have already said. In north NJ and my speeds have been horrible for the last 6 months. Just getting worse and worse.
I signed up with Sprint cause of unlimited data but what's the point of having it when it's so slow as to be nearly useless? I have wifi everywhere at work so not an issue but I used to be able to stream music while driving and that's no longer possible.
I've tried just about every speed tweak out there, including the 3G script, resetting data, changing proxy settings and different radio combinations but all have ended up yielding 0 results. My speeds max out at 0.20 Mbps at best.
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What dbm are you guys getting? im at -99
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Yeah, about the same, sometimes up to 85.
Rediculouse that we have to pit up with it.
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What's funny is Sprint featured some video chat apps on their Twitter account the other day. I replied back basically, "Why feature video chat apps when there's only a 200 kbps network?" They never got back to me, .
3g dial up speed internet access.
Glad Roaming is free till they yell at me. haha
How do u force roam?.
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To Force roaming.
There is an app called roam control that will do it for you or there is a new rom called Evo Classic v0.0.3 that has it baked in the rom.
I've got roam control already but it doesn't seem to do anything. And yes I am rooted
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Roam Control will only let you roam for voice. For data, you will be on 1x only. (although 1x is usually faster than what I get on sprint's 3g).
To fully roam on verizon with 3g you will need to flash the verizon prl here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=696073
Be sure to fully read, and understand that until you unflash the prl, you will be CONSTANTLY roaming on verizon, for both voice and data. Your phone won't show you are roaming, so be careful and dont forget and leave it on verizon for too long. Sprint will catch you if you go over about 3gb of data, and they could kick you off their service.
How do u get back to sprint after you flash the Verizon prl?
Edit: nvm, just figured it out
Sent From My Pocket
So maybe I'm crazy but it seems like the longer the stay on one rom the slower the data speeds get. I flashed a rom this morning and my 3g data was 2,000+ Kbs and by the end of the day (when i would assume network traffic is lower) I'm down to 300 Kbs.
Anyway just curious to see if anyone else experiences this and if so someone has a fix.
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So maybe I'm crazy but it seems like the longer the stay on one rom the slower the data speeds get. I flashed a rom this morning and my 3g data was 2,000+ Kbs and by the end of the day (when i would assume network traffic is lower) I'm down to 300 Kbs.
Anyway just curious to see if anyone else experiences this and if so someone has a fix.
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try different modems EL26 etc
Hi all,
Had the S3 for about a month now and love it. Until about a week ago my 4G speeds here in Seattle were great. Averaging 4-12Mbps down and 1-3Mbps up.
However, in the last few days my speeds have been all over the place. Sometimes I'll have 40ms ping and a 12Mbps download speed. 10 minutes later I'll have a 500ms ping and .5Mbps downloads. And it isn't just the Speedtest app. I only run the tests when I notice a website is incredibly slow to load or Google Reader is taking 30 seconds to refresh (it usually takes about 4 seconds).
I called T-Mobile worthless support line who basically said "restart your phone". Ugh.
Anyway, I'm not rooted and not terribly interested in flashing a new ROM (stock is running fine for me).
I came from Sprint where they could run profile updates if you were having data issues. Does Tmo have anything similar?
thanks!
PS I'm still within my 90-day Costco return/exchange period, so I'm happy to take it in if needs be.
Not here to answer your question but I'm on the edge of leaving sprint for tmobile for this phone....would you say your experience has been better?
akasan said:
Not here to answer your question but I'm on the edge of leaving sprint for tmobile for this phone....would you say your experience has been better?
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Much better than my friends who are with Sprint. I get around 20Mbps download speeds on average everywhere I have 4G (which is just about everywhere).
There's been some thread popping out with slow data speeds, might be T-Mobile doing something with their towers.
I'm experiencing the same issues.
I can't figure this out and have researched it more than I like to admit without any luck...
I am running DN5v2 rom on my Note 2. I have been noticing that my data has been pretty slow lately and did a speedtest and only getting .5Mbps download. I have installed various modems with the same results. I did a clean install of the rom with same results. Checked APN settings and looked OK.
I thought it may be my area but did a speedtest on my sisters s5 with 20MBps download speeds (I understand different hardware may have something to do with it but I should get more than 0.5 MBps). I live in Orange County, CA so there is great signal around here.
I am all out of ideas. Anybody got anything I can try?
Much appreciated!!!
Last thing I checked was my data usage. Was at 5.7 Gb for this month. Talked to rep, they are throttling me till next billing period. Such #@[email protected]#%@!
Admin if you could please delete this thread. Thanks!
simonsayz31 said:
I can't figure this out and have researched it more than I like to admit without any luck...
I am running DN5v2 rom on my Note 2. I have been noticing that my data has been pretty slow lately and did a speedtest and only getting .5Mbps download. I have installed various modems with the same results. I did a clean install of the rom with same results. Checked APN settings and looked OK.
I thought it may be my area but did a speedtest on my sisters s5 with 20MBps download speeds (I understand different hardware may have something to do with it but I should get more than 0.5 MBps). I live in Orange County, CA so there is great signal around here.
I am all out of ideas. Anybody got anything I can try?
Much appreciated!!!
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Try to put on a stock rom and run a speed test.
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Last thing I checked was my data usage. Was at 5.7 Gb for this month. Talked to rep, they are throttling me till next billing period. Such #@[email protected]#%@!
Admin if you could please delete this thread. Thanks!
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That'll cause your speed to slow down for sure. Hate when they throttle my speeds!
Anyway not sure what carrier you're using. But AT&T got hit by the Fcc for throttling customers, that had unlimited data..
Which I got hit plenty of times. Since I was in the 5% of users who used lots of data. BS I say... it's being investigated so it can be stopped.. hopefully.
One way around it was to use an older apn setting to trick the network. It worked sometimes, and then it wouldn't do squat.
I made a thread about data throttling awhile ago.
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Try to put on a stock rom and run a speed test.
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What is a stock rom? Just Kidding. I talked to the ATT rep and they are throttling me.
Bajanman said:
That'll cause your speed to slow down for sure. Hate when they throttle my speeds!
Anyway not sure what carrier you're using. But AT&T got hit by the Fcc for throttling customers, that had unlimited data..
Which I got hit plenty of times. Since I was in the 5% of users who used lots of data. BS I say... it's being investigated so it can be stopped.. hopefully.
One way around it was to use an older apn setting to trick the network. It worked sometimes, and then it wouldn't do squat.
I made a thread about data throttling awhile ago.
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Yeah. I have had AT&T for over 10 years. Now they do this crap to their loyal customers. No need to say more...it's beating a dead horse. Hopefully the lawsuit that FTC put on them will take care of this once and for all.
My billing period is going to reset in a day or two. I'll try the old APN settings next time these douche bags throttle me.
Thanks for the response guys!