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How are the speeds in previous low speed areas?

Here is my delima, I am deciding if I want to leave T-Mobile after 12 years of service. I have great coverage everywhere except the two places I need it the most, my house and my work. For some reason at my work I can only average about 200kbps down tops and that's on hpsa+ it's so bad and can't even stream Pandora. I run a tire shop and we all take turns streaming music its embarrasing when I try to stream and it keeps cutting out. So I own a vibrant but am looking to upgrade to this phone and was wondering since the phone is capable of higher speeds, would I see an improvement? So for you that know you had terrible speeds in certain areas, have you seen an improvement?
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Dont know if this phone will do the same for you but in the area where i live i used to get 2-4 megs with my sensation and this is the results with this phone in the same area
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I used to Get like only 7 Mb/s on my sgs 4g but allot of improvement
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If can get atleast 1mb down, ill be happy. Across the street I can get 3mbs down and in some places up to 6mbs down
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bo55 said:
I used to Get like only 7 Mb/s on my sgs 4g but allot of improvement
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Damn, that ping breaks my heart, sorry to see that. Hopefully that's not normal.
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I had a vibrant and like you signal and data was horrible at home. I got this phone two weeks ago and the problem no longer exists. weak signal was definitly a vibrant issue. Get the phone buddy u will mot be dissappointed

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Damn, that ping breaks my heart, sorry to see that. Hopefully that's not normal.
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i don't know if you noticed
but i've seen a lot of this that goes hand in hand, in a lot of videos and reviews
whenever you get REALLY good 11+ Mbps download speeds, the ping time is always high in speedtest app
if you have good ping time, usually the speed is average, like less than 8 Mbps
maybe that's just how the cell towers behave?

personally, i can say with this phone it has been a HUGE!!!!!!!! improvement on network speed compared to my Nexus S
areas where i average get 4~5 Mbps down, now i can get over 8 Mbps down
phone reception wise has also improved a lot, areas where i used to have no reception or poor reception now i can get good reception with this phone
before i purchased the phone i was betting on the Qualcommn chipset + radio as it was widely advertised and it did really pay off
i'm sure if they used a Exynos the reception would have been crappy like on the Nexus S
badaphooko01 said:
Here is my delima, I am deciding if I want to leave T-Mobile after 12 years of service. I have great coverage everywhere except the two places I need it the most, my house and my work. For some reason at my work I can only average about 200kbps down tops and that's on hpsa+ it's so bad and can't even stream Pandora. I run a tire shop and we all take turns streaming music its embarrasing when I try to stream and it keeps cutting out. So I own a vibrant but am looking to upgrade to this phone and was wondering since the phone is capable of higher speeds, would I see an improvement? So for you that know you had terrible speeds in certain areas, have you seen an improvement?
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Thank you gentlemen for your responses, I have made my mind up and will be purchasing this phone. Hopefully Miui is on the horizon!

A port of it is in process as well as cm7.

[Q] Typical Verizon LTE Speeds? Mine just can't be right... (it's effing FAST)

Ok, just got my Galaxy Nexus today after defecting from AT&T when they throttled my download speed for being in the top 5% on an unlimited plan, even though it was LESS THAN 4GB. (when I say throttled, I mean from typically 8-10Mbps to around 3-5Kbps... KBPS!) So I said, fine AT&T, I've been drooling over the nexus anyway, peace be da journey.
...but I digress...
After playing around with things, downloading apps, familiarizing my self with the wonderment that is ICS, I decided to do a speed test (ookla/speedtest.net):
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Is this typical?? Did I just happen to be standing in an LTE vortex of some kind?? I didn't think it was supposed to be THAT fast...sheesh. Either way I'm lovin this phone...

LTE is indeed that fast. By far the fastest network. I regularly get 25mb/s down in Chattanooga.
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In Portland, OR I usually get 32 MBPs Down and 15 MBPs Up. My slowest speed test ever was 12 MBPs with 1 bar of 4G.
Welcome to the best network in the country, you get what you pay for!

That's definitely on the fast side, but yea its usually at least 15 Mb/s

I have gotten more
I have gotten 57mbps!

Yeah it is pretty fast
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See my Sig... It's FAST!!!

I usually use 3g but 4g here is always well in the 20s mbs.

I would say
Slow lte is about 10 mbps
Average is 25ish
Fast is 35 and up.
My best was 48 mbps.
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My fastest has been 50 down and 25 up

I typically get 6-7Mbps down and up in Colorado Springs. The fastest I ever had was 48Mbps, but that was only once.

milan03 said:
See my Sig... It's FAST!!!
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I've seen quite a bit of those speeds in New York. When I visit the city, I constantly get 50mbps. In South Jersey, I get about 20mbps. Not as fast, but more than enough considering the tower I'm connecting to is the one in Philadelphia. Really great how much range the towers get.

Mid 20's to mid 30's is about average from what I have been seeing.
Still trying to break the 40 Mb/s mark.
Maybe I should try it while I'm not downloading stuff in the background?

I get around 40-50mbps down and 10-20 up around campus/downtown, but at my apartment its usually between 10-20mbps and 5-10 up. Downtown=4 bars, my apartment = 2 bars.

Ya I get fron 20 to 40 down. It makes me laugh, ATT is throttleing their already slow network. Thats like taking a tricicle and adding an anchor because its to fast.
ATT dumb ass's. I hope everyone quits them.

Wow, some fast speeds in here! The fastest I've seen on mine is 11Mb up, 11Mb down. At home I get around 8Mb down if I stand in the right spot, but usually around 4-5Mb, so I just use my home internet. I haven't tested in a lot of places though, so maybe there are some faster areas around me.

My average is 20mpbs up and like 12 down in Worcester Massachusetts

Damn those are some fast speeds, I only get like average around 15 in the OC with my max being around 23-24. Still, that is pretty fast compared to typical 3G speeds.

Poway, CA. Right near San diego
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Damn you Americans and your new fangled technology!! I get 4mbs on a good day in the UK :-D
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[Q] Best ROM/Kernel/Modem Combinations?

There has been discussion, but has anyone found the magic formula? I know many people say the modem is completely independent of the ROM. But others have made the argument that data speeds are married to both.
So, what is your ROM/Kernel/Modem combination and data speeds as well as your location?
I'm in North San Diego County on AOKP B34 ROM, FD24 KERNEL, and FD19 modem. This is not a very good marriage. But Sprint 3G speeds in San Diego suck, have sucked, and probably will suck for the immediate future. Best DL speeds have been 800 kb/s and uploads at around 200 kb/s.

Modems work different for every phone..so there is no "magic combination" sorry =(
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EK02 is the best modem for me all around. I'm running it on EL29 with decent battery life. I get around 3.5 hours of screen time by the end of the day no underclock or undervolt.
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revamper said:
EK02 is the best modem for me all around. I'm running it on EL29 with decent battery life. I get around 3.5 hours of screen time by the end of the day no underclock or undervolt.
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I see you're from pgh, have you tried the fc24 modem yet?

Ttrain721 said:
I see you're from pgh, have you tried the fc24 modem yet?
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Yep. I've tried all of them in monroeville and they are terrible for 3G. I'm hitting an average of 1 mbps down with 100 ping at Duquesne university. It randomly peaks at 2 mbps.
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I'm lucky if I get 300kbs down and over 100kbs up on a good day...
Nevermind did a speed test this morning hit 1232kbps down, 667kbps up...
Ping 112ms very suprising...

It sounds funny reading that 1Mbps is terrible. I haven't exceeded that kind of speed outside of Wifi since I switched to Sprint. My last test had communication failure at ping. not kidding! ROFL---FML 15 more months and I'm out.

jamesissocool said:
It sounds funny reading that 1Mbps is terrible. I haven't exceeded that kind of speed outside of Wifi since I switched to Sprint. My last test had communication failure at ping. not kidding! ROFL---FML 15 more months and I'm out.
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Wow, I average 8mbps on 4g. I love Sprint, never had a problem.

Ttrain721 said:
Wow, I average 8mbps on 4g. I love Sprint, never had a problem.
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Its probably a PA thing. Sprint has been horrible in San Diego. Every metro area has 4G except San Diego. But even AT&T 3G is 10 times faster than Sprints 3G.
I had unlimited plan and left AT&T because they throttled me. But, even when they throttled me, it was faster than Sprint.

jamesissocool said:
Its probably a PA thing. Sprint has been horrible in San Diego. Every metro area has 4G except San Diego. But even AT&T 3G is 10 times faster than Sprints 3G.
I had unlimited plan and left AT&T because they throttled me. But, even when they throttled me, it was faster than Sprint.
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The city 2 spots ahead of San Diego don't have 4g & is bigger metropolitan area .....http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0763098.html
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The city 2 spots ahead of San Diego don't have 4g & is bigger metropolitan area .....http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0763098.html
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Go figure! It makes no sense at all not to have cities with high pop densities without 4G (or well serviced 3G). Yet, Sprint finds a way to avoid the common sense virus.

Philadelphia and LTE

Hey, has anybody noticed any lte testing in philly area? Does anybody know if we're next for the turn on?

yes I get LTE in Northeast today, just a moment.

Good to know that even if for a moment, I will have LTE

This is great news! I wonder if the signal will be strong enough yo reach me across the bridge and up near Burlington city. Maybe I won't be limited to get it when I go in for food or Phillies. lol
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rofl i called an at&t rep today and asked him to give me a guesstamate of when lte will be available in jersey he says to me "Im going to be honest with you sir..... you live in jersey....... jerseys always last....." lmfao i wished i could shoot myself

Take this with a grain of salt, but I know a well ranked agent who is pretty close with a certain "Tiffany" who some of you may have heard of, and supposedly the Phila switch is going to be flipped sometime in the third week of August. Don't get your hopes too high because there are bound to be hiccups along the way, but I'm sure I'll hear more as we move into August. CANT WAIT!!!
Edit: Just in time for shared everything plans lol.. At least it's going to be optional.

How will I be able to tell if I have LTE active will it say it next to the 4G icon?
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Yes it will show LTE by the signal strength in status bar.
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dusty2422 said:
Yes it will show LTE by the signal strength in status bar.
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No clue who Tiffany is, but LTE while drinking Margaritas is good enough for me if true.

Oo I'm excited then because the hspda in my area is a nice speed
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lte
I want LTE in Sacramento, Verizon has it.so ATt shouldnt be to far behind them.

They just turned it on last week in my area
South Florida

You guys that live in the areas where it is turned on, how fast is it compared to the regular 4G
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Waiting for ATT - LTE here in Salt Lake - By the years end is all we hear..
Had 45mbps downloads in Phx on LTE damn.. I need that - lol

Damn 45mbps down? Wtf
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Addictedtothegreenguy said:
You guys that live in the areas where it is turned on, how fast is it compared to the regular 4G
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well i was never technically on 4g down here but i went from about 6-8mbps to 20 mbps
they turned it on from miami north to west palm and I am in the most northern part so im assuming the fort lauderdale - miami area probably has the better speeds than i do here, but it is alot faster

toughcookie said:
well i was never technically on 4g down here but i went from about 6-8mbps to 20 mbps
they turned it on from miami north to west palm and I am in the most northern part so im assuming the fort lauderdale - miami area probably has the better speeds than i do here, but it is alot faster
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I cannot wait until it gets turned on I Philadelphia
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Same here I'm in Philadelphia. Don't quite get why at&t skipped us in the first deployment.
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Metro areas that had "sufficient" 3G coverage were automatically skipped through the first and sometimes second pass of LTE implementation.
Squeakiest wheels got the grease first, is what I've heard and read.
Incidentally, don't be too upset about this, as LTE (from personal experience) has not been all that great anyway. I've been in Chi, Miami/Ft.Laud, DC and Baltimore and only in one of those markets (frigging Baltimore of all places!!) was I getting better than 11Mbps down and better than 6Mbps up (i got 17Mbps down, 10Mbps up). Both DC and Miami/Ft.Laud were marginally slower than my home WiFi which is typically around 10Mbps down and 6Mbps up, and Chicago was absolutely pathetic all three times I've been there since Feb, coming in roughly on par with Philly-area HSPA+/4G.
Incidentally, my experience has been with this phone as well as my Note i717, both top-end devices.
Plus, remember that even a strong LTE signal (let alone a weak one, god forbid....) will drain the piss out of your battery, a heck of a lot quicker than good old fashioned HSPA+.
Just my $.02.
-Ryan

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So I'm at the Norristown Transportation center and I got LTE for a quick second but couldn't take ****ing screen shot with that motion bull****
EDIT: I got it to work and it came back just in time.
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LTE in St. Petersburg/Clearwater area tonight

Here's some speedtest I ran.Not the fastest but we finally have LTE. Let's hope it gets faster.
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spdrasr3 said:
Here's some speedtest I ran.Not the fastest but we finally have LTE. Let's hope it gets faster. View attachment 1631969View attachment 1631970View attachment 1631971
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it dosent sprint only rates it at 6 megs or something stupid. maybe at the end of the nv roll out it might improve
or not because you took thoes speed test with decent db and probally little to no tower load on the lte core
you do realize this should be part of the sticky on top

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it dosent sprint only rates it at 6 megs or something stupid. maybe at the end of the nv roll out it might improve
or not because you took thoes speed test with decent db and probally little to no tower load on the lte core
you do realize this should be part of the sticky on top
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Where did you read that Sprint rates it at 6 only?
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DirtyShroomz said:
Where did you read that Sprint rates it at 6 only?
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sprint.com/lte
maybe it was 10 but it was something stupid low
oh yeah its 6-10 they rate its final roll out at.
sad cuz vzw is capable 30+ non spiking with a large load
anyone know the reason why?
never seen that speed even at sprint hq...

Dreamlogix said:
sprint.com/lte
maybe it was 10 but it was something stupid low
oh yeah its 6-10 they rate its final roll out at.
sad cuz vzw is capable 30+ non spiking with a large load
anyone know the reason why?
never seen that speed even at sprint hq...
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Sprint came out as fastest lte in recent tests. I would say partly due to low loads. It's 6-8 average and 25 peak. I'd say just fine enough speeds for a cell phone.
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DirtyShroomz said:
Sprint came out as fastest lte in recent tests. I would say partly due to low loads. It's 6-8 average and 25 peak. I'd say just fine enough speeds for a cell phone.
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speed test made and skewed by sprint?
do you know what the others are rated at?... there a reason why sprint rates that low cuz their user load will be crazy and slow to a crawl like the last couple years.
also they have inferior spectrum holdings /backhaul ( there using microwave in some places) and from my personal experience they are rarely/ never pay to be at the top of a tower
atts hsdpa is capable of 6 megs not to mention their lte is faster + 800 coverage has been around for a while for them ill be lucky if i ever see 800 coverage in st pete.
... just simple facts not knocking ya or anything ( or sprint for that matter)
im happy with them finally after backhaul to my tower by my house got installed finally see over 1 meg some times on cdma altho nv/lte is not complete

Please discuss LTE in the sticky thread
Thanks
FNM