Nearest 4G tower is over a 100 miles away and said not available, in excellent coverage for 3G though. Both according to sprint map.
About 3 months ago, started getting a weak 4G signal when messing with old EVO 4G. Longstory short, I'm getting it on the EVO 3D.
Get it even though I don't use any tweaks.
In excellent 3G coverage, but that is a load crapp. Asked Sprint and several people in my area, no reports of 4G closer than 50-60 miles away.
Q. Can a 4G signal be picked up that far away, by a hotel or large building with a small tower or receiver. Then get bounced off to my phone, and since my phone is looking for it I pick it up.
Used several signal apps to see if anything shows, shows a tower 3 blocks from me. There is no tower, unless its invisible. Only thing there is a hotel, no tower.
Looking for info on figuring out how this is happening, how I can improve on keeping the signal.
Thanks
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Wimax 4g signal as is currently deploy with clear/sprint should not travel 50-60miles....
on the other hand 3 blocks away you should be getting a pretty decent signal.
If they have not turn on the tower for customer use, you may not be able to connect, even though the phone see the tower, it seem likely they are deploying in your area but not yet ready to go live yet
That's what I was thinking, but would they put a tower on a hotel.
Because where the tower is spose to be there is a hotel, I don't see a tower anywhere.
Also, my 3G should be great, but it isn't. So I'm confused as to how i get a 4G signal even though my 3G is bad.
Example
3G - 150-250 kbs down, 250 - 450 kbs up.
4G - 800-1700 kbs down, 50-130 kbs up.
Shouldnt I be getting better 3G speeds.
Also, how far should a 4G signal go. Nobody around me is picking it up.
They haven't turned it off yet, tried almost every time of day. Gets slow but but its there.
Id keep it on constantly if it didn't drain battery so fast. That and it doesn't go farther than where my house is at.
Thanks for the info getting
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Wimax 4g signal as is currently deploy with clear/sprint should not travel 50-60miles....
on the other hand 3 blocks away you should be getting a pretty decent signal.
If they have not turn on the tower for customer use, you may not be able to connect, even though the phone see the tower, it seem likely they are deploying in your area but not yet ready to go live yet
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So I usually check the news in the morning and today (day before the announcement) I noticed that the web pages were loading super fast so I did Speed test and I'm getting crazy 2mbps/d and 1.3mbps/u! I'm usually in the 200kbps/140kbps. I figure that they're testing out beforehand to make sure its running well. What are you guys getting?
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287k down, 142k up. Central PA. But if I remember, NYC was @ the same. My 4G in NYC was like 9M down and 3M up? Cannot remember. My phone USUALLY flys as it is on 3G and I never really think about it.
It would be nice, I have never seen 3G speeds on any CDMA network in my area above 500k - including Verizon, I actually see better more consistent speeds with Sprint than VZW.
I have my doubts though, living in the sticks really does have advantages, but stuff like this sucks.
I just did the speed test and on 3g i got 2.34mbps down and .64 mbps up. Those are pretty standard numbers for me. I do have an airave at home so don' know if that is making a difference.
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287k down, 142k up. Central PA. But if I remember, NYC was @ the same. My 4G in NYC was like 9M down and 3M up? Cannot remember. My phone USUALLY flys as it is on 3G and I never really think about it.
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My bad, I did not have my glasses on. 2.8Md/1.4Mu (missed some zeros). All Networks are improving 3G (the currently majority of their base model phones) by using different forms of compression for greater speeds. Oh well..........
I lost 3g data connectivity entirely today. I have full bars like I usually do but can't get any data through.
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I lost 3g data connectivity entirely today. I have full bars like I usually do but can't get any data through.
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My data connection is suddenly being very intermittent, too.
I'll try updating my PRL and Profile.... See if that helps at all.
My websurfing is flaky as heck, my Google Talk connection keeps going in and out (and taking a long time to re-login) and I can't seem to update the Android market.
I had just run the "supercharger v6" script, but that shouldn't affect my data connection.... right????
Well let's hope for the best. I'm getting full bars everywhere in Anaheim, CA and speed is constant. I just watched my first youtube video without a single hiccup on 3G
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3g improvements
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So I usually check the news in the morning and today (day before the announcement) I noticed that the web pages were loading super fast so I did Speed test and I'm getting crazy 2mbps/d and 1.3mbps/u! I'm usually in the 200kbps/140kbps. I figure that they're testing out beforehand to make sure its running well. What are you guys getting?
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I have also noticed improvements in 3g speed from ohio to texas, been testing at points from columbus to dallas fort worth, have seen 2 meg speeds in fort worth and consistently higher speeds overall.
My guess is with the onset of the IPHONE on sprint, sprint has had to get their 3g act together as the IPHONE does not support LTE or WIMAX it is solely 3g so they cannot afford to continue to piss people off with poor 3g performance. I am now seeing the high speeds I used to see before the smartphones came along with my sanyo mm 9000.
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I have also noticed improvements in 3g speed from ohio to texas, been testing at points from columbus to dallas fort worth, have seen 2 meg speeds in fort worth and consistently higher speeds overall.
My guess is with the onset of the IPHONE on sprint, sprint has had to get their 3g act together as the IPHONE does not support LTE or WIMAX it is solely 3g so they cannot afford to continue to piss people off with poor 3g performance. I am now seeing the high speeds I used to see before the smartphones came along with my sanyo mm 9000.
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3g in my house is usually ~1mb down / 700kb up or so..
Just did a test - 300kb down / 500kb up. This is in the suburbs of san francisco..
(I think we're feeling the iphone saturation..)
I used to get ~1mbps down but in the least three months I've only been getting 30-150 kbps down and 30 kbps up. Totally unusable.
Recently left VZW for SPrint in order to drop my cost and pick up Unlimited data. Both the GF and I went with HTC EVO 4G LTE phones, as we were quite pleased with our HTC Rezounds on VZW.
Her phone is bone stock, mine is unlocked/rooted with S-On, running MeanROM 4.7
Both phones have HORRENDOUS 3G performance. 4G is still only in small pockets in Atlanta, but even down at my office, I am in front of a windo, have 4 or 5 bars on 3G, and I run Speedtest app and my pings range from 500ms-2300ms, my download speeds top at 400kbps, but are usually under 100kbps, and upload is typically around 200kbps...
That's with almost 6 bars of 3G. Been that way for 2 weeks, it almost makes the phone unusable for data. Tried the few mods I could find with my MSL number to bypass Sprint's slow proxy, lowered my LTE threshhold scan time from 30 to 5... Still blows.
Sprint 3G, at least in Atlanta, seems on par with 56k dial-up performance, all kidding aside.
is this normal?
I left VZW thinking that the grass was greener, and I think that I made a huge mistake, and it is after the 14 day return window. VZW was averaging 25mbit up and down, over the entire area, you could get signal almost everywhere in the metro area. And their 3G was at least around 1mbit or so,
Now I am getting almost no 4G, and Sprint's 3G is no faster than dial-up, even when in metro areas with strong signal.
Thoughts?
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Recently left VZW for SPrint in order to drop my cost and pick up Unlimited data. Both the GF and I went with HTC EVO 4G LTE phones, as we were quite pleased with our HTC Rezounds on VZW.
Her phone is bone stock, mine is unlocked/rooted with S-On, running MeanROM 4.7
Both phones have HORRENDOUS 3G performance. 4G is still only in small pockets in Atlanta, but even down at my office, I am in front of a windo, have 4 or 5 bars on 3G, and I run Speedtest app and my pings range from 500ms-2300ms, my download speeds top at 400kbps, but are usually under 100kbps, and upload is typically around 200kbps...
That's with almost 6 bars of 3G. Been that way for 2 weeks, it almost makes the phone unusable for data. Tried the few mods I could find with my MSL number to bypass Sprint's slow proxy, lowered my LTE threshhold scan time from 30 to 5... Still blows.
Sprint 3G, at least in Atlanta, seems on par with 56k dial-up performance, all kidding aside.
is this normal?
I left VZW thinking that the grass was greener, and I think that I made a huge mistake, and it is after the 14 day return window. VZW was averaging 25mbit up and down, over the entire area, you could get signal almost everywhere in the metro area. And their 3G was at least around 1mbit or so,
Now I am getting almost no 4G, and Sprint's 3G is no faster than dial-up, even when in metro areas with strong signal.
Thoughts?
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Welcome to the now network !!!!
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I get decent 3g in pittsburgh but its really terrible sometimes. If and when i get 4g i wont mind not getting crazy speeds because its unlimited. Thats the sacrifice you make with "The Hopefully Sometime In The Future Network™"
They recently upgraded my area and my service was better before ehrpd
So my suspicions are confirmed, I was an idiot to leave VZW. LOL
I am paying huge ETF's to get out of a high cell phone bill and get Unlimited Data, but the joke is on me, as it is easy to offer Unlimited Data when the network only let's you download at dial-up speeds. A 5mb app takes well over a minute to download, rather than the 1-2 seconds that I am used to...
Sigh....
They're upgrading your area now so what your seeing is the norm until local tower work is done.
Trips and stumbles dude.
So yeah, given the under construction status, it's normal.
Voice signal strength has nothing to do with 3g. Just because u have 6 bars doesn't mean you'll have good data signal.
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I sometimes get 1 mb down @ 3 am. Just switch your job to 3rd shift and become a vampire man. It's not that hard. U wanted unlimited data and lower phone bill right? Steal WiFi, lol...
First of all, I live in a suburb of Dallas which is completely covered in LTE according to Sprint's coverage map and I can affirm this by Sensorly and my own personal usage of my phone when I see 4G LTE in many places. However, lately I have noticed on the bottom floor of my house I usually get 1X or 3G, whereas upstairs I get 4G quite nicely. In other houses nearby (less than 1 mile), my phone doesn't even get data many times (and if it does, it is 1X) whereas other Sprint iPhone 5's are enjoying LTE in the same location.
Now I know our phone's have connection issues, but why am I not even getting 3G? Is there anyway to help force my phone to try and get more 4G signal because I know for a fact Dallas has pretty decent 4G coverage? When my phone goes into 1X it also seems to be sucking up quite a bit of battery. Any help is appreciated!
I am running MeanBean 3.09, S-ON, with the newest Bulletproof Kernel.
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First of all, I live in a suburb of Dallas which is completely covered in LTE according to Sprint's coverage map and I can affirm this by Sensorly and my own personal usage of my phone when I see 4G LTE in many places. However, lately I have noticed on the bottom floor of my house I usually get 1X or 3G, whereas upstairs I get 4G quite nicely. In other houses nearby (less than 1 mile), my phone doesn't even get data many times (and if it does, it is 1X) whereas other Sprint iPhone 5's are enjoying LTE in the same location.
Now I know our phone's have connection issues, but why am I not even getting 3G? Is there anyway to help force my phone to try and get more 4G signal because I know for a fact Dallas has pretty decent 4G coverage? When my phone goes into 1X it also seems to be sucking up quite a bit of battery. Any help is appreciated!
I am running MeanBean 3.09, S-ON, with the newest Bulletproof Kernel.
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MeanBean has the Roam only option baked in, just go to settings - mobile network and set it up... The battery drain is "normal" when the phone doesn't have a good signal... Roam or use wifi... I know it doesn't make sense but that's the now network...
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I apologize if this is a duplicate...only did a cursory seacrh, not a deep one. It wasn't there yesterday (or at least, I didn't notice because I was stuck in meetings all day), but today I noticed the "4G LTE" icon on my One. Am very excited! Only getting 2 bars now, so I'll hold off on a speed test. Still...I'm happy to see this.
Anyone else in the Boston area just notice this?
I'm getting 2G / Nothing in my house in Waltham.. which is why I rely on wifi calling.. which is why i'm not using 4.2.2
good to know we're getting close though.
4g LTE Boston
I am currently at work in Boston near copley and I am picking up 4g LTE. Used the opensignal app to verify and it confirmed it. Speeds arent great yet but it says LTE
I got it in Everett, MA
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I apologize if this is a duplicate...only did a cursory seacrh, not a deep one. It wasn't there yesterday (or at least, I didn't notice because I was stuck in meetings all day), but today I noticed the "4G LTE" icon on my One. Am very excited! Only getting 2 bars now, so I'll hold off on a speed test. Still...I'm happy to see this.
Anyone else in the Boston area just notice this?
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An hour ago just noticed the LTE sign by T-mobile carrier in My iphone 5 IOS 7 and I got it in Everett, MA but not in Medford, MA.
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An hour ago just noticed the LTE sign by T-mobile carrier in My iphone 5 IOS 7 and I got it in Everett, MA but not in Medford, MA.
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It's interesting. I take a train from the northshore into Boston so I can see some areas have it and some don't. Where I live in Beverly does not. Salem, no, parts of Lynn, yes, part of Chelsea, yes. North Station: didn't notice as I was getting on a shuttle to work. Close to my work near south station, yes.
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It's interesting. I take a train from the northshore into Boston so I can see some areas have it and some don't. Where I live in Beverly does not. Salem, no, parts of Lynn, yes, part of Chelsea, yes. North Station: didn't notice as I was getting on a shuttle to work. Close to my work near south station, yes.
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I work in downtown (in City Hall Plaza) however I keep my phone on WCDMA to lock into HSPA. However, after reading this I decided to switch back to Auto mode to see what kind of signal I would pick up. I live in Hyde Park. I just ran out to my local Shaws and picked up LTE! I did 3 speedtest and was able to pull down 10 megs and up 9 megs per sec. Very exciting. I'm simply looking forward to a more stable network with robust speeds. Locked in to WCDMA and I can down between 5-9 megs and up 3 megs in Quincy, Brockton. I'll be keeping my phone on Auto more often now. Personally, I find the network as a whole to be a mixed back. On average when my phone is locked to WCDMA, I'm averaging 2-3 megs down and 1 meg up. HD videos load just fine on YouTube...
Glad I checked out your post!
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I work in downtown (in City Hall Plaza) however I keep my phone on WCDMA to lock into HSPA. However, after reading this I decided to switch back to Auto mode to see what kind of signal I would pick up. I live in Hyde Park. I just ran out to my local Shaws and picked up LTE! I did 3 speedtest and was able to pull down 10 megs and up 9 megs per sec. Very exciting. I'm simply looking forward to a more stable network with robust speeds. Locked in to WCDMA and I can down between 5-9 megs and up 3 megs in Quincy, Brockton. I'll be keeping my phone on Auto more often now. Personally, I find the network as a whole to be a mixed back. On average when my phone is locked to WCDMA, I'm averaging 2-3 megs down and 1 meg up. HD videos load just fine on YouTube...
Glad I checked out your post!
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I stand corrected: I get about 2 bars of 4G LTE here at home. Now, I only had two bars (didn't do a more exact, rigorous check. Hey, it's Saturday morning) of LTE, at most, during the speedtest, and it dropped down to one for have of the duration. Still, the results were promising even with the diminished throughput: about 10 down and 6.5 up. Not bad for a couple of bars! The trick is what's going to happen when everyone else figures it out.
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I stand corrected: I get about 2 bars of 4G LTE here at home. Now, I only had two bars (didn't do a more exact, rigorous check. Hey, it's Saturday morning) of LTE, at most, during the speedtest, and it dropped down to one for have of the duration. Still, the results were promising even with the diminished throughput: about 10 down and 6.5 up. Not bad for a couple of bars! The trick is what's going to happen when everyone else figures it out.
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I share the same concern, however I really just want a solid network with great coverage and solid speeds. I haven't had any real issues with T Mobile's network and since my HD2 days my experience has been good. I find their HSPA and plus network to be pretty good, I just wish I had better coverage throughout Mass. Every now and then a YouTube video (always in HD) will take around 10 seconds to load but for the majority of my experience, hiccups and stutters are far in between.
So, looking forward to this LTE network. Although it may not be the fastest, if I can have speeds consistently in the 5 meg range, I would be very happy. I am so sick and tired of my phone and my wife's GS4 on 2g from time to time which is why I keep mine locked in WCDMA mode.
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I am currently at work in Boston near copley and I am picking up 4g LTE. Used the opensignal app to verify and it confirmed it. Speeds arent great yet but it says LTE
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That speed test app Sucks so much. The numbers are never true
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Traveling through Boston to get to downtown... My route included parts of Hyde Park and Dorchester. I'm currently in my office which is on the 16th floor inside of City Hall Plaza and I'm picking up between 1 and 2 bars of LTE. A quick Speed Test (3 total) and my results are sporadic. My best score was 13/down and 11/up.
Excited to see a real effort on behalf of T Mobile.
I'm in downtown Boston at 60 State Street, and in my office on the 4th floor I'm getting an occasional 1 bar of 4G LTE but then it goes back to just 4G before I can test it out. That's unfortunate because their 4G in my office is painfully slow. (Unlike at home in Waltham where it's very, very fast.)
I'll see if I get a more reliable LTE signal when I head out to lunch later. Here's hoping they beef it up soon so I can start using it at work regularly!
Holy crapnuts! Speed!
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I'm in downtown Boston at 60 State Street, and in my office on the 4th floor I'm getting an occasional 1 bar of 4G LTE but then it goes back to just 4G before I can test it out. That's unfortunate because their 4G in my office is painfully slow. (Unlike at home in Waltham where it's very, very fast.)
I'll see if I get a more reliable LTE signal when I head out to lunch later. Here's hoping they beef it up soon so I can start using it at work regularly!
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Wow. NOW we're playing with some power. Stayed at home today and attended a meeting remotely. Grabbed lunch in downtown Beverly and grabbed these results. Very pleased. 27.7 down and 9.9 up...not too shabby!
Latest lte speed test from the greater boston area
Boom goes the dynamite.
i am in Everett, MA and get LTE according to my Galaxy S4 at least. According to the Tmobile data coverage map i am right on the border between excellent(best possible) and very strong(2nd best). Have tested my speeds quite a few times over the last 3 weeks and consistently my down is slower than my up, just tested again and get 10 down and 12 up according to ookla speedtest and about half of that (but still up being faster than down) with opensignal app(although i wouldn't trust tests with opensignal app since it reports my home wifi being 11/8 while ookla correctly shows 85/24) . My friend with Galaxy S3 swears he got almost 50 down while walking in downtown Boston once on LTE about a week ago, hope those speeds come to my neck of the woods @ some point. Any phone optimisation tricks to make LTE/4G bit faster? Would like to justify paying extra $20 for unlimited 4G/LTE data(and if i got over 25/x on average on it i would def. add unlimited option)
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i am in Everett, MA and get LTE according to my Galaxy S4 at least. According to the Tmobile data coverage map i am right on the border between excellent(best possible) and very strong(2nd best). Have tested my speeds quite a few times over the last 3 weeks and consistently my down is slower than my up, just tested again and get 10 down and 12 up according to ookla speedtest and about half of that (but still up being faster than down) with opensignal app(although i wouldn't trust tests with opensignal app since it reports my home wifi being 11/8 while ookla correctly shows 85/24) . My friend with Galaxy S3 swears he got almost 50 down while walking in downtown Boston once on LTE about a week ago, hope those speeds come to my neck of the woods @ some point. Any phone optimisation tricks to make LTE/4G bit faster? Would like to justify paying extra $20 for unlimited 4G/LTE data(and if i got over 25/x on average on it i would def. add unlimited option)
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I don't know how much this will help you but there is a thread (can't find it right now, on my phone) that shows how to change your APN from the default settings to creating a new one that has less traffic epc.tmobile.com
Since I've changed this setting I've experienced greater LTE AND HSPA+, consistently. I too live in Boston and was actually in the Everett area yesterday and had excellent service down there.
If you need extra help, let me know
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I don't know how much this will help you but there is a thread (can't find it right now, on my phone) that shows how to change your APN from the default settings to creating a new one that has less traffic epc.tmobile.com
Since I've changed this setting I've experienced greater LTE AND HSPA+, consistently. I too live in Boston and was actually in the Everett area yesterday and had excellent service down there.
If you need extra help, let me know
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thank you for this info. My default APN is indeed fast.x. I changed to epc.x according to these instructions by creating new APN set so can always switch between fast.x and epc.x and here are the preliminary results:
Tested with ookla app right before change and average out of 3 was 10/11 (Down/Up)
Right after the change(no reboot) and switch to epc.x APN set average 10/11 (exactly the same)
After restart and verifying thats still on new epc APN set - ookla has reported 17/10 (on the right track?? highest down before i ever got was 12)
Switched to back fast.x APN set and ookla reported 18/10 (WTF???)
Restart again and on both epc and fast ookla reported 6/8(even worse than before)
everything was done within 10 min window. Could i be too far from nearest LTE tower? Network Signal app shows the signal as LTE(on both fast.x and epc.x) and dBm of -93(although also shows 3/4 signal bars). Open Signal app shows LTE and dBm -75 and while better than NS app still quite bad. According to Open Signal cell tower map i am less than 1 block away from a nearest cell tower though and about 1.5 blocks away from another tower exactly on the other side.
4G LTE - Saint Louis, Mo
FINALLY!!!! As we were traveling from St. Charles County to Shilo, Il ... Noticed my HTC One finally showed 4G LTE.... I noticed the 4G LTE symbol after we passed the Lambert. Then got really geeked-up and did a speed-test...
"2013-08-30 06:13","Lte","38.63080","-90.18349",1255,364,68,"Tempe, AZ","21.85.222.202","208.54.40.215"
"2013-08-30 06:11","Lte","38.63080","-90.18349",3772,342,37,"Tempe, AZ","21.85.222.202","208.54.40.215"
"2013-08-30 06:10","Lte","38.63397","-90.18629",8182,5811,41,"Tempe, AZ","21.85.222.202","208.54.40.215"
"2013-08-30 06:10","Lte","38.64276","-90.18902",12377,5397,40,"Tempe, AZ","21.85.222.202","208.54.40.215"
"2013-08-30 06:09","Lte","38.65115","-90.19327",5209,4254,38,"Tempe, AZ","21.85.222.202","208.54.40.215"
"2013-08-30 06:08","Lte","38.65999","-90.19670",9385,5469,37,"Tempe, AZ","21.85.222.202","208.54.40.215"
The improvement seem to have spanned out to "push-out" the 2G speeds I was getting in Fairview heights, IL... Really Excited about this.... Now All's t-mob needs to do is build a dedicated connection alone major highway networks.
4G LTE... YEAH! Next test is Wentzville and Lake Saint Louis area
I work in Lynn, and I've been getting 11-12mb down on average for the last few days. Today I felt like my connection was a little slow, do I ran speed test and get this- 4.2 down/9.6 up! Wut?
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I work in Lynn, and I've been getting 11-12mb down on average for the last few days. Today I felt like my connection was a little slow, do I ran speed test and get this- 4.2 down/9.6 up! Wut?
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Well, let us not forget that T-Mobile is still in "Roll out" phase when it comes to LTE. During this phase, we can't expect that the overall experience will always be the best. There will be time where depending on the towers upgrade status, network congestion, utilization and more you will experience slower speeds.
I say, don't judge the network because of one day of sub-par performance, give it some time, and you will notice the improvements.
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Well, let us not forget that T-Mobile is still in "Roll out" phase when it comes to LTE. During this phase, we can't expect that the overall experience will always be the best. There will be time where depending on the towers upgrade status, network congestion, utilization and more you will experience slower speeds.
I say, don't judge the network because of one day of sub-par performance, give it some time, and you will notice the improvements.
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Spoken like a true T-Mobile employee, lol... No, I just thought it was weird. I'd never seen higher upload speeds than download before.
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