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Hello. I've seen it mentioned, and wouldn't have believed it if I didn't experience it. FYI, this isn't a *****ing thread, I am just curios WHY 3G speeds on the 3VO are so much slower than what I had from the OG Evo. Is this something that will, or even CAN be addressed by a radio update?
Thanks for the input!
From my personal experience, in the same location I have gone from speeds of 300kbps to a meg a second, down to >100kbps with a top of 300kbps. I tried the "Increase 3G speed trick," and still in the same speed range.
UPDATE: I had Sprint reprovision my device, and was told to do a battery pull, turn on and let the system settle, and voila. Still pulling 300kpbs tho.
If anything, this can be fixed through a radio update. Just give it time. I know it is unfortunate. Have you bothered with the MSL tweak that is in the development section?
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If anything, this can be fixed through a radio update. Just give it time. I know it is unfortunate. Have you bothered with the MSL tweak that is in the development section?
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Yes, didn't see any difference unfortunately. I just hope it is software limitations and not hardware... I cant imagine the Evo and 3Vo have that much of a different set up?
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Yes, didn't see any difference unfortunately. I just hope it is software limitations and not hardware... I cant imagine the Evo and 3Vo have that much of a different set up?
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I'm going to say it has to be radio related. Time will tell I suppose. I am sorry that I was not much help.
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My 3g is faster with 3vo than my ogEvo
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My 3g is faster with 3vo than my ogEvo
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Well snap, that is a first from what I have read. What type of speeds do you get on the 3vo now? Done the MSL 0's trick?
LOL'ed at your sig BTW.
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My 3g is faster with 3vo than my ogEvo
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My 3G speeds are a little bit faster, but they still suck. Where I live, my speeds are abysmal. This applies with any Sprint phone. I remember when my speeds rocked, but that was at the beginning of the release of the Evo 4G. It just degraded throughout time.
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DDiaz007 said:
My 3G speeds are a little bit faster, but they still suck. Where I live, my speeds are abysmal. This applies with any Sprint phone. I remember when my speeds rocked, but that was at the beginning of the release of the Evo 4G. It just degraded throughout time.
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Yeah, I live in the sticks, so I feel ya... lol
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Yeah, I live in the sticks, so I feel ya... lol
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It truly does suck. Well when I'm not near my WiFi.
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I thought it was just my 3D at first, but now I see that every sprint phone my family has have been extremely slow. My sister called me yesterday asking how to turn on the 3g on her Samsung, but sadly it was already on. Sprint can't keep up with all the new subscribers.
3G on Sprint compared to Verizon sucks. I called sprint and told them about it. I suggest that others do the same. I'd didn't ***** at them I just told them I have a Xoom and a EVO3D and the Xoom 3G absolutely blows away Sprint. I told them its embarrassment. Unlimited data? Ya at 56k they can give you all the unlimited data they want.
Mine have increased from OG EVO to this without the msl trick. Weird.
Edit: update on speeds. Tested three times, all above 1.40 mbps. Never got that on og evo.
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Funny thing, I just saw sprint's new commercial about unlimited data. They rank on verizon and att for their tiered data, then they rank on tmobile for thier throttling data after 5gb, and they finally they say how fast their data is! I laughed my ass off. I bet tmobile's throttled data is faster that my 3G data with full bars. I'm not in a 4G area so I can't comment on that, I'm sure it's fast but sprint's 3G data in my area is super slow during peak hours. I average 100kbs peak, about 700kbs to 1mb super early in the morning or super late in the evening. Basically without a wifi connection its unusable during peak hours.
no difference between the evo and 3d for me same old 56k **** speeds.
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Funny thing, I just saw sprint's new commercial about unlimited data. They rank on verizon and att for their tiered data, then they rank on tmobile for thier throttling data after 5gb, and they finally they say how fast their data is! I laughed my ass off. I bet tmobile's throttled data is faster that my 3G data with full bars. I'm not in a 4G area so I can't comment on that, I'm sure it's fast but sprint's 3G data in my area is super slow during peak hours. I average 100kbs peak, about 700kbs to 1mb super early in the morning or super late in the evening. Basically without a wifi connection its unusable during peak hours.
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Thats what I told the lady from sprint was that if you don't have a WiFi connection then data was pretty much useless. What got me was I have all my music on the Google cloud. So I sync my Xooms bluetooth with my car. On the way to work it played perfect never skipped and I could change tracks without issue. So I thought well let me try it with my EVO. Well what a disaster it wouldn't play a single track let alone change tracks. Completely worthless without WiFi.
Odd that some see no difference, and some better and some worse... I put the OG Evo back on to make sure, and I'm getting approximately 3 times the network speed.
Does anyone know why this could be? I see fewer bars... But I didn't think to play with open signal maps. Might have to tinker with that when I get off.
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It truly does suck. Well when I'm not near my WiFi.
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I work outside, so no wifi for me.
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For the ones that have good data on OG EVO, but not on the 3D, a reprovision of the phone should help you out. If you have bad speeds on both devices then reprovisioning won't do anything as you're probably in a bad reception area.
Just left tmobile for sprint and I can definitely say my throttled data was faster than sprints 3G.
It's beyond annoying. I live in Orlando, and somehow I find myself constantly roaming in high tourism areas. Actually, I'm roaming the minute I go into my bedroom.
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Mine just picked up speed today! The sprint store tech did a speedtest and it was in the 100kb range. He reprovisioned the phone to reactivate on the network nd my speeds are now as good or better than original evo 500kb average. I dont think a radio update would do much good. Sprint needs to hop on the Rev B evdo or start rolling out those dual 3g/4g towers sooner than expected! They are dropping all these hot phones w/out expanding the network. Starting to sound like att.
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Just trying to get a positive thread going and see who's got the highest 4G speeds, this baby is quick!
Here are mine.
Edit: yea sorry this is Vancouver, Washington
What is that app with the icon in the notification bar, second from the right, i was always curious about it, seen it in a lot of phone pics, also the first icon, is that anti-virus?
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What is that app with the icon in the notification bar, second from the right, i was always curious about it, seen it in a lot of phone pics, also the first icon, is that anti-virus?
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From left to right:
Wifi tether information icon to tell you that AC is disabled
Screen grabber
Wifi tether
and of course usb connection
as per pic
Hope that helps you!
-DJ
Sugar Land Tx, -65dBm i got 8.72Mbs
10.57mpbs in Phoenix today but have got speeds up to 16 mpbs before
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lroy said:
Sugar Land Tx, -65dBm i got 8.72Mbs
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Whoa i need to move to sugarland then because woodlands im only get 5mb max!
Phoenixz? I thought wimax was not up there
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I just got 17.12mbps on speedtest.net. Pretty damn awesome in my book. That's faster than Comcast's performance tier speed. Such a sweet phone.
Cmon people, post up your speeds! You can't tell me 90% of the photon community isn't in 4G land. Lol
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8.16mbps accross the river from cincinnati. not too bad. although the 4g coverage in the northern kentucky/greater cincinnati area is spotty at best.
Here in Columbus I get 11mbps and 1.6, at my house, at my buddies house who lives right under a tower I get 13-14 mbps and 1.75mbps. It is pretty fast here.
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Where i love only 3G coverage on Louisiana but at my church i pick up 2 bars of 4g and get 8 down and 2 up not to shabby
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Where i love only 3G coverage on Louisiana but at my church i pick up 2 bars of 4g and get 8 down and 2 up not to shabby
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Your sig speedtest is amazing, I wanna get me some of that!
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Sugar Land Tx, -65dBm i got 8.72Mbs
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Hey man, I'm also in freaking Sugar Land, TX!, and, though I'm a 3D user, I'm getting my wife to trade in her Shift for the Photon. Thanks for the info on the Wimax. Now we'll (I'll, lol) have the best of both worlds from Nvidia and Qualcomm...
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Your sig speedtest is amazing, I wanna get me some of that!
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That would be the FIBER At my House 100MB
^ +1 Wow, that speed in your sig is awesome! I wish I could get some 4G love here in Dover, DE. You would think because we have a NASCAR track we would have 4G, but no
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I was up in Wilmington on Sunday and did receive some 4G love while there: 7.11 down, 1.47 up, 201ms. Not bad, I guess (better than 3G ). Just curious about the longer ping....
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^ +1 Wow, that speed in your sig is awesome! I wish I could get some 4G love here in Dover, DE. You would think because we have a NASCAR track we would have 4G, but no
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I was up in Wilmington on Sunday and did receive some 4G love while there: 7.11 down, 1.47 up, 201ms. Not bad, I guess (better than 3G ). Just curious about the longer ping....
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Yea, ping is always weird. I don't quite understand how 4g works really as far as towers go. I live in Vancouver WA and I usually connect to somewhere in Kansas, usually Wichita. I ping that at around 150Ms. Kinda crazy. If anyone had anymore info on this I would love to learn about it. Like why I'm connecting to a server in Wichita, when I live in Vancouver.
Also, I work for Comcast and we have 100mbps package but only 10 up. Frontier (Verizon) has a maximum 35mbps upload though, which is a hard sell. Lol. That's the only thing frontier has over Comcast though. ;-)
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Spokane WA has no 4g coverage /cry
Sounds like Austin is saturated. When I first connected my EVO a year ago I was getting 9-10mb downloads. Now I am getting 2mb/1mb with EVO or Photon.
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whys everyone complain so much? I just did some tests on 3G, was getting 1.8mps 1.7mps 1.8mps download and around 1-1.5 upload with just above 100ping, hell i can game on that all I want. at my friends apartment we play gears of War online using my photon, i get around 250 ping there but there is NO lag in game. and it only used like 60kbps? small huh?
edit- and people complain about the 4G.. now I understand for the people that don't have it but in laurel mississippi/kansas city ANYWHERE I go (especially kansas city) i have 2-full 4G bars and in Kansas City I have coverage an hour away from the actual city in any direction
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lucky you.
i get a ping of 500-700 down of 175-300 kbps and upload of 400-600kbps
whats worse is with 4g i get about a ping of 300-320 download is 800kbps to 1700kbps and upload is 100-300kbps and this is not peak time where i live. during peak time 4g is worse than 3g.
My speed has be improving
1mb up 400 KB down 300 ping though
Seattle Wa.
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Ya they need to catch up to the other carriers soon, or they will loose all their new customers.
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i got 1.12Mbps down and .65Mbps up with 240 ping. to seatle server. and thats on my airave....
and its not my isp because on my comp i get over 30mbps down and over 4mbps up
What speeds do other carriers get? I tested Verizon's before 4g ever came out and it was close to 3 mbps
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Sprints speeds are by far the worst in the industry. Their equipment sucks, their service sucks and they are so far behind it's a joke. I just did a speed test and got 475 kbps down and 550 kbps up. Thats a complete joke in Phoenix Az. I would test 4g but oh yeah, Sprint never gave it to us here like we were promised.
Yesterday I got 2.35 down and .85 up. And I get a steady 1.89 down and 1.07 up.
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I get 80 - 250 on average. That STINKS
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Yeah here on the armpit of Texas I get 50/80 down and even less up no 4g and seemingly no promise of 4g but yet those bas#@%#! Charge me 10$ a month for it if verizon wasn't so damn expensive I would have jumped ship already
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well I'm living in the areas with the upgrades nd what not, they have amazing 4G and 3G so I'd just wait, personally I think sprint is making it ahead of the game in the long run.. they already have future plans for lte-advance deployment after the LTE deployment..
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What are you guys using to read those speeds???
Mopho....
The obvious reason that people complain is because not everyone is capable of getting those speeds via 4g must less 3g. If I could get 500 up and down on 3g on a regular basis I would probably be happy. As it stands I'm lucky to get a quarter of that.
Its great you have good speeds, but you should realize you are in the extreme minority when it comes to Sprint customers.
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well I'm living in the areas with the upgrades nd what not, they have amazing 4G and 3G so I'd just wait, personally I think sprint is making it ahead of the game in the long run.. they already have future plans for lte-advance deployment after the LTE deployment..
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The problem with all this is that it's the future, and promises. The reason i switched to Sprint was 4g. But still don't have it. 2 years of waiting. They need to catch up now, or people will jump ship.
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I envy all of you for being happy with those awful speeds. I left 8-10 mbps on tmo to come in and max out at 500kbps on sprint on a good day. I suck it up because this is the best phone ever.
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As long as I get 1 mbps down I'm happy. I don't see the need to have 10-40mbps download speeds on a cell phone. I could care less about 4g, I rarely used it anyway. I've gotten as high as 2 mbps on sprints 3g and that was more than enough speed.
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I get 2.55 down 0.33 up.. In maricopa Az .. But idk if the airave have any play to the speeds
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I would be content with 2mb, but it's hard to watch Netflix or youtube with a couple hundred kb.
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It all depends on where you're at, how good the Sprint coverage is, and how heavily taxed the network is.
Chicagoland USED to be fantastic, but it has suffered dramatically over the course of the last year.
I live in chandler...4g in the area and my speeds r double
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Sprints speeds are by far the worst in the industry. Their equipment sucks, their service sucks and they are so far behind it's a joke. I just did a speed test and got 475 kbps down and 550 kbps up. Thats a complete joke in Phoenix Az. I would test 4g but oh yeah, Sprint never gave it to us here like we were promised.
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I remember a guy say here there was 4G here near downtown area so I turned on 4G a while back & got no bars on 4G with constant disconnections! I live in midtown & make a mistake & turned on 4G recently & was getting a connection. Sprint must really be working on the 4G because now I get connection all over midtown! The connection is stronger outside…… Here is the speedtest from inside house to outside! Your thoughts……
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That's awesome! Now I want 4G.
Non in chattanooga.
None in Toledo, OH.
I think sprint is working on it! There used to be no 4G near me but now I get it all over midtown & the connection outside is EXTREMELY strong & FAST!
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Weird.... I thought they stopped expanding their wimax coverage....
Idk, all of a sudden I get strong 4G
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arghhh I could so use this a month ago, when I was stuck in a hotel, with very bad WiFi.
I've been waiting for 4g in Memphis ever since I got the original Evo. I'm turning it on now to test but I live out in the Wolfchase area so we'll see.
Damn, nothing at my house but good to know we are finally getting some in town. The Sprint tower by my house gives me great 3g with 2600kbps down and 1300kbps up so I won't need the 4g here but when I'm downtown I will be cranking it out.
Since we are flexing 4G muscle...
I had it over new years and at the hotel on the way back and it was awesome. New years eve I passed out with it on and a new battery in, and when I woke up it had stayed connected the whole time and I still had a full battery. Usually I have to stand outside with my phone facing a certain direction before I can get it, yet my evo 4g was able to connect in places where my 3d doesn't even try to.
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I think sprint is working on it! There used to be no 4G near me but now I get it all over midtown & the connection outside is EXTREMELY strong & FAST!
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Fellow midtowner! I've been able to get as far as the main library before losing 4G when I tried on my Evo 4G last year, but I really don't use it all that much even when it is available.
Just tried it, got 2877kbps/118kbps. It'd probably be faster out in my driveway
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Fellow midtowner! I've been able to get as far as the main library before losing 4G when I tried on my Evo 4G last year, but I really don't use it all that much even when it is available.
Just tried it, got 2877kbps/118kbps. It'd probably be faster out in my driveway
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You live in midtown too bro? When I had it on earlier today, it went nearly all the way to Christian Brothers University until disconnected! I'm glad I'm finally getting to use it, I tried to go back to 3G & it's impossible bro! I went from almost 3mb+ down/1.5mb+ up down to like 250kb down/90kb up SMH! The 3G in midtown where I am is ridiculous bro, nearly impossible to use until it's late night round 1! WTF
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Ok nhave u notice anything on 3g like stable speeds for more then an hour?
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Sounds like u will be one of the city's that will have 4g wimax 3g upgrade and 4g lte becuase all 4g new towers have that set on my city has that on the new towers they put up last year in December 2011
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Sounds like u will be one of the city's that will have 4g wimax 3g upgrade and 4g lte becuase all 4g new towers have that set on my city has that on the new towers they put up last year in December 2011
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Are you in Memphis? I couldn't understand what you just said
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theres 4g coverage in La Crosse, WI.
I get about 1-2mbps down and about 1mbps up from my house where I have Low to almost no signal (it drops sometimes). About 100ms ping to any mainland server.
There are however a few settings in the ##DATA# menu for wimax, to decrease the drop threshold, and speed up the reconnection process if it does drop. I forget where the thread went though lol
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Weird.... I thought they stopped expanding their wimax coverage....
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The network vision towers (probably just went local for the OP) most likely are carrying Wimax until the agreement with Clear expires.
I'm blindly assuming here.
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It's amazing how 4G is everywhere in my area now. Here is another test I did up T-Mobile
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Congrats on being the 3rd major Tennessee city with wimax. Here in Knoxville wimax is still spotty but fast when with good signal. Nashville seems to have decent coverage, but if we could all have the speed and coverage that Atlanta enjoys, no one would be *****ing about not having LTE.
20 dl and 10 ul. this is amazing. gotta love LTE! just if they still had unlimited data! -__-
Fantastic. I hope we have one of these threads for every city...:banghead:
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20 dl and 10 ul. this is amazing. gotta love LTE! just if they still had unlimited data! -__-
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lol, man i want 4g lte in my area really surprised Eugene got it however.....
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lol, man i want 4g lte in my area really surprised Eugene got it however.....
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I travel often to remote locations. I must say, some pretty random cities/towns have lte coverage. I personally live in the ny metropolitan area and in my home I only get like 4 Mbps down on lte. In detroit (a ghost town)I got almost 30, in aurora ohio I was getting 24 down, in summerville sc I was also getting about 24 down. It kind of upsets me that I live in a metropolis with either a crowded 4g network or just plain slow. There are areas in the ny area where I get really fast connection speeds. Not in my house though.
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I travel often to remote locations. I must say, some pretty random cities/towns have lte coverage. I personally live in the ny metropolitan area and in my home I only get like 4 Mbps down on lte. In detroit (a ghost town)I got almost 30, in aurora ohio I was getting 24 down, in summerville sc I was also getting about 24 down. It kind of upsets me that I live in a metropolis with either a crowded 4g network or just plain slow. There are areas in the ny area where I get really fast connection speeds. Not in my house though.
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That is still a little slow I get close to 60 Mbps down and 30 up here in Houston Texas
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That is still a little slow I get close to 60 Mbps down and 30 up here in Houston Texas
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That's insane! I thought my 48 down and 20up was badass lol. But its good. Still downloaded a 1.2gb movie tethering to my laptop in 7 mins. Just as fast as my damn home internet I pay $70 for! Amazing
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That's insane! I thought my 48 down and 20up was badass lol. But its good. Still downloaded a 1.2gb movie tethering to my laptop in 7 mins. Just as fast as my damn home internet I pay $70 for! Amazing
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That's pretty sweet I've been doing the same thing my house internet is 24 Mbps but I still tether my phone for downloading its just so quick! I hear its supposed to be even faster at least too 1gbps correct me if I'm wrong
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That's pretty sweet I've been doing the same thing my house internet is 24 Mbps but I still tether my phone for downloading its just so quick! I hear its supposed to be even faster at least too 1gbps correct me if I'm wrong
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My house internet is 40mbps down and 4 up. 4g beats my home internet download by a little bit, but absolutely slaughters upload speed. 1gbps would be outrageous, but I'm cool with my 48 lol. Considering I came from 0.5mbps on sprint.......... And that's a good day lol
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U can add the other half of Sarasota ,Venice, nokomis, and osprey Florida . Like a week ago. I'm as excited as you are lol. And I'm pretty sure a vzw rep can still offer unlimited tethering
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My house internet is 40mbps down and 4 up. 4g beats my home internet download by a little bit, but absolutely slaughters upload speed. 1gbps would be outrageous, but I'm cool with my 48 lol. Considering I came from 0.5mbps on sprint.......... And that's a good day lol
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I came from Sprint too I had the Evo 4g love the developers still have it as a WiFi device then came to Verizon and I got the Droid incredible best phone I ever had wish I still had it but it broke and decided to buy the rezound as a replacement and not bad I'm loving 4G LTE!!!
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