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So this may be a little off topic but I just switched from Tmobile to Sprint a few days ago so I can get the Evo 3d when it gets released so I've been using the Nexus 4g in the mean time, anyways there's no 4g coverage in my area so I'm on 3g most of the time and the speeds are really slow maybe an average of 600kbps but today I noticed I was stock on 1x during most of the day! as I was browsing the internet I noticed the pages were loading surprisingly fast so I ran several speed tests and I was getting around 2 megs down everytime!! how is this possible? I thought 3g was faster than 1x, any thoughts?
It makes absolutely no sense. 1x should be nowhere near those speeds.
i agree! that's why I thought that was really strange I was bumped down that my 3g came back on , I'm actually trying to figure out how to disable 3g on my phone right now! I read somewhere that sprint is testing 1x advance technology but I don't know if that's the case, oh well it was good while it lasted!
Might be 1x advanced like u say
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I am just trying to figure out if it is my phones fault or just the general sprint's coverage that is lacking in speed in my area. Using a speedtest, I get speeds as low as 100kbps to as high as 800kbps, never past 1mb. I even tried performing the test not only at my house, but at other places where I work and I never had it perform faster than 1mbps.
Should I go to a sprint store and ask them about this situation?
my phone is rooted and has a custom rom so maybe it's not a good idea, unless I return it to stock?
Find someone else with a sprint phone and run a test side by side. That'll tell you if its your phone or not.
If I went to the sprint store, and they accidentally saw that I am rooted or flashed a custom rom would they do anything?
I would rather just go to a store and talk to the rep directly, maybe compare speeds with whoever works there.
matase said:
I am just trying to figure out if it is my phones fault or just the general sprint's coverage that is lacking in speed in my area. Using a speedtest, I get speeds as low as 100kbps to as high as 800kbps, never past 1mb. I even tried performing the test not only at my house, but at other places where I work and I never had it perform faster than 1mbps.
Should I go to a sprint store and ask them about this situation?
my phone is rooted and has a custom rom so maybe it's not a good idea, unless I return it to stock?
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Those speeds are normal for Sprint's lackluster 3G network; where I work I get full bars and my 3G speeds rarely exceed 600-700 KB/s, 4G on the other hand averages 6MB/s.
when I move back to college, I will have to test out 4g because it is covered in the location of my school.
Yea you should be happy with .8 mbs..u can do just about anything with that speed..I don't expect more more really..best I've gotten is about 1.6 mbs on 3g
My 3G speeds are garbage wherever I go. I can't use my phone unless im on Wi-Fi or 4G. Tired of this crap... -_-
fmedina2 said:
My 3G speeds are garbage wherever I go. I can't use my phone unless im on Wi-Fi or 4G. Tired of this crap... -_-
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Same here
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firmbiz94 said:
Yea you should be happy with .8 mbs..u can do just about anything with that speed..I don't expect more more really..best I've gotten is about 1.6 mbs on 3g
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well .8 is the best i can get. usually it's around 300kbps. it makes me jealous when my friends verizon or att data speeds exceed 1mb.
I have had just over 1 a few times when testing near my apartment. I am close to down town dallas and very close to a tower.
I am sure it has to do with location, loading that sort of thing. I am sure my tower has been suped up to handle the daily work load of all the people in and around down town dallas. But at night when the usage is a lot lower the speeds definately go up.
Dont get me wrong, i have also had speed tests on the same tower being 200k down and 75k up. Then 9 or 10 hours later its sky high.
Get an Airave,,never see less than 1600kbps on it since I got it,,turn it off,,I can't call or use data,,7 miles from tower
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customhdrider said:
Get an Airave,,never see less than 1600kbps on it since I got it,,turn it off,,I can't call or use data,,7 miles from tower
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You can't carry an airrave around with you everywhere you go. Plus you need WiFi for it to work, so why not just connect to WiFi if your at home? You'll get alot more than 1600kbps. Were talking about the extremely poor 3g speeds without the use of an airrave/wifi.
What i don't understand is how i can have like 4-5 bars and only get 20-80kpbs.
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What i don't understand is how i can have like 4-5 bars and only get 20-80kpbs.
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Cause your signal has hardly anything to do with your data speeds.
I have had the phone for weeks and The 4g or h+ speeds are slow less than 1mbs down And no more than 800k up. Is this how fast At&t's 4g is or not?
P.S This is my first smart phone and It's the best phone I have ever seen. thank you
My 3g seems to be working fine... I dunno abt at&t but.... talking about mbps with my connection im getting good speeds more than 3mbps in general that equivalent to abt excess of 300 kBps download speed.
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My gf just got a vivid, I changed her apn to the same I use on my gs2. But on both the speedtest app n speakeasy the vivid consistently hits 10mbps while my gs2 barely hits 6mbps. Both right next to each other in nyc. Why the large discrepancy between phones? Running same apns n hspa network.
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I'm just guessing, but NYC probably has LTE coverage so your GFs phone will have faster speeds in those areas.
There's no LTE in nyc. The phone shows if it was connected to LTE. I
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Are you running stock or a custom rom? IIRC at&t is known to limit their devices from full speeds. They have likely done this to make the skyrocket look faster even in non lte areas. I remember reading about this a while ago on other devices.
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My atrix 2 was about 30% faster with downloads as well. It said 4g all the time but ATT lies, H+ I reckon.
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Yes may be very true, I was once told that at&t had the mechanism that could regulate particular type of phones' data speed based on region,time of the day,etc and could speed up/ down such as apps /email/ movie download/live stream,etc. I guess every carrier does so to keep these things under control. I tested iphone 4s and ASGS2 on HSPA+, the iphone 4s was faster on data and had good call quality compared to ASGS2. Because critics out there keep comparing verizon's iphone speed and at&t's iphone speed to write reviews, the carrier is forced to keep up the reputation of certain devices for certain time as it's a big selling point!
Our plans for hspa+ are regulated and lte plans aren't regulated for speed.
Here is a good way to test, put her sim card in your phone and see the speeds you get.
I've never changed the APN on my phone...would I get better speeds doing so? Im in Detroit and usually don't get above 1.5mbps down and 1.5mbps up
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for me HSPA+ is just a scam,,, I upgrade to the SGS2 from a Captivate SGS1, and I getting the same speedtest results that I was getting with the Captivate.
I live in DFW area so AT&T is pretty good here... with the Captivate I was getting an average of 3.9mbps Down and 1.5 mbps (it was provisioned with the iPhone Unlimited Data Plan), with the SGS2 (Provisioned with Smartphone Unlimited Data Plan) I'm getting an average of 4.1mbps down and 1.5 mbps. basically the same.
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My gf just got a vivid, I changed her apn to the same I use on my gs2. But on both the speedtest app n speakeasy the vivid consistently hits 10mbps while my gs2 barely hits 6mbps. Both right next to each other in nyc. Why the large discrepancy between phones? Running same apns n hspa network.
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Switch SIM cards and see if you still get the same results. Let us know.
Ok guys! Switched sim cards, the gs2 with the vivid sim card still same speeds 6mbps. But if I put my gs2 sim card on the vivid it still hits well above 6mbps between 9-10mbps. Unless I have a bad phone i think the gs2 is the problem. I'm running unnamed 1.3 and the htc vivid is stock.
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I'd say go get the Vivid or skyrocket if you want faster speeds. Anything HSPA will probably be slower than an LTE phone regardless of what we think we know. I had a skyrocket with faster speeds and never noticed it because the device itself was SLOWER than the GSII, I'm sure the Vivid is even worse than the skyrocket. Anyway its probably not a bad phone or a fluke its probably just the way the AT&T network is. I have an LTE Verizon work phone and get 33 to 40mb down and 8 to 10mb up and still use my GSII because the device is faster and renders pages faster than my super fast internet on my crappy verizon phone (droid charge)
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Ok guys! Switched sim cards, the gs2 with the vivid sim card still same speeds 6mbps. But if I put my gs2 sim card on the vivid it still hits well above 6mbps between 9-10mbps. Unless I have a bad phone i think the gs2 is the problem. I'm running unnamed 1.3 and the htc vivid is stock.
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if I were getting 6mbps with my SGS2 I'll be extremely happy.
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if I were getting 6mbps with my SGS2 I'll be extremely happy.
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Seriously, if I ever hit 2mbps, I'll **** bricks. I measure my speeds in kilobytes.
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Seriously, if I ever hit 2mbps, I'll **** bricks. I measure my speeds in kilobytes.
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Same here bud. Same here. Just the other day after almost 6 weeks of having my ASGS2 I go the fastest speed yet at 4200. Normally I'm hovering around 2000. What I have learned tho is that the speedtest app can be decieving. If I'm on the Frankfurt, IN server, I don't get above 600 ever. Swap to Arora, IL and I'm back up in the 2k range.
I don't get these speed tests. I'm in San Diego and when I use a server in San Diego, I get speeds between 2-3Mbps. If I change servers in the Tools section, Los Angeles, CA for example, I get 5Mbps. So, what does that really mean when I'm downloading apps, watching Netflix or just surfing the web on my SGS2? What is my real speed?
Nobody knows for sure if the speedtest app really works or not. I usually go to my browser and hit the speedtest there.
Also, if your phone downloadds fast (regardless of a number), then be happy.
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Nobody knows for sure if the speedtest app really works or not. I usually go to my browser and hit the speedtest there.
Also, if your phone downloadds fast (regardless of a number), then be happy.
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Yup. I'm happy. I'm even happier that my SGS2 is so much faster than my Cappy (sold for $150). Love it. I was watching a streaming NFL game. It was streaming at a very good rate, clear, not so pixelated -- you can see the score and the small graphics. Thanks to good ol' unlimited data. Just don't go over the limit and get throttled, right? That's for another thread.
Vivd may have a better radio or hardware....after all it is a newer device.
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Yup. I'm happy. I'm even happier that my SGS2 is so much faster than my Cappy (sold for $150). Love it. I was watching a streaming NFL game. It was streaming at a very good rate, clear, not so pixelated -- you can see the score and the small graphics.
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Mind if I ask what method you were using to stream an NFL game?
I don't know why but my new GS2 is getting slow data speeds through the Ookla speed test app. My girlfriend's Atrix 2 gets consistently 5-6mbps. Using the same server, my GS2 only pulls in 1-2mbps. My sister got a GS2 also and getting same results. Does the GS2 just have a bad antenna? I thought this was supposed to be a great phone..
I assume your talking about 4g speeds sounds like your not connected to a 4g network your pulling 3g speeds also what carrier are you on? Some phones just because you enable 4g dosent mean your connected ensure this and test
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i'm on AT&T. Both phones are. The GS2 has an H+ symbol
Same here. I have never got over 3mbps. I have yet to really find out why. I think its like that for many of us.
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There are some tweaks for data speed dialing ##3282# and changing proxy to 0 but double check.i did that for sprint and worked wonders my 4g is around 7-9 mbps after that.imbsure there's a similar way for att
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Nope... :/
Anyone have any idea why the GS2 is getting subpar HSPA+ speeds? Is there anything I can do about it?
Just ran more speed tests.... Atrix 2 gets 6.75mbps down while GS2 gets 3mbps down... can anyone help me out? I'm thinking of returning the GS2 :|
I checked signal strength under both phones, and it's pretty much the same. Both are on 'phone' APN. I'm clueless
I'm having the same issue. This is what I have been doing use Speakeasy.net form the browser and speed test there. I was getting 1-3 mbps with speedtest app. From what I have heard that app doesnt provide correct results. From this site on the browser im getting 5-10mbps. Try it out and see if it helps
Thanks for your response. The speedtest app gave me 2.5mbps down. Speakeasy gave me 6.44mbps. Wow! What a difference. Thanks!
So it's the app then? Strange....
I feel better now about the GS2.
I get the same slow speeds from speak easy
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Yeah the speedtests even with Speakeasy are inconsistent on the GS2. I did a bunch of tests now which ranged between 1.5mbps to 3mbps, and sometimes higher to 5mbps. Meanwhile the Atrix 2 easily stays consistently between 5mbps and 6mbps.
Maybe i'll try the AT&T store to see if they can help
I got the Network Speed app to monitor realtime bandwidth. Streaming from Google Music, I saw speeds of 700kb/s to 1mb/s. Crazy fast. Doing a speedtest on Speakeasy and Ookla only got 250kb/s to 300kb/s
Seems like the GS2 just has a problem with speed tests.