Poor network speeds - AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777

I just got my GS2 Sunday and retired my N1. Love the phone so far. But is anyone else getting poor download speeds? On a good day, I could pull 3.5-4mbps on my N1 and I've yet to break 3mbps on my GS2. Also, Phoenix is suppose to have the backhaul finished.
Is anyone else noticing poor speeds?
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4G down?

I'm in Atlanta and it seems 4G has been down the last few days. Anyone else notice this or is it my phone? I haven't really changed anything, just installed a few apps.
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It has been kinda iffy here in Arizona also the speeds have been really low as well
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I'm also in AZ and can confirm i'm only seeing 1X where I normally have strong 4G/3G Signals.
I'm in Connecticut, and seems like I'm having a similar issue. However, I'm rooted, running Gingerbrick radio/ROM, and been changing kernels as Imoseyn puts out new ones, so I was not sure if it was the network, or bugs in the GB software.
No issues in Charlotte. I am currently in the middle of a medical building with no windows and 3 bars signal strength. I just got over 15Mbps down and close to 8Mbps up on Speedtest.net.
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In washington dc...i'm getting 3G but not 4G. However I did update the kernal before I went to bed last night so that might be the issue.
EDIT: Rebooted and 4G is back.
Thanks
No 4g where I'm at in cali... But I can say for the past few days, 3g has been slow if at all. Have to do reboot just to get anything and it will say 3g in my phone but no data when I try using my browser and all. (Data turned on)
*WALK in the WORD*
STL here, 4G zone, into and out of 1X off and on all day.
4G was very spotty in Cincinnati this weekend.. seems to have leveled out as of this morning.
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dhaymond said:
No 4g where I'm at in cali... But I can say for the past few days, 3g has been slow if at all. Have to do reboot just to get anything and it will say 3g in my phone but no data when I try using my browser and all. (Data turned on)
*WALK in the WORD*
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4g has been spotty today I'm in the Pomona area

Who else gets good 3g? +1

I get damn good speeds. Can't complain. But a lot of people are.
I'm in Colorado. West in the foothills right off the mountains.
Great 3g.
Only if you get GOOD service. Where you at?
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mr.orange303 said:
I get damn good speeds. Can't complain. But a lot of people are.
I'm in Colorado. West in the foothills right off the mountains.
Great 3g.
Only if you get GOOD service. Where you at?
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I get great 3G service 1.5mbs consistently... but that's only because there's a sprint tower on top of the building where I work, Chandler AZ. Typically I get around 700kbs though, which is bearable but not amazing
Yeah I'm a little outside Birmingham Al and 3g speeds are amazing on the EVO 3D compared to what I use to get and 4g which I pick up in my apartment somehow is just incredible feels like my WiFi. When we get root I should be able to make it faster too.
I get great 3g and great 4g the signal is also much more stable than my og evo was. I tested it out with ps3 on 3g tethered and I played uncharted 2 online multiplayer without lag not even a studder I was simply amazed. I wouldn't use it as my default internet connection due to the fact that I have 50mbps fiber optics. But if there is an outage for some reason at least I know I won't be sol as far as gaming goes.
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I get great 3g and great 4g the signal is also much more stable than my og evo was. I tested it out with ps3 on 3g tethered and I played uncharted 2 online multiplayer without lag not even a studder I was simply amazed. I wouldn't use it as my default internet connection due to the fact that I have 50mbps fiber optics. But if there is an outage for some reason at least I know I won't be sol as far as gaming goes.
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Wow. That's crazy. I haven't got near that far testing yet.
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Sprint sucks in Wisconsin well my area anyways
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My 4g signal is worse then the nexus I replaced. I am going to try to get it exchanged with amazon but first I am calling sprint to find out what the deal is. The damn thing keeps on telling me to scan for service, I had one bar with nexus but it was damn consistent and never dropped connection this phone drops in the house like there is no tomorrow, and that is in the same location in my room.
There is no excuse that it shouldnt get good signal, if sprint cant figure out at their end, I will be trying to get it exchanged through amazon.
Guys this is just for the good ones. Sorry for the confusion. But I just wanted a positive thread as well. To let people know there are plenty of happy owners out there too.
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I can say I get great 3g speeds sometimes at night around 2.5Mbps but many times, especially during the day I would average only 0.6Mbps to as low as 0.15Mbps?
I cant even get one meg.

People having slow internet speeds with At&T samsung galaxy S2

DO NOT USE THE SPEEDTEST APP!! I was going crazy trying to figure out why I kept getting the same speeds as my Iphone 4 no matter the location or signal strength. Turns out that when I went directly to the speakeasy speedtest from the browser I got 11.51Mbps down and 1.06Mbps up!
(will upload pic of my results when i get more than 8 posts )
My guess is that the phone throttles the speeds for non intensive internet apps and it accidentally throttles speedtest. Nevertheless the only thing that was bugging me about this phone is fixed!
Yep you're right just got 10.78 down and 1.28 up
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Good find. Same results as you!
Thanks!
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i'm guessing this assumes that you live in one of the cities that the speakeasy browser test lets you select from...
i live in st. louis, so the closest city i could select was chicago - same results as the app for me.
Still getting 2.8-3.0/1 going this route. Exact same as the app for me.
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I know I could feel better download speeds from actually using this device compared to kg ip4 and this just confirmed it. Thank you for the heads up.
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Great find, thanks
Edit- oops, didn't notice it was the speakeasy speedtest.
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mfpearson said:
i'm guessing this assumes that you live in one of the cities that the speakeasy browser test lets you select from...
i live in st. louis, so the closest city i could select was chicago - same results as the app for me.
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Same here. Chicago was actually slower for me than the speedtest app. I always get the best results from overland park,KS.
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Same for me
Kadin said:
Still getting 2.8-3.0/1 going this route. Exact same as the app for me.
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Speed test app gave me 2.5 down about 0.8 up.
Ran a test on speakeasy as well as sprints speed test site and got
7.65 down 1.25 up on both
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Those not getting the faster speeds try to pick a different server. I sometimes get better speeds from the san francisco server than the local LA server. Also, from home, I get 2-3 bars and never get over 3.5 Mbps so keep in mind that the tower youre connected to might not be upgraded for faux 4g or your signal might be weak.
When I run Speedtest on my Verizon 4G Xoom, it's showing 25-30 down.
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When I run Speedtest on my Verizon 4G Xoom, it's showing 25-30 down.
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When I run Speedtest on my gaming PC with Comcast Extreme I get 85GB down. What's your point?
Im on fiber here Im guessing I shouldnt say what Im getting
on H+ on att here in NYC, Jercity city and when taking Amtrak to Wilmington De, I am constantly getting 287k DOWN and 345k UP.. sucks!!!!!!!!!!
But, much better than my iphone on 3G.
Speedtest app gave me speeds of 2-3.5mb down and 1-1.3 up. Speakeasy speed test site now gives me 8.89mb down and 1.09 up. Very nice!
Using speakeasy, I got much better results. When the bandwidth is there, I'm able to get 7Mbps down, where as with the speed test app, I was having a hard time getting over 3Mbps.
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I think it's Speakeasy or something. I get 11.5mbps download, and 3.5mbps upload on 4G from Speakeasy, but from Speedtest I get around 3.5mbps download, and 1.5mbps upload.
From my computer on wifi, using speedtest.net I get around 7mbps download, and around 4mbps upload. But using Speakeasy, it jumps to 11.5mbps download and 3.75mbps upload.
So, I think it's just that Speakeasy somehow boosts it up?
All I'm saying is that it's not a problem throttling the bandwidth of SpeedTest.
EDIT: Nevermind, I forgot to turn Wi-Fi off on my phone . Sorry, noob error. Using Speakeasy I get 1Mbps download, and .9Mbps upload...
Getting 3mbps on GS2 while my girlfriend's Atrix 2 gets 6mbps. Tried speedtest app, speak easy, Sprint's network test. Wtf? Maybe I got the wrong phone.

Data speeds

Ive noticed people awhile back posting about slow data speeds one their 3d's. I got mine in release and had a few internet bugs but since the updates my data speeds are good compared to others. Ive used the speed app almost everywhere i go to compare. My evo3d doubles my og evo everytime. My wifes nexus today was at .1 mbs a second while i was @ 1.1 mbs in the same spot. I have been to the sprint store about 5 times and tested the epic touch and photon and they are both way lower, with the photon higher than epic touch. Does anybody know about the iphones signal? What phones have yall had good experiences with? Im not talking about how fast sprint is as a network, im talking about how fast sprint is on different phones at the same time and place.
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The network sux around me. 3d, EVO, epic, and my view all get the same crappy 28k speeds at the house. 2 miles away they get 1.1mb
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it just depends on where you're at. where i'm at i have decent 3g coverage and poor 4g coverage. my 3g speeds are almost always faster than my 4g speeds. :/
I wasnt talking about sprints data speed. I was comparing radios.
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AT&T LTE Speeds

Hello,
I am coming from an iPhone 4S that was on the 3G market to the HTC One which is on the 4GLTE market. I currently have unlimited data.
However, since I received my HTC One, I have only had 2 or 3 bars. My D/L speed is around 2Mbps and my U/L speed is lucky to reach 1Mbps.
Has anyone else had similar issues? I am located in the DC/Baltimore area.
Thanks
Orlando Fl. Speeds on LTE I got as high as 60down and 17up. Screaming fast!
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That doesnt seem anything like an LTE speed, try again at different time of day. I get around 30d 20u here.
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That doesnt seem anything like an LTE speed, try again at different time of day. I get around 30d 20u here.
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I am in my work building, I am hoping that is the reason.
Could be that the network is extremely congested in the big city that you are in.
Make sure you have LTE enabled on your account. You MIGHT need a new SIM but I doubt it.
I've been using the same sim since my iPhone 4s
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Hello,
I am coming from an iPhone 4S that was on the 3G market to the HTC One which is on the 4GLTE market. I currently have unlimited data.
However, since I received my HTC One, I have only had 2 or 3 bars. My D/L speed is around 2Mbps and my U/L speed is lucky to reach 1Mbps.
Has anyone else had similar issues? I am located in the DC/Baltimore area.
Thanks
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Are you sure they put ya on the unlimited for lte smartphones and didn't leave ya on the iPhone unlimited?
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Bladerunner1825us said:
Are you sure they put ya on the unlimited for lte smartphones and didn't leave ya on the iPhone unlimited?
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Yup, I made sure they checked. Also, when I run the speedtest, it shows that I am on the LTE network. I will try once I am out of the office and hope for an improvement or else this could cause issues moving forward.
Are ya running a custom Rom? Some of them caused an ATT signal issue that's since been fixed. I'm using trick droid configured as international base with good signal
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I get around 12 down, 8 up in Los Angeles...
HTC One (stock) in Rochester, NY: 20-30 Mbps down, 20-22 Mbps up. The upload is fairly consistent, but the download is all over the place. With Verizon
4G LTE, I used to get 25-45 Mbps down, 15-20 Mbps up.
LTE on my One is almost 2x as fast as my Note 2. It's blazing fast in SoCal
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I just moved from the DC-Baltimore area...here is my last speed test there using my One.
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If you didn't swap out your SIM card that is your problem. Swap it out and make sure you are on the lte unlimited this should fix your problem.
Once AT&T gets LTE to our area, I'll let ya know It ends 55 miles south of me in Healdsburg. We have LTE here, but from Verizon, U.S. Cellular and Metro PCS. That said, I did get a chance to test it on our monthly Costco run to Santa Rosa, and maxed out at 46 down and 22 up.
At my home in Long Beach, I average 13d, 3-4u
At work in Compton, I average 23-30d, 10-15u - with the highest download being 41 (in Compton)
In Youngstown, Ohio, a small market between Cleveland & Pittsburgh, we just got LTE, but it's on limited towers. I have to go 2 streets down from my house to even get my phone to stay on LTE. Here are my speeds when on, though. Pretty good, Id say!
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I get 25 up and 10 down at my house. Haven't tested anywhere else. better than my iphone 4 on 3g obviously lol. Could be a lot better though.
singnal or area problem.
too many people use the same base station with you maybe
near miami
I get 20-25 mbps up and around 7 down

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