sprints 3G network.. - Motorola Photon 4G

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.

TheChronicDroid said:
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
Hate much. Lol
MikeyLee said:
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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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.

To all my non LTE brothers

Myself, being in between 2 LTE cities, Raleigh and Charlotte NC, I'm from Greensboro am stuck with hspa+...how ever running a test it seems like we are like the Atrix, seems that hsupa is disabled!!!! I'm am only getting .3/.4 mbps upload like when I first first got the Atrix. After the update I was getting over 1 mbps upload..... Any idea if maybe the other radios will enable hsupa on those unfortunate of not having LTE for the time being?
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Myself, being in between 2 LTE cities, Raleigh and Charlotte NC, I'm from Greensboro am stuck with hspa+...how ever running a test it seems like we are like the Atrix, seems that hsupa is disabled!!!! I'm am only getting .3/.4 mbps upload like when I first first got the Atrix. After the update I was getting over 1 mbps upload..... Any idea if maybe the other radios will enable hsupa on those unfortunate of not having LTE for the time being?
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At my work I average about 10-12mb download on HSPA+ and about 1mb generally. I'm pretty sure 1mb up for HSPA+ is the fastest you should get.
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Wow if I see 5 mbps I'm extremely happy :-(
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It wasn't unusual to see 7mb down and 3mb up on the atrix, tho I usually averaged 3mb down and 1-1.5mb up
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About 3-10 down and 1-2 up for me.
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Honestly, I wouldn't care if I don't get LTE speed if they just give me a SOLID HSPA+ speed or even a solid 3G speed.
I am lucky if I can get 1mb for download.
I'm at 7 / 1
Thankfully the wifi at school aint bad: 30 / 12
I live in an LTE area so I had to make a phone call then run the speed test really quick before it could switch back to LTE. I got 6.87↓ 0.83↑, not exactly phenomenal results but definitely faster upload speed than hspa.
i live in chantilly va.
at work 50 down 15 up
at home 2 down 1 up, only 5 miles away from work.
Coming from an iphone and getting 1down 1up on 3g, I'm very happy with the 8 down and 2 up on HSPA+. Sure I wish I was in an LTE area but that will do for now. The shocking part is I'm in a rather small mountain town in Colorado.
I'm getting .31 down and. 1 up and it says 4g. My phones like jacked up
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Myself, being in between 2 LTE cities, Raleigh and Charlotte NC, I'm from Greensboro am stuck with hspa+...how ever running a test it seems like we are like the Atrix, seems that hsupa is disabled!!!! I'm am only getting .3/.4 mbps upload like when I first first got the Atrix. After the update I was getting over 1 mbps upload..... Any idea if maybe the other radios will enable hsupa on those unfortunate of not having LTE for the time being?
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I'm in Fayetteville, on a good day I get 7-8mbps down. I've never gotten over 1.01 upload. Was in raleigh last week with my skyrocket and hit 20 down and 9 up. It was beautiful.
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I'm getting .31 down and. 1 up and it says 4g. My phones like jacked up
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Do *3282# sounds like you're throttled.
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I don't even have unlimited tho and I am rarely not in a wiring place
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Faster Spring 3g

Did anybody else experience increased 3g speeds as of today??
I went from 50-100kb to 700kb+ today. I was like "wuuhhh"
Sprint got their act together for the release of the Galaxy Nexus today.
I am in South Florida BTW.
EDIT: ADMIN PLEASE FIX THE TITLE TO SPRINT* MY BAD
enriqrez said:
Did anybody else experience increased 3g speeds as of today??
I went from 50-100kb to 700kb+ today. I was like "wuuhhh"
Sprint got their act together for the release of the Galaxy Nexus today.
I am in South Florida BTW.
EDIT: ADMIN PLEASE FIX THE TITLE TO SPRINT* MY BAD
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Same areas that you're usually in, same phone, everything?
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... yes... nothing changed on my behalf...
I've noticed my 3g speeds have been great lately. I'm getting about 1.5-2mbps all the time now.
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Check out the website www.s4gru.com full of hardcore engineer types talking about Sprint network updates. Really great info there. Sprint Network Vision will improve 3g speeds on existing phones as well as adding 4g lte for next-gen phones
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Yea my speeds at work have been bouncing a ton but seem to be getting stable around 2.1mbs
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cornelious2 said:
Yea my speeds at work have been bouncing a ton but seem to be getting stable around 2.1mbs
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Where you live? Im getting 200 kbps down here in Denver colorado
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they are working on some towers in my area, hopefully they are upgrading their sh*t. i heard waco's LTE is live.
I'm in san antonio,tx
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carrilloevo said:
Where you live? Im getting 200 kbps down here in Denver colorado
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Just moved from chicago to saint louis a month ago. Out here I get 14 mb all day way better than chicago was.
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All I can say is wow, its like the revival of sprint up in here. My 3g is killing it all over overnight.
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Ive still got .56 Mbits/sec which is not very fast... 70 KB/sec
My wife is in chicago still and she said her speeds went extra crappy so I imagine there rolling out the changes in phases.
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they are working on some towers in my area, hopefully they are upgrading their sh*t. i heard waco's LTE is live.
I'm in san antonio,tx
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in WACO?!?! Baylor parents must have paid for that one ha ha
Yea, before the increase, expect a week of really bad reception and data issues/speed
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NO. Sprint data sucked before and sucks now. I wish the hell I hadn't renewed. What good is unlimited data when it's nearly unusable because it's so dang slow.
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Just got 1.95 mb/s I live in sw Florida to, but it says my closes server is in Kansas.
And technically we are in spring lol
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Ive called sprint about my bad slower than usual speeds..said they are working on towers close and will be credit for the days its going to be slow.... eta on towers fix 4/26/12. I called saturday. So hopefully their sh*t gets faster by then and i get my credit for those days. Will update.
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valentinoh said:
Ive called sprint about my bad slower than usual speeds..said they are working on towers close and will be credit for the days its going to be slow.... eta on towers fix 4/26/12. I called saturday. So hopefully their sh*t gets faster by then and i get my credit for those days. Will update.
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Let us know. Maybe i'll call about it too.
If i were you,i would call regardless
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Wow! After what seemed like two weeks of worse than dial-up speed, I just ran a test (same time in the evening as the abysmal speeds) and I am back up to pre-iphone speeds, avg around 1.2-1.6 Mbps. SE NC here.

Finally seeing some good 3g speeds.

Browsing the internet was quick. Fastest I've ever seen it that's for sure.
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Browsing the internet was quick. Fastest I've ever seen it that's for sure.
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Where are you located if you dont mind me asking?
Do you know if network vision has rolled out to you yet?
Just got 2400 in North Dallass (Plano) but at 5 am so..
I got 1.8 megs down last night 3G near down town Dallas around 10pm.
This was in the suburbs of Chicago. Network vision is apparently live here
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Very impressive! I can be quite patient with the LTE rollout if 3G speeds are that good.
Which suburb? I'm near niles/glenview.
Hopefully this will shut up the damn pessimistic low-data-speeds n00bies about Sprint's network never amounting to anything...
wait... who am I kidding
Mine varies a lot, even in the same location. Right now I am pulling around 500 kbps down and 100 kbps up each test,
Five minutes ago I was getting to 1.2 - 1.5 mbps down, 200 - 250 kbps up
must have hit one of those pockets earlier....
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I'm still getting miserable speeds in central Minnesota.
im in south florida, a huge market, and sometimes in the middle of the day i cant get more than .15 kbps. absolutely atrocious. saw pictures of NV towers starting to pop up in south Miami.
In Philly with my OG Evo yesterday I was getting 1.7 mbps down, ~1 mpbs up on 3G. Activated my LTEVO today and was getting between 20 kpbs - 150 kbps down and 200-500 kbps up for a few hours. Pathetic. I couldn't load Google Maps or anything. Called Sprint to report it and got cut off during the call (never had time to call back). They said they were about to send an update to my phone. Guess that didn't happen. I'm getting around 500-600 kpbs down now, still 1/3rd the speed of 3G on my OG Evo.
Maybe I should have held off the upgrade...
With a 90ms ping I tried wireless tethering and was able to play games perfectly fine. Btw I'm in Naperville
this is right next to my new totally awesome Airrave :banghead:
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Ive been getting 1.8-2.8mb again since I got my phone "reprovisioned" consistantly day or night. South of Bham in AL
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This was in the suburbs of Chicago. Network vision is apparently live here
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Getting some great speeds up in Algonquin but only about 500kbps down at work in Itasca- couples miles from ohare.
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I'm still getting miserable speeds in central Minnesota.
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https://network.sprint.com/
Minneapolis
Chicago
New York
Wow never seen my internet this fast
Fml lol hopefully it gets better real soon and this was with full signal -_-
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Ya'll had to ruin a good thread huh... Thanks for hijacking it. There are plenty of other threads complaining about slow speeds

Verizon speeds lately .....

Anyone else been having very slow speeds on Verizon lately? It's been slowing down for a few months now. I used to get 20 - 30mbps download and lately it's been averaging around 5mbps. I've already tried "resetting" the phone & even switching roms. I'm wondering if it's network congestion or if they're finally throttling me(since I have unlimited data still).
I am also unlimited...just ran a speed test and hit 40.6mbps. Usually I'm around 25-30 though.
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Here in Philly LTE speeds have been horrible, as low as .5mbps for me. And that was tested a couple of weeks ago. Data is essentially useless, so I just bumped down to a 250 meg package. I try use wifi everywhere I go, or try not to use data. Gettin' real bad.
Data speeds entirely depend where you live and who else is using the bandwidth. If you live in a crowded city you might not get great speeds during peek time. If you live in a rural area if you even have LTE there like me the speed is basically consistent I get about 20-30mbps at best. However like mentioned before I just try to use wifi all the time because I am limited to my 2gb and wifi is usually avaliable to me.
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Jaggar345 said:
Data speeds entirely depend where you live and who else is using the bandwidth. If you live in a crowded city you might not get great speeds during peek time.
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It's never even kinda-snappy here in Philly. Plain slow, all the time.
I've just generally not been getting good speeds anywhere. I get about 16/4 (D/U) in the best area of my house (my room) but the living room is like 8/1.8... I mainly use it for uploading. (TWC ISP gets me about 15/1mbps) My friends house in the town over I barely get 3G. However closer to the lake (erie) I can get 20-30.
Fastest I've ever got was 36/32 in Detroit.
Also I should mention that I've never seen speeds get better since I switched from AT&T to Verizon...
Inc -> rezzy -> DNA
Forgot to mention my house is on a lake if that has anything to do with signal and speed.
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im sure this all depends on location and amount of users on the tower at that time.
I get 49 mps
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I get 49 mps
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Jesus!
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Jesus!
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Maybe yall phone just doesn't work properly.
In Jersey City and Newark, NJ the speeds are god awful (less than .5mbps consistently). I tried calling Verizon about it, but they really didn't care.
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In Jersey City and Newark, NJ the speeds are god awful (less than .5mbps consistently). I tried calling Verizon about it, but they really didn't care.
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Downtown Phoenix is the same. Rest of the metro area I get over 40mbps all the time.
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