I get outside around the Medical Center in Houston, TX between 17-26 Mbps. Inside the hospital, the speeds generally range from 3-12 Mbps. In the basement, I get no LTE at all. No big deal because of wifi inside the hospital. I also changed my setting in my phone from CDMA HDR LTE Only to CDMA LTE Only. I can't guarantee this made the difference but sometimes the signal is so strong it automatically connects to LTE. When the signal is not as strong I have to use the turn on/off airplane mode to connect. Thought I'd put this out there for what it's worth. BTW, you'll need your MSL # to change the setting.
P.S. I live about 9 miles south of the Medical Center and get no LTE in my neighborhood, but I have wifi at home. But when I drive north to work I usually pick up LTE after about 2 miles.
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I get outside around the Medical Center in Houston, TX between 17-26 Mbps. Inside the hospital, the speeds generally range from 3-12 Mbps. In the basement, I get no LTE at all. No big deal because of wifi inside the hospital. I also changed my setting in my phone from CDMA HDR LTE Only to CDMA LTE Only. I can't guarantee this made the difference but sometimes the signal is so strong it automatically connects to LTE. When the signal is not as strong I have to use the turn on/off airplane mode to connect. Thought I'd put this out there for what it's worth. BTW, you'll need your MSL # to change the setting.
P.S. I live about 9 miles south of the Medical Center and get no LTE in my neighborhood, but I have wifi at home. But when I drive north to work I usually pick up LTE after about 2 miles.
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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 without using LTE or any other two radio trick (wifi, 3g & Wimax) can you talk on the phone & use data at the same time?
it does in some areas from what ive seen. there is a video on youtube. but i havent tried it yet since im on wifi most of the time
works for me north east of baltimore
Works for me in east Baltimore....lol
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Works great for me, actually used it the other day. Fantastic
I was actually using it in Blaine which is North of Minneapolis. About time they add this feature, wish they would have done it a long time ago. With LTE coming data would have worked with voice but still I'm glad they added it.
I was able to do a Google search while on the phone the other day in Boston. Haven't configured the home wifi yet (nor is it turned on) and no LTE (set to CDMA only). I still don't understand how it is possible on a CDMA network, but I can confirm it worked.
works for me in nyc
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works for me north east of baltimore
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I live out in Baltimore County and my office is in Edgewood (work on APG)..works for me too..
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I live out in Baltimore County and my office is in Edgewood (work on APG)..works for me too..
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I'm just around the corner from 715 and 22 gates... any luck getting signal on APG??? lol
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I'm just around the corner from 715 and 22 gates... any luck getting signal on APG??? lol
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My office is across from the 7-11 in Edgewood, seems decent here... I haven't been out in the field with the new phone..but my old EVO wasn't bad as far as getting signal at either Edgewood Area or Aberdeen so I'm hoping the new one is the same..Are you having problems?
Inside Sprint Now posted a clarification on SVD (simultaneous voice & data) recently:
Sprint 4G LTE phones can acheive Simultaneous Voice and Data (SVD) when connected to a WiFi router.
They may also achieve SVD when connected to Sprint’s LTE or CDMA networks.
Sprint 4G LTE phone customers may not see a consistent SVD experience on Sprint’s networks based on numerous conditions.
SVD should not be guaranteed to our external customers.
SVDO is possible on Sprint’s LTE phones/handsets, without assistance of LTE or WiFi, utilizing 1x and DO.
Works only in optimal network conditions.
Experience not consistent with SVDO; in weaker coverage, voice will take sole priority.
SVD can be achieved with either LTE or WiFi coverage.
CDMA + LTE, or CDMA + WiFi should be the primary combinations to achieve simultaneous voice and data, as with previous phones/handsets.
If utilizing SVDO, the experience will vary, however, if in optimal conditions data speed will be consistent with EvDO speeds.
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My office is across from the 7-11 in Edgewood, seems decent here... I haven't been out in the field with the new phone..but my old EVO wasn't bad as far as getting signal at either Edgewood Area or Aberdeen so I'm hoping the new one is the same..Are you having problems?
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Just on base... Not that I get over there a whole lot... Only real dead spot is up next to bill batemans...
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yeah, me too. In SLC, we've always had really good GSM and HSPA service from at&t, never matching the horror stories from the likes of chicago, sanfran, and NYC. However, they decided to pull a market-driven cluster-**** and only delivery a bare-minimum of market penetration so instead of a regular 4-5bars, I see usuall just 2. But that's not all. My phone has a supreme hard-on for the LTE and will choose the LTE tower 5 miles away over the one right next to me which results in some hysterisis and rapid HSPA/LTE changes. This may or may not be responsible for periodic loss of my data connection which I don't find about until hours after i missed that important email or text (google voice). awesome.
I put up with this for a couple weeks 'cause i'm used to the S&M relationship US mobile customers have with their wireless providers (post-paid, anyway) and finally called to ***** a little. turns out that while at&t would rather we all suffer at the hands of their inept decision making by removing any kind of switch from our devices, they will make manual adjustment for those who cry loud enough. If you really want LTE gone, you can ask for an 'inset lock to 2g/3g' which will prevent your device from seeking out LTE towers to connect to. I made mention of APN's and at least one rep indicated that this made that change, but I couldn't be sure this is an actual edit to the APN on your device.
LTE is nice for the 2% of the time I can actually use it, but the other 98% it sucks donkey ballz... at least the way at&t has done it in SLC.
hope this helps someone.
The roll out in Arkansas of all places has been awesome. I get 4 bars like, sometimes 5 everywhere within 15 miles of my house. I average - 85 dbm 52 asu signal. It's awesome. I'm sorry your lte in Utah blows.
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I love ATT in CT. LTE just became official in my city but its been working great for almost a year before it launched officially.
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The roll out in Arkansas of all places has been awesome. I get 4 bars like, sometimes 5 everywhere within 15 miles of my house. I average - 85 dbm 52 asu signal. It's awesome. I'm sorry your lte in Utah blows.
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undoubtedly there are some people close enough to LTE towers that they aren't having quite the abysmal experience I am, and other people's positive experiences in other cities could indicate that at&t will eventually get it right here. I can only hope.
LTE here in Hawaii is awesome. Then again Hawaii is so small that a few towers can probably cover most parts of the island. Hopefully att can cover your area better.
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i've been very impressed with AT&T's LTE network. it's a lot better than sprint's 4G/WiMAX network.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=33826576
LTE is working fine here in Central NJ. The issue with your battery isn't AT&T's rollout of LTE, it's LTE itself. The simple fact is, it's not as power efficient as HSPA (yet) and phone manufacturers haven't upped the battery specs to compensate.
Now, what AT&T IS at fault for is not giving their LTE customers an LTE/HSPA toggle.
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The roll out in Arkansas of all places has been awesome. I get 4 bars like, sometimes 5 everywhere within 15 miles of my house. I average - 85 dbm 52 asu signal. It's awesome. I'm sorry your lte in Utah blows.
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Yep. I was quite surprised with LTE coverage. It's virtually everywhere in central Arkansas, even between cities in areas that you wouldn't expect LTE.
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LTE is working fine here in Central NJ. The issue with your battery isn't AT&T's rollout of LTE, it's LTE itself. The simple fact is, it's not as power efficient as HSPA (yet) and phone manufacturers haven't upped the battery specs to compensate.
Now, what AT&T IS at fault for is not giving their LTE customers an LTE/HSPA toggle.
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I wish that were the case in SLC. the problem is that LTE is not available everywhere in the coverage area, and when it is, it is frequently at much lower signal strength so it's quite apparent that at&t did not roll out LTE to all of their HSPA towers in the area. With phones preferring LTE, they are connecting to towers that are frequently farther away than the closest HSPA tower and thus requiring more power. For example, both my home and work give me 4-5bars of HSPA, but only 2bars of LTE. Some parts of the city give no LTE at all. Its currently an incomplete roll out.
razholio said:
yeah, me too. In SLC, we've always had really good GSM and HSPA service from at&t, never matching the horror stories from the likes of chicago, sanfran, and NYC. However, they decided to pull a market-driven cluster-**** and only delivery a bare-minimum of market penetration so instead of a regular 4-5bars, I see usuall just 2. But that's not all. My phone has a supreme hard-on for the LTE and will choose the LTE tower 5 miles away over the one right next to me which results in some hysterisis and rapid HSPA/LTE changes. This may or may not be responsible for periodic loss of my data connection which I don't find about until hours after i missed that important email or text (google voice). awesome.
I put up with this for a couple weeks 'cause i'm used to the S&M relationship US mobile customers have with their wireless providers (post-paid, anyway) and finally called to ***** a little. turns out that while at&t would rather we all suffer at the hands of their inept decision making by removing any kind of switch from our devices, they will make manual adjustment for those who cry loud enough. If you really want LTE gone, you can ask for an 'inset lock to 2g/3g' which will prevent your device from seeking out LTE towers to connect to. I made mention of APN's and at least one rep indicated that this made that change, but I couldn't be sure this is an actual edit to the APN on your device.
LTE is nice for the 2% of the time I can actually use it, but the other 98% it sucks donkey ballz... at least the way at&t has done it in SLC.
hope this helps someone.
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you could move closer to the cell tower
would you like some cheese with your wine,lol
I just got a HTC One on T mobile and waiting to port my number from ATT but the data speeds using speedtest are abysmal less than 500kb and sometimes not even connecting at all. I decided to just test the browser to see if real usage makes a difference not just in the speedtest app and same result web pages taking too long to load and sometimes time out because of slow connection.
I'm in Daly City/San Francisco area, before deciding to switch I did my research and Tmobile coverage shows I should be in "excellent" 4g speeds here where I live.
Before I run back to the store and return it and stay with AT&T , is there something I can do to check the correct APN settings or what else can i do ? I'm disappointed so far, I wanted to try T mobile because of their no contract and cheaper plan but at these data speeds it's just not worth it.
Thanks for any advice / help.
Been seeing great speeds here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2247966
But try out a demo phone in the store and test the speed. It might be the phone, or the tower (temporarily) you're connected to. SF is a market with great speed. I've seen speed tests from ppl around. Definitely better the AT&T's HSPA+ speeds.
last night I posted great speeds, today I'm down to 2g although in a different geographical area.
earlier today I lost all data connectivity, it was something wrong with TMO's system. support had to "hook something up" behind the scenes for me to get it back.
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Update: I noticed that the phone was defaulting to 2g. No matter what, it stayed there.
Using tips from this thread: http://support.t-mobile.com/thread/37862
I went to Settings > Mobile Data > Network Mode and switched it to WCDMA Only.
The data connection re-set and went to 4g.
Repeating the above step, I went back to GSM/WCDMA/LTE Auto, and the phone reset data and got back on 4g.
I think this all had something to do with this morning's outage.
Tmobile tends to have outages sometimes, a few days ago the network in Dallas was down and I was getting horrible speeds. I say that you wait a bit and see if there is any improvement in the next couple of days. Also maybe call in to make sure that your sim is fully activated.
I'll just leave this..
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HSPA+ in South Seattle area (up to 15mbps down). Can't wait for some LTE here soon.
J-Hop2o6 said:
HSPA+ in South Seattle area (up to 15mbps down). Can't wait for some LTE here soon.
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Don't like Tmobile
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Don't like Tmobile
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?? What's the purpose of this post and quoting me?
Thinking about making the switch from Sprint (EVO LTE) to T-Mobile and the HTC One. I'm in the Seattle area (Federal Way/Milton) and commute back and forth to downtown Seattle (5th and Pike) every week day. How's the coverage and speed along the I5 corridor? I've looked at the sensorly data and it looks solid, but just really wanting to get a real world feel from a user.
Thanks!
cantos said:
Thinking about making the switch from Sprint (EVO LTE) to T-Mobile and the HTC One. I'm in the Seattle area (Federal Way/Milton) and commute back and forth to downtown Seattle (5th and Pike) every week day. How's the coverage and speed along the I5 corridor? I've looked at the sensorly data and it looks solid, but just really wanting to get a real world feel from a user.
Thanks!
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The Puget Sound I-5 corridor has great Tmo coverage and speed. Never have problems streaming music in my car via bluetooth. Plus LTE in and around Seattle should launch in the next couple of months.
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The Puget Sound I-5 corridor has great Tmo coverage and speed. Never have problems streaming music in my car via bluetooth. Plus LTE in and around Seattle should launch in the next couple of months.
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I was already getting LTE in the factoria mall area near T-Mobile head quarters. I was getting speeds around 25Mbps down. I think we are close to lte roll out across all Seattle area, I spoke to a T-Mobile rep in Bellevue store and he says it should be sometime in May.
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I was already getting LTE in the factoria mall area near T-Mobile head quarters. I was getting speeds around 25Mbps down. I think we are close to lte roll out across all Seattle area, I spoke to a T-Mobile rep in Bellevue store and he says it should be sometime in May.
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alus415 said:
I just got a HTC One on T mobile and waiting to port my number from ATT but the data speeds using speedtest are abysmal less than 500kb and sometimes not even connecting at all. I decided to just test the browser to see if real usage makes a difference not just in the speedtest app and same e of slow connection.
I'm in Daly City/San Francisco area, before deciding to switch I did my research and Tmobile coverage shows I should be in "excellent" 4g speeds here where I live.
Before I run back to the store and return it and stay with AT&T , is there something I can do to check the correct APN settings or what else can i do ? I'm disappointed so far, I wanted to try T mobile because of their no contract and cheaper plan but at these data speeds it's just not worth it.
Thanks for any advice / help.
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I and my wife recently purchased One's moving from Sprint to T-Mobile. We live in Oakland. Our speeds are similarly slow. Actually, in the week I've had the phone I've rarely had speeds much higher than 400kbs down. Strangely, upload speeds are usually three times faster. This is from inside my apartment where I typically have 2 bars of 4g...three bars every now and then. These speeds are horrible. I called T-Mobile who responded by dispatching an engineer to the tower I use. Within 24 hrs the speeds almost doubled however T-Mobile's feedback was there were no issues. But after a couple of days speeds had declined back to an avg of 350kbs down with upload speeds still 3x download speeds. In my experience, whenever upload speeds are consistently and significantly faster than download speeds and the download speeds are far below what is expected, then either there is a problem with the network or the network is being actively reconfigured.
Assuming I might just be in a "dead" spot due to geography I decided to test speeds in I my neighborhood as I walk my dog. There are no tall buildings or anything I could see to cause much interference. On my street the speed was about the same as inside. About 1/4 mile from my apt the signal was very strong lighting all 5 bars...but speeds only increased slightly. Throughout the area I walked (1/2 circle around my home with radius of 3/4 mile) the signal strength ranged from 2-3 bars fluctuating to 5 solid bars. But there was not much correlation between data download speed and number of bars. In some places 4g speed was as fast as 10Mbs and a bit down the block it could be low as 400Kbs. The speeds were duplicateable...meaning in front of one house speed might be 5Mbs and a speeds in front of a house say 6 houses down the block speed may be 1Mbs. Those speeds would be pretty much the same when I returned later on another walk.
The most surprising discovery is there is a narrow area about 5 houses wide that had LTE. In that small area the speeds were slightly greater than 20Mbs down and 10Mbs up.
The results lead me to believe T-Mobile is actively fumbling with their towers to get LTE quickly, yet attempting to do so as quietly as possible. Due to my disappointment at the painfully slow data speeds I would consider returning the One's firing T-Mobile and moving on. However, the discovery of LTE 1 1/2 blocks from my home AND MAYBE EVEN MORE IMPORTANTLY no real alternative for an "unlimited" data plan that makes financial sense to me (Sprint is nolonger an option since their network is almost unusable)...has me pretty excited as to what my T-Moble experience will be. I hope they aim that LTE antenna in my direction.
@chakathebird:
Wow, I'm in Hayward which is not too far from Oakland and I also switched from Sprint (which is just awful in the Bay Area these days). On Sprint I was lucky to get over 400kbps on 3G and I couldn't even get 4G LTE. (Although 4G WiMax on my old GS2 was fantastic for me). On T-Mobile 4G HSPA I get 8Mbps down / 3 Mbps up on my HTC One and similar speeds on my Nexus 4. With those great speeds I normally just leave LTE turned off on the One, but I did do a speed test with LTE turned on and got 11Mbps down / 6Mbps up.
I work in the South Bay, but sometimes head over the bridge to San Francisco and travel throughout the Bay Area. Everywhere I go I get similarly fantastic speeds on T-Mobile. So if you are getting such slow speeds there is definitely something wrong with either your phone or the tower in your neighborhood. I'd take the phone to other nearby towns and see if you're getting similar bad speeds. If so, I'd have T-Mobile exchange the phone as it may be defective.
I'm in the Northern VA area and there is some LTE. If I'm not driving around and sitting in one place, I can stay on LTE, but driving around, it's bouncing in and out of LTE which just shuts off data all together. So i turned off LTE till they get more towers updated.
On a side note, the radio in the HTC one seems really nice. At my house I can get 13Mb/s down on the HTC but I can only get 6Mb/s down on my data stick sitting beside me. Both connected at HSPA+.
I am not even running on LTE here in NJ and I am still impressed with the speed. It actually comes pretty close to my friend's GS3 on Verizon with LTE.
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That being said...I still can't wait to have LTE here in the NYC area. If HSPA+ is this good then LTE should be ridiculous.
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I get LTE in my home. Weaker, but still present. About 4Mbps. Sprint has been doing Portland very good.
However..... Out and about in town.
I get something like this...
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I am not in Portland but this has happend to me also when i go visit the relatives I still have LTE 3 bar but internet speed only goes to 2~4 MBs at home i am only missing 1 bar to full and I have gotten 12 ~30 MBs on speed test. Perhaps some thing to do with the numbers of ASU??? but i do not know.
Please do not make threads about city specific LTE. Signal strength and speed will vary from tower to tower and distance from it.
For example, at home my phone shows LTE but has less than 3G speeds and usually gets stuck on the upload.
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