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Can anyone who has the phone with 4G coverage post their results? If possible, include an estimate of what your evo 4g was getting before in your area.
Thanks!
Here is a result from inside my house. I am consistently getting between 7-8 Mbs down. I didn't have the EVO or even a 4G phone before, so I don't have any comparisons.
Edit: It won't me post links/pictures yet, so it 7.86 Mbs down and 1.50 Mbs up.
No images taken, but the difference is pretty minimal to me....
My evo required the rtsp proxies to be set to 0.0.0.0 to get full speeds (6-10 mbps in atlanta ga). But the EVO3D seems to be getting the same speeds even though the proxies are still set at the factory ones.
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Here is a result from inside my house. I am consistently getting between 7-8 Mbs down. I didn't have the EVO or even a 4G phone before, so I don't have any comparisons.
Edit: It won't me post links/pictures yet, so it 7.86 Mbs down and 1.50 Mbs up.
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Mind if I ask? Which area in New Jersey are you?
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Mind if I ask? Which area in New Jersey are you?
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I'm in North Jersey (near NYC)
hope more results are posted today after everyone has a chance to play with their phones
Boston 7679kbps down; 1453kbps up, with the og Evo I remember getting like 6 down and around 1000 up
i got 9700 d/l
and 1000 u/l
nashville, tn
I have no coverage at home and it connects but no bars at work. I haven't been to school where I have full coverage since I got it.
At work where it connects but no bars I get 2-2.5 down, on the Evo I got 1-1.5. Not much changed except the phone.
i try it in a bit when im at best buy here in my house my evo use to get 1 bar of 4g that was good enough for 4-5mb down and 700k up. the 3d wont even pick up 4g in the house.
I don't have 4G in my area yet (Milwaukee, WI) but i want to comment on overall radio performance. Cell & Wifi signal strength is noticibly better then the OG Evo. I have obersed better speeds overall and my Wifi signal is ALOT better. I'm thinking that with a bigger battery, HTC might have increased power to the radios for better performance or they just finally got the hang of the this SOC.
Jacksonville, FL
Here in Jacksonville FL over the past few days:
Downtown (San Marco area) average 8-9 down -- 1 up
Avondale/Riverside: 5.5-9.25 down -- 800-1 up
I got the 5.5 on a good signal but during a peak time I guess at 8pm
Much better then some of the worthless / expensive ISP's here.
reflekt said:
Here in Jacksonville FL over the past few days:
Downtown (San Marco area) average 8-9 down -- 1 up
Avondale/Riverside: 5.5-9.25 down -- 800-1 up
I got the 5.5 on a good signal but during a peak time I guess at 8pm
Much better then some of the worthless / expensive ISP's here.
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true that ..get on 4g only 1 bar tagged Dallas,TX from J'ville, FL via Speakeasy's website hit 10.21 Mbps with 1.04 Mbps up same test but on 3g .42 Mbps with test stuck on "testing upload speed" oops .02 Mbps...lol
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Just wondering what the speeds are with the 3D in midtown and how it sounds, I am looking at the phone in sprint tomorrow. My company offers a discount and I can get the phone for 100 dollars, as well as 125 for transferring my line to sprint. With verzion now, and pay about 110 a month, switching to Sprint, the same features I drop down to 61 a month. Have the Droid 2, and the service is horrible lately, so I am wondering how fast the 4g/3g is as well as call quality.
I have a 3D and live in LI, but I work in Downtown Brooklyn and I am in Manhattan a lot. I would say that the 4G is decent indoors, but if you're in a crazy building or really high up (like 30+ floor) then the 4G is basically not going to work great, if at all. In my office (4th floor in a pretty old building) I average about 2mb/s download on a 4G speed test. I can run one for you tomorrow if you would like for confirmation. I will also do some 3G tests for you tomorrow if you would like.
As far as outside goes, right outside my office I can easily hit 10mb/s down and 1.5mb/s up (Sprint caps the upload at 1.5mb/s now). I posted a speed test yesterday outside so I am attaching a the speedtest.net result.
With all of that said, I never really have an issue with the internet speed.
The call quality is very good, I don't usually drop calls, and if I can't hear someone it's usually the other person. Obviously phone calls in elevators don't work so well . Also, I'd like to point out that if you don't have Sprint signal and you roam, guess what, you're roaming on Verizon.
I would say take the plunge. You have a 30 day return policy anyway.
Nice, thats great, I get horrible speeds now with verizon, we are talking 200kbits and 100 kbits up. When you roam, do you pay more? I know on verizon I only pay more when I roam when its in mexico or canada. I seen a lot of reviews worry about the call quality as well so I am glad its good. Yah that would be great if you can attach a speed test.
4G speeds in Queens are pretty good and stable. Give it a try for 30 days and if you like it then port your number getting the $125 credit from Sprint.
Average DL speeds 7mbs
i know a lot of people are getting theirs today, can't wait to see results!
Here in the the Bronx I'm getting 9500k down and 1400k up.
Guys, do you think I should call Sprint?
My Speed Test result for 3 bars/MAX bars of 4G:
Download: 2.40 Mbps
Upload: 1.41 Mbps
Ping: 121 ms
My co workers Speed Test result from his OG EVO with 2 4G bars:
Download: 7.60 Mbps
Upload: 1.39 Mbps
Ping: 245 ms
He is banking much higher speeds, what gives?!?
try a different server, the 'closest' server is not always the best...
washington dc seems to be a very good one for me.
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try a different server, the 'closest' server is not always the best...
washington dc seems to be a very good one for me.
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Yeah, that did it.
Weird though, I am in Herndon, VA using a Herndon Server....terrible results...I now just changed to Reston, VA (which is farther) and I got 5.39/0.53
Guess closest isn't always better...heh
I can't even get 4G in my home/neighborhood and I live just down the road from Sprint's world headquarters. I called and got the standard line about they are working on improving connectivity. I did hear from a friend that works at Sprint (actually Ericcson) that he attended a presentation recently on Sprint's network changes that are happening. They are going to be operating on multiple bands and many upgrades to their towers over the next year to two. He made it sound impressive. Anyway, with a full 4G signal, I'm only getting about 3mb/1mb consistently.
See post 1 and 35 here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1142994&page=4
So when LTE comes to town will we lose HSPA+???
Nope they will co-exist just like edge and hspa+ do today.
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It is my understanding that even when on LTE you use GSM for phone calls and other non-data related transactions. Either way, they're not building an HSPA+ network to tear it down in 2 years.
Just checking. I don't care if I don't get LTE capability for the next 2 years, I just wish they would strengthen the signals they already have in my area.
Montgomery AL <------- never getting LTE.
There is lte here and my h+ works great they will have to coexist, they only have 2 lte phones out, a lot more use h+
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Our phones, from what I can tell, are not LTE compatible. Only h+.
When LTE arrives hopefully we will see true HSPA+ speeds
LTE
I'm actually strongly considering taking my i777 back for the Skyrocket. Even though I don't have LTE, locally, it is only a matter of time.
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I'm actually strongly considering taking my i777 back for the Skyrocket. Even though I don't have LTE, locally, it is only a matter of time.
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I suggest you don't.
Hellraiser is probably never coming to the Skyrocket. The Skyrocket has a slower SoC in general so you will notice more stutters here and there. The i777 will get ICS first through XDA.
Even if you got it today, an integrated LTE modem with the SoC won't be coming until next year for Qualcomm, and around 2H 2012 or 2013 for other companies. You won't be missing much, seeing as how by the time you do get another upgrade in 20 months you will have a step up in everything as opposed to a step up in data speeds and a step down in processor/developer support.
****, I don't even have H+ yet.
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I'm actually strongly considering taking my i777 back for the Skyrocket. Even though I don't have LTE, locally, it is only a matter of time.
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Don't fall for all this 4G marketing crap from AT&T. They are not even close to offering true HSPA+ or LTE speeds so no need to worry for now. When they offer the true speeds it will be time to change your phone anyways.
HSPA+, or Evolved High-Speed Packet Access, is a technical standard for wireless, broadband telecommunication. HSPA+ was first defined in the technical standard 3GPP release 7.
HSPA+ provides an evolution of High Speed Packet Access and provides data rates up to 84 Megabits per second (Mbit/s) to the mobile device and 22 Mbit/s from the mobile device.
3GPP Long Term Evolution (LTE) is a standard for wireless communication of high-speed data. It is based upon GSM/EDGE and Universal Mobile Telecommunications System/High Speed Packet Access (UMTS/HSPA) network technologies.Features of LTE include an all-IP flat network architecture, end-to-end QoS including provisions for low-latency communications, peak download rates nearing 300 Mbps and upload rates of 75 Mbps, capacity exceeding 200 active users per cell[3], the ability to manage fast-moving mobiles, and support for multi-cast and broadcast streams.
Ahh... i wonder what 300mbps feels like...
Hell, I wonder what 21 Mbps feels like, let alone 300.
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Local ATT store told me that LTE will be available in SC around February of 2012. Even with this info I still have no desire to switch out for an LTE phone. (I'm still within my return policy.) I have a verizon LTE hotspot for school that can hold me over. I spend 90% of my time at work or at home, so the HSPA+ is plenty to fill in the gaps when I can't use my high end connections.
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Hell, I wonder what 21 Mbps feels like, let alone 300.
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You should be able to experience 21mbps by connecting to a broadband wireless network
Most Broadband Internet providers have these speeds (except DSL I think), now 300mbps download speeds.....that would be awesome.
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Local ATT store told me that LTE will be available in SC around February of 2012. Even with this info I still have no desire to switch out for an LTE phone. (I'm still within my return policy.) I have a verizon LTE hotspot for school that can hold me over. I spend 90% of my time at work or at home, so the HSPA+ is plenty to fill in the gaps when I can't use my high end connections.
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We got LTE in Chicago. I'm from the suburbs and literally on the west side of my town we get around 3-5 Mbps but when I get on the east side (closer to Chicago) I've hit 13 Mbps. I have not been in Chicago sine i got my new phone but I think that 13 is pretty sweet but i got 36 Mbps at my house so its nothing amazing to me
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We got LTE in Chicago. I'm from the suburbs and literally on the west side of my town we get around 3-5 Mbps but when I get on the east side (closer to Chicago) I've hit 13 Mbps. I have not been in Chicago sine i got my new phone but I think that 13 is pretty sweet but i got 36 Mbps at my house so its nothing amazing to me
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I get anywhere from 2mbps to 7mbps down and usually around 1.1mbps up on my phone's data connection. (Latency around 100ms) This is perfectly acceptable for most browsing and applications, including streaming video.
I'm really hoping they keep HSPA+ around for awhile. I get killer battery life with it and the speeds are more than enough for 95% of everything I do with my phone.
In metro Detroit I only get average 1.4mbps down and 1mbps up...is my phone defective or is the network just ****ty here? The coverage map shows I have full hspa+ coverage
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I apologize if this is a duplicate...only did a cursory seacrh, not a deep one. It wasn't there yesterday (or at least, I didn't notice because I was stuck in meetings all day), but today I noticed the "4G LTE" icon on my One. Am very excited! Only getting 2 bars now, so I'll hold off on a speed test. Still...I'm happy to see this.
Anyone else in the Boston area just notice this?
I'm getting 2G / Nothing in my house in Waltham.. which is why I rely on wifi calling.. which is why i'm not using 4.2.2
good to know we're getting close though.
4g LTE Boston
I am currently at work in Boston near copley and I am picking up 4g LTE. Used the opensignal app to verify and it confirmed it. Speeds arent great yet but it says LTE
I got it in Everett, MA
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I apologize if this is a duplicate...only did a cursory seacrh, not a deep one. It wasn't there yesterday (or at least, I didn't notice because I was stuck in meetings all day), but today I noticed the "4G LTE" icon on my One. Am very excited! Only getting 2 bars now, so I'll hold off on a speed test. Still...I'm happy to see this.
Anyone else in the Boston area just notice this?
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An hour ago just noticed the LTE sign by T-mobile carrier in My iphone 5 IOS 7 and I got it in Everett, MA but not in Medford, MA.
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An hour ago just noticed the LTE sign by T-mobile carrier in My iphone 5 IOS 7 and I got it in Everett, MA but not in Medford, MA.
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It's interesting. I take a train from the northshore into Boston so I can see some areas have it and some don't. Where I live in Beverly does not. Salem, no, parts of Lynn, yes, part of Chelsea, yes. North Station: didn't notice as I was getting on a shuttle to work. Close to my work near south station, yes.
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It's interesting. I take a train from the northshore into Boston so I can see some areas have it and some don't. Where I live in Beverly does not. Salem, no, parts of Lynn, yes, part of Chelsea, yes. North Station: didn't notice as I was getting on a shuttle to work. Close to my work near south station, yes.
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I work in downtown (in City Hall Plaza) however I keep my phone on WCDMA to lock into HSPA. However, after reading this I decided to switch back to Auto mode to see what kind of signal I would pick up. I live in Hyde Park. I just ran out to my local Shaws and picked up LTE! I did 3 speedtest and was able to pull down 10 megs and up 9 megs per sec. Very exciting. I'm simply looking forward to a more stable network with robust speeds. Locked in to WCDMA and I can down between 5-9 megs and up 3 megs in Quincy, Brockton. I'll be keeping my phone on Auto more often now. Personally, I find the network as a whole to be a mixed back. On average when my phone is locked to WCDMA, I'm averaging 2-3 megs down and 1 meg up. HD videos load just fine on YouTube...
Glad I checked out your post!
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I work in downtown (in City Hall Plaza) however I keep my phone on WCDMA to lock into HSPA. However, after reading this I decided to switch back to Auto mode to see what kind of signal I would pick up. I live in Hyde Park. I just ran out to my local Shaws and picked up LTE! I did 3 speedtest and was able to pull down 10 megs and up 9 megs per sec. Very exciting. I'm simply looking forward to a more stable network with robust speeds. Locked in to WCDMA and I can down between 5-9 megs and up 3 megs in Quincy, Brockton. I'll be keeping my phone on Auto more often now. Personally, I find the network as a whole to be a mixed back. On average when my phone is locked to WCDMA, I'm averaging 2-3 megs down and 1 meg up. HD videos load just fine on YouTube...
Glad I checked out your post!
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I stand corrected: I get about 2 bars of 4G LTE here at home. Now, I only had two bars (didn't do a more exact, rigorous check. Hey, it's Saturday morning) of LTE, at most, during the speedtest, and it dropped down to one for have of the duration. Still, the results were promising even with the diminished throughput: about 10 down and 6.5 up. Not bad for a couple of bars! The trick is what's going to happen when everyone else figures it out.
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I stand corrected: I get about 2 bars of 4G LTE here at home. Now, I only had two bars (didn't do a more exact, rigorous check. Hey, it's Saturday morning) of LTE, at most, during the speedtest, and it dropped down to one for have of the duration. Still, the results were promising even with the diminished throughput: about 10 down and 6.5 up. Not bad for a couple of bars! The trick is what's going to happen when everyone else figures it out.
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I share the same concern, however I really just want a solid network with great coverage and solid speeds. I haven't had any real issues with T Mobile's network and since my HD2 days my experience has been good. I find their HSPA and plus network to be pretty good, I just wish I had better coverage throughout Mass. Every now and then a YouTube video (always in HD) will take around 10 seconds to load but for the majority of my experience, hiccups and stutters are far in between.
So, looking forward to this LTE network. Although it may not be the fastest, if I can have speeds consistently in the 5 meg range, I would be very happy. I am so sick and tired of my phone and my wife's GS4 on 2g from time to time which is why I keep mine locked in WCDMA mode.
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I am currently at work in Boston near copley and I am picking up 4g LTE. Used the opensignal app to verify and it confirmed it. Speeds arent great yet but it says LTE
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That speed test app Sucks so much. The numbers are never true
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Traveling through Boston to get to downtown... My route included parts of Hyde Park and Dorchester. I'm currently in my office which is on the 16th floor inside of City Hall Plaza and I'm picking up between 1 and 2 bars of LTE. A quick Speed Test (3 total) and my results are sporadic. My best score was 13/down and 11/up.
Excited to see a real effort on behalf of T Mobile.
I'm in downtown Boston at 60 State Street, and in my office on the 4th floor I'm getting an occasional 1 bar of 4G LTE but then it goes back to just 4G before I can test it out. That's unfortunate because their 4G in my office is painfully slow. (Unlike at home in Waltham where it's very, very fast.)
I'll see if I get a more reliable LTE signal when I head out to lunch later. Here's hoping they beef it up soon so I can start using it at work regularly!
Holy crapnuts! Speed!
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I'm in downtown Boston at 60 State Street, and in my office on the 4th floor I'm getting an occasional 1 bar of 4G LTE but then it goes back to just 4G before I can test it out. That's unfortunate because their 4G in my office is painfully slow. (Unlike at home in Waltham where it's very, very fast.)
I'll see if I get a more reliable LTE signal when I head out to lunch later. Here's hoping they beef it up soon so I can start using it at work regularly!
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Wow. NOW we're playing with some power. Stayed at home today and attended a meeting remotely. Grabbed lunch in downtown Beverly and grabbed these results. Very pleased. 27.7 down and 9.9 up...not too shabby!
Latest lte speed test from the greater boston area
Boom goes the dynamite.
i am in Everett, MA and get LTE according to my Galaxy S4 at least. According to the Tmobile data coverage map i am right on the border between excellent(best possible) and very strong(2nd best). Have tested my speeds quite a few times over the last 3 weeks and consistently my down is slower than my up, just tested again and get 10 down and 12 up according to ookla speedtest and about half of that (but still up being faster than down) with opensignal app(although i wouldn't trust tests with opensignal app since it reports my home wifi being 11/8 while ookla correctly shows 85/24) . My friend with Galaxy S3 swears he got almost 50 down while walking in downtown Boston once on LTE about a week ago, hope those speeds come to my neck of the woods @ some point. Any phone optimisation tricks to make LTE/4G bit faster? Would like to justify paying extra $20 for unlimited 4G/LTE data(and if i got over 25/x on average on it i would def. add unlimited option)
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i am in Everett, MA and get LTE according to my Galaxy S4 at least. According to the Tmobile data coverage map i am right on the border between excellent(best possible) and very strong(2nd best). Have tested my speeds quite a few times over the last 3 weeks and consistently my down is slower than my up, just tested again and get 10 down and 12 up according to ookla speedtest and about half of that (but still up being faster than down) with opensignal app(although i wouldn't trust tests with opensignal app since it reports my home wifi being 11/8 while ookla correctly shows 85/24) . My friend with Galaxy S3 swears he got almost 50 down while walking in downtown Boston once on LTE about a week ago, hope those speeds come to my neck of the woods @ some point. Any phone optimisation tricks to make LTE/4G bit faster? Would like to justify paying extra $20 for unlimited 4G/LTE data(and if i got over 25/x on average on it i would def. add unlimited option)
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I don't know how much this will help you but there is a thread (can't find it right now, on my phone) that shows how to change your APN from the default settings to creating a new one that has less traffic epc.tmobile.com
Since I've changed this setting I've experienced greater LTE AND HSPA+, consistently. I too live in Boston and was actually in the Everett area yesterday and had excellent service down there.
If you need extra help, let me know
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I don't know how much this will help you but there is a thread (can't find it right now, on my phone) that shows how to change your APN from the default settings to creating a new one that has less traffic epc.tmobile.com
Since I've changed this setting I've experienced greater LTE AND HSPA+, consistently. I too live in Boston and was actually in the Everett area yesterday and had excellent service down there.
If you need extra help, let me know
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thank you for this info. My default APN is indeed fast.x. I changed to epc.x according to these instructions by creating new APN set so can always switch between fast.x and epc.x and here are the preliminary results:
Tested with ookla app right before change and average out of 3 was 10/11 (Down/Up)
Right after the change(no reboot) and switch to epc.x APN set average 10/11 (exactly the same)
After restart and verifying thats still on new epc APN set - ookla has reported 17/10 (on the right track?? highest down before i ever got was 12)
Switched to back fast.x APN set and ookla reported 18/10 (WTF???)
Restart again and on both epc and fast ookla reported 6/8(even worse than before)
everything was done within 10 min window. Could i be too far from nearest LTE tower? Network Signal app shows the signal as LTE(on both fast.x and epc.x) and dBm of -93(although also shows 3/4 signal bars). Open Signal app shows LTE and dBm -75 and while better than NS app still quite bad. According to Open Signal cell tower map i am less than 1 block away from a nearest cell tower though and about 1.5 blocks away from another tower exactly on the other side.
4G LTE - Saint Louis, Mo
FINALLY!!!! As we were traveling from St. Charles County to Shilo, Il ... Noticed my HTC One finally showed 4G LTE.... I noticed the 4G LTE symbol after we passed the Lambert. Then got really geeked-up and did a speed-test...
"2013-08-30 06:13","Lte","38.63080","-90.18349",1255,364,68,"Tempe, AZ","21.85.222.202","208.54.40.215"
"2013-08-30 06:11","Lte","38.63080","-90.18349",3772,342,37,"Tempe, AZ","21.85.222.202","208.54.40.215"
"2013-08-30 06:10","Lte","38.63397","-90.18629",8182,5811,41,"Tempe, AZ","21.85.222.202","208.54.40.215"
"2013-08-30 06:10","Lte","38.64276","-90.18902",12377,5397,40,"Tempe, AZ","21.85.222.202","208.54.40.215"
"2013-08-30 06:09","Lte","38.65115","-90.19327",5209,4254,38,"Tempe, AZ","21.85.222.202","208.54.40.215"
"2013-08-30 06:08","Lte","38.65999","-90.19670",9385,5469,37,"Tempe, AZ","21.85.222.202","208.54.40.215"
The improvement seem to have spanned out to "push-out" the 2G speeds I was getting in Fairview heights, IL... Really Excited about this.... Now All's t-mob needs to do is build a dedicated connection alone major highway networks.
4G LTE... YEAH! Next test is Wentzville and Lake Saint Louis area
I work in Lynn, and I've been getting 11-12mb down on average for the last few days. Today I felt like my connection was a little slow, do I ran speed test and get this- 4.2 down/9.6 up! Wut?
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I work in Lynn, and I've been getting 11-12mb down on average for the last few days. Today I felt like my connection was a little slow, do I ran speed test and get this- 4.2 down/9.6 up! Wut?
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Well, let us not forget that T-Mobile is still in "Roll out" phase when it comes to LTE. During this phase, we can't expect that the overall experience will always be the best. There will be time where depending on the towers upgrade status, network congestion, utilization and more you will experience slower speeds.
I say, don't judge the network because of one day of sub-par performance, give it some time, and you will notice the improvements.
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Well, let us not forget that T-Mobile is still in "Roll out" phase when it comes to LTE. During this phase, we can't expect that the overall experience will always be the best. There will be time where depending on the towers upgrade status, network congestion, utilization and more you will experience slower speeds.
I say, don't judge the network because of one day of sub-par performance, give it some time, and you will notice the improvements.
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Spoken like a true T-Mobile employee, lol... No, I just thought it was weird. I'd never seen higher upload speeds than download before.
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