My wife has an s3 also on Sprint. On several occasions, I have ran multiple speed tests side by side, and her phone consistently finishes much faster on downloads - sometimes twice as fast. I
I've tried changing roms, updating prl, firmware, but nothing seems to help.
Any idea what I can do to increase my speeds?
We are not in an LTE area btw. Thanks!
Absolutely nothing.
Besides force roam.
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polar2792 said:
Absolutely nothing.
Besides force roam.
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How would forcing roam work? We're both on Sprint.
Have you tried reprovisioning the phone through the ##72786# menu? You will need your msl code.
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How would forcing roam work? We're both on Sprint.
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Well Verizon's and att speeds are a lot faster than Sprint. It still wpuldnt be as fast as the s3 tho. Our radios on these evos suck.
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Have you tried reprovisioning the phone through the ##72786# menu? You will need your msl code.
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I would need to flash back to a sense rom to do this, correct?
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I would need to flash back to a sense rom to do this, correct?
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I believe so. I have the opposite effect. The EVO does better on 3G than my Note but 4G is better on the Note.
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Mind posting the Speedtest info showing the difference in the EVO LTE & your wife's S3?
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I've done the same thing, my wife gets better speeds on 3g on her s3, but I get faster lte speeds on my elte...I've read that sprint gives particular models of phones more network bandwidth than other models...idk how true that is though.
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Just ran a speed test on my phone and im getting awful speeds. Around 300kb on average. Running stock rom ke5 radio and matrix kernel. Any idea why it is so damn slow with full service bars??
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Move to question please can't do it from the app my bad.
although it probably won't get answered there.
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Yes you're right about wrong area... but keep in mind bars mean nothing.. I could have two bars on my nexus s and my friend could have full bars on his evo 3d and I'd still have better data speeds than him. As of late sprints 3G speeds have not been great.. 4G is where its at.
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Also if you were using the speedtest app itgives really inconsistent results. I use speakeasy.net on my phond
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Maybe try another radio? I mean data speed isn't a kernel issue
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Sprint sucks! I never have a service where I used to have before and 3g feels like 1x most of the time.
dmora01 said:
Sprint sucks! I never have a service where I used to have before and 3g feels like 1x most of the time.
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I believe boost, virgin and the other Kroger pay as you go services are killing us.
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This is mine on 3g with 2bars. Oopppss can't really see it but its 1.8mbs crazzy
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update your prl/profile.
sometimes sprint's speed sucks, sometimes it's great. i get inconsistent speeds... sometimes i'll get 1.5mpbs on 3G, other times I'll get 300kbps...
Updated both prl and profile and i'm pulling down speeds of 199kb. Awful. My upload is faster than my download haha.
On wifi I'm pulling speeds around 16mb
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Hello, I just got a new evil 3d becuase of the dual core processor because I thought that the internet would be faster. Is there a configuration needed? With my 4 g my speeds are in the 400 and now with the 3d "dual core" processor I'm in the 200's
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The processor has little to do with internet speeds. It helps, making things more responsive, but the signal effects the data speed. And the antenna on the 3D are at the bottom near where you'd hold the phone which could degrade the signal.
Is the phone faster than the 4G? Yes. Does that mean you'll get faster data? Not necessarily.
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The processor has little to do with internet speeds. It helps, making things more responsive, but the signal effects the data speed. And the antenna on the 3D are at the bottom near where you'd hold the phone which could degrade the signal.
Is the phone faster than the 4G? Yes. Does that mean you'll get faster data? Not necessarily.
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Nicely put...
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The processor has little to do with internet speeds. It helps, making things more responsive, but the signal effects the data speed. And the antenna on the 3D are at the bottom near where you'd hold the phone which could degrade the signal.
Is the phone faster than the 4G? Yes. Does that mean you'll get faster data? Not necessarily.
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Thanks!, understood 100%. Would you recomendar an antenna booster or something like that? I have the airwave coming on Monday, does that actually help?
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metro77279 said:
Thanks!, understood 100%. Would you recomendar an antenna booster or something like that? I have the airwave coming on Monday, does that actually help?
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Yes, it will.
Have the airave as well... Works very nicely
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You'll return it in a week, once you see how slow 3g is with sprint.
IF your lucky, you might get 100k up / down, but typically, only 25k
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You'll return it in a week, once you see how slow 3g is with sprint.
IF your lucky, you might get 100k up / down, but typically, only 25k
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This is dependant on location. I'm not doubting you are experiencing slow network speeds, but it's purely a matter of tower saturation, and your surroundings. I'm consistantly seeing downloads in the range of 1.0-1.7 mbs. Sometimes, at night, I can break 2.0 mbs, but that's because there isn't much activity. But, I'm in a major metropolitan area, with strong network coverage from the major 4 carriers. There was a blip for about 8 months where the speeds were really slow, but Sprint fixed the tower by my house, and now I'm back to normal.
And, to the OP, I didn't notice any difference in download speed between my Evo 4G, and Evo 3D.
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This is dependant on location. I'm not doubting you are experiencing slow network speeds, but it's purely a matter of tower saturation, and your surroundings. I'm consistantly seeing downloads in the range of 1.0-1.7 mbs. Sometimes, at night, I can break 2.0 mbs, but that's because there isn't much activity. But, I'm in a major metropolitan area, with strong network coverage from the major 4 carriers. There was a blip for about 8 months where the speeds were really slow, but Sprint fixed the tower by my house, and now I'm back to normal.
And, to the OP, I didn't notice any difference in download speed between my Evo 4G, and Evo 3D.
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exactly it all matters were u are with any network. ive been with sprint forever and ive always seen consistent 3g speeds in my hometown ranging from .8-1.7mbps recently ive moved from the east coast to the west coast and im still seeing great speeds but not the same around .5-1.0 which still works and i somehow managed to move from the best 4g city to another great 4g city haha always see speeds of 5-12mbps
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Hello, I just got a new evil 3d becuase of the dual core processor because I thought that the internet would be faster. Is there a configuration needed? With my 4 g my speeds are in the 400 and now with the 3d "dual core" processor I'm in the 200's
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>evil 3d
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The Airave doesn't provide 4G Signals. It does however provide 3G Data Connection which is usually faster than what you'd get from a Sprint Tower. Also Depends on your internet connection that you'd be hooking the Airave up to.
I just hooked up the airave and I went from 0.2 to 1.3 . It's bad assets. I recommend everybody call Sprint and get it. It's freeeeee.
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metro77279 said:
I just hooked up the airave and I went from 0.2 to 1.3 . It's bad assets. I recommend everybody call Sprint and get it. It's freeeeee.
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Does the air rave not need to be hooked up to your Internet? LMFAO why not just use wifi?
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I just hooked up the airave and I went from 0.2 to 1.3 . It's bad assets. I recommend everybody call Sprint and get it. It's freeeeee.
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Or WiFi?
Edit.... Lol someone beat me to it....
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My evo 4G is actually a lot better about picking up a 4G signal, but the speeds are about the same with both. The 3G and 4G antenna are still on top with the 3D but the wifi and Bluetooth are indeed on the bottom of the phone.
If you're not getting at least 600kbps on 3G call sprint and let them know. That's the minimum speed they advertise do usually they'll credit your account for it.
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Does the air rave not need to be hooked up to your Internet? LMFAO why not just use wifi?
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The airave creates a voice signal and data..... But the data is useless if you have wifi...
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The airave creates a voice signal and data..... But the data is useless if you have wifi...
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Exactly... That's what thought..
I'm getting a 3d tomorow as a asurin replacement till the galaxy nexus comes out
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Wordlywisewiz said:
Does the air rave not need to be hooked up to your Internet? LMFAO why not just use wifi?
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The while point is the reception. If I use WiFi, sure It's even better than that. But hahaha lmao, lol
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Besides, there are some ROMs that dont have WiFi yet so this would be really helpful
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I've done about 10 Prl updates but I'm still on 24004 . Is this an issue? Am I supposed to be on 25004?
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I've been on 24004 pretty much the entire time that I have had this phone.
I just checked mine-25004.
25004 for me.
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just checked mine. 25004
I just updated and mine went to 25004
25004 on both mine and my wifes since the day we got the phones....
25004 in areas closer to getting nv LTE than areas not.
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25004 in areas closer to getting nv LTE than areas not.
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Yeah. I figured I wouldn't be in the LTE area
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when new was 25004, i changed to 11119, if i do the update change back to 25004. I like 11119 coz i get 3g when roaming
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when new was 25004, i changed to 11119, if i do the update change back to 25004. I like 11119 coz i get 3g when roaming
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How can I change to 11119?
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25004 in areas closer to getting nv LTE than areas not.
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Oh! That's good to know! I'm in the Philly market so hopefully I'll see some LTE soon!
busties said:
How can I change to 11119?
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Check this out here.
klbjr said:
Oh! That's good to know! I'm in the Philly market so hopefully I'll see some LTE soon!
Check this out here.
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I wish there was a way to update prl without using a pc. Kinda sucks there is no modified epst for the 4g lte
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I've done about 10 Prl updates but I'm still on 24004 . Is this an issue? Am I supposed to be on 25004?
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24004 is for corporate accounts. The 25004 is the "regular" PRL. You want the one you have .
Don't worry so much about it. PRLs oftentimes differ based on area and such. Some places get new PRLs faster, and some places just get different PRLs. A new PRL isn't a huge deal anyway, since they just decide how your phone roams.
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24004 is for corporate accounts. The 25004 is the "regular" PRL. You want the one you have .
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Would it be possible for you to post 24004 for downloading?
Thanks!
I'm also 25004, and I'm in the Kansas City market area. LTE in 2 weeks!
I live in an area where I'm used to getting 1x and a bar of 3G, however today I noticed 4G and just now an icon popped up saying 4G LTE. Whats the difference? Given, vzw store said we would get 4g within a few months but didn't expect it this soon
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lol the difference can be up to like 40x faster than 3g.... my 3g here gets like 1mbps download.. 4g gets like 20 on a good day
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jayochs said:
lol the difference can be up to like 40x faster than 3g.... my 3g here gets like 1mbps download.. 4g gets like 20 on a good day
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4g gets 20 on a bad day where I'm at, it gets this in a good day.
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keith843 said:
I live in an area where I'm used to getting 1x and a bar of 3G, however today I noticed 4G and just now an icon popped up saying 4G LTE. Whats the difference? Given, vzw store said we would get 4g within a few months but didn't expect it this soon
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I understand your question. It's the same thing on VZW. I think you just missed the LTE part the first time.
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I understand your question. It's the same thing on VZW. I think you just missed the LTE part the first time.
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At times I see the "LTE" part of the icon disappear and reappear. I've noticed no difference in speed.
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At times I see the "LTE" part of the icon disappear and reappear. I've noticed no difference in speed.
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I wonder if you have an overlap of network types between VZW and another carrier like AT&T or something like that?
the DNA can only connect to Verizon's LTE spectrum IIRC. It can do basically all GSM/CDMA but not LTE.
I'm wondering if maybe he has a custom ROM or a custom status bar. If he is stock then that icon change is weird. And as stated, the DNA can only connect to Verizon's LTE. It does not support LTE from AT&T as it runs on a different frequency.
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the DNA can only connect to Verizon's LTE spectrum IIRC. It can do basically all GSM/CDMA but not LTE.
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So the DNA gets 1900mhz HSDPA+?
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Cause this is what I get consistently with Vzw 4g.
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I live in an area where I'm used to getting 1x and a bar of 3G, however today I noticed 4G and just now an icon popped up saying 4G LTE. Whats the difference? Given, vzw store said we would get 4g within a few months but didn't expect it this soon
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Shouldn't be a difference between 4G and 4GLTE. Your area is probably getting prepped for 4G. Expect it to go on and off for several days, even weeks, before it is officially turned on.
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Cause this is what I get consistently with Vzw 4g.
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Wow, what is up with your terrible 4GLTE speeds? That is like 3G speed on the download..
I just ran a test here in RP and got 14mbps down and almost 6up.
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Cause this is what I get consistently with Vzw 4g.
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Really? Consistently? There's something out of whack here. I get d/l anywhere between 16-30, and u/l between 4-12 while on VZW 4G LTE.
Just now I got 16 down, 6 up.
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Really? Consistently? There's something out of whack here. I get d/l anywhere between 16-30, and u/l between 4-12 while on VZW 4G LTE.
Just now I got 16 down, 6 up.
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Yea it's consistent. I know it sucks.
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Yea it's consistent. I know it sucks.
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Is that just in one place such as your house, or everywhere you go?
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I get 4G when I go to work 45 minutes away and its speeds are around 6-12 down and 1 up, but the past year we had 4g at work and never saw LTE come up on my razr or the DNA in the past month till last night. Also stock, rooted, s-off, unlocked
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Is that just in one place such as your house, or everywhere you go?
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Everywhere in my area. It's definitely server-side. I get good speeds at work.(30 minutes away)
Here's work.
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kaliblazin707 said:
Everywhere in my area. It's definitely server-side. I get good speeds at work.(30 minutes away)
Here's work.
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You need to call tech support and complain, that's no where near the speeds you should be getting. If you call tech support usually they'll come out and figure out what's wrong.
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Seeing how your area just got LTE, expect it to be slow for awhile. When my area got it a year and a half ago, it was pretty sucky for the first few weeks. Most likely they are setting everything up. Give it some time and it should start getting faster.
If you do live in an area that has had LTE for more than a month and you still have this speed, you should call Verizon.
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Bigandrewgold said:
4g gets 20 on a bad day where I'm at, it gets this in a good day.
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you lucky sonofa... lol during daytime hours I get like 12. I'm a newer market though.. finally hit us maybe about August last year or sept?
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It's been more than a month and it's stuck on Edge. Even when I go to the areas where I would have a strong signal of 4G, it doesn't change into 4G! This is really bugging me. My phone is S-ON, bootloader unlocked, and running Viper Amaze 1.7.0.1. Oh yeah, and T-Mobile is my carrier!
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It's been more than a month and it's stuck on Edge. Even when I go to the areas where I would have a strong signal of 4G, it doesn't change into 4G! This is really bugging me. My phone is S-ON, bootloader unlocked, and running Viper Amaze 1.7.0.1. Oh yeah, and T-Mobile is my carrier!
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You need to check your apns and put in the correct t-mobile apn so it will give you the proper hspa+ rather than edge.
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Check and make sure your phone isn't set to GSM only under network settings.
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Most likely you have gsm only on
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Got it! You guys are right, it was on GSM only. I thought my radio got messed up. So is there anyway to get 4GLTE on this phone?
I usually set my phone to GSM Only when I go out, because it saves a lot of battery and still lets me stay connected to the internet.
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nulcon said:
Got it! You guys are right, it was on GSM only. I thought my radio got messed up. So is there anyway to get 4GLTE on this phone?
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There is no way to get lte on this phone it doesn't have lte. If it did people would have abysmal battery life because lte consumes too much battery.
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SuperAfnan said:
There is no way to get lte on this phone it doesn't have lte. If it did people would have abysmal battery life because lte consumes too much battery.
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HSPA+ is just fine for me. It's beaten my friend's Verizon LTE on many occasions.
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Capgun_Homicide said:
HSPA+ is just fine for me. It's beaten my friend's Verizon LTE on many occasions.
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Me too. :laugh: Your friend's Verizon LTE was slow likely due to tower congestion. That's when too many people are on the tower and the bandwidth becomes tiny and people get slow data. I hope it doesn't happen to future T-mobile LTE,
My galaxy S6 is stuck on Edge as network type and it refuses to get out of GSM Only even if I try to set preferred network type. I can see the other network types displayed but when I press them it switches back immediately to GSM Only