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So I noticed a huge drop in speed (as have most of you) with my general 3G network. I am in LA, so my 4G is lucky if you find it.
On my old TP before the Evo came on, I got 700Kb on a bad day, 1200 on a good day... so very usable.
I was getting similar speeds on My Evo for the first week. Now I am getting horrible speeds with 300Kb, and when things are slow (and they are often slow) I get 74Kb. What is really bad.
I didn't know if it was the Evo, the battery "tricks" I applied such as turning off "enabled always-on mobile data" so I turned it back on.
I am still getting bad results and about to call sprint.... when I decided to test my wife's Palm Pre... She is also getting poor speeds (300Kb when I checked), and told me she noticed a difference in the last few weeks.
Is the Evo too successful for Sprint? Did it actually effect the network? Or is this a glitch at Sprint that will soon be changed.
More importantly... What can we do?
my speeds are lower
Before I got me evo I had a mogul. My speeds were great at 1100kbs down and 600kbs up. Now after my upgrade my evo will only get 100 down and 60 up. I can't believe they can charge $10 extra since I can't even watch YouTube on the lowest video quality without being on wifi. I could do more on the internet with my mogul than the evo. I know the evo is not the cause its sprints network. Also apparently sprint has no plans as of yet to put 4g here in Colorado springs. I am point to return my evo if nothing changes before my 30 days are up.
my speeds were 1.82Mbps and went down to .63-.92 most of the day today. I just checked after reading your thread and my speeds are back to normal. You just have to wait it out. It wasn't just the EVO either it was my Hero also that got crappy speeds.
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my speeds were 1.82Mbps and went down to .63-.92 most of the day today. I just checked after reading your thread and my speeds are back to normal. You just have to wait it out. It wasn't just the EVO either it was my Hero also that got crappy speeds.
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What he meant was that the evo being launched and so many getting it caused the slow down on sprint's network. This was similar to when the iphone 3g and 3gs came out, att's network slowed down quite a bit. I noticed it right away when I was on att.
I actually get better speeds than my previous phone, hell I consistently get better coverage and speed then my friends g1 on tmo and my sisters verizon moto droid
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In SF, I'm getting around ~400-450 down, ~500 up..
(For comparison, the verizon incredible that I was testing last month was getting ~1100 down / 700 up)
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in socal.. 500 down, 500 up.
using a hero
Visiting my mom at the hospital in Oakland, CA on 3G I'm getting 2.2 Mbps down, 0.8 Mbps up.
@ Work Martinez, CA - 1.8 Mbps down, 0.6 up.
@ Home Vallejo, CA - 0.7 Mbps down, 0.5 up.
Been pretty consistant since the day I got the Evo.
I'm in Grand Rapids, MI & I've noticed a decline in throughput as well on 3 different android phones these last two weeks.
HTC Hero - 1.2Mb/S before about 2 months ago, last time I checked last week before I smashed it, it was ~700Kb/S
Samsung Moment - ~ 800Kb/s
EVO - 500Kb/S MAX
No 4G here yet. I think Sprint throttled things back a bit to save some bandwidth/money on 3G & to make a larger aparent difference between 3G & 4G. Also could be tied to a future plan of tiered service rates. The common consumer has no clue what kind of throughput they get, they just notice aparent speed & want more. Throttling back service before a tiered service rate initiative is a good way to entice mo monies from common folks wanting faster phone porn & unstuttering LOST reruns.
Update your prl.....in san Diego and I get 1.8 mbps down and 700kbps up
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Update your prl.....in san Diego and I get 1.8 mbps down and 700kbps up
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Update PRL from the phone PRL update? Or are you talking about using the VRZ PRL? I don't want to to the vrz hack because of the risk of roaming.
It seems like this issue always come out for big releases, and I'm usually...skeptical. However I'm seeing some differences lately....I compared my results to the Hero. Same location. Same number of bars. Ran the test throughout the day.
New 3g results on EVO
.43 Mbps/.30Mbps up. (only differs by about .2Mbps/.1Mbps throughout the day)
I was consistently getting close to 1Mbps down and close to .5Mbps up on my Hero.
My radio and PRL are updated.
There might be something to this at least in some locations.
EVO - 780 down, 320 up.
Touch Pro 2 - 2.1Mbps down, 268 up.
HUGE difference... and they're both using the same home agent. I think the radio hardware in the EVO is inferior as I've NEVER seen it get above 1.3Mbps, whereas by TP2 and Mogul but regularly run about 1.5 on average...
Not to mention the fact that my TP2 holds a wifi signal much better than my EVO... My EVO won't stay connected to my router if I walk outside... My TP2 holds it all the way to the mailbox (about 100 feet from the router). Though wifi speeds (I've seen 13Mbps) are much better on the EVO when you're practically sitting on the router.
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EVO - 780 down, 320 up.
Touch Pro 2 - 2.1Mbps down, 268 up.
HUGE difference... and they're both using the same home agent. I think the radio hardware in the EVO is inferior as I've NEVER seen it get above 1.3Mbps, whereas by TP2 and Mogul but regularly run about 1.5 on average...
Not to mention the fact that my TP2 holds a wifi signal much better than my EVO... My EVO won't stay connected to my router if I walk outside... My TP2 holds it all the way to the mailbox (about 100 feet from the router). Though wifi speeds (I've seen 13Mbps) are much better on the EVO when you're practically sitting on the router.
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Ah, so you suspect a similiar radio issue as the wi-fi as opposed to a bandwidth issue...I could see that (especially in response to the battery issues).
I'm not sure I would have really noticed it but I ran a few speed tests the past couple of days and they were all in the ****ter.
Getting 250-500 down and around 600 up.
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Ah, so you suspect a similiar radio issue as the wi-fi as opposed to a bandwidth issue...I could see that (especially in response to the battery issues).
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I have never seen such terrible speeds on a Rev A device... My area is blanketed in Rev A and my data card pulls 2.6/400 consistently so I know it has nothing to do with the network.
Between the 3G speeds (or lack thereof), the wifi issues, the 30FPS cap, and the battery life, that Samsung Galaxy S Pro is looking mighty nice...
Well I have been running tests all day as I prep to call Sprint. The variation is HUGE.
Mostly I am getting 200 to 500 down and 200 to 400 up with pings in the high 200
Then suddenly I got a pocket of time I got 1500 to 1200 down and 500 up with pings around 140
Then dropped again to 40 down and 100 up with pings near 600
I noticed on the tests that I did that are bad the needle on the speed test would hand and jump... it is almost like I was getting a bad signal that would be breaking up.
Basically this is really bad. I used to steam audio all the time on my old TP and now I can't because it has basically become impossible to listen to anything due to the poor bandwidth. I am paying $10 for premium service and it got worse... I am going to demand they refund me the $10 until they fix the bandwidth issue (we will see how THAT goes....)
Where are you guys conducting these tests? Don't use the speedtest app - its broken (it shows an 800 upload which is impossible - at least in my area). Speedtest.net from the phone will not give you proper latency and may or may not reflect the true speed.
testmy.net 25MB download and testmy.net 3MB upload are the tests I've been using.
In boise, id on the 3g network not 4g. I was using speedtest and the results have been pretty consistent for me when I get the same server but I'm not against using a different bandwidth test...
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Its just best for everyone to be using the same server to test on. Testmy.net has no problem handling my 50meg connection at home (tests at 62/19) whereas I have a hard time finding a speedtest.net server that works. I can tell you though, if you go to speedtest.net and run a speed test on the same server you were using in the app, your latency will be lower but your speed will be faster... That tells me the app is not reporting properly.
Also, speeds tend to peak and normalize after about 10MB... so the speedtest.net tests aren't as accurate as testmy.net would be.
I've even tryed the EVRC thing
Mine is very spotty. Sometimes I get 1.5mbps and other times (like right now), it looks like this:
Wifi is ok, but its results are slower in the browser vs. the actual Speedtest app:
Mine is also as horrible here in Phoenix.
I've been happy with my service in Jacksonville. Usually in the range of 1.3 - 1.5 mbps, upwards of 2 mbps
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I've been happy with my service in Jacksonville. Usually in the range of 1.3 - 1.5 mbps, upwards of 2 mbps
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Are you rooted? Just curious.
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Are you rooted? Just curious.
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dont worry you are not alone, my 3g sometimes fast and sometimes slow....but on average, i got about 800-1200kbps.
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dont worry you are not alone, my 3g sometimes fast and sometimes slow....but on average, i got about 800-1200kbps.
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Ditto. Either way though, my 3G connection is still faster than my home's DSL.
Then again, what would you expect from AT&T?
If you're using the SpeedTest app to check speeds, just be aware that it is inaccurate as all get out.
Same,
I just switched from ATT(St. Louis) My ATT 3g speeds are similar to my 4g Sprint speeds at times
3g on ATT in a rural area tested from 1.2-2.3mpbs, sprint 4g has topped out at 2.0mpbs downtown.
Very sad.
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If you're using the SpeedTest app to check speeds, just be aware that it is inaccurate as all get out.
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What do you recommend? DSL reports?
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Here's the results
4g
Speedtest - 1.56
DSL Reports Flash - 3.8
3g
Speedtest - 155
DSL Reports Flash - 556
You may have something there sir
Seems for this app it either doesn't throttle or is using **** servers.
Well i dunno what to blame. I do live in a completly brick house. All though i can go to walmart and have 5-6 bars but go back to my house 5 blocks away with a good signal all the way untill i walk up my steps (garage appt) and into my door and drop to 0 to at best 4 bars. Its almost like my house is made out of led or something because it seems to block out any kind of signal, even the "new" digital tv signals. But even when i do have a full signal the best i get is 100kb/s
what is really stupid for me is that my upload speed over 3g is oftentimes faster than the download speed with full bars.
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what is really stupid for me is that my upload speed over 3g is oftentimes faster than the download speed with full bars.
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That happens when you use the speed test app. It won't be the case with anything else.
I am on t mobile in nyc area. I recently did a speed test using the app, and my upload speed is higher then my down load speed. Is this always the case?
Down .5 mb
Up 1.6 mb
I did the test three times and all the time up was more then down.
Also are those 4g speed and are they good
Thanks
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I am on t mobile in nyc area. I recently did a speed test using the app, and my upload speed is higher then my down load speed. Is this always the case?
Down .5 mb
Up 1.6 mb
I did the test three times and all the time up was more then down.
Also are those 4g speed and are they good
Thanks
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umm no, this is not good at all lol... It might be the service in your area at the moment or such... I'm not so sure though.
What is a good value
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What is a good value
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average since you are in 4G speeds some users get 6 mbs to 9mbs even more as well! and upload is an amazing rate btw..
I myself get 4mbs down and
900kbs upload but that is because I'm not on hspa+
go to a diff place. speeds vary from where you are.
U get 6mbs and ur not even on 4g
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average since you are in 4G speeds some users get 6 mbs to 9mbs even more as well! and upload is an amazing rate btw..
I myself get 4mbs down and
900kbs upload but that is because I'm not on hspa+
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Damn, I would DIE for those speeds. I get 2.2 Mbps down and only a whopping 100 kbps up. I NEED UP MORE THAN I NEED DOWN!!!
I used to get similar speeds to OP at home. They recently upgraded "my" tower because now I'm getting 8+mbps down and 1.7+mbps up.
Patience, I guess
I always get higher upload vs download and not even close to the speeds I see on here. Generally we're talking 300-400k down and 800k up on a good day. I have repeated these tests on my MT3G and new MT4G. This is with the HSDPA indicator in the bar and HSDPA shown in phone settings. Lame.
At my house I get about 1.7, 1.8 up and anywhere from 2 to 6.5 down. The speeds tend to change seemingly at random, haven't really found any noticible patterns.
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At my house I get about 1.7, 1.8 up and anywhere from 2 to 6.5 down. The speeds tend to change seemingly at random, haven't really found any noticible patterns.
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Is that "speedtest" speeds or actual downloads? My tests are all over the place (and low-ish: 2-3 mbps). Actual downloads go well over twice as fast.
My usual upload speeds are higher than my download speeds. They aren't super fast, but they are extremely consistent.
Downloads range from .75mbps to 1mbps
Uploads range from 1mbps to 1.5 mbps
Wish i could get some faster speeds in HSPA+ coverage with full bars, but the T-mobile rep admitted to me that the HSPA+ rollout in my area is very fresh and not really official, covering a small area of the city, so I can't expect too much at this time.
Anyone else notice slower data? I used to average 7.2mbps on my Vibrant, I even scored 10mbps on a G2.
Nexus S averages out at 4mbps.... Sometimes 2.5. Highest I've got it to was 5 on a lucky day. My GF has my old Vibrant and she is getting the same download speeds.
Don't know if I should be happy or sad Lol!
Anyone else notice speed slowing down in the last 6 months?
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Anyone else notice slower data? I used to average 7.2mbps on my Vibrant, I even scored 10mbps on a G2.
Nexus S averages out at 4mbps.... Sometimes 2.5. Highest I've got it to was 5 on a lucky day. My GF has my old Vibrant and she is getting the same download speeds.
Don't know if I should be happy or sad Lol!
Anyone else notice speed slowing down in the last 6 months?
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HSDPA or HSPA+ makes no difference in the end. Reason we get a performance boost from HSPA+ even though we dont support it is HSPA+ is all in the backend.
which means faster speeds for all. Imagine what the speeds would be without HSPA+
I realize this. But speeds have been slowing down lately.
We do get the boost from HSPA+ but what slows it down is the fact that T-Mobile is getting tons of new customers... The network may get clogged and we could have an AT&T disaster!
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I realize this. But speeds have been slowing down lately.
We do get the boost from HSPA+ but what slows it down is the fact that T-Mobile is getting tons of new customers... The network may get clogged and we could have an AT&T disaster!
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hm, i noticed this too, and also, theres at least 20+ people that i know that used to have ATT/Verizon that has jumped over to tmobile in the past month or 2.
I haven't noticed any noticeable difference in average network performance over the past seven months. I haven't been clocking it, though; just speaking from my personal sense of how quickly it was downloading.
Yes, I've definitely noticed a slow down in the past 60 days.
I used to get 3800 to 4400 Kb/s on my N1. Once I switched to the NS, I've never seen faster than about 3000 Kb/s. I posted in a different thread yesterday that I ran some tests with both the N1 and the NS (using the same sim card in both) and found that the N1 no longer goes over 3000 Kb/s.
Conclusion: the service has degraded around here.
But it just occurred to me that I had been "throttled" for being a data pig last November, and the throttling was supposed to last until mid-December. Here's the interesting part, even "throttled" my speeds only declined to about 2800 Kb/s; which means I'm still getting those speeds that I got while "throttled". I wonder if they forgot to "un-throttle" me.
I'll call customer service today and double check. I'll also complain about the drop in speeds.
Is it possible you're being throttled and missed the notification?
I'm in central Florida and can say there has been a big decrease in speed here in the past 3 months. I too came from a Vibrant that my wife now uses and can say the same as the OP.
I think its a mix of things. New customers on high data use handsets utilizing that advertised 4g speed. I also think it being winter time that people are staying inside and using their phones and devices more, much like how gas use in homes goes up in the winter time. There's less to do outside, etc, so you are connecting more through electronic means. Hopefully tmo continues to expand their back haul, and they will have to to achieve those even faster than 21mbps speeds. I think conversely that in the summer you will see your speeds come back.
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Glad I'm not the only one! Let's hope it's just for the winter! Heh
Wouldn't winter help more? Since having wireless in the home? By your logic it would be worse in the summer because it's nicer weather and people travel more and need mobile data to facebook it up.
If you want to test if the service is slowing down due to many people, test it at least 4 times throughout the day with at least twice at night such as 1am and 3-4am, shouldn't be many people on then.
About 6 months ago I was on T-Mobile at which time I switched to Sprint for yearly updates and a supposedly cheaper plan. When those two things ended up not happening I switched back and I can say without a doubt that my speeds are faster. This could be due to the fact that I had a MT3G before and now have a NS or that when I was on Tmo before their HSPA network was not really available or it could be just that its faster. Either way I'm much happier as with Sprint I was topping out at 1.5mbps on 3G and now on Tmo I'm getting up to around 3.5 some times even closer to 4.
About 20 days ago I started experiencing data slowness. Before I was averaging 3.0-4.0 I called Tmobile multiply times to reset me with the towers. No luck. I have the nexus S and my girl has the vibrant. Now we can barely hit 1.0 its very frustrating I thought I was the only one but after googling and finding this thread I see Im not alone.
I have no complaints here in terms of TMOs speed. With the NS I get about 4-5mb consistently. When I was at best buy playing around with phone the MT4G hit 11mb down, although the average speed was closer to 9mb
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I have no complaints here in terms of TMOs speed. With the NS I get about 4-5mb consistently. When I was at best buy playing around with phone the MT4G hit 11mb down, although the average speed was closer to 9mb
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What part of Los Angeles are you in?
It was 3.8 - 4.2 pretty consistently near the Van Nuys Airport for a while, but now it's never more than 3.0.
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What part of Los Angeles are you in?
It was 3.8 - 4.2 pretty consistently near the Van Nuys Airport for a while, but now it's never more than 3.0.
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I'm in the Hollywood area.
It's area dependent.
Brooklyn
in 18th/68th, I get top speed (up to 9Mbps with N900), average 4-5
in home area (N train Bay Parkway), I also get top speed
in Bay Parkway/86th, the speed is slower (2-3Mbps)
in Downtown (Fulton/Jay, A/C/F/R train station), the speed is barely workable
Manhattan
in Lower Manhattan (both Canal Street and City Hall), the speed it up to 2Mbps
in Midtown (Empire State Building), the speed is much slower (no more than 1Mbps)
in Inwood (A train 207 Street), the speed is good (4-5Mbps)
The speed test was conducted with either MT4 or NS except stated.
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It's area dependent.
Brooklyn
in 18th/68th, I get top speed (up to 9Mbps with N900), average 4-5
in home area (N train Bay Parkway), I also get top speed
in Bay Parkway/86th, the speed is slower (2-3Mbps)
in Downtown (Fulton/Jay, A/C/F/R train station), the speed is barely workable
Manhattan
in Lower Manhattan (both Canal Street and City Hall), the speed it up to 2Mbps
in Midtown (Empire State Building), the speed is much slower (no more than 1Mbps)
in Inwood (A train 207 Street), the speed is good (4-5Mbps)
The speed test was conducted with either MT4 or NS except stated.
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Wouldn't the MT4G get higher speeds and skew the results since it can access HSPA+ while we can only rid the coattails of it? Since only the MT4G can access the HSPA+ (the G2 can do HSPA, I believe but it cannot do the higher speeds) wouldn't that mean that the number of devices slowing that network was significantly smaller and therefore the amount of throttling due to network bottleneck would be significantly lower. Therefore to make an accurate speed test you would have to use the same type of phone (or to be completely scientific, the same phone).
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I've always said cell service is like real estate, it's all about location, location, location.
Your point doesn't address the real issue. Sure, in different parts of town with different devices that have different speeds abilities we're going to see different speedtest results. We'll even see different results depending on the time of day in some areas.
The issue is that those of us who were averaging some particular speed, using the same device, in the same location, at the same time-of-day are now seeing reduced speeds.
For me it's a 25% reduction, consistently, on two different devices...
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Wouldn't winter help more? Since having wireless in the home? By your logic it would be worse in the summer because it's nicer weather and people travel more and need mobile data to facebook it up.
If you want to test if the service is slowing down due to many people, test it at least 4 times throughout the day with at least twice at night such as 1am and 3-4am, shouldn't be many people on then.
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My last speedtest was at 4am lol
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I have no complaints here in terms of TMOs speed. With the NS I get about 4-5mb consistently. When I was at best buy playing around with phone the MT4G hit 11mb down, although the average speed was closer to 9mb
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It's as I feared. They're throttling non 4g devices so that the 4g devices get worlds faster. I used to max out at 7.2mbps on Vibrant. I wonder if the G2/MT4g still get 10mbps around here. Damn.
The Nexus S does get HSDPA and benefits from HSPA+. It should be maxing out at 7.2 if MT4g is getting over 7.2.
I mean. I am getting 3-5. Which is still awesome... But. I want my 7.2 back.
I am running about 4.64mb up and 1.05mb down. Seems slow to me. What do you think?
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I am running about 4.64mb up and 1.05mb down. Seems slow to me. What do you think?
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There are millions of these threads. And people from ALL around the world connecting from many different devices with different radios.
Even 2 people in the same city can see amazingly different speeds based on tower load and a million other variables.
2 to 3 Down...0.5 to 1 up
Down:
Max = 5mb
Min = 2mb
Up:
Max = 1.7mb
Min = .8mb
All results are from LA on speedtest.net
Most common results are about 2.5 down and 1.5 up.
G2 on CM7 Nightlies
Radio = 12.28b.60.140eU_26.03.02.26_M
max 3 down and 1 up. Unfortunately.
Would be also nice to have WiFi max.Will try tomorrow at work.
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I am running about 4.64mb up and 1.05mb down. Seems slow to me. What do you think?
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Well considering those speeds were unheard of just a few years ago u r doing pretty good.
I get between 6-7 Mbps down and .90 Mbps on data and nearly 18Mbps on wifi
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I am running about 4.64mb up and 1.05mb down. Seems slow to me. What do you think?
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Not sure that you are really asking a question, or gloating....I think that you darn well what those numbers mean.
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I am running about 4.64mb up and 1.05mb down. Seems slow to me. What do you think?
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Pretty sure you got the down and up numbers reversed.
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Not sure that you are really asking a question, or gloating....I think that you darn well what those numbers mean.
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So true... More gloating then anything But I wish it was better.
As these phones are designed to do 14.4 mb/s you'd think we'd be able to get half that. The most I've seen in my area is about 5 mb/s and that's a rare occurrence. I would love to see 7.
Best I've seen in the L.A. area is 6.1mb down and 1.8mb up. But ya, totally think we'd be able to get at least half of what we are capable of. Then again, The network is still pretty new in comparison to other networks. Even though its "America's Largest '4G' Network"...
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Best I've seen in the L.A. area is 6.1mb down and 1.8mb up. But ya, totally think we'd be able to get at least half of what we are capable of. Then again, The network is still pretty new in comparison to other networks. Even though its "America's Largest '4G' Network"...
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Right, refer back to one if the posts after the OP, that'll explain your misunderstanding.
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Max: 9mbps download
Max: 2mbps upload
Average: 4-7mbps download
Average: 1.2-2mbps upload
Still waiting for 14mbps download I hope the G2 can for once. Hit 14mbps download speeds as promised!
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Max: 9mbps download
Max: 2mbps upload
Average: 4-7mbps download
Average: 1.2-2mbps upload
Still waiting for 14mbps download I hope the G2 can for once. Hit 14mbps download speeds as promised!
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My numbers are almost identical to this. Downloading a Tubemate video today over HSPA+, I got about 8mbps max, 6mbps average.
On WiFi, I've gotten about 15mbps down, 8mbps up.
On 3G on AT&T in a somewhat rural area.
Max of 3Mb down, more commonly around 2 and between 1-1.5 up.
On wifi, get 5mb down and 3 mb up (with torrents running on my PC)
Well, data plan just activated about an hour ago. I went outside to test and was getting 0.4 MB/s then realized I was using 2G.
Turned the option off, tested again, and was getting around 2.06 MB down and 1.58 MB up.
Is this normal for the speeds to be low during the first couple hours/days of having a data plan?
Im sorta disappointed in the speeds (its not much faster than the current home DSL).
Im in Anaheim, CA area btw.
I average about 4-5 mbps down and i seem to hold steady at 1.7-1.8 up
though there are a couple of sweet spots in my city where i pull down 6-9 consistently.
potentdro said:
Well, data plan just activated about an hour ago. I went outside to test and was getting 0.4 MB/s then realized I was using 2G.
Turned the option off, tested again, and was getting around 2.06 MB down and 1.58 MB up.
Is this normal for the speeds to be low during the first couple hours/days of having a data plan?
Im sorta disappointed in the speeds (its not much faster than the current home DSL).
Im in Anaheim, CA area btw.
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I feel ya bro, I have the same results . I live in orlando and I still get these crappy speeds . I wonder how most of those guys get such quick download and uploads .
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I feel ya bro, I have the same results . I live in orlando and I still get these crappy speeds . I wonder how most of those guys get such quick download and uploads .
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Steroids. If you check under the hood their phones have smaller processors. Steroids will do that
EEaudio08 said:
My numbers are almost identical to this. Downloading a Tubemate video today over HSPA+, I got about 8mbps max, 6mbps average.
On WiFi, I've gotten about 15mbps down, 8mbps up.
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On WiFi I only got 10+mbps the first time I ran a speedtest... After that it's never been over 7mbps Idk why though, speedtest on the computer always scores ~20mbps... Is there like something that lowers download speed on the phone?
EDIT: lol after posting this I just realized... I always force 2g on my phone to save battery... I connected to 3g/4g and turned back on my WiFi and BAM 14mbps... solved my own problem... The 2g/3g settings affect speeds on WiFi aswell