New data speed for spokane wa. - HTC EVO 3D

So I had been insanely bad data speeds. Changed my prl and now look I was getting 140 max now I'm getting well take a look. Very happy now. Except my upload speed fluctuate a lot, is that normal?
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bsanto9 said:
So I had been insanely bad data speeds. Changed my prl and now look I was getting 140 max now I'm getting well take a look. Very happy now. Except my upload speed fluctuate a lot, is that normal?
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ha what PRL did you change to?.....if its one of the VZ based ones on the forum here just be careful as Sprint will not think twice to hit you with a little letter when you go over the roaming allotment...

Sprint's data speeds are so crappy, don't expect you speed tests to be similar. And upload speeds are usually never as high as download.
And yes, be careful if you flashed a Verizon PRL not to go over 300mb a month.

Prl 11115 I don't think I'm.ever in roaming, how would I see if I am
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Prl 11115 I don't think I'm.ever in roaming, how would I see if I am
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Think thats the Sprint Corp PRL....though I could be wrong...
You should always know exactly what your flashing and adding into your device before doing so btw, so you should know exactly what PRL you have to be honest...

I yep it is for Sprint corporate. And I understand that I was just trying to give insight to those in my area that my data speeds went up. My apologies for not researching enough. Moderators please close thread
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I am also in Spokane, we only have 4G in the downtown area and along Sprague Ave out to the valley... I have tried a few PRLs but I don't think they make a real difference as far as speed goes

See I didn't even know we did, now I do and get one 4g bar weak lol
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bsanto9 said:
See I didn't vent know we did now I do and get one 4g bar gay lol
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yeah its super weak... *sigh* and now LTE is the new thing

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Anybody else update there prl to 51081? I just noticed it was updated
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snoopy1e11 said:
Anybody else update there prl to 51081? I just noticed it was updated
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Yup...mine did the same. 51081
Speeds Averaging 550Kbps
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Yup...mine did the same. 51081
Speeds Averaging 550Kbps
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Yea im bout in that range i gotta test again
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I had better speeds before the prl update.
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mikel719 said:
I had better speeds before the prl update.
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same here...
My speeds are slow on the test but everyday use its just fine
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yup slower speeds and less bars with the new prl
Harry_Spade said:
yup slower speeds and less bars with the new prl
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I still get full bars, the data speeds just are lower for me now.
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Is there any way to reverse, fix this yet? My speeds are suffering greatly.
A prl update shouldn't affect your speeds at all... Unless it adds or removes a tower you were always roaming on before.
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A prl update shouldn't affect your speeds at all... Unless it adds or removes a tower you were always roaming on before.
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ehhh
actually a prl can and will dramatically change data speeds...
stock vs a modified one such as 0001.prl changes my speeds by about 1.5 mbps
dtr145r said:
ehhh
actually a prl can and will dramatically change data speeds...
stock vs a modified one such as 0001.prl changes my speeds by about 1.5 mbps
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That's because that 0001 prl is a Verizon prl. Which is roaming off the Sprint network. As for the new Sprint prl for the Photon, I wouldn't be surprised if this new prl affected data speeds. I'be learned to expect creeping snail data speeds from Sprint.
Speeds reaching 1mb now
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Im on 53115 and its pretty good.
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Is that Verizon
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I've always maintained the latest PRL from Sprint. Worst case scenario I can always switch to 000001 but I see no need to. I get decent coverage in my area.
The new prl automatically updated on my photon last night and I can tell there's a difference in signal strength and data speeds. I was getting two bars on average inside my house with very slow data speeds. Now I'm pushing solid four to five bars and data speeds are noticeably faster. My house has a metal roof by the way and the Photon is the only phone that has been able to pull good signal inside my house. The radios in the Motorola Photon are second to none. This is real world testing.
I put money on the Photon in every signal strength and call quality test. Its a freakin' BEAST of a phone and EVERYBODY quickly tells me how good and clear they can hear me on this phone.
My 4G is also better after this prl update.
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The new prl automatically updated on my photon last night and I can tell there's a difference in signal strength and data speeds. I was getting two bars on average inside my house with very slow data speeds. Now I'm pushing solid four to five bars and data speeds are noticeably faster. My house has a metal roof by the way and the Photon is the only phone that has been able to pull good signal inside my house. The radios in the Motorola Photon are second to none. This is real world testing.
I put money on the Photon in every signal strength and call quality test. Its a freakin' BEAST of a phone and EVERYBODY quickly tells me how good and clear they can hear me on this phone.
My 4G is also better after this prl update.
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Which update did you get?
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Which update did you get?
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My updated prl is 51081
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My updated prl is 51081
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Oh ok, thanks.

Is this phone actually faster than the 4g?

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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gk1984 said:
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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gk1984 said:
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
metro77279 said:
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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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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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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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 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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1.9Ghz and more? Anyone know about this?

So I'm on the phone talking to this sprint rep cause I was having terrible data with perfect signal strength, he said to try and turn on 1.9Ghz 3g and that was all he would say, any more and it would be like rooting the phone and that got me curious as hell, what really are our phone's capability??? And anyone found this setting yet? He said it was somewhere by debugging but I can't find it...
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1900 is the band Sprint CDMA is on. He was trying to tell you to toggle the radio on/off.
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I thanked you both as that was a funny and the right answer what a weird way for a rep to put it
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Lol, guess I shoulda known that Still I wonder what else he was talking about that he couldn't tell me, he was a tech by the way... Weird...
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Lol, guess I shoulda known that Still I wonder what else he was talking about that he couldn't tell me, he was a tech by the way... Weird...
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If you wonder what those service techs are thinking it's just gonna cause headaches. For the record I'm a CDMA switch tech and half my co–workers are as much in La La land as the service reps/techs.
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If you wonder what those service techs are thinking it's just gonna cause headaches. For the record I'm a CDMA switch tech and half my co–workers are as much in La La land as the service reps/techs.
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Being a it/radio tech from the navy I resent that comment those that work with things of that nature are not in lala land .......well maybe we are a little bit... Lol
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Being a it/radio tech from the navy I resent that comment those that work with things of that nature are not in lala land .......well maybe we are a little bit... Lol
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Telecom has so many Vets it's amazing. My boss is a squid......
HOOOOAAAAH!
jnip said:
Telecom has so many Vets it's amazing. My boss is a squid......
HOOOOAAAAH!
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Hmm maybe I should look in to them as I want a diff job....got a link for their site?
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Ericsson
https://tas-ericsson.taleo.net/careersection/2/jobsearch.ftl?jobfield1=6240360194
If you're serious shoot me a PM.
Lol, I'm a vet as well just not a squid... Also a tech so It's really embarrassing not knowing the freq, lol, I'm more worried about hardware I guess and l have my blonde moments... Do they have any branches here in Iowa? I'd be interested as well, even entry level...
Hooaah as well, 173rd/101st...
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Toggle radio on/off? How do I do this
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Toggle radio on/off? How do I do this
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Airplane mode...
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I remebered an old trick from when the evo first came out where it was for some strange reason running in a gsm/cdma hybrid mode, or so the diag screen says, and if you change it to cdma only the data speeds were improved. I'm no network engineer so i'm not sure how that works, but for our phones if you click on mobile network itself in settings, the network config menu shows the radio mode as LTE/CDMA as default. I was having horrible speeds, maybe topped out at 200kbps on multiple tests, switched it to CDMA only, and was getting the same speeds as my OG evo, still a paltry 600-800kbps, but that is at my home where the 3g speeds have always been like this. Give that a try, and note that the setting doesn't stick if you reboot.

Check out my data speeds.

Yes, they suck. Unfortunately this is what I have 98% of the time where I live. 2G.
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when I had my amaze it usually goes 18-22mbps.
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Wow, I don't even see that in the next city where there is 4G speeds. I may see 10mbps there. 2G is pretty worthless and t mobile can't see why I won't upgrade my data to a bigger package. I have the unlimited $10 with 200 mb at 4G , which I rarely see.
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Wifi would be your best friend in times like this, reminds me of my x10 on tmo, I dealt with it but eventually it had to go.
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I would kill myself with those speeds lol, I average about 18-20 mbps, lowest I've seen my device go is 8mbps
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Ouch... I get good speeds aside from my ping. After the ICS update my ping went up into the mid-upper 100's and 200's from double digit ping times on GB.
T-Mo's 2G may be meh, but it's still better than AT&T's 2G network, or at least that's how it seemed when I had them.
Only smartphone I know handles tmo 3G well and doesn't seem slow on it is BlackBerry's.
T mobile reps are saying we will have 4g here by 2013. If not, in may when contract is up probably jump to the dreaded Verizon. They have 4G here.
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meant 2g.
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mike102871 said:
Yes, they suck. Unfortunately this is what I have 98% of the time where I live. 2G.
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That has to suck. I'm in the same boat. Inside the house, I have super slow 2G, and when I walk down to the road, I get slow "4G" (which is probably just 3G).
Super Slow 2G:
T-Mobile's "4G" in my location:
Where on earth do you guys live really?
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Where on earth do you guys live really?
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Caves. We live in caves. The reception isn't too great in there.
EDIT: We're the creatures known as the "basement dwellers"
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Caves. We live in caves. The reception isn't too great in there.
EDIT: We're the creatures known as the "basement dwellers"
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I believe you, lol.
Dark Nightmare said:
Where on earth do you guys live really?
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I live about 20 miles south of fort Wayne In. Last year I went to Florida down I75 south. Had 2g 90 % or more of the drive.
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mike102871 said:
I live about 20 miles south of fort Wayne In. Last year I went to Florida down I75 south. Had 2g 90 % or more of the drive.
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HSPA and soon LTE rollout is expected to reach those areas this year and next year, I hope you guys get it asap, I know what it's like to be stuck on 2G, I wouldn't wish it on anyone but Apple, lol.
Yeah anything more than email checking usually times out. They want me to go up to a 2 or 5 gb plan . Lol
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Yeah anything more than email checking usually times out. They want me to go up to a 2 or 5 gb plan . Lol
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Why the hell would you when you probably barely hit 100mb?
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Why the hell would you when you probably barely hit 100mb?
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That's exactly what I ask t mobile when I get the courtesty call because I've gone over the 200mb considered high speed before I'm throttled. I do get 4G when I go to fort Wayne 2-3 times a month. So I usually use 250mb or so.
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That's exactly what I ask t mobile when I get the courtesty call because I've gone over the 200mb considered high speed before I'm throttled. I do get 4G when I go to fort Wayne 2-3 times a month. So I usually use 250mb or so.
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Still would be a waste of money, imo.

How's ur 3g?

Sorta like the 4g tread but for 3g lol. I'll start it off with a download as I can't run speedtest right now due to download taking all my bandwidth. Gotta love the early bird special
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Non nv tower. My house, early morning. It's around 1800 kbps during peak hours.
And this one is Verizon at my house via 00002 prl.
And here's my speedtest had to pause my download
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And here's my speedtest had to pause my download
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Not bad. Anything over 1mbps is perfect for me. When lte comes, idk what I'll do with it. Lol
I'm getting less than .2mbps right now. Sprint's been informed, and they have their OKCQC office dispatching technicians to the area. They said Network Vision should not have that much affect on my connection, and that they are working in the area. w00t!
This is at my office, btw.
Here are my 3G speeds. Can't wait for LTE
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Ok, primetime hours too. Ehrpd serviced.
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itsalexaye90 said:
Here are my 3G speeds. Can't wait for LTE
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I wish I had speeds like that, were I'm at for work It's like 16 - 40kb four out of five days then blips at 2+ meg.
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Fastest I've ever gotten here normally its like .4 mbps lol I was so excited haha
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Fastest I've ever gotten here normally its like .4 mbps lol I was so excited haha
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Dang wish I had those speeds
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stevemoffler said:
Fastest I've ever gotten here normally its like .4 mbps lol I was so excited haha
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If I got those speeds I could be more patient for LTE
In Orlando I am only getting .09DL and .10UL
itsalexaye90 said:
If I got those speeds I could be more patient for LTE
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It was a freak thing I usually pull .4 on downloads
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In Orlando I am only getting .09DL and .10UL
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You'll find some nice pockets around here that have 1.5mbps, but pretty much this all over Central Florida.
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It was a freak thing I usually pull .4 on downloads
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I can't even get..4 most of the time. Downtown I can pull almost full megabyte
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Mine has been absolutely ridiculous!!! If it wasn't for Wifi I would be throwing a fit. I guess I should still throw a fit, 'cause of course I can't always have Wifi.
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Mine has been absolutely ridiculous!!! If it wasn't for Wifi I would be throwing a fit. I guess I should still throw a fit, 'cause of course I can't always have Wifi.
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Wow! :what:
Those top two make dial up look great... lol
That really does suck bad.
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My backplate melted today trying to get signal... Literally...
.06mb down, .39mb up
2 miles from sprint headquarters, I should be connected to LTE. But ya know, that doesn't really work.
Bout 2-3 mb here on ehrb
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