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ATT HSDPA in my town!!!

So I was just out getting my midnight release copy of GTAIV on Xbox 360. I was in the middle of sending a few pictures of the event to a couple friends when all the sudden, at about 12:15am on 4/29/08, my Tilt switched from E to H!!! I couldn't believe my eyes! I thought my phone was lying to me so I ran a couple speed tests using Opera and sure enough the first test hit over 600kbps!! Usually I see around 200ish.
Just to be safe, I just got home and the first thing I did was tethered. I ran a speedtest from speedtest.net and saw 1.1mbps which is usually at around 300kbps.
Now here is the good part of the story. I have been hounding my ATT reps every chance I get asking when oh when 3G was coming to my hometown and they have been telling me July/August at BEST. So I'm thinking I may have stumbled upon ATT testing it out tonight. Still very cool. I guess tomorrow morning will tell whether or not it stays or if this was a test!!
What a great night, GTAIV and HSDPA... what more does a guy need?
Oh, I live in St. Cloud, MN.
UPDATE: 9:30AM and it's still on!

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What a great night, GTAIV and HSDPA... what more does a guy need?
Oh, I live in St. Cloud, MN.
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What more? Just this... here. (Link May Be NSFW depending on how Communist your Work is.)
BTW Congrats on your HSDPA. I've been loving it for a few months now.

I live in the Bay Area and I also experience HSDPA at times, mainly shortly when I'm on the freeway.

well, Italy, in this kind of stuff (pretty useless) is almost leader in the world.
we are completly covered by HDSPA, from at least 2-3 years.
but we have prohibitive tariffs (like $2.34 every 15mins or $47 for 100hours)

HSDPA has been on Minneapolis, MN from 10/2007.

its great isn't it? one day I looked down at my phone and say "3G" instead of E. I live outside of bakersfield ca. was a nice day for me.

1. no offense
2. I HATE YOU!!!!!!
3. I REALLY HATE YOU!!!!!!
4. Now let me apologize.. I'm sorry that I HATE YOU!!!!

i got HSDPA as well here in NJ welcome aboard! but uhh quick question..
how do u run a speed test using opera?

JstarLuvsTina said:
i got HSDPA as well here in NJ welcome aboard! but uhh quick question..
how do u run a speed test using opera?
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Try this: http://www.dslreports.com/mspeed?jisok=1&more=1

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Try this: http://www.dslreports.com/mspeed?jisok=1&more=1
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awesome! thanks

Ahh this is fantastic. I've been waiting for this day for years. I've come to realize it's basically like the transition from dial-up to cable internet. Man, I went nuts that day!
Now I can finally stream all my music to my phone without it having to buffer every 5 seconds! Horray!

AT&T has definitely been upgrading HSDPA in the US. Many think it is being expedited for the release of the 3G iphone. AT&T did the same thing to their Edge network right before the current iphone came out.
I am in NJ also, and I've had a 3G indicator all along, and an H indicator when downloading data.
In the beginning of April that changed to a constant H indicator.
From inside my office, 4bars H, 1mb test file from DLS Reports 665kbit/sec ... although I've seen better speeds over 999kbit/sec from other locations.

Proto732 said:
AT&T has definitely been upgrading HSDPA in the US. Many think it is being expedited for the release of the 3G iphone. AT&T did the same thing to their Edge network right before the current iphone came out.
I am in NJ also, and I've had a 3G indicator all along, and an H indicator when downloading data.
In the beginning of April that changed to a constant H indicator.
From inside my office, 4bars H, 1mb test file from DLS Reports 665kbit/sec ... although I've seen better speeds over 999kbit/sec from other locations.
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wow thats odd..when i first purchased my unit which was in March, i found k.tweaks and did that change first and every since its been on H.. i rarely get 3G anymore in fact.. if i do run low on service by my job, or low zones, it either goes to E or G.. i havent seen the 3G icon in about a month now
oh and when i ran my DLS report i got the same stats u had..

I've had my TILT since Nov 2007, and I also had enabled the HSDPA via tweaks.
I would always see 3G, unless I started a download ... say a podcast via Newsbreak ... then the icon would change to H.
The constant H is definitely a network change/upgrade.
Many of us thought it was a problem ... kind of comical now looking back:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=359636
Your area might have already been updated when you got your device.

Proto732 said:
I've had my TILT since Nov 2007, and I also had enabled the HSDPA via tweaks.
I would always see 3G, unless I started a download ... say a podcast via Newsbreak ... then the icon would change to H.
The constant H is definitely a network change/upgrade.
Many of us thought it was a problem ... kind of comical now looking back:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=359636
Your area might have already been updated when you got your device.
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dude u gotta be in my area...
ur 732. im 732
and if not mistaken.. proto.. is referring to paintball cause i have a couple proto masks from dye myself..
am i right or what?

digitalninjas said:
I live in the Bay Area and I also experience HSDPA at times, mainly shortly when I'm on the freeway.
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3G/HSDPA has been in the bay area for quite some time. I'm surprised you don't get it.
By the way I noticed differences in speeds in different cities. For example in San Francisco I get a 3G icon and it will switch to H when doing data. DSL speed tests are usually around 500. In New York City I never see a 3G icon, H the entire time. Speed tests are closer to 900-1000.

Half right Jstar ...
732 part is right.
Proto part is wrong.

As a note, mine is a constant H. I have not seen a 3G icon yet.
If you guys want to see some more data speed tests, please check out my other thread I created with a bunch of results.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=381236

Check out this thread where a lot of people also posted speed test results:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=370624

hambola said:
3G/HSDPA has been in the bay area for quite some time. I'm surprised you don't get it.
By the way I noticed differences in speeds in different cities. For example in San Francisco I get a 3G icon and it will switch to H when doing data. DSL speed tests are usually around 500. In New York City I never see a 3G icon, H the entire time. Speed tests are closer to 900-1000.
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What I meant was I usually get 3G but I'll switch to H at random times when I'm on the freeway.

Android 2.0?

http://www.boygeniusreport.com/2009/10/16/android-2-0-screenshot-walkthrough/
check this out

This isn't really news to most people here and it also doesn't directly have anything to do with development, at least not in the way of helping anyone get a ROM out.

Looks like the droid to me. Also I'm not sure if this is actually built by google or just something from motorola/verizon.

Yeah that looks like the new verizon version of Android that will suck because its on verizon. it will be locked down where Rooting wont be a possibility. Nice pics though.

**** looks sick, but itll be much sicker when cyan gets his hands on it

Wow, you are all quite against Verizon, huh? I've been with T-Mobile now about 15 years, but they still do not have very good service when I am here in my house. I have to fight to get more than 1 bar, and when I do I need to stand in one spot and not move or my call drops, 3G is a joke here too. In using a Verizon phone the past few days it has 2-3 bars here in my house, and no issues with data. I have considered moving over since they are offering up that Android phone in the next few days, but if you are saying that it will be limited badly I will not go.

Royalknight6190 said:
Yeah that looks like the new verizon version of Android that will suck because its on verizon. it will be locked down where Rooting wont be a possibility. Nice pics though.
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Actually from what I hear, Verizon's not touching the phone (aside from their logo stamped on it). They are not touching the OS. Full GPS, Wifi, etc. I look forward to seeing if anyone can root this =) (it's only a matter of time, really... haha)

Tom in AZ said:
Wow, you are all quite against Verizon, huh? I've been with T-Mobile now about 15 years, but they still do not have very good service when I am here in my house. I have to fight to get more than 1 bar, and when I do I need to stand in one spot and not move or my call drops, 3G is a joke here too. In using a Verizon phone the past few days it has 2-3 bars here in my house, and no issues with data. I have considered moving over since they are offering up that Android phone in the next few days, but if you are saying that it will be limited badly I will not go.
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Hey Tom I am in AZ also and I was with the big V for a very long time. They have wonderful service probably the best, now with that said...I did leave once T-mobile brought the G1 to this world. I got fed up with Verizon's crappy cell phones that they put out along with the crappy software every single one of there phones run. They block everything so you are not able to do anything cool and awesome to the phone. If I know Verizon they are not going to want you or let you do anything to there android phone that might give you something for free. So rooting a phone lets you do so much to a phone like teather, which verizon will block in a heart beat cause they want to charge you an additional $15 to let you do that. Verizon also only lets you use 5gigs of data before they start charging you extra (overage fees). Verizon also has there own apps store which they will make you use. Read this:
http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/13/verizon-to-its-smartphones-thou-shalt-have-no-other-app-store-b/
I have switched to Tmobile and I dont regret it I never look back. I love my G1, I love the things I am able to do with it. I dont know where you live but I am not in the Phx area, I am in a 2G area and I always have 3 or 4 bars. And data out here even for 2G its not that bad.
Last Verizon is like Microsoft they hate anything Open Source they will do anything to Kill Open Source. They want there dirty little hands on everything you do on there network/product.
Hope this helped.

Anyone know wat was there test phone?

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Anyone know wat was there test phone?
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Motorola Droid by all accounts.
More here: http://www.pcworld.com/article/174219

it can't "just be on verizon" this is ANDROID 2.0 ECLAIR - which should be available to ALL "google experience" android users OTA from their carriers.
ps - too bad the moto droid is a FUGLY BEAST - WHAT IS THAT EXTRA PIECE THTAT STICKS OUT THE BOTTOM AND CURVES UP WITH VERIZON WRITTEN ON IT? WHY DOES IT EVEN EXIST? The phone is HORRENDOUSLY designed, and i literally want to throw it against the concrete as hard as I can everytime i see pics of it.
FUGLY.
BEAST.

Thread should be moved...but HAVE YOU SEEN the broadcast tv commercials for the motorola DROID? Totally pwns the Iphone

Tom in AZ said:
Wow, you are all quite against Verizon, huh? I've been with T-Mobile now about 15 years, but they still do not have very good service when I am here in my house. I have to fight to get more than 1 bar, and when I do I need to stand in one spot and not move or my call drops, 3G is a joke here too. In using a Verizon phone the past few days it has 2-3 bars here in my house, and no issues with data. I have considered moving over since they are offering up that Android phone in the next few days, but if you are saying that it will be limited badly I will not go.
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Outside of major metro areas Tmob can be lacking in towers, i live about 30mins outside of philadelphia and tmob is great, but 20 mins down the road its gprs only, some areas are edge, so they have upgrades yet to do.
Verizions tech. Was upgradeable to 3g where gsm needed more expensive equip. To go 3g, but the switch to 3.5/4g will be easier for gsm than the wcdma towers.
In more rural areas around here verizion has very good service.
Philly metro was one of the first few tmob areas to go 3g, but at my house I still suffer with 9600baud gprs, its just a tad faster than my old 2400baud amiga modem strapped to my brown C=64(i think i just gave away my age)
There is tons of info on cell tech, google it.
Bhang

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Philly metro was one of the first few tmob areas to go 3g, but at my house I still suffer with 9600baud gprs, its just a tad faster than my old 2400baud amiga modem strapped to my brown C=64(i think i just gave away my age)
Bhang
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Don't feel bad, I am right there with ya! Remember Mach5 or the Fast Boot carts? lol C-64 was a fun machine. load "*" ,8,1
Can't wait to try put a Droid and see what it can do.
Tom

Anyone in LA?

I've noticed DRAMATIC worsened signal and slower data speeds since HSPA+ got turned on. The whole reason I switched to T-mobile has turned against me, I now experience the connectivity issues from holding the phone that were previously non existent to me and I'm almost always on EDGE. If it does connect to HSPA its unusably slow whereas it used to be close to 2mb speeds prior to their "upgrade" anyone else experiencing this?
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Yes I was near Beverly hills today off the 10 and I particularly had zero 3g, lost service completely, then it stayed on edge. This area never did this before. I bet they are doing network maintenance or something. Which area are you having problems?

Hopefully that's what the issue is, maintenance. I'm in downtown-hollywood most of the time and have always had great service, until the pay few days, always dropping calls, slow data, etc...
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katiepea said:
Hopefully that's what the issue is, maintenance. I'm in downtown-hollywood most of the time and have always had great service, until the pay few days, always dropping calls, slow data, etc...
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YES same exact thing with my buddy's t-mo N1 when we were downtown.
Compared each others device (got an att vers.) he didnt even have access to maps. But he's been crying about it for a while now, even in Santa Monica he would have some reception trouble and connecting to EDGE.
Last time he told me he found a work-around and got a widget turning the thing on and off to reset but I honestly don't believe that's a workaround..
maintenance, yeah better chance. found an article stating t-mo working on 4G, hopefully itll make you feel better. Try and keep your phone nice and clean b/c hopefully the N1 is rockin by then.
t-mo to 4g maintenance.

Other cities have reported similar issues while upgrading to hspa + so I'm confident it'll get better, i mean before this is was fantastic for meso I don't really see how it would get worse
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[Q] Loss of HSPA reception

About three days ago, came home in the evening and my phone suddenly had weak to no HSPA signal, and was instead reverting back to EDGE. This has persisted constantly since about Thursday, and I'm not sure why. Reboots will occasionally bring back a no-bar H signal, but it will usually be lost and not come back after a while. I live in the downtown part of a city, and don't really expect this poor reception in my house, especially since I've had excellent reception here for months and haven't changed anything on my phone in the last couple of weeks.
I'm running S7 with JV6 modem and talon 0.4.4.21 kernel. Any suggestions on what to fiddle with? Or perhaps know of any work done on ATT towers that could cause such a signal drop?

Well, if you can step outside and get good signal, then my money is on some new interference in your building. Apartment buildings can be a nightmare of RF sources, so tracking down interference might not be easy.
Know any HAM radio enthusiasts in the area? Those guys are pros at identifying rogue radio signals.
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quite possible its just ATT's ****ty network. tower nearby could have major issues

Just last week my wife's cappy showed H but she couldn't make a call or send out a text. So I checked my phone and same thing. Rebooted both phones and when they powered back up I had NO bars at all. After about 10 minutes it had bars but edge or nothing. I called att and at first they did not show any work in the area being done or gone bad. Went through their testing and still no go. Finally they sent me to tech support or something who did some digging around and took the report. After another 30 or so minutes I had some H bars come up but then lost them almost immediately. Then they started seeing more reports come in and finally I found out that a area from my city to cities about 20+ miles away all lost their signals due to something going wrong. So about 1.5 hours after I noticed it our signals finally came back.
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Yeah, I'm thinking it's the nearby tower. Drove around a bit in the hurricane early this afternoon, and noticed that I had full H reception. Came back home, and was back to 4 bars of EDGE...and a clock that was exactly 4 hours and 6 minutes slow, thanks to the network. This tower (downtown Albany, NY, if anyone's nearby) is having some serious issues...

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Yeah, I'm thinking it's the nearby tower. Drove around a bit in the hurricane early this afternoon, and noticed that I had full H reception. Came back home, and was back to 4 bars of EDGE...and a clock that was exactly 4 hours and 6 minutes slow, thanks to the network. This tower (downtown Albany, NY, if anyone's nearby) is having some serious issues...
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Lol. You are in a hurricane zone and you didn't think that it could be an att problem?
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Pirateghost said:
Lol. You are in a hurricane zone and you didn't think that it could be an att problem?
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Been happening since Thursday, nothing to do with storm.
Should also say that time is 4 hours, 6 minutes slow AND date is January 3rd...someone reset the clock?

Call AT&T
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The two things the One needs

1) a microsd slot, because what happens if your phone craps? BOOM everything lost right there. Its happened to my sisters iphone. "Blahblahblah just back it up everyday blablahblah" be realistic bro. BUT!!!! The fact that its otg capable is a good thing because that means we can use usb sticks right? Idk, I'm coming from the samsung epic 4g
2) A CHIN!! I can't be the only one who thinks this phone should've been the return of the chin? It looks so sexy, like an upgraded hero, a chin would've made it even sexier imo!
What do y'all think about the chin?
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If you're rooted you can send your backups to pc
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You can setup your phone to backup automatically to the cloud using Dropbox
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1.) Yeah... We get it... 2.) No.
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Move on with your life and move into the damn cloud people.
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youkosnake said:
Move on with your life and move into the damn cloud people.
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Only rain clouds here in Florida on Sprint... Patiently waiting for sprint to fix it so I can use the cloud properly.
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My one backs up to the cloud every day when I plug it in just fine.
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I think the HTC backup program is beautiful. I've used it between ROMs with no problem at all. Pretty much negates my need for an SD card.
II will say they need more accessories though. Am I the only one who uses desktop docks anymore?

BrianBaker said:
Only rain clouds here in Florida on Sprint... Patiently waiting for sprint to fix it so I can use the cloud properly.
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Hey Brian, just as an FYI, I called Sprint yesterday to complain about the lack of anything in Central Florida, and two things came up. First, I received a $15.00 credit, and second, they're saying that (this is obvious) they're working on LTE in the area. Taken with a grain of salt, they said they're anticipating a release this summer for LTE in our area. Fingers crossed.

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Hey Brian, just as an FYI, I called Sprint yesterday to complain about the lack of anything in Central Florida, and two things came up. First, I received a $15.00 credit, and second, they're saying that (this is obvious) they're working on LTE in the area. Taken with a grain of salt, they said they're anticipating a release this summer for LTE in our area. Fingers crossed.
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I'm just taking it in stride man..Im up and down about it and get close to leaving now and again but thinking about what the network is going to become keeps me from doing anything stupid...I don't even really care about LTE anymore,I just need a decent connection with decent speeds consistently(1.5-2.0Mb/sec)..Sad that in order to keep this HTC One from freaking out with all the driving I do I had to leave it set on CDMA Only so it doesn't try to connect to to weak 4G Signal areas(switching from 3G to 4G and back to 3G is so slow on this phone)
I had a chat with Sprint a few days/maybe a week ago..And they said the issues i'm having are because of the tower being worked on 4th street behind AOK Tires..Well that's BS because I drive by that tower every day heading out to the office and it has NOT been touched.Old legacy cabinets still in place/no workers/no panels and s4Gru also shows no work being done on any towers currently in Apopka.

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Yup... I have had to restore my one multiple times... Even restores the way your desktop was laid out.
BrianBaker said:
Only rain clouds here in Florida on Sprint... Patiently waiting for sprint to fix it so I can use the cloud properly.
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In Florida on Sprint... what is the problem?

numus said:
In Florida on Sprint... what is the problem?
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What isn't the problem? I drive 28 miles each way to and from work a day and consistently get .3 to .5mbps speeds.
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I'm just taking it in stride man..Im up and down about it and get close to leaving now and again but thinking about what the network is going to become keeps me from doing anything stupid...I don't even really care about LTE anymore,I just need a decent connection with decent speeds consistently(1.5-2.0Mb/sec)..Sad that in order to keep this HTC One from freaking out with all the driving I do I had to leave it set on CDMA Only so it doesn't try to connect to to weak 4G Signal areas(switching from 3G to 4G and back to 3G is so slow on this phone)
I had a chat with Sprint a few days/maybe a week ago..And they said the issues i'm having are because of the tower being worked on 4th street behind AOK Tires..Well that's BS because I drive by that tower every day heading out to the office and it has NOT been touched.Old legacy cabinets still in place/no workers/no panels and s4Gru also shows no work being done on any towers currently in Apopka.
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I hear what you're saying. They told me there is work being done on the towers out off Sandpiper and that could be reason I'm having problems, but I'm all the way over by Home Depot and Lowe's. I can sit in my house on Lake Anne and get an LTE signal, but it bounces in and out. So, pointless pretty much. They had no response for when I'm at my office in South Orlando.

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What isn't the problem? I drive 28 miles each way to and from work a day and consistently get .3 to .5mbps speeds.
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http://www.nbcmiami.com/news/local/Florida-Lawmakers-Pass-Texting-While-Driving-Ban-205859031.html You wont have to worry about your wireless speeds on the road anymore.
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I hear what you're saying. They told me there is work being done on the towers out off Sandpiper and that could be reason I'm having problems, but I'm all the way over by Home Depot and Lowe's. I can sit in my house on Lake Anne and get an LTE signal, but it bounces in and out. So, pointless pretty much. They had no response for when I'm at my office in South Orlando.
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There is no offical LTE in Orlando and that they are doing full network upgrades... This requires them to screw with the towers for some time.
As for the comment about "I don't see any tower work"... Most of the tower work is done at the base. The only tower upgrade is when they install Network Vision (replace the copper up to the cell with fiber and replace the base modules). So even when they are doing a network vision, the only "visible" upgrade is when they are replacing the copper. http://newsroom.sprint.com/press_kits.cfm?presskit_id=19
Just be happy you can get LTE anywhere in an unofficial market... I am in Tallahassee and we still barely have 3g eventho we are on the LTE rollout list.

numus said:
http://www.nbcmiami.com/news/local/Florida-Lawmakers-Pass-Texting-While-Driving-Ban-205859031.html You wont have to worry about your wireless speeds on the road anymore.
There is no offical LTE in Orlando and that they are doing full network upgrades... This requires them to screw with the towers for some time.
As for the comment about "I don't see any tower work"... Most of the tower work is done at the base. The only tower upgrade is when they install Network Vision (replace the copper up to the cell with fiber and replace the base modules). So even when they are doing a network vision, the only "visible" upgrade is when they are replacing the copper. http://newsroom.sprint.com/press_kits.cfm?presskit_id=19
Just be happy you can get LTE anywhere in an unofficial market... I am in Tallahassee and we still barely have 3g eventho we are on the LTE rollout list.
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That's all fine and dandy that they're working on the upgrades now and that's why the speeds are slow. But for as long as I can remember, I've never had a good speed with Sprint. I'd hit a spot once in a while that would put me close or over 1mbps, but every other time, it's literally below .5mbps. It's ridiculous.

eXplicit815 said:
That's all fine and dandy that they're working on the upgrades now and that's why the speeds are slow. But for as long as I can remember, I've never had a good speed with Sprint. I'd hit a spot once in a while that would put me close or over 1mbps, but every other time, it's literally below .5mbps. It's ridiculous.
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That is about standard for half max distance from the tower... The theoretical Rev. A high is based upon a high SNR (that was never really achievable at distance with copper).

really? before they started working on lte I always got fantastic speeds. When I got my OG Evo I pulled 2-3 mbps on 3g, and 5-20 on wimax. I really only get pissed when they are working on towers in my area, then my connection drops to .2-.5mbps, but I stay because after its done Im back to the good old 3g speeds, and 10-30 mbps on LTE. I love sprint, and most of all I love my unlimited data. I know youve heard it 1000 times, but hold on, its getting a lot better.

Deathsnuggle said:
really? before they started working on lte I always got fantastic speeds. When I got my OG Evo I pulled 2-3 mbps on 3g, and 5-20 on wimax. I really only get pissed when they are working on towers in my area, then my connection drops to .2-.5mbps, but I stay because after its done Im back to the good old 3g speeds, and 10-30 mbps on LTE. I love sprint, and most of all I love my unlimited data. I know youve heard it 1000 times, but hold on, its getting a lot better.
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That is max burst (not sustainable). There is a lot to it, but one of the main things is degredation of the SNR (which is why they switched from copper to fiber). Also channel interference. Most users will experience between 500 - 1000 kbit sustained speeds. You are also limited by the reverse link when submitted requests.

All I got to say is if the reason my speeds are so bad is because they are working on towers in my area. Then it's been one hell of a process upgrading 1 single tower for over 3 years.
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