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[Q] Sprint 3G always really slow?

I'm coming from HSPA+ speeds on T-Mobile, so I was wondering if EVDO speeds on Sprint are supposed to be this slow? EVDO should be capable of at least 1 Mbps.
I'm consistently getting less than 300 kbps download, so are Sprint's EVDO speeds really closer to EDGE than 3G?
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etirkca said:
I'm coming from HSPA+ speeds on T-Mobile, so I was wondering if EVDO speeds on Sprint are supposed to be this slow? EVDO should be capable of at least 1 Mbps.
I'm consistently getting <300 kbps download, so are Sprint's EVDO speeds really closer to EDGE than 3G?
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I would say it depends on the time + place your using 3G at. I sometimes get as low as your saying but sometimes can get over 1MB but only at certain times and certain places.
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They are usually pretty good. Id suggest trying the 3g turbocharger. Its never disappointed me. I usually can only get around .60mbps.
This is with it :
This is with out it :
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Honestly, sprint is just awful in some areas. I'm okay with it because I pay a lot less and usually have wifi anyway, but yea, the service is just pathetic.
In LA, I regularly get 5-50 kb/s download and upload with 3g. If I'm lucky, I'll get around 300--this happens maybe 1/10 days. This is in a flat, well populated area of Los Angeles, not a boonie by any means. It's really disappointing.
4g, when it (rarely) works, is also way slower than I had hoped for... maybe 1.8 down, 200 up.
Funny thing about unlimited data is that with crap speeds like this, I could probably download all month long and not reach the limit of other providers...

I am occasionally able to hit 1000 kbps up and down but at my house it's normally about 300 kbps each. I had 4G today and it was a pitiful 500 kbps down and 50 kbps up with a ping of 500. Be glad you have data at all...
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Xinlitik said:
Honestly, sprint is just awful in some areas. I'm okay with it because I pay a lot less and usually have wifi anyway, but yea, the service is just pathetic.
In LA, I regularly get 5-50 kb/s download and upload with 3g. If I'm lucky, I'll get around 300--this happens maybe 1/10 days. This is in a flat, well populated area of Los Angeles, not a boonie by any means. It's really disappointing.
4g, when it (rarely) works, is also way slower than I had hoped for... maybe 1.8 down, 200 up.
Funny thing about unlimited data is that with crap speeds like this, I could probably download all month long and not reach the limit of other providers...
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You would think that in LA we'd get better service?! I usually get 0.5 mbs up and down on 3g and 4-5mbs down and 1-2 mbs up in my area though...

Sprint putting up lte... that's been the cause of all the crappy data... I'm almost certain somebody had a picture of them putting stuff up in los Angeles and their 3g was down and 4g was pitiful.
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IronReaver17 said:
You would think that in LA we'd get better service?! I usually get 0.5 mbs up and down on 3g and 4-5mbs down and 1-2 mbs up in my area though...
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No kidding. The population density here seems like it would be a good cost-value job to throw in more towers...

Network vision is underway in LA, which will affect certain areas and connectivity
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It's official. Sprint has the worst 3G and 4G speeds among major carriers. :thumbdown: I'm not surprised at all.
http://m.gizmodo.com/5902947/which-carriers-have-the-fastest-3g-and-4g-connections/gallery/
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Not compared to ****ty ATT Hspa! Absolute crap in Daytona area. Barely get Sprint 3G speeds out of it. ATT has barely started their LTE rollout.
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etirkca said:
I'm coming from HSPA+ speeds on T-Mobile, so I was wondering if EVDO speeds on Sprint are supposed to be this slow? EVDO should be capable of at least 1 Mbps.
I'm consistently getting <300 kbps download, so are Sprint's EVDO speeds really closer to EDGE than 3G?
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It's true. Sprint really is just that awful. Sprint's "3G" is slower than AT&T's 2G. I'm still happier than I was with AT&T, though, since I always have some kind of data signal on Sprint. I might be roaming, and I might get only 5kbps down, but at least I have something. On AT&T I would frequently have ZERO signal and my phone was a worthless oversized paperweight.
Sitting in my own living room, where I have 5 full bars of Sprint 3G signal, I have similar speed to what you posted. Yours might be a bit faster, actually. This is completely normal average speed -- I am fairly certain that Sprint is NOT doing these "network vision" upgrades in east Texas anytime soon, if ever. Contrast that with Verizon -- my buddy was sitting right next to me with maxed out LTE signal, pulling 30mbps on the same speed test. That's faster than my Roadrunner Elite. He then dropped to Verizon 3G and got about 5mbps down. On both tests, his ping was <100ms and mine was >500ms.
I firmly believe that the only reason Sprint still offers "unlimited" data is that there is no need for a cap -- you are limited directly by the speed of your connection and you cannot reasonably even come close to 5GB of data usage in a month. Unless you have consistent Wimax signal, which I estimate maybe 1% of their subscribers have.

etirkca said:
It's official. Sprint has the worst 3G and 4G speeds among major carriers. :thumbdown: I'm not surprised at all.
http://m.gizmodo.com/5902947/which-carriers-have-the-fastest-3g-and-4g-connections/gallery/
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tmobile seems to want to have it both ways. they call their hspa+ 4g, but then throw it in to comparisons against other carriers 3g.
le boo.
from the article... T-Mobile's HSPA+ 21 service won in the 3G bracket of our study, and the company's high-end HSPA+ 42 service competed reasonably well with other providers' 4G service.

3g speeds are poor in some areas but recently have seen a slight improvement in my area. I'm hoping the network vision upgrades will help like they say it will.
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Obviously there is no credibility to that article. There are several places around Daytona that I get over 1Mbs on 3G. I can just as easily measure ATT's 4G in my area to show it slower than Sprint's 3G. Most of the time I have to toggle airplane mode on the stupid ATT phone from work just to get it to load my work screen.

Different areas have different speeds... I get 1.5-2 mbps on 3g.... of course about 2 months ago I was only getting .30 mbps on 3g... 4g is super fast though. Lol
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I had been using the EL30 modem for quite some time and 3G speeds were horrid around the Chicago suburbs. Like bad bad. If I wasn't on 4G, I didn't even want to use my phone for anything data related.
I know NV is being deployed around this area right now, but I recently switched to the FC09 modem, and it's a night and day difference. I used to get around 0.1Mbps if I was luckly. Lately, since the switch, I've been getting more closer to 0.8-1.0Mbps which I'm quite happy with considering it's 3G.
4G I usually pull around 5-7Mbps down (but have hit 10 a few times; that's a full 1MBps down) and I usually cap it at the 1.5MBps up. That's faster than my wifi at home through AT&T UVerse.

Average Sprint 3G data speeds decreased from 2011 to 2012. Maybe because of the influx of iPhone customers?
Welcome to Sprint. Where the 3G is 2G, and the 4G is 3G.
http://www.pcworld.com/article/2538...peed_showdown_which_networks_are_fastest.html

So my question to you is; why'd you leave T-mobile? If they were so great for you, you should have stayed with Big Magenta.
I'm not being flippant here. Carriers are like organized religion. What works for one person offends someone else. In the end, all of us get through to The Supreme Being.
I, personally, always find myself on Wi-Fi so I don't give a crap.
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orlzzt said:
So my question to you is; why'd you leave T-mobile? If they were so great for you, you should have stayed with Big Magenta.
I'm not being flippant here. Carriers are like organized religion. What works for one person offends someone else. In the end, all of us get through to The Supreme Being.
I, personally, always find myself on Wi-Fi so I don't give a crap.
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You're right. I should have stayed.
With my corporate discount, my equivalent plan on Sprint is cheaper, so I switched. It's too bad that article showing crappy Sprint data speeds didn't come out earlier, I probably would have stuck with T.
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Wimax McLovin

I live in Orange Country, California. There's Wimax blanketing the whole county. I love it.
Unfortunately, no LTE yet. ETA mid-next-year.
I, recently, upgraded to the S3. I tried it out for more than a week. I love the phone with all its bells and whistles. However, because there's no LTE in my area, I was connecting to the 3G. And, it's horridly SLOW.
So, I decided to switch back to my S2 Epic Touch and take advantage of the Wimax speed until LTE comes to my area.
Am I crazy? I'm wondering if anybody else have had the same experience.

You're not crazy at all. I'm currently in Orange County too, specifically Orange/Garden Grove. I love the 4G at my work office. My 4G pulls 8mbps down, inside the building. But LTE rollouts in OC shouldn't take much longer, I'll be ready to buy a Galaxy Nexus or S3 when it does.

knite75 said:
I live in Orange Country, California. There's Wimax blanketing the whole county. I love it.
Unfortunately, no LTE yet. ETA mid-next-year.
I, recently, upgraded to the S3. I tried it out for more than a week. I love the phone with all its bells and whistles. However, because there's no LTE in my area, I was connecting to the 3G. And, it's horridly SLOW.
So, I decided to switch back to my S2 Epic Touch and take advantage of the Wimax speed until LTE comes to my area.
Am I crazy? I'm wondering if anybody else have had the same experience.
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Nope not crazy at all.. I was actually thinking about getting the note 2 but it's no lte here in DC yet; great 4G tho.. And I use my 4G a lot to tether and watch videos.. So I been thinking about that before I go get it next week
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Yeah, me no loco!
I really like the current generation of phones. For instance, the EVO 4G LTE has one of the best camera. The aperture is F2.0. Wow! It's awesome for me, because I frequently take pictures of my little daughter. But, that too, I quickly returned, because I couldn't stand the horrid 3G speed.

Yupz, I'm also in Orange County enjoying great 4G WiMax speeds. Not gonna upgrade to an LTE phone until LTE actually gets here.

I Live in craptastic Oklahoma with no 4G I however visited Orange County a while back and was shocked at how amazing the 4G was. At most places it proved faster than the wifi I could use. Can't say the same for a recent trip to St Louis.

Funny such big cities have to wait on LTE, mine will be live by Xmas time and I'm in the sticks. But mines included in like a 1/4 state upgrade covering about 4 major cities and 20 smaller cities. I'm just trying to decide what to blow my upgrade on
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LOL so true. When I'm at Starbucks, I don't connect to their hotspots anymore. Much slower than my Wimax
geeksmurf said:
I Live in craptastic Oklahoma with no 4G I however visited Orange County a while back and was shocked at how amazing the 4G was. At most places it proved faster than the wifi I could use. Can't say the same for a recent trip to St Louis.
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If you live in a Wimax area with no lte, there is no reason to upgrade. Its the reason sprint is still supporting this phone I think.
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Frankly, if Wimax and LTE is not available in your area and their 3G is your only avenue, i wouldn't recommend Sprint at all. "Unlimited" data is irrelevant if you're speeding along at a horrid rate. Smartphones need a decent network connection to function at all.
Don't get me wrong, I love Sprint. Their customer service is great. You can get a live person (from USA) customer service within 30 second when calling in. And, their online customer service chat is fantastic too.
**BOFA** said:
Welllll, must be nice. I have no 4g wimax nor lte here with an eta of 2015. No matter which phone i get, unless i switch carriers, is gonna suck nuts! Thanks for making me feel terrible.....lol.
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Sprint has definitely come a long way, ESP in customer service considering 5 years ago they were possibly the worst. No wimax or lte in my area, but I visit friends who have wimax and love it. I will be holding out until the s4 most likely
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Hate you all in the OC lol. In SGV wimax is spotty as hell. You would think it would be better being a valley that has 2 million people lol..
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kingsway8605 said:
If you live in a Wimax area with no lte, there is no reason to upgrade. Its the reason sprint is still supporting this phone I think.
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It's still a great phone. They might just keep selling it until NV is fully rolled out.
Samsung will keep supporting this phone with software updates until it reaches it's end of life age of 18 months. I would hope they keep software updates coming until the 24 month mark.
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I can probably see us getting key lime prime or whatever android upgrade is coming out next. There's literally no reason we can't update if it's not a major update... If it is a major update then we'll probably get a value pack update like the OG SGS if they decide to not give us the full update.
Anyways... I've been saying this since forever but really.
If you're in a non-lte area with wimax and LTE deployment is not coming within 6 months then stick with your current wimax phones.
If you're in a wimax area or non wimax area with LTE coming within 6 months then update when you start seeing NV upgrades or increased 3g speeds (3g speeds will increase before LTE goes live) as LTE should come relatively soon as 3g speeds indicate fiber or microwave backhaul.
If you're on the fringe of Sprint service and get ****e coverage/service then switch to another carrier and come back in a year or two where sprint deploys LTE 800mhz and fills up all those holes.

Where are you guys getting your LTE timeframe estimates?

darklavalizard said:
Where are you guys getting your LTE timeframe estimates?
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Being a sponsor at www.s4gru.com gives you privy to a lot of information including estimated launch dates, current progress of upgrades, location of said upgrades, and knowledge on what network vision actually is.
All markets are being shuffled thanks to the SoftBank investment in sprint. There is really no more set dates nor time frames anymore. In fact, Samsung, Alcatel-Lucent, Ericsson, and all the other vendors and subcontractors are moving all over areas regardless of market boundaries. Most work is being done in out NE, East, South, Gulf, texas & surrounding areas along with steady progress in Los Angeles (and surrounding counties) and the San Francisco Bay area.

knite75 said:
I live in Orange Country, California. There's Wimax blanketing the whole county. I love it.
Unfortunately, no LTE yet. ETA mid-next-year.
I, recently, upgraded to the S3. I tried it out for more than a week. I love the phone with all its bells and whistles. However, because there's no LTE in my area, I was connecting to the 3G. And, it's horridly SLOW.
So, I decided to switch back to my S2 Epic Touch and take advantage of the Wimax speed until LTE comes to my area.
Am I crazy? I'm wondering if anybody else have had the same experience.
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I'm in the same boat . Love the s3 but no lte(yorba linda) got me back to my s2 and used 26GB of 4g in my bill cycle
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[Q] Note II - 4G LTE Connectivity in DFW (10%) or Bad/Defective Phone

So I'm wondering if other Note II owners in the DFW area can chime in.
In the 4 days I've owned the phone, I have only been able to get 4G LTE coverage once. The Speedtest logged 14513 kbps down and 3992 kbps up. I was not far from home - and within a quarter mile of a reported Sprint cell tower. I have noticed though, that I do not get a 4G LTE signal at all at my home in east Richardson, nor at my work place in north Plano. For the most part, I have only been able to connect to 3G - and have gotten download speeds ranging from 16 kbps to 369 kbps.
I contacted Sprint Customer Service and told them I had updated the PRL and Profile - and that it had not made a difference. They suggested that I take it to the Sprint store to have it checked out - and that they would likely have to replace my phone.
My question to you other Sprint users in Dallas-Fort Worth - how consistent is your 4G LTE connection? Does this sound like my phone is bad, or are you experiencing bad connectivity as well? I found this interesting article about Sprint claims for connectivity in the Dallas area - it basically stated that coverage was actually 10% - which matches my experience so far:
http://www.fiercebroadbandwireless.com/story/report-sprints-lte-coverage-far-less-advertised/2012-10-04#top_select
Any other anecdotes on Sprint 4G LTE connectivity on your Galaxy Note IIs?

I live in Valley Ranch and work near 635 and the North Tollway, so I'll be watching for replies to this too. I really want to jump on the Note 2, but not without consistent LTE.
I bought a used Sprint Nexus a few months ago, but resold it because of little to no 4G LTE. I get great 4G Wimax with my E4GT, so having the Nexus stuck on 3G was a bummer.

I don't have an lte device yet but I will soon. Although I live and work in north fort worth and can say that lte here it's not only good but fast. I have friends that have ltevo and notes and connection is good. The tests were pretty consistent 5-10d and around 16up.
Just for reference I live near 820 and 35w
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I'm in the hurst area and I get lte all over the place around my house. I'm 3 minutes from NE Mall.
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No issues here in North D
I work at sprint...I am glad to check addresses.
Its not comunicated well at cust care that though LTE is launched it isnt complete. I can't comment on actual completion due to non disclosure but I know and see it isn't complete.
If you want me to check specific coverage pm me addresses
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So I'm sure now that it isn't my device - unless the antenna is messed up and can't pick up weak signals. I'm fairly certain that Sprint's map of coverage is overestimating the actual LTE coverage area. Hopefully other people's experience here will verify that.
On the way back from work which is the NW corner of Plano near Frisco - I checked LTE coverage all the way across the middle of Plano from Preston - Springcreek Parkway across to 75 (middle of Plano). I found that the area near Preston and 121 (almost Frisco) is devoid of 4G LTE. As I neared the middle of Plano and on towards 75 - LTE sprang to life - I was getting readings of around 5-6000 kbps down. Going down 75 to George Bush the signal gets very strong around Renner and George Bush, then dies off about a mile in - and ironically is completely dead in my neighborhood.
Yesterday I was down by Parker and the Tollway - and there's no 4G LTE there either.
Apparently despite switching from 4G WI-MAX to 4G LTE - I am no better off then I was before - my work and home are in dead zones! I'm going to have strong words with Sprint - hopefully they'll give me some more credits.
Does anyone know of any third party sites that aggregate people's Speedtest readings and 4G LTE coverage - for a more accurate coverage map?

I live in Plano and get consistent 4G around most parts of the east side of town (Spring Creek/75, Park/Jupiter, and a few other places). At work, my EVO 3D would catch a weak WiMax signal, where my Note 2 gets a decent, very fast LTE signal that's much more consistent and usable than my WiMax connection was. I can't comment on coverage in Richardson, but I know the coverage in most parts of Plano is pretty decent.

I live in McKinney and work in Richardson. I have the original evo now and just ordered the note from wirefly. While I obviously can't speak of lte,I can say that my 3g and Wimax have recently gotten better, so hopefully I'll get lte as well. I'll report back in a few days when I get my note
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I live in Roanoke. Near the Speedway. I've had all the phones and by far, the Note 2 is the best one when it comes to LTE. Ive posted my results in several places too. Lots of info on S4GRU.com
But, the DFW area it sitting at about 22% complete. They are upgrading them all tho, soon. The site stated above has maps of the towers and what ones are done too. The best way to know is with an app called Sensorly. Its in the store. It will show you where real ppl have had 4G and you can compare your findings to see if its your phone. As for the phone compared to others. It connects, holds and finds the 4G lte better than any device that Sprints put out. Nexus and Evo LTE being the worst.
Heres an example... My dad works for American at Alliance Airport. He got the Note and has LTE in his shop now. The S3 would cut in and out. Note never drops. Laughs at all the Evo guys that can't. Now a lot of them have bought the note. Lol Its sad when other new smart phones tether to your internet. The shop is a steal box. EMP could go off, and they wouldn't know it.
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The map online is planned coverage. As I mentioned above, DFW is not complete bit is higher than 22% completed
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The map online is planned coverage. As I mentioned above, DFW is not complete
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Sprints Coverage map?
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Sprints Coverage map?
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is planned coverage.
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is planned coverage.
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From what I have found so far is that the Map is correct. Its just that our phone will not hold it. If you force your phone into LTE. So it will hold on to the lower signals, it will show up just as their map. I think they use an antenna on a truck, giving it more credit than we can see. Maybe a PC card would do better. But I've been all over the west DFW area and the same story hold true. If your in a area that Sprint says is covered, and your not picking it up. You will if you force it Lte. In a sense, the map is right. S3 or Note.
I also live right on the line of Lte. Very outside edge. Sprint Says I'm covered.... only if I force it tho. Now with the note, I'll actually pick it up after sunset.

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From what I have found so far is that the Map is correct. Its just that our phone will not hold it. If you force your phone into LTE. So it will hold on to the lower signals, it will show up just as their map. I think they use an antenna on a truck, giving it more credit than we can see. Maybe a PC card would do better. But I've been all over the west DFW area and the same story hold true. If your in a area that Sprint says is covered, and your not picking it up. You will if you force it Lte. In a sense, the map is right. S3 or Note.
I also live right on the line of Lte. Very outside edge. Sprint Says I'm covered.... only if I force it tho. Now with the note, I'll actually pick it up after sunset.
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I can assure you...the map is planned coverage.
read back where I mention my employer
the map may accurately show your location...there may be live towers near you...but not all of dfw. this is fact...it is planned coverage.
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I live in Las Colinas/MacArthur area, this past Saturday 11/17 I was over my buddy's place on Luna RD/635 from 9:00-11:00 AM, looked at my phone and saw 4G icon and did a speed test to see what kinda of speed is around this area. I was surprise what I saw.
this one was around 09:00AM
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As I was leaving buddy's place I did another test

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I live in Las Colinas/MacArthur area, this past Saturday 11/17 I was over my buddy's place on Luna RD/635 from 9:00-11:00 AM, looked at my phone and saw 4G icon and did a speed test to see what kinda of speed is around this area. I was surprise what I saw.
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You're very close to where I live. What kind of speed test results do you get at your place?

JimSmith94 said:
You're very close to where I live. What kind of speed test results do you get at your place?
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I'll add to this post for those still interested. I live in North Arlington and have an AT&T Note 2. Getting 4G LTE pretty solid with 12.5mbps/2.5mbps u/d. My wife has a Sprint Note 2, and even though Sprint claims they have solid LTE in Arlington, she barely gets 4G if LTE. Even the 4G is very weak. Only had it a week and haven't really got to work with hers much. May be the phone. Have to do a little more testing.

fuel451 said:
I'll add to this post for those still interested. I live in North Arlington and have an AT&T Note 2. Getting 4G LTE pretty solid with 12.5mbps/2.5mbps u/d. My wife has a Sprint Note 2, and even though Sprint claims they have solid LTE in Arlington, she barely gets 4G if LTE. Even the 4G is very weak. Only had it a week and haven't really got to work with hers much. May be the phone. Have to do a little more testing.
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DFW is nowhere near completion. where it works it works great...
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Your agument is invalid. Lte is 4G (for the note 2) and right now it's not full deployed yet. If you read the site correctly, it says street coverage. They don't have all the towers upgraded yet. You can also use an app called Sensorly to find to true coverage.
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I am tried on knocking sprint about their slow data speeds.

I am slowly becoming a fan of sprint's internet speeds. Please check out my signature line for the speed I got on my laptop computer. I am thoroughly impress with the speed I am getting. I was knocking sprint because I was getting faster internet speeds from my home internet but now I am getting faster speeds from my phone internet. If sprint can duplicate this standard everywhere they my have a chance of being the number one cell phone provider one day.

ill continue knocking them for a lack of LTE and unusable speeds on 3G
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and thats 3x faster than what i usually pull in NYC

Dude thats horrible
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Best speed I've gotten over the last month was a 422/308 kbps in jersey

I've gotten as low as 20kbps and my highest speed was 800, on average I get 200-300kbps on one phone and 500kbps on the other (samsung sph-a900 and apple iPhone respectively), and ~6months+ ago (for 6 years) I was getting ~1.2mbps with spikes upto 1.5mbps. (And at Lunch/dinner time the speed drops to about half of the average) Have not had a chance to try LTE yet because it's not available here.

I am finally starting to pull some decent speeds. My 3G speeds have been increasing and I get LTE around my area. My prior Wimax phones got no love. Soon as I took the GNII to work, 4G popped up.
Highest I have gotten in my area is 8mbps, slowest about 1.3mbps. On 3G I routinely stay over 500kbps and sometimes in the 1.5mbps around town. All far better than what I used to get.
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Screw u guys. Half the time my speed test app cant even find the server. Thats why we get unlimited data cause they know its impossible to pull a gig a month. We r suckers. All I do is ***** about sprint and im on my 5th 4g phone. Oh well
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royshero said:
Screw u guys. Half the time my speed test app cant even find the server. Thats why we get unlimited data cause they know its impossible to pull a gig a month. We r suckers. All I do is ***** about sprint and im on my 5th 4g phone. Oh well
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I was pulling upto 20gb/month a few years ago when I was getting 1.2mbps and avoiding slow WiFi (most of the hotspots around here are 300-600kbps) now that my data speed is 400-600 dep on time and phone I try to use hotspots more and I only pull a couple gb/month at max (though to be fair I use less mobile data overall, for a month I test-drove AT&T and was pulling upto 5mbps on HSPA+ and upto 27mbps on LTE and I still stayed WELL within my 3gb limit (and even really pushing hard to burn though the data at the end of the month by streaming HD videos I barely got to 2.5gb)
Also, just for the record, it's "100gb/month" of data (as per reports on androidforums) for 3G - no idea what the cap is on LTE

royshero said:
Screw u guys. Half the time my speed test app cant even find the server. Thats why we get unlimited data cause they know its impossible to pull a gig a month. We r suckers. All I do is ***** about sprint and im on my 5th 4g phone. Oh well
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I've used 23gigs thank-you
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chessx said:
ill continue knocking them for a lack of LTE and unusable speeds on 3G
and thats 3x faster than what i usually pull in NYC
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I think I can shed some light ther pm me ur zip and city and I can see whats going on when I get back to work tomorrow
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Read an article today how boost mobile or virgin mobile is throttling their speed after the user consumes a certain amount of bandwidth.
The speed would be throttled down to 256kbps.
I LOLd. I wish I get 256kbps from sprint.
As an aside, both those networks run atop the sprint network...So they get the same speeds as sprint users.
swyped all these spelling errors from my galaxy note 2

A2CKilla said:
I've used 23gigs thank-you
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Ive never passed 2gigs and im on my phone constantly. Mostly watching fb or YouTube trying to load then telling me to try again.
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will do
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I think I can shed some light ther pm me ur zip and city and I can see whats going on when I get back to work tomorrow
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I have two note 2 phones.
One on sprint the other on solavei. Which is tmobile really.
The solavei phone kills sprint in data speed. Constantly getting 10-15 mbps all day.
Lately my sprint note is to slow for decent test.
I love unlimited data but is it truly unlimited if your connection is piss poor slow?
The solavei plan is Unlimited 4g
Talk text web $60.00 per month taxes included.
No $10.00 per month smartphone fee. I have been a sprint customer for 14 years but for the first time considering leaving.
Even when the lte gets worked out . The data plans will most assuredly change. I just hope they get it together soon.
Bought the fiancé an note 2 also unlocked it threw in solavei sim card and shazam
Look at those internets fly lol.
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chessx said:
will do
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Good news!! there's 3g upgrades going on a few miles away about 1.8 to be exact bad news........ The tower closes top you have afew more weeks to go.. If everything goes as plan
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I have no g's in my area,0g

Actually saw my phone pick up 4g for the first time today on the freeway but by the time I pulled up speedtest I had lost connection.
This is my average speed at home.

humdrum2009 said:
I have two note 2 phones.
One on sprint the other on solavei. Which is tmobile really.
The solavei phone kills sprint in data speed. Constantly getting 10-15 mbps all day.
Lately my sprint note is to slow for decent test.
I love unlimited data but is it truly unlimited if your connection is piss poor slow?
The solavei plan is Unlimited 4g
Talk text web $60.00 per month taxes included.
No $10.00 per month smartphone fee. I have been a sprint customer for 14 years but for the first time considering leaving.
Even when the lte gets worked out . The data plans will most assuredly change. I just hope they get it together soon.
Bought the fiancé an note 2 also unlocked it threw in solavei sim card and shazam
Look at those internets fly lol.
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I hear you on that. I tested out the internet on my ATT iPad3 (HSPA+ and LTE) and I gotta say it's very tempting to switch (Pulled 4-5mbps on HSPA+ and 20-25mbps on LTE) if ATT would offer me a bit more data, like T-Mo does @ 5gb/month (T-Mo reception is **** here) I'd probably switch. There comes a point when you say "if I cant really physically use more than 5gb/month of data, why am I paying for it?" I'm really hoping LTE is as big of a game-changer as Sprint claims (I've seen some impressive speeds posted on HoFo) but given what happened with Sprint's implimentation of WiMAX, I'm not holding my breath...

Lte speeds here in nyc.
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Indianapolis.
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Galaxy Note 2 thru Sprint thru Amazon wireless?

It's 70$ with a plan thru Sprint. Sprint would offer unlimited data with no caps and unlimited texting for about 70 or 80 bucks a month.
So my question is(if you've gotten one thru this method)...
How is Sprint?
Is there a catch?

antisouless said:
It's 70$ with a plan thru Sprint. Sprint would offer unlimited data with no caps and unlimited texting for about 70 or 80 bucks a month.
So my question is(if you've gotten one thru this method)...
How is Sprint?
Is there a catch?
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I just got one yesterday matter of fact. Sprint seems great and the fact that they still offer unlimited data is awesome. Switched from AT&T

antisouless said:
It's 70$ with a plan thru Sprint. Sprint would offer unlimited data with no caps and unlimited texting for about 70 or 80 bucks a month.
So my question is(if you've gotten one thru this method)...
How is Sprint?
Is there a catch?
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Im currently on sprint unlimited plan $70 the only thing is they only give you 400min land line and everything else unlimited but I really dont care about land line I dont really call out, so your bill would be $85 every month.
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Yeah Ups delivered mine on Tuesday from Amazon. I absolutely love this thing. It was an upgrade from my epic touch so it cost me $199 which is still not bad considering Sprint sells them for $299. Well worth it. It's so awesome compared to what I'm used to in a phone. My e4gt was nice but you just can't compare the two at all really. Been with Sprint for 15 yrs too and no complaints.
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The phone is great. Sprint on the other hand, maybe not so much. Sprint is known to be slow. HORRIBLY Slow 3G. If you aren't in a LTE area, I would weight this heavily.
If you have access to a lot of WIFI points where you normally go around, its not bad. Im in NYC. Speeds are horribly slow sometimes. Othertimes, they are manageable. By horribly slow, I mean less than 500kbps. Its more like 1X than 3G.
When you go to network vision areas (upgraded 3G / LTE areas) you do see a speed boost, somewhere around 800 kbps to about 1.3 mbps. Still probably slow or just reaching Verizon 3G speeds.
The only perk is unlimited data no throttling or caps (except roaming).

Keep in mind, Best Buy price matches Amazon. I bought my GN2 with Add a line price from Amazon Wireless. Walked out the same day, I hate to wait.

sekigah84 said:
The phone is great. Sprint on the other hand, maybe not so much. Sprint is known to be slow. HORRIBLY Slow 3G. If you aren't in a LTE area, I would weight this heavily.
If you have access to a lot of WIFI points where you normally go around, its not bad. Im in NYC. Speeds are horribly slow sometimes. Othertimes, they are manageable. By horribly slow, I mean less than 500kbps. Its more like 1X than 3G.
When you go to network vision areas (upgraded 3G / LTE areas) you do see a speed boost, somewhere around 800 kbps to about 1.3 mbps. Still probably slow or just reaching Verizon 3G speeds.
The only perk is unlimited data no throttling or caps (except roaming).
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I agree. In weighing leaving sprint, selling my note 2 and getting the s4 on tmobile. I will give them 2-4 months to improve
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Great deivce the best on the market worth every penny got mine from sprint at full price coming from S3 and ibcould never have anyother phone again. Looks like my next device will be the Note 3 lol
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budde2 said:
Great deivce the best on the market worth every penny got mine from sprint at full price coming from S3 and ibcould never have anyother phone again. Looks like my next device will be the Note 3 lol
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Mine will be the note 3 if the size stays the same. If it gets bigger I will get the htc one or s4. I will probably sell my note 2 and get the s4 or hyc one on tmo if lte for Sprint is not in my area yet
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For those who have Costco memberships, I believe you get a 23% discount on your sprint bill monthly for the primary line. I work at a hospital that only gives 18% discount, better than nothing.
Link to sprint site to check if you're eligible to receive discounts.
http://delivery.sprint.com/m/p/nxt/dev/wdyw.asp

I finally got lte with Sprint in a small town 20 minutes from where I live. Looking forward to this:
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sekigah84 said:
The phone is great. Sprint on the other hand, maybe not so much. Sprint is known to be slow. HORRIBLY Slow 3G. If you aren't in a LTE area, I would weight this heavily.
If you have access to a lot of WIFI points where you normally go around, its not bad. Im in NYC. Speeds are horribly slow sometimes. Othertimes, they are manageable. By horribly slow, I mean less than 500kbps. Its more like 1X than 3G.
When you go to network vision areas (upgraded 3G / LTE areas) you do see a speed boost, somewhere around 800 kbps to about 1.3 mbps. Still probably slow or just reaching Verizon 3G speeds.
The only perk is unlimited data no throttling or caps (except roaming).
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I agree with everything he said. The phone is phenomenal but Sprint's service is lackluster at best. I'm in NYC as well and I am sometimes shocked by how bad the data service is. I'm hoping that is because they are still upgrading to LTE or something like that but I'm not holding my breath on that assumption.

I live in a suburb in the San Francisco Bay Area (1 hour from SF) and even in my town, I get LTE. I was at my parent's house visiting, and Sprint has LTE where they live. In fact, LTE was faster (~12 Mbps) than connecting to their home WIFI which connected to slow AT&T DSL (~1.5 Mbps).
If you live in an LTE area, it is amazing.

JamesChilds said:
Keep in mind, Best Buy price matches Amazon. I bought my GN2 with Add a line price from Amazon Wireless. Walked out the same day, I hate to wait.
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they told us last night that as of 3-3 they will no longer price match phones

Love Sprint. My 3G is faster on my Note than it was on my Evo. It matches the 3G from VZW in my area, so I have no complaints. And no, I don't Data Roam.

adelmundo said:
I live in a suburb in the San Francisco Bay Area (1 hour from SF) and even in my town, I get LTE. I was at my parent's house visiting, and Sprint has LTE where they live. In fact, LTE was faster (~12 Mbps) than connecting to their home WIFI which connected to slow AT&T DSL (~1.5 Mbps).
If you live in an LTE area, it is amazing.
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Yeah bro LTE coverage is really starting to take off. I was so pumped to get rid of my Evo 3d (Evo 4G prior) where I had no 4G wimax. My Note was picking up LTE all around my home town and where I work, as soon as I activated it. [East Bay Area,Antioch, Brentwood]
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KB112 said:
Yeah bro LTE coverage is really starting to take off. I was so pumped to get rid of my Evo 3d (Evo 4G prior) where I had no 4G wimax. My Note was picking up LTE all around my home town and where I work, as soon as I activated it. [East Bay Area,Antioch, Brentwood]
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I almost switched to tmobile but after starting to pick up 4g in alot of places even though it's not announced yet I'm giving Sprint another chance. All I know is that 4g lte rocks. I got it today and 2 times it had a speed of only about 2 to 3mbps but then I connected again in another area and I got pretty good speeds like the one below.
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JamesChilds said:
Keep in mind, Best Buy price matches Amazon. I bought my GN2 with Add a line price from Amazon Wireless. Walked out the same day, I hate to wait.
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Best Buys new price match policy specifically EXCLUDES phones on contract. Not that you might not be able to get a manager to do it, but it is not their official policy.
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I got a amazon sprint upgrade note ii it was 199 to Sprints 299. Service is good.

I got my Note 2 through amazon wireless and sprint for $100 about a month ago. Its definitely an amazing deal, but you should check the coverage map for your area before you go through with it.
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