HSPA+ 42 data speed on Tmobile.

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greydarrah

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I've had my N4 for about a week now on T-Mobile and I keep getting 3G vs H in my house. Based on speed tests I'm sure I'm on hspa but not sure why it keeps toggling between the two.

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Are you sure that it's not just saying 3G when the phone is not doing anything? That's how mine works...3G displayed whenever I look at the phone while it's not doing anything data related, then H whenever it's transmitting data.
 

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Was just at my daughter's school which has a tower across the street. I got 18mbps. LOL - same speed the phone gets via wifi thru my cable internet at home.
 

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Recent indoor test: 8.2mbps down, 1.4mbps up. I wish the up was twice as fast (for VOIP quality) but the download is great.
 

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I've had my N4 for about a week now on T-Mobile and I keep getting 3G vs H in my house. Based on speed tests I'm sure I'm on hspa but not sure why it keeps toggling between the two.

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The phone switches to 3G to save battery.
 

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Has anyone in Portland OR actually seen a HSPA+ 42 connection? It doesn't seem to go any higher than 15 either in downtown, the pearl, or Beaverton

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Wait my phone on T-mobile shows H when idle and H+ when in an active data session. Is this normal since everyone talks about the phone showing 3G when idle?

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I've been getting closer to 8-9mbps in real world speed however I assumed that the connection on the phones status page would show the data connection as HSPA+ 42 instead of HSPA 15 that it shows

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Wait my phone on T-mobile shows H when idle and H+ when in an active data session. Is this normal since everyone talks about the phone showing 3G when idle?

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I've never seen mine display H+ (only H when transmitting data). 2 questions for you:

1. What are your APN settings?
2. What download speeds do you get on speedtest.net?
 

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I've never seen mine display H+ (only H when transmitting data). 2 questions for you:

1. What are your APN settings?
2. What download speeds do you get on speedtest.net?

Stock ROM will only show H. Being able to see H+ is a mod and baked into most custom ROMs.

1. epc.t-mobile.com
2. Depending on location anywhere from 4-18 megs per second. Yes I know it's 42 network as I had a GNex and never got more than 8-9 down on T-mobile using same SIM card.



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I have many times seen faster upload speeds than download, what gives?! Thought I might be throttled, but got 24mps down later in another part of town.
Another random Verizon LTE speed test. This is getting more common these days - HSPA+ does feel quite real-world competitive when they are both loaded. Not the faster upload than download - likely spectrum constrained.
 

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I have many times seen faster upload speeds than download, what gives?! Thought I might be throttled, but got 24mps down later in another part of town.

Could just be timing. I get the same thing running speed test app while connected via Wifi to FiOS at home.

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Queens, NY
anyone getting better speed in NYC?
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Those of you getting 15+Mbps down, can you take a screenshot of your APN settings?

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Edit: changed APN protocol and APN roaming protocol back to IPv4 and got this.

The ones before was on IPv4/IPv6

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So I just got my straight talk T-Mobile Sim working but something isn't right. I'm in Knoxville so I should have decent speeds but I can't get more than 200kbps down and 700 up. What is going on?
 

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So I just got my straight talk T-Mobile Sim working but something isn't right. I'm in Knoxville so I should have decent speeds but I can't get more than 200kbps down and 700 up. What is going on?

It could be network problems, you could be in a bad area. Try removing the proxy and proxy port from the APN.

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I did a few tests on my nexus 4 (tmo network) and was getting roughly 10Mbps download. This is not bad, but I was hoping for the HSPA+42 speed;-). I am in Fremont CA area and my 'status' shows a "mobile network type" of HSPA:10. What is everybody getting for that value? How does one get HSPA+42:)?
 

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I did a few tests on my nexus 4 (tmo network) and was getting roughly 10Mbps download. This is not bad, but I was hoping for the HSPA+42 speed;-). I am in Fremont CA area and my 'status' shows a "mobile network type" of HSPA:10. What is everybody getting for that value? How does one get HSPA+42:)?

This probably means category 10, meaning single carrier and 16QAM, and if that is the case you are probably in poor radio conditions - the theoretical max is only about 14 mbps .

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