sprint's wimax 4g question

[Dissident]

Curious what the average speeds of sprint's wimax are? I was in the sprint store in Daytona Beach recently where they r supposed to have wimax. I tried a couple of their 4g phones and got an average of 2.2mb download speeds.

That does not seem to great to me, as I get that with ATT 3g.

Is this normal?

 

[dekcufi]

i typically see download come thru between 7-9 mbps in western wa

 

[Dissident]

Maybe they wernt connected to The wimax? Is there a different indicator on the phone to confirm wimax/4g?

 

[dekcufi]

it will have a 4g bar that says 4g just like the 3g bar

 

[Dissident]

it will have a 4g bar that says 4g just like the 3g bar

Yea none of the phones had that, all said 3g. So if that is the case, 2mb down and 512kb up over a 2 -3 bar 3g signal is something I could live with!