The official Sprint network speed thread (post your speeds)

**mragland22** · 12-20-2012, 09:13 AM

Sprint 4g LTE is a joke in San Antonio. My wimax Evo 3d used to get an average of 3mbps at work and home. Sometimes peak at 9mbps. I got my SGNote 2 Monday and my speeds have been 200-300 kbps on 4g LTE. I would time out trying to log into this forum or even trying to hit the Play Store. I don't even get an LTE signal at my house which is between 2 wimax 4g towers. Now I read Sprint mvno clients Boost and Virgin are throttling heavy users with unlimited data plans. Is it true if Sprint changes terms of my contact then I can cancel all 4 lines of service after 13 years and go to att or Verizon without early termination fees?

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**piizzadude** · 12-21-2012, 06:30 AM

Well first off, you are saying some interesting things. The woman towers have very little to do with the lte stuff unless the are due to get upgraded. When they announce that an area has lte, it doesn't mean it is done, very far from it. They usually announce at like forty percent complete. I won go to sensorly . com and see if your house is covered and at what strength. You may be at the very edge like I am. When I hit a good area, I get as good if not better speeds than when I was with Verizon. Are one 20 down or so.

Next, boost and virgin changing policies have nothing to do with your sprint contract. If you are on boost, you may be able to get out of it. But sprint just rents the bandwidth to them.

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**CaMelGuY1337** · 12-21-2012, 10:37 AM

Originally Posted by piizzadude

Well first off, you are saying some interesting things. The woman towers have very little to do with the lte stuff unless the are due to get upgraded. When they announce that an area has lte, it doesn't mean it is done, very far from it. They usually announce at like forty percent complete. I won go to sensorly.com and see if your house is covered and at what strength. You may be at the very edge like I am. When I hit a good area, I get as good if not better speeds than when I was with Verizon. Are one 20 down or so.

Next, boost and virgin changing policies have nothing to do with your sprint contract. If you are on boost, you may be able to get out of it. But sprint just rents the bandwidth to them.

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+1 for "woman towers"...lmao!!!

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**EndlessDissent** · 12-21-2012, 01:01 PM

Originally Posted by piizzadude

The woman towers have very little to do with the lte stuff unless the are due to get upgraded.

Actually, the Wimax towers have nothing to do with LTE. Any Wimax towers are Clearwire's towers. LTE is not being added to Clearwire's towers. It's being added to Sprint's towers. Clearwire's towers may be upgraded to 2500MHz LTE in the future, but not as part of Network Vision.

**mragland22** · 12-21-2012, 03:15 PM

The point I was making is that sitting at my desk with 3 to 4 lte bars I still only get 50-500 kbps. My 4g connection goes in and out (4 bars down to 3g) like a Prairie dog in his burrow without me moving my phone 1 inch. They are supposed to reach "full" 4g LTE coverage in San Antonio by June of next year. We shall see, but I am hopeful.

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**piizzadude** · 12-21-2012, 03:43 PM

That is what I am interested in seeing, the speeds on a full rollout

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**Mellimel22** · 12-21-2012, 03:57 PM

Nuff said

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**piizzadude** · 12-21-2012, 07:10 PM

Originally Posted by EndlessDissent

Actually, the Wimax towers have nothing to do with LTE. Any Wimax towers are Clearwire's towers. LTE is not being added to Clearwire's towers. It's being added to Sprint's towers. Clearwire's towers may be upgraded to 2500MHz LTE in the future, but not as part of Network Vision.

Except that Sprint bought Clearwire and those towers are now theirs so I am kinda guessing they will be part of NV

**kg4icg** · 12-21-2012, 08:15 PM

Originally Posted by piizzadude

Except that Sprint bought Clearwire and those towers are now theirs so I am kinda guessing they will be part of NV

Except the deal isn't final yet and your phone doesn't support LTE-TDD when they start converting the towers from wimax to LTE. Next year.

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**Mellimel22** · 12-21-2012, 08:28 PM

Originally Posted by mragland22

The point I was making is that sitting at my desk with 3 to 4 lte bars I still only get 50-500 kbps. My 4g connection goes in and out (4 bars down to 3g) like a Prairie dog in his burrow without me moving my phone 1 inch. They are supposed to reach "full" 4g LTE coverage in San Antonio by June of next year. We shall see, but I am hopeful.

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The signal bars don't gauge lte signal. That's your voice signal

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**piizzadude** · 12-21-2012, 08:47 PM

Originally Posted by kg4icg

Except the deal isn't final yet and your phone doesn't support LTE-TDD when they start converting the towers from wimax to LTE. Next year.

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The deal has approval from everyone involved and the government is not going to bother with that one. Any asset gain by sprint is a positive.

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**EndlessDissent** · 12-22-2012, 04:47 AM

Originally Posted by piizzadude

Except that Sprint bought Clearwire and those towers are now theirs so I am kinda guessing they will be part of NV

Well, now that I think about it, the main point I intended (and failed) to make was that it doesn't matter how close he is to Wimax towers when talking about LTE reception. He could be directly next to a Clearwire Wimax tower but 5 miles from the nearest Sprint LTE tower and have a bad LTE connection.

That said, the deal won't be final for a while regardless of how much resistance they get from the government. Even if the deal were finalized tomorrow, that doesn't magically make those Wimax towers next to his house broadcast LTE. The 2500 MHz rollout that would be on the Clearwire towers isn't even scheduled to begin until second half of next year regardless of how much of Clearwire Sprint owns.

**tirith** · 12-26-2012, 09:51 PM

Random mediocre speed test. Turned lte off and put 3g on and got 74, 1.9, and .9.

Not too bad.
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**piizzadude** · 12-26-2012, 10:58 PM

Sporadic today by York pa

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**efyoiphone** · 04-22-2013, 02:54 AM

First day of LTE coverage in my neighborhood. New Orleans market. Not bad considering the signal strength and the tower hadn't yet been approved for use.

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**cgardnervt** · 04-22-2013, 05:51 AM

Originally Posted by efyoiphone

First day of LTE coverage in my neighborhood. New Orleans market. Not bad considering the signal strength and the tower hadn't yet been approved for use.

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Really hope that it gets better. Hspa+ is better than that.

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**jean15paul** · 04-22-2013, 07:36 AM

This is what I got in New Orleans last week near UNO.

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**Almeuit** · 04-22-2013, 10:17 AM

Originally Posted by cgardner

Really hope that it gets better. Hspa+ is better than that.

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It will. He said new tower and only the first day.

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**SenseMonkey** · 04-23-2013, 08:35 PM

Finally some LTE in my home. Not great speeds, but at least its a lot better than 3G. And my market isn't announced yet(Raleigh Nc) Wooh!

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