Slow 4g

**johnnyshinta** · 08-23-2012, 03:51 PM

Is anyone else experiencing slower 4g than expected? I'm just north of DC and the most I get is 7 mbps. My friends rezound gets like twice that.

**dj hidroid** · 08-23-2012, 04:09 PM

It's not an issue with the phone. As more and more people adopt lte the markets are getting saturated but 7 mbps is within what Verizon claims speed should be.(5-12mbps is what they claim i think) I've gotten as high as 32mbps and as slow as 2mbps in a major cities like Phillly. My guess is that if the new iphones are lte enabled we will see a stronger decrease in speed but at least Verizon has the most aggressive roll out of lte and soon it will be in over 400 markets. 3g for me is rarely above 1mbps so I'm good with any speed that is faster then that.

**johnnyshinta** · 08-23-2012, 06:59 PM

That's true. I came from a 3g phone so I'm happy with the speeds. Just wondering if it was the phone or the network

**jerethi** · 08-23-2012, 07:13 PM

I've experienced a rather significant drop in my LTE speeds in Seattle. In my office, I used to be able to get anywhere from 10-20 Mbps. Now, from the same perch, I'm lucky to get more than 3. I don't mean to fuel a fire here-the speed is still more than adequate for my needs-but I have to wonder what has caused this fairly drastic drop.

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**fascinatej** · 08-23-2012, 09:39 PM

I've blocked the 4 g . The 3g is lightening fast compared to 4g. Awful

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**sparesr4sissies** · 08-23-2012, 09:51 PM

Originally Posted by fascinatej

I've blocked the 4 g . The 3g is lightening fast compared to 4g. Awful

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Something must be broken if this is really the case for you.

**dpham00** · 08-23-2012, 10:54 PM

Originally Posted by sparesr4sissies

Something must be broken if this is really the case for you.

Or he is in a fringe 4g area. I have been in weak signal areas where 3g is faster than 4g. But in strong signal areas, 4g would be way faster. I have seen over 60mbps on several occasions on 4g, on 3g,max i have seen is about 2mbps.

**paintdrinkingpete** · 08-24-2012, 06:54 AM

Ran a few speed test...Seems to be on par with my old Thunderbolt device. (Northern VA).

The only strange thing for me is that I've been getting much faster upload speeds on my recent tests...which I don't think I've ever seen before!

Generally, I get anywhere from 7 to 9 kbps down and 10-13 kbps up on the few tests I've ran this morning. I think network saturation has more to do with it than anything else. I got the Thunderbolt at launch, and back then I could consistently get 25-30 kbps down, but as the months went by and more and more 4G LTE devices were sold, my average speeds slowly worked their way into the advertised "5 to 12 kbps" zone. Granted, that may be due to Verizon throttling speeds down a bit too on their end, but there are obviously more LTE devices being activated every day, which would affect bandwidth as well.

**johnnyshinta** · 08-24-2012, 07:09 AM

I tested in a mother area and I think it was just a bad area. Got 14mbps at home.

**dpham00** · 08-24-2012, 07:53 AM

You have got major problems if you are getting 30kbps or less. That is very slow. You should see faster speeds even on 1x. I think you meant mbps.

Originally Posted by paintdrinkingpete

Ran a few speed test...Seems to be on par with my old Thunderbolt device. (Northern VA).

The only strange thing for me is that I've been getting much faster upload speeds on my recent tests...which I don't think I've ever seen before!

Generally, I get anywhere from 7 to 9 kbps down and 10-13 kbps up on the few tests I've ran this morning. I think network saturation has more to do with it than anything else. I got the Thunderbolt at launch, and back then I could consistently get 25-30 kbps down, but as the months went by and more and more 4G LTE devices were sold, my average speeds slowly worked their way into the advertised "5 to 12 kbps" zone. Granted, that may be due to Verizon throttling speeds down a bit too on their end, but there are obviously more LTE devices being activated every day, which would affect bandwidth as well.

**AllenA07#AC** · 08-24-2012, 09:11 AM

I think I'm in a dead spot in terms of 4g at my house. I can bearly manage a two bars of it and often fall back to 3g. This is in the northern suburbs of Dallas. A few miles from my house I've seen speeds easily in the 40mbps range.

**dpham00** · 08-24-2012, 09:15 AM

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Originally Posted by AllenA07

I think I'm in a dead spot in terms of 4g at my house. I can bearly manage a two bars of it and often fall back to 3g. This is in the northern suburbs of Dallas. A few miles from my house I've seen speeds easily in the 40mbps range.

**paintdrinkingpete** · 08-24-2012, 09:17 AM

Originally Posted by dpham00

You have got major problems if you are getting 30kbps or less. That is very slow. You should see faster speeds even on 1x. I think you meant mbps.

Maybe where you live... anywhere from 10-20 kbps has been normal for me, and that's on 3 different 4G LTE devices, and as I mentioned, I've had a Thunderbolt since launch, so I've been running LTE for a while. Any friends in my area usually get about the same.

This morning my tests were a bit on the low side, but I don't have a really strong signal here at my apartment. When I'm in the vicinity of my office however, I can usually get ~20 kbps download speeds. I haven't seen 30 kbps since the first few weeks I owned the Tbolt though.

**paintdrinkingpete** · 08-24-2012, 09:25 AM

Originally Posted by dpham00

You have got major problems if you are getting 30kbps or less. That is very slow. You should see faster speeds even on 1x. I think you meant mbps.

Originally Posted by paintdrinkingpete

Maybe where you live... anywhere from 10-20 kbps has been normal for me, and that's on 3 different 4G LTE devices, and as I mentioned, I've had a Thunderbolt since launch, so I've been running LTE for a while. Any friends in my area usually get about the same.

This morning my tests were a bit on the low side, but I don't have a really strong signal here at my apartment. When I'm in the vicinity of my office however, I can usually get ~20 kbps download speeds. I haven't seen 30 kbps since the first few weeks I owned the Tbolt though.

Oh, I just realized my fault...I'm talking kbps instead of Mbps...sorry, it was too early in the morning when I made my first post! Just multiply anything I said by 1000kbps.

**MikeNY** · 08-24-2012, 10:06 AM

I had 45mbps yesterday on 4G, fastest I have ever seen. When I had the Nexus and Rezound and was right at JFK aiport the 4g speeds are around 30-32mbps. I was in upstate (Dutchess county) yesterday and hit 45mbps. I have never seen anything like that before.

**dj hidroid** · 08-24-2012, 01:53 PM

Originally Posted by paintdrinkingpete

Ran a few speed test...Seems to be on par with my old Thunderbolt device. (Northern VA).

The only strange thing for me is that I've been getting much faster upload speeds on my recent tests...which I don't think I've ever seen before!

Generally, I get anywhere from 7 to 9 kbps down and 10-13 kbps up on the few tests I've ran this morning. I think network saturation has more to do with it than anything else. I got the Thunderbolt at launch, and back then I could consistently get 25-30 kbps down, but as the months went by and more and more 4G LTE devices were sold, my average speeds slowly worked their way into the advertised "5 to 12 kbps" zone. Granted, that may be due to Verizon throttling speeds down a bit too on their end, but there are obviously more LTE devices being activated every day, which would affect bandwidth as well.

I've seen higher upload speeds with a few different phones from time to time, also when doing speed tests make sure and check the server that is closest to you for the most accurate reading.