DC-Maryland-Virginia coverage and speeds?

[meyerweb#CB]

The only thread I found on this area was a year and a half old, and I assume things have change since then.

Can people please comment on the reliability of the network and the LTE coverage, in the DC metro area. I'm particularly interested in Reston / Herndon, Arlington, and Springfield / Newington in Virginia, and Bethesda up to Germantown in Maryland.

I've looked at the maps, but in the past have found you can't always believe what a carrier tells you.

Any other thoughts on T-Mobile in this area are welcome as well. Many thanks for your help.

 

[Carla97220]

many parts from Reston to Great Falls(from 264 to north of Rt. 7) still has ZERO T-mobile signal. Yes, you read that right. ZERO signal. on my other phone(Verizon Galaxy Note 3), I always get 21mbps or more... even during busy hours.

 

[raino]

You can test drive the TMO network for a week, using an iPhone:

https://forums.androidcentral.com/e...3D6157490%26SID%3D7eo7yaf8hosj&token=kt2az_WA

 

[Bigballer]

went to alexandria, no problems.

 

[wolfman7828]

Germantown and Gaithersburg have a good signal. Last time I did a speed test near buffalo wild wings in Gaithersburg I got 20mbs up and down

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[hawkwind212]

I live in Fall Church and I travel all over the DMV area everyday, and IMO that AT&T has the best signal bar none. I say this because I've been using cell phone since cellular one owns most of antennas in the areas which was bought by cingular and then AT&T. I really haven't find a spot where I loose the signal in DMV yet.

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[bearda]

Germantown and Gaithersburg have a good signal. Last time I did a speed test near buffalo wild wings in Gaithersburg I got 20mbs up and down

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Parts of Gaithersburg and Germantown have a good signal. Parts are terrible. There are a number of areas near Clopper and Great Seneca where maintaining a signal at all is tough, and as soon as you go indoors it's gone. I work near the Bethesda Metro, and the signal was great. No complains there, data speeds were plenty fast.

I did end up switching to AT&T after having enough signal issues at my home in Germantown that I couldn't rely on my phone for incoming calls. I had a Moto X and my wife had an iPhone, so Wifi Calling wasn't an option (although it still would have been an issue when walking the dog down the block). I tried one of their repeater setups but even at the window I couldn't get a strong enough signal to rebroadcast.

EDIT: Not sure on this, but I seem to remember one or two dead spots on 270 going from Germantown to Bethesda. They were generally pretty small, but remember there being a couple areas where I made sure if I was streaming music I had everything queued up so it would cache ahead of time, because if I tried to switch songs it would hang. I never did an indepth look into it, though.

 

[Bigballer]

Unbiased Wireless Network Information. From people just like you - Sensorly

 

[meyerweb#CB]

Thanks everyone. I appreciate the input.

Bigballer, thanks very much for that link. I had forgotten all about Sensorly. That shows pretty weak coverage in several areas I'll be spending a lot of time. So I don't guess I'll switch now. Maybe next time.

 

[Almeuit]

Root Metrics is also a good place to look - Home | RootMetrics