Data Speeds God Awful

[darencas]

This is downtown Atlanta 835am its a shame 4G is such a disappointment. And I'm using a gs3. Don't know about you but if this doesn't improve I may jump ship in my next cycle.

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[Gator352]

This is downtown Atlanta 835am its a shame 4G is such a disappointment. And I'm using a gs3. Don't know about you but if this doesn't improve I may jump ship in my next cycle.

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At least you have 4G. Some people are stuck using dial-up.

Thing is though, it will improve once the network is all in place. They are still working on it and it might take a little time. But for me though, as long as I can browse the internet without back breaking lag, I'm good.

 

[Almeuit]

At least you have 4G. Some people are stuck using dial-up.

Thing is though, it will improve once the network is all in place. They are still working on it and it might take a little time. But for me though, as long as I can browse the internet without back breaking lag, I'm good.

He might have 4g but that is pretty awful 4g. My 3g in Jacksonville can beat that at least lol.

So I could understand his frustration.

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[Gator352]

I can too. Maybe he should try 3G cause it might be faster. I doubt it but worth a try.

 

[xKrNMBoYx]

There's many things that could be the culprit for these crawling data speeds. Something could have gone wrong after flashing your phone. If you live in a rural area you just might live somewhere with bad coverage.

If you live in a big city they may be upgrading the signal/network towers. Usually when they start the upgrade process the speed drops a bit until it finishes. Then you have an overall faster network. In a smaller city or rural areas the speeds tend to be slow.

You live in the Las Vegas area so if its not them upgrading towers then like you said it could be your phone after flashing a rom.

What kind of data plan do you have? Is it unlimited or somewhat high? I would try to use SpeedTest.net app and see your data speeds. You can try without restoring your phone back to the factory rom/settings. Then try it after you reset your phone. Trying it at different places you usually go would be a nice idea.

PSSSST. Had nothing to do with his freaking phone. It did have everything to do with automatically assuming it's a sprint problem without asking questions to actually help the OP. And besides, I DID ask questions....in the very next thread...about the OP's problem which is what this thread was about. If your going to bash me, at least read first.

God calm down.

"Did you have slow data on your previous device?"
"Did you have Sprint previously?"

These are both questions. You can't help a person without know more information and thats what lak did. You just read it the wrong way.

OP said he flashed is phone/ROM recently, which would lead to someone asking if they had slow speeds before. If they have not had slow speeds prior to the flashing then that could be the problem.

It's no secret that Sprint's coverage is probably the worst out of the 4 major US Cellular providers. So asking about sprint is nothing ridiculous.

Instead of telling the OP to "do that, and do this" lak611 asked questions to know the situation more. You're the one who told the OP to do things to his phone before you knew his situation.

 

[jerseygirl]

See, but ask more questions other than "did you have sprint previously?" before bashing sprint. Did he root and INSTALL a different rom? Did he accidentally turn off CDMA? There are so many factors but there's usually a fix for this problem, albeit not all the time though. He could have a bad unit but I don't think so.

But just because he "rooted" and now his data is messed up, doesn't mean that verizon is the fix. Besides, not to be mean, but your post sounds like a VZW commercial in a Sprint Galaxy S3 forum. Can you hear me now?

I found nothing wrong with his post, in fact...I find it quite credible. I was just about to start a thread in here about how slow Sprint is compared to Verizon. My BF just bought a S3 on Verizon because he liked my phone so much...but I refuse to do a side by side with him so he can gloat about how much faster his phone is then mine. We're sitting in the same room, using the same wi-fi and his phone kills mine! Embarrassing, esp when I used to bust on him about his Huwei on Metro. I've been with Sprint for about 12 years and have earned the right to speak my mind...so don't come back at me with troll talk. thx

And I do understand what you were saying about asking more questions to help out the OP, but I'm just saying I don't think his comments re: Sprint's service were unjustified.

 

[IAmSixNine]

I found nothing wrong with his post, in fact...I find it quite credible. I was just about to start a thread in here about how slow Sprint is compared to Verizon. My BF just bought a S3 on Verizon because he liked my phone so much...but I refuse to do a side by side with him so he can gloat about how much faster his phone is then mine. We're sitting in the same room, using the same wi-fi and his phone kills mine! Embarrassing, esp when I used to bust on him about his Huwei on Metro. I've been with Sprint for about 12 years and have earned the right to speak my mind...so don't come back at me with troll talk. thx

And I do understand what you were saying about asking more questions to help out the OP, but I'm just saying I don't think his comments re: Sprint's service were unjustified.

Wait, your on the same WiFi and his phone is much faster then yours???
WHAT? I am going out on a limb and guessing you didnt mean to put your on WiFi.
That would negate the comparison between Sprint and Verizon.
Or it could mean your device is bad.
I cant imagine the Verizon variant of the GS3 on WiFI is a faster or better device then the Sprint variant of the GS3. If your both on WiFi then your sharing the same data connection. If your device is on WiFi and it is that much slower then his my guess is you have a bad device.
But if you take WiFi out of the picture and now you do a data comparison then yeah i can see why you might have issues.

 

[Almeuit]

Yeah jersey girl.... WiFi would have no affect showing the speed of verizon and sprint. WiFi is purely your home Internet so if your both on it.... Same speed.

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[McPlot]

The tag " Sent from my Lumina 900" is what is giving people the idea he is trolling the Galaxy S3 forums.

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[Gator352]

It's just that the TAG Lumia 900, in the Sprint S3 forum, asking about the OP's sprint service, then saying....VZW might be better for you hit a nerve.

 

[Gator352]

I found nothing wrong with his post, in fact...I find it quite credible. I was just about to start a thread in here about how slow Sprint is compared to Verizon. My BF just bought a S3 on Verizon because he liked my phone so much...but I refuse to do a side by side with him so he can gloat about how much faster his phone is then mine. We're sitting in the same room, using the same wi-fi and his phone kills mine! Embarrassing, esp when I used to bust on him about his Huwei on Metro. I've been with Sprint for about 12 years and have earned the right to speak my mind...so don't come back at me with troll talk. thx

And I do understand what you were saying about asking more questions to help out the OP, but I'm just saying I don't think his comments re: Sprint's service were unjustified.

I've been with Sprint for over 11 years as well and I already earned and spoke my mind as well.

Let's see, from what I read your both sitting in the same room using the same wi-fi connection and his kills yours? First off, that has nothing to do with data connections to your service providers. Second, does your wi-fi have dual channels (2.4.GHz/5GHz)? Were you both on separate channels or on the same channel? How many other devices were connected and ON using the same channel on your wi-fi? So many different factors can adversely effect the speed of wi-fi on many different devices.

 

[jonathanm1978]

It should test close to the same speed if both are connected to the same Wi-Fi. I did these tests with my tablet and galaxy s3 both connected to my buffalo repeater, which is a linksys e2500 that has DDWRT installed and is repeating my main buffalo router. But the main thing, they are both connected to the same Wi-Fi, tested with nothing on either device tying up the test.... like dropbox or Facebook uploads(which kill tests if you try them at the same time)

Phone test:
http://www.speedtest.net/android/232974297.png
Tablet test:
http://www.speedtest.net/android/232975277.png

One thing nobody is mentioning is the encryption or security on a router can also slow down the speed of the connection. The router makes the device rehash the key every couple of seconds depending on the type of security (wpa2-aes, wep, wpa2-tkip, etc).

The encryption on my repeater(the linksys) is WEP since repeater bridge didn't play nice with wpa2. The repeated router's signal is wpa2-aes. Lots of tech mumbo if you aren't Wi-Fi savvy.

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(P.S. I can never get the proper upload test on my phone. I'm connected to dsl internet with a 1/2meg per second upload and 6 meg download, but my phone always shows the wrong upload speed because of the app, not the connection) the app shows the right upload speed on my tablet, that .59mbps. )

 

[Laura Knotek]

It's just that the TAG Lumia 900, in the Sprint S3 forum, asking about the OP's sprint service, then saying....VZW might be better for you hit a nerve.

My carrier is actually AT&T. I have no vested interest in VZW (or even AT&T for that matter), since I do not work for any carrier.

AT&T LTE is great here, but if a person traveled a lot, I would recommend VZW and not AT&T. If it were the AT&T S3 forum, and a person had bad coverage on AT&T, I'd still recommend considering getting the S3 with a different carrier.

I do not see why posters need to defend a particular carrier, even if it happens to be a certain carrier device forum (unless those posters work for that carrier). That's one difference between Android Central and CrackBerry. CrackBerry just has a 9900/9930 forum, so devices from Sprint/VZW/AT&T/T-Mobile/any other carrier are all lumped in together.

 

[Gator352]

I don't work for any carrier either. Nor will I. But think of this...

You have a Ford and belong to a Ford truck forum and someone asks about a problem with the oil sensor and someone pops in and says...."well, have you had a Ford before? Was the performance ok? Well maybe Chevy will be better for you." Please don't tell me that wouldn't kinda get your goat.

I know Sprints service kinda sucks at the moment and not sure when it's going to get better but I'm sure it will. I stick it out with sprint at the moment cause I have done my homework and no other carrier can even come close to what I pay for 5 lines. I'll say this though, sorry for being a jerk but I wasn't actually trying to defend sprint per-se' but the principle.

 

[Laura Knotek]

I don't work for any carrier either. Nor will I. But think of this...

You have a Ford and belong to a Ford truck forum and someone asks about a problem with the oil sensor and someone pops in and says...."well, have you had a Ford before? Was the performance ok? Well maybe Chevy will be better for you." Please don't tell me that wouldn't kinda get your goat.

I know Sprints service kinda sucks at the moment and not sure when it's going to get better but I'm sure it will. I stick it out with sprint at the moment cause I have done my homework and no other carrier can even come close to what I pay for 5 lines. I'll say this though, sorry for being a jerk but I wasn't actually trying to defend sprint per-se' but the principle.

Ok. I understand more now. No, I wouldn't mention what I did on the actual official Sprint forums. However, Mobile Nations has no carrier affiliation per se. Plus the S3 is sold by all 4 major carriers. Had I dissed the S3, that would be different. However I think the S3 is awesome. I played with one last week.

The carrier device analogy is more like I love Fords but ABC Is a lousy dealer, so I'll buy my Ford from XYZ dealer instead, not I'll get a Chevy.

 

[Gator352]

Yeah, I love my S3 but it does have it's quirks though.