How fast should 4G be?

[MikeLip]

My Maxx seems to be really, really slow. Slower than my old 3G phones. Even when I force it to CDMA it's still very slow. I get about 13meg download on wifi - I'm on fiber at home - about 300k(!) on 4G. I thought 4G was going to be at least as fast as my home wifi?

The slow connection is slow everywhere. It's disappointing.

 

[Issemann]

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HTC Rezound running Scott's CleanROM

 

[PossumPete]

My 4G results:

DL: 3.13 Mbps
UL: 0.68 Mbps
Ping: 97 ms

It appears that not all 4G is created equal.

Issemann,
How did you get your battery icon to show numbers? Thanks!

 

[MikeLip]

You DL is 10 times mine. Yuck. I need to go to Verizon and complain.

 

[gmonkey88]

Down: 13.7mbs
Up: 13.4mbs
Ping: 60

Green Bay, WI

Sent from DROID RAZR MAXX.

 

[MikeLip]

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HTC Rezound running Scott's CleanROM

Whoa. That blows my fiber connection out of the water. And makes my Maxx look like dialup.

I just reran it. My upload is faster than download! What the *heck* is wrong here? My BB was waaaaaaay faster than this Maxx in the very same places.

 

[RHChan84]

Ping 64ms
Download 20.47 Mbps
Upload 12.15Mbps

Boston, MA

Try to do a reset with the Power button and volume down button together for 10 seconds.

 

[MikeLip]

Ping 64ms
Download 20.47 Mbps
Upload 12.15Mbps

Boston, MA

Try to do a reset with the Power button and volume down button together for 10 seconds.

That seems to have helped. i am now at 10meg down, 12meg up. Which is still weird But it's way better than 300k. Thanks!

 

[LegalAmerican]

I had to do the power button, volume down thing as well and it helped a ton. Definitely recommend that as the first step to anyone having speed issues

 

[Ms Charli]

Does it matter where you are how fast your 4G is I just tested mine and my results where 76ms. ULS: 7.56MB DL:7.07 is this about Average?

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[dmmarck]

Does it matter where you are how fast your 4G is I just tested mine and my results where 76ms. ULS: 7.56MB DL:7.07 is this about Average?

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Yes. The traffic the tower gets also matters.

Sent from my Galaxy Nexus using Xparent Cyan Tapatalk 2

 

[biggerdjam]

4glte-
DL-35mbps
UP-12mbps

 

[Snowcrash45]

West Bloomfield, MI

Down:28335
Up 18552

Sent from my DROID RAZR MAXX!

 

[Issemann]

Battery mod called CleanICS_BlueLTE_HCS_Battv4 running on Scott's CleanROM Pro.

 

[cordoni]

I-20 & I-95 Corridor in South Carolina
8.25 down
1.00 up
90 ping

We just got it today. The power/volume reset worked great for me. Was at 1.5 down before I did it.

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[MikeLip]

This almost sounds like a battery pull on a Blackberry! What happened to the wonderful resource management of Android anyway?

Yeah, I know - no OS is perfect. But having to cycle a phone to get decent comms rates seems kind of flaky. I hope ICS is smarter about things.

 

[wxman2003]

Download this and run it.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.motorola.android.restoreapn.droidrazr#?t=W251bGwsMSwxLDUwMSwiY29tLm1vdG9yb2xhLmFuZHJvaWQucmVzdG9yZWFwbi5kcm9pZHJhenIiXQ..

 

[mattw783]

What a difference rebooting my phone makes. Was getting 0.56 down/1.29 up 70ms ping pre-reboot and thought I was being throttled. Got 10.30 down/9.31 up, 63ms ping after rebooting. (phew)

Location: Houston

 

[RHChan84]

It depends on where you are, speed varies. I do notice I average 19mbps down and 10mbps up in the Boston area.
In the Detroit Area, I was getting around 22down and 8up.
In Grand Rapids area, I was getting around 15down and 10 up.

Those are the ones I have a screen shot off. I don't do speed tests everywhere I go but if I have nothing else to do, I run a quick test. And if I have time, I'll run a speedtest on with my MiFi and I get about the same results +/-2mb

 

[SirGeorgeKillian]

Not my fastest speed on 4g. Had some real fast results on my Bionic. But it was due more to location than a hardware issue.