I'm in Cincinnati. Wife has a rezound. Ran a test on both of them at the same time, twice.
1st Round the rezound got 11mbs, Nexus 10mbs.
2nd Round the rezound got 9mbs, nexus 11mbs.
Later, I ran the nexus again and got 15mbs.
So the nexus and the rezound (and my old thunderbolt for that matter) are pretty close. It seems any device handles the network the same, and the nexus isn't crippled in any way.
The only issue I have is while at work my thunderbolt was able to get a consistent 3mbs and the Nexus can't get a 4g signal at all. That being said, when I first got the thunderbolt I experienced the same thing, no to crappy lte signal. Then I rooted and rommed the thudnerbold, putting CM7 and god knows what radio on it and it was able to receive LTE data where it wasn't before, but at a slower pace for some reason. Even while at home, where it used to get 10-20mbs, it would now only get 3-5mbs, but I was happy with it because I could get consistent data while at work. Now I can't, and it sucks, can't even stream pandora. Not sure what I am going to do.