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iPhone Carrier hack patch, get better service/bars from your carrier.
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Then why did you ask me for advice? Why did you say you didn't know how to check your dbm then all of a sudden claim to have known how (and post a link clearly indicating you'd just figured it out after I told you to google it), and that you claimed you knew what your dbm was before the hack.
You're not even using the default signal bars, as you've stated when you talked about having trouble installing the signal bar mod in previous threads on this forum. How do you even know the signal bars being shown are accurate when you're running modified signal bars?
This has become ridiculous. You've said you are running the hack, and you've said you're not even running the hack, which is it? You've said you don't know how to check dbm and were relying on bars and what others have said their dbm is, and now you double back on that comment. Sorry if it's difficult to get any credibility out of what you say.
If you want the hack run it, if you trust it, run it... but don't be a salesman for how it works if you don't understand how the technology functions, and at least make some effort to be consistent with your story.
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A scam? No. A speed test measures your connection to the server you're testing to. On my home internet connection I can run 5 tests and get many different answers. There are a dozen variables to a speed test. Heck, on my stock iPhone 6 I can run a speed test to the same server from the same spot, and get 2mbps, and then again and get 20mbps, then again and get 8mbps.
The only true way to measure true connection speed that you're getting to the device is to speed test to the local tower, which you can't do on AT&T's wireless network... I don't want to say any internet speed test is a scam, if run 20 times it'll give you a good range of what the network is capable of, but by no means is scientific in determining anything like what you're trying to do.
This hack must be doing something. I have never seen anything like this.
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When I run this hack I have a higher data speed average. I know that it's doing this by using more power for the radio, but I don't like the fact that's it's using more battery power to do it.
You're willfully ignoring people posting multiple tests before and after the hack.. and reporting consistent speed increases post hack.
Verizon just launched xLTE in the Los Angeles and San Francisco markets over the summer. Victorville went live 3 weeks ago. Not sure why this is surprising for you. Given it's NEW, and faster, I'd say your "never seen anything like this" is accurate since it was a network upgrade that just impacted your area in specific.
Carrier hack patch, get better service/bars from your carrier.
This is not in Victorville.
This is in Palmdale.
XLTE max speed is supposed to be 55 or 65 Mbps. Can't remember.
I'm just saying when I use the hack I get higher data speeds.
I run data speeds all the time, because I'm a nerd like that.
In Victorville I have never seen anything over 55mbps.
This is not in Victorville.
This is in Palmdale.
XLTE max speed is supposed to be 55 or 65 Mbps. Can't remember.
I'm just saying when I use the hack I get higher data speeds.
I run data speeds all the time, because I'm a nerd like that.
In Victorville I have never seen anything over 55mbps.
In other words you are claiming that all the carrier hacks does is to change how signal strength is displayed.
Then those claiming increase in upload/download are not actually experiencing it. It is just another trickery of the carrier hack/commcenter to display higher
speeds...
Think we're lying? Check my screenshots a few pages back. There's the proof.
This is not in Victorville.
This is in Palmdale.
XLTE max speed is supposed to be 55 or 65 Mbps. Can't remember.
Same thing, Victorville, Palmdale... Inland Empire, high desert, it's all just been added to the list.
So if you're saying XLTE's technological limit is 55 or 65 mph, how might you explain getting 77 mbps? Are you saying you think this hack has somehow enabled your phone to surpass the technological barriers of the technology?
This is becoming funny.
Have you noticed a huge batt drain? Im using a 6+ and I have not noticed any batt drain. Before I get called a 'liar', Im not saying there is NO batt drain, I'm saying its insignificant because I have not noticed it.
You don't even have a good connection to the network, no, that's not proof. Your own screen shots show a 60-90 ms ping time to the test server at 2 am. Sorry if that's not what I'd call a reliable test.
It's just a slight drain. Maybe enough for the some of us on older devices to maybe think twice.
I have no clue what the technology allows, I was simply pointing out that you said the technology capability is up to 65mbps and he posted a screen shot of 77mbps... so either you're wrong about the technology or the speed test isn't accurate.
The old verizon XLTE carrier hack made it possible to go beyond the 55mbps threshold.
It increased the ceiling to 65mbps.
Are you aware that the limit to LTE is much higher than 77mbps? It peaks close to 300mbps
I misspoke, I was talking about the original carrier bundles ceiling for XLTE.
55mbps was the old ceiling and the hack improved it to 65mbps.
I really don't know what this new hack has the ceiling at.
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This must explain why certain hacks can increase the top speed of the device.
Also the reason why I was able to get 77mbps.
Well maybe there's a carrier limitation at 55 mbps then. Like I said, I don't know, but you first said the technology has a ceiling, which isn't correct. I don't know what verizon does to throttle their network speed. I assure you they don't lower the quality of network signal to your phone in the carrier profile, that would make no sense. If they're going to throttle it's done at the access point, not the reception. Otherwise your calls would be inhibited as well.
He the carrier bundle determines the ceiling. Which is carrier controlled. You're right.
Yep, I was simply pointing out the credibility of what he was saying, claiming he was getting a higher limit than what the technology allowed for.
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No, the technology's limitation controls the ceiling, the carrier bundle just controls his throttled throughput.
Nope. Carriers have limited speed for a long time. Normally throttling is not handled by the carrier file, it's handled by the network. I have a hard time believing Verizon throttles on the phone, and not the network, given there have been carrier hacks for a long time, the technology is obviously there to do it at the network level.
My whole premise is that the carrier hack somehow gives the user more signal strength. I don't care about bars, I don't care about network test speed, my whole point is a carrier profile cannot create a stronger INCOMING signal. You can't take an FM radio 100 miles outside of a city and increase the quality of the signal without increasing the antennae size. Same thing here. You can't click a button and make AT&T's local tower transmit stronger. Not possible.
Do you have a link to the list?
I'd like to check out the new cities that were added.
Yea I don't think anyone is claiming the ipcc files make the towers transmit stronger.. I think the claim is that the configuration makes the device reception stronger (for lack of a better description) thereby enabling better throughput.
Those two things are one in the same. Your phone received what's int he air. It's not capable of adding anything in the air that isn't there.
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