Thanks for the info! I live in Northern Flushing and I'm anxiously waiting for the LTE speeds to pop up again! Hopefully they'll last a little longer!
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Carrier T-Mobile 3G/4G LTE iPhone Speed tests
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Thanks for the info! I live in Northern Flushing and I'm anxiously waiting for the LTE speeds to pop up again! Hopefully they'll last a little longer!
This is in south flushingThanks for the info! I live in Northern Flushing and I'm anxiously waiting for the LTE speeds to pop up again! Hopefully they'll last a little longer!
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I cant speak for Brooklyn near Williamsburg, but I can say that Downtown Brooklyn doesn't have it. No LTE, but there is spotty refarmed 4G. Brooklyn Heights is particularly bad with just Edge. (Dont have an AWS iPhone, so i'm sure people with that shouldn't have those issues)
The Verizon iPhone 5 wont pick up LTE, only refarmed 4G. You may want to check airportal.de for refarmed 4G coverage, since thats all you will get if you use the Verizon iPhone.
Anyone with Tmobile iphone get LTE in Brooklyn? Also has the carrier update made speeds better in NYC? I heard about the update but have not done so due to it looked seemed complicated.
Which part of Brooklyn are you talking about, I just discussed 2 neighborhoods from Brooklyn in my previous post.
The carrier update didn't really make a difference for me. Speeds have been the same, but they have been faster on refarmed (pre official T-Mobile iPhone announcement, must be the congestion after the announcement where everybody is picking up iPhones on T-Mobile).
You may want to apply the carrier update just to check it. You can always restore from a backup, which shouldn't install the carrier update (at least for me).
Its not complicated at all, all you do is go into Settings > General > About and it will ask you whether or not you want to install the carrier update. Plugging in to iTunes will also ask the same thing upon plug in.
Since you mentioned the T-Mobile iPhone (assuming the AWS one and assuming you have it), there shouldn't be any speed changes since, since thats the faster one anyway. There was a hack that supposedly just speeds up the refarmed 4G (and better chooses which band to use for the AWS iPhone).
Its not complicated at all, all you do is go into Settings > General > About and it will ask you whether or not you want to install the carrier update. Plugging in to iTunes will also ask the same thing upon plug in.
Since you mentioned the T-Mobile iPhone (assuming the AWS one and assuming you have it), there shouldn't be any speed changes since, since thats the faster one anyway. There was a hack that supposedly just speeds up the refarmed 4G (and better chooses which band to use for the AWS iPhone).
Oh okay. I have a Tmobile 5 and don't want to lose my jailbreak. So since you said it's no faster then I guess I'm good then at leaving it as is.
Even better if you are already jailbroken, There are articles with instructions that will allow you to enable the LTE option even if you don't have the carrier update, or you can install the hacked carrier update, but like you said its a bit complicated. Since you are a jailbreaker, I would think you would be technically inclined to attempt one of those options to check for LTE...
I had lost my jailbreak which is unfortunate...
I had lost my jailbreak which is unfortunate...
That's great! Hopefully the LTE speeds will work its way from South to North Flushing soon! Looking forward to it!
Has your iPhone been consistently maintaining a LTE data signal, since you've seen it on your phone?
Yes. You will lose hotspot with the carrier update unless you have Tetherme or MyWi installed.
