I'm going to do some speed tests with the AWS iPhone 5 on Friday. I've seen as high as 28mbps down on my old HTC One S. wondering if the iPhone 5 will achieve similar results.
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Exactly. Its essentially worthless and I kept telling the reps that its false advertising. They told me to take my phone to Apple. I told them at least 5 times that multiple iPhones on my account have these problems, all my friends with iPhones and Androids have these problems and there are millions on AT&Ts network with these issues. To them, I was just making random stuff up.
I will do the same. I'm returning my old iPhone 5 thursday night hopefully they will put the AWS models put before midnight.
TBH, I expected way better LTE speeds from T-mobile since LTE was just launched around here. I'll give them the benefit of the doubt and check a few more times to see if it was a one time glitch/ poor signal
In theory, T-mobile's LTE network can out perform VZW. However, I believe in several of the new LTE sites, they haven't upgraded the backhaul yet so people aren't seeing really high speeds.
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If you turn off LTE while not on a phone call what is the results from your speed tests? Just curious.
Speed tests are useless. For one, numbers will fluctuate from minute to minute because its based off load from whatever tower you are pinging off. My Android phones would always have far better speed test numbers but my iPhone 5 was just as fast web browsing and loading video online. Also, how many bars you have has nothing to do with your data speeds, thats call signal strength for voice.
Useless? They tell you what general speeds you can expect in a certain area. Yes, they fluctuate, but the speed tests are definitely useful.
I average roughly 6-8Mbps down and 1-3Mbps up on HSPA+ not on a call. When on a call it drops to below .5Mbps. I tried explaining this to AT&T and they couldn't grasp what I was saying. Basically telling me over and over again that I will not get LTE speeds while on a call. I told them multiple times I understand that, but I can't even get Edge speeds, let alone 3G or LTE!
But they refuse to admit it. They keep advertising that I can browse and talk at the same time, but I can't. Unless they count Yahoo mobile loading in 2 minutes browsing!