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Carrier T-Mobile 3G/4G LTE iPhone Speed tests
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Got some 4G LTE around Palo Alto, CA. Up to 25mbps, quite impressive. I don't get LTE that much, but when I do, it's lightning fast. No LTE in San Francisco yet, but I see more and more 4G spots all around the city (I used to struggle half the day to get 3G, now I get 4G pretty much everywhere).
Out in the west side of Phoenix I did a test on my cousin's iPhone 5 and got 30mbps down, and 8mbps up.
We were on I-10 where it seems like they have LTE for sure.
Thanks! Those are fast speeds, even if its is only 4G. My plan to switch is looking really good.
Portland, OR all over the downtown area. there were couple of dead spots (or EDGE speed spots). looks alright.
ATT iPhone 5.
ATT iPhone 5.
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I live out in Granada Hills! I would do a test for you but sadly I'm in Phoenix for at least another week. They have great 4g/LTE here though.
I'm on the $30 unlimited data/txt prepaid plan. The speed tests I took were from South Florida.(various locations in Pembroke Pines & Hollywood). Im using the ATT Iphone 5 (unlocked for $2). I get visual voicemail to my surprise. Goodbye ATT. lol.
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Minneapolis, MN (south, near the airport)
fastest non-LTE T-Mobile speeds i've seen so far in this thread i think?
what do i win?
actually i'm pretty jealous of my wife... i'm stuck with AT&T until later next summer. though i've seen as high as 56 Mbps on LTE with them.
fastest non-LTE T-Mobile speeds i've seen so far in this thread i think?
what do i win?
actually i'm pretty jealous of my wife... i'm stuck with AT&T until later next summer. though i've seen as high as 56 Mbps on LTE with them.
Minneapolis, MN (south, near the airport)
fastest non-LTE T-Mobile speeds i've seen so far in this thread i think?
what do i win?
actually i'm pretty jealous of my wife... i'm stuck with AT&T until later next summer. though i've seen as high as 56 Mbps on LTE with them.
I work in Bloomington across from the airport, I think the coverage is bumped up to account for the airport passengers usage. I've seen crazy speeds of around 50 DL on AT&T's LTE network regularly over in the cell phone lot.
The highest I've seen on tmobile 4G was 34 mps on a nexus 4Minneapolis, MN (south, near the airport)
fastest non-LTE T-Mobile speeds i've seen so far in this thread i think?
what do i win?
actually i'm pretty jealous of my wife... i'm stuck with AT&T until later next summer. though i've seen as high as 56 Mbps on LTE with them.
Sounds like you talked to a bunch of useless reps.
I get frustrated too when I know more than they do and I don't even work for their company.
Its pretty crappy how AT&T is doing this throttling while on a call.
Basically you get slowed down to unusable speeds. I don't see the logic behind.
And for those of you guys on Tmobile Im very happy with the speeds that Im seeing.
It might be something I will look into in the future. Glad competition is tightening up
I'm actually very surprised to see how widespread LTE is in west houston considering it just launched a few weeks ago. Very few times today have I seen the 4G symbol instead of at least 2 bars of LTE.
Confused
On Saturday I bought two TMo iPhone 5 handsets from a local TMo store. I've never seen any indicator at the top of the screen for me to infer whether I am on a GSM, UMTS or 'something else' type of network.
These are unlocked phones (I think, but I'm not a handset guy). Anyone got any idea? Also, I suppose unless I hard shut off wi-fi connectivity the sppedtest.net app might not be using cellular data.
On Saturday I bought two TMo iPhone 5 handsets from a local TMo store. I've never seen any indicator at the top of the screen for me to infer whether I am on a GSM, UMTS or 'something else' type of network.
These are unlocked phones (I think, but I'm not a handset guy). Anyone got any idea? Also, I suppose unless I hard shut off wi-fi connectivity the sppedtest.net app might not be using cellular data.
this one is based on the T-Mobile tower at Wenonah School actually... there is another T-Mobile tower at the airport far as i can tell.
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nice! the iPhone 5 doesn't have HSPA+ 42 Mbps enabled quite yet i don't think
You an me both. I noticed this trend not so long ago. Although I do get marginally better speeds.
The new iPhone 5 w/ AWS support does as long as you have the T-Mobile carrier update applied.
Is this inside a building or outdoors? In my concrete office, my verizon 4S gets the "o" signal and punishes me with less than 28.8kbps telephone modem speeds.