Carrier T-Mobile 3G/4G LTE iPhone Speed tests

[Brother Esau]

Got mine today. No LTE here yet (Charlotte, NC) but 4G is everywhere and it will do for now.

Thanks for that! I am in Wilmington, NC and have my unlocked iPhone 5 on Straight Talk but am thinking of going with T-Mobile.

As luck would have it, I will be moving to Charlotte, NC in a couple of months so your test is very beneficial for me to see and encouraging

 

[Coleman2010]

I decided to give Tmobile a shot on the iphone5, here's what I'm getting near my house.
Wow....not very good! I heard people were seeing much better speeds in Bay Ridge, I wonder if my phone is a lemon?

I am in NYC. I have tested the iPhone 5 on T-Mobile in several neighborhoods and I receive much faster speeds. I've tested in Brooklyn Clinton Hill, Prospect Park, Crown Heights, Bed Stuy, Bushwich, downtown Brooklyn. In Manhattan in Union Square, Midtown and uptown in Harlem. I average between 4Mbps-15Mbps. I get the worst speeds in midtown. from 2Mbps-4Mbps.

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Switched out my phone ... Much better

Was your original iPhone an unlocked AT&T phone on T-Mobile or an official T-Mobile iPhone 5?

 

[Pinkstiletto66]

Good to know tmobile is good in those areas of Brooklyn. It seems like its better than Metro PCS in those areas. I just did a test and got 1 up and down. Goodness I might make the switch sooner.

 

[Truefan31]

Anyone in the Hampton roads area in Virginia?

 

[SONiC5]

Does indoor performance suck? Is 3G/4G still available? I'm considering making the switch from Sprint, but if I'd be getting EDGE/GPRS speeds indoors on T-Mobile, that'd sort of defeat the purpose of me switching from dial-up....I mean Sprint.

 

[coolio93]

Does indoor performance suck? Is 3G/4G still available? I'm considering making the switch from Sprint, but if I'd be getting EDGE/GPRS speeds indoors on T-Mobile, that'd sort of defeat the purpose of me switching from dial-up....I mean Sprint.

For me, this really varies. In some buildings, I get 3 bars of 4G (youtube works) where my sprint iphone only gave me an o (caveman days??). But other buildings I get either edge or no service. Both cases involve large commercial one story buildings so I don't know why there is variation.

 

[CEmajr]

Does indoor performance suck? Is 3G/4G still available? I'm considering making the switch from Sprint, but if I'd be getting EDGE/GPRS speeds indoors on T-Mobile, that'd sort of defeat the purpose of me switching from dial-up....I mean Sprint.

With buildings it's really going to vary. In my apartment with Verizon all I could ever get was 1 bar unless I went beside a window. People with Sprint could only get the O symbol. But Tmobile gets consistent 5 bars and 4G here.

But then on my college campus with Verizon I could usually get 1-2 bars inside the buildings sometimes while the other 3 carriers straight up get no service.

 

[Pinkstiletto66]

I am in NYC. I have tested the iPhone 5 on T-Mobile in several neighborhoods and I receive much faster speeds. I've tested in Brooklyn Clinton Hill, Prospect Park, Crown Heights, Bed Stuy, Bushwich, downtown Brooklyn. In Manhattan in Union Square, Midtown and uptown in Harlem. I average between 4Mbps-15Mbps. I get the worst speeds in midtown. from 2Mbps-4Mbps.

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Was your original iPhone an unlocked AT&T phone on T-Mobile or an official T-Mobile iPhone 5?

How is your reception and speed indoors? What areas have you tried indoors? Im in Midwood Park but bounce around to Crown Heights and Prospect Heights.

 

[Coleman2010]

How is your reception and speed indoors? What areas have you tried indoors? Im in Midwood Park but bounce around to Crown Heights and Prospect Heights.

Indoors in Brooklyn and Harlem it still picks up 4G. In midtown Manhattan, it drops from 4G to Edge indoors which is annoying.

Indoors in Brooklyn I get speed tests between 2Mbps-6Mbps. Below is a speed test in Bed Stuy Brooklyn.

 

[Traderalways]

I'm in midtown manhattan... Edge won't work for me....I will stick with Verizon and AT&T.... Paying more for a reason!

 

[RoastingPig]

natomas in sacrmaneto is horrible

 

[Coleman2010]

I'm in midtown manhattan... Edge won't work for me....I will stick with Verizon and AT&T.... Paying more for a reason!

I do not get Edge every where in Manhattan. Just my office building in Midtown. But my building has poor cell service in general. On AT&T I would constantly lose the signal.

 

[osofast240sx]

I'm in midtown manhattan... Edge won't work for me....I will stick with Verizon and AT&T.... Paying more for a reason!

My office is on 45 and park ave, I'm getting a average of 14mps.

 

[osofast240sx]

Even with one bar ( in a elevator) I'm still able to make a FaceTime call and surf he web. My co worker on Verzion only has 4 bars on 3G mps, his Internet is unusable.

 

[Chocolatemilty]

Can anyone post from Los Angeles/Riverside/San Bernardino area?

I'd love to know network performance in this area as well!

 

[Coleman2010]

My office is on 45 and park ave, I'm getting a average of 14mps.

Even with one bar ( in a elevator) I'm still able to make a FaceTime call and surf he web. My co worker on Verzion only has 4 bars on 3G mps, his Internet is unusable.

Thats great! I'm 2 blocks up and 2 Aves over and I can't get a signal in our elevator and drop to edge when on my floor. My office is in the middle of two buildings.

Are you using an unlocked iPhone 5 on T-Mobile or an official T-Mobile iPhone 5?

I wonder if my speed and reception is due to having an unlocked AT&T iPhone 5 on T-Mobile.

 

[Coleman2010]

Has anyone been able to connect to T-Mobile LTE in NYC?

According to Sensorly there is T-Mobile LTE at 60s & Central Park West and in Astoria Queens.

Thereis a video on youtube of someone connecting to LTE at Randalls island.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sQc52sBilH0

I went to 64th and Central Park West but my iPhone 5 did not pick up LTE. I ran a speed test and got very fast 4G.

 

[osofast240sx]

Thats great! I'm 2 blocks up and 2 Aves over and I can't get a signal in our elevator and drop to edge when on my floor. My office is in the middle of two buildings.

Are you using an unlocked iPhone 5 on T-Mobile or an official T-Mobile iPhone 5?

I wonder if my speed and reception is due to having an unlocked AT&T iPhone 5 on T-Mobile.

Yes I'm using a T-Mobile iPhone 5 now.

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Has anyone been able to connect to T-Mobile LTE in NYC?

According to Sensorly there is T-Mobile LTE at 60s & Central Park West and in Astoria Queens.

Thereis a video on youtube of someone connecting to LTE at Randalls island.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sQc52sBilH0

I went to 64th and Central Park West but my iPhone 5 did not pick up LTE. I ran a speed test and got very fast 4G.

We will most likely get LTEa in NYC, with all the trimmings.

 

[Pinkstiletto66]

So for the record all the Nyers on Tmobile are using Tmobile Iphones as opposed to unlocked iphones? Im still unclear on the meaning of AWS 1700 vs. 1900 and the significance. What I do know is that I would be trying the phone on Tmobiles network, however I recently heard of Gosmart network recently.

 

[osofast240sx]

So for the record all the Nyers on Tmobile are using Tmobile Iphones as opposed to unlocked iphones? Im still unclear on the meaning of AWS 1700 vs. 1900 and the significance. What I do know is that I would be trying the phone on Tmobiles network, however I recently heard of Gosmart network recently.

T-Mobile runs 3G/4G on AWS and PCS. On AWS it's 1700mhz(upload)/2100Mhz(download) on PCS it's 1900Mhz. Also T-Mobile is reframing its 3G/4G from AWS onto its PCS network to free up frequency for LTE. T-Mobile is currently reframing 3G/4G onto PCS and rolling out LTE onto AWS.

 

[Pinkstiletto66]

T-Mobile runs 3G/4G on AWS and PCS. On AWS it's 1700mhz(upload)/2100Mhz(download) on PCS it's 1900Mhz.

I do not know what AWS or PCS stands for (will google shortly) in a nutshell when I go to the apple store/order the phone, I want to know is if I'm using it on Tmobile would it better to get the Tmobile iphone or is there no difference?

Or does it really not matter when it comes to things that I keep hearing about like building penetration, etc. Like I plan on selling when the 6 comes out (not the 5s) and since it would be the same price (since I'm buying at the Apple store) does it matter which. Also in terms of resale would it be easier to sell an unlocked phone to say, someone who wanted to use it for ATT?

I saw a thread on here which confused me also. I saw that some people got some bad Tmobile iphone 5's meaning they were getting like edge. I also saw someone saying that I think they were still selling old batches of iphones, so I'm just trying to be clear.

I hate buyers remorse or defective phones (my current brand new phone is defective and I have to go take it in, reason I'm switching to the iphone soon.)

 

[Coleman2010]

So for the record all the Nyers on Tmobile are using Tmobile Iphones as opposed to unlocked iphones? Im still unclear on the meaning of AWS 1700 vs. 1900 and the significance. What I do know is that I would be trying the phone on Tmobiles network, however I recently heard of Gosmart network recently.

I am using an unlocked AT&T iPhone 5 on T-Mobile. I get decent speeds but slower than the native T-Mobile iPhone 5s. A sales rep told me LTE will resolve that issue.

 

[Pinkstiletto66]

So you have to wait until it rolls out whenever that is.

 

[CEmajr]

The major problem with not having the T-Mobile iPhone is going to be when you leave New York since there are very few areas outside of the cities that have been refarmed so you will be stuck with a lot of Edge. If you don't travel far very often though it won't be a big deal.

 

[Pinkstiletto66]

The major problem with not having the T-Mobile iPhone is going to be when you leave New York since there are very few areas outside of the cities that have been refarmed so you will be stuck with a lot of Edge. If you don't travel far very often though it won't be a big deal.

Oh okay. Much clearer to me now. With that said shouldn't the unlocked phones being made presently be equipped with the same internals as Tmobiles IPhone, because in a nutshell it seems getting the Tmobile iphone would be better. Question though, would it work in reverse, lets say I didnt like Tmobile and wanted to go to Att would my Tmobile Iphone work perfectly?