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T-Mobile LTE Speeds

iPhonemaster5S

iPhonemaster5S

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Oct 10, 2011
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Colorado
Here is mine
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This was in boulder and was really good. Curious to see what other people are getting, 4G isn't to bad either I'm usually getting around this

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I'm not on T-Mobile, but it's going to depend on your location. I had 4-6Mb/s when I was on LTE in the more populated parts of South Dakota, Nebraska and Iowa, but when I got back home and went through Salem, OR I got a 62Mb/s download.
 
T5BRICK said:
I'm not on T-Mobile, but it's going to depend on your location. I had 4-6Mb/s when I was on LTE in the more populated parts of South Dakota, Nebraska and Iowa, but when I got back home and went through Salem, OR I got a 62Mb/s download.
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Well if your not on T-Mobile how is this relevant? What carrier were you using though AT&T? Obviously yes your location and how many people are on the network matter a lot I know this, I was just curious to see what other people have been getting. T-mobile announced that the average LTE speeds were between 10-20 Mbps and was just interested to see if people were getting faster or slower than the average.
 
I've ordered a T-Mobile sim for my Mini. I'm tired of AT&T. On AT&T here, it shows I have 4 bars. I switch of wifi and those bars turn to no service. Sometime the bars come back to give me edge.

I get super fast speeds on T-Mobile and they announced that they turned on LTE here a few weeks ago. I should have my sim on Tuesday so I'll post back when I get it.
 
JackieInCo said:
I've ordered a T-Mobile sim for my Mini. I'm tired of AT&T. On AT&T here, it shows I have 4 bars. I switch of wifi and those bars turn to no service. Sometime the bars come back to give me edge.

I get super fast speeds on T-Mobile and they announced that they turned on LTE here a few weeks ago. I should have my sim on Tuesday so I'll post back when I get it.
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Just a good idea when I fist got my T-mobile sim and put it in the reception sucked and I couldn't get any service in my house and I was seriously thinking I was ************ but the next day signal was perfect so I think it just needs time to get working properly.

I must say though their LTE is not bad at all really and the 4G backup is pretty good being what it is. I do however miss AT&T's almost nationwide LTE coverage but considering I'm no longer throttled and have LTE most if the time where I am it's a pretty good value.

tbayrgs said:
Doesn't the icon in the top right corner of your first test indicate that you were on wifi?
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It's LTE though not sure why that shows like that but when you looks at the carrier it shows T-Mobile so it was a LTE test.
 
iPhonemaster5S said:
Just a good idea when I fist got my T-mobile sim and put it in the reception sucked and I couldn't get any service in my house and I was seriously thinking I was ************ but the next day signal was perfect so I think it just needs time to get working properly.

I must say though their LTE is not bad at all really and the 4G backup is pretty good being what it is. I do however miss AT&T's almost nationwide LTE coverage but considering I'm no longer throttled and have LTE most if the time where I am it's a pretty good value.



It's LTE though not sure why that shows like that but when you looks at the carrier it shows T-Mobile so it was a LTE test.
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Thanks for the advice. I know this is the alternatives forum but I don't have any Android devices that are LTE capable on T-Mobile. The only device I have that will work is my iPad Mini so I figured it would be ok to post about here.
 
JackieInCo said:
Thanks for the advice. I know this is the alternatives forum but I don't have any Android devices that are LTE capable on T-Mobile. The only device I have that will work is my iPad Mini so I figured it would be ok to post about here.
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Oh yeah I think its fine if you post here what they really need to do is make a carrier sub forum, I have an android which is the only reason why I put it here.
 
So I got my Nano sim Tuesday and called T-Mobile to activate the sim for use on my iPad Mini. Before it was even activated, LTE displayed full strength on my iPad.

I am pretty pleased with the results. At my house, I get LTE on T-Mobile where I can't get LTE on AT&T.

Since there is no carrier file support yet for the iPad, tethering is enabled.

I did get one result where I got about 11Mbps down and 10Mbps up. Denver Post in their tests said they averaged about 20Mbps down.
 

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JackieInCo said:
So I got my Nano sim Tuesday and called T-Mobile to activate the sim for use on my iPad Mini. Before it was even activated, LTE displayed full strength on my iPad.

I am pretty pleased with the results. At my house, I get LTE on T-Mobile where I can't get LTE on AT&T.

Since there is no carrier file support yet for the iPad, tethering is enabled.

I did get one result where I got about 11Mbps down and 10Mbps up. Denver Post in their tests said they averaged about 20Mbps down.
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That's good, my LTE test are usually in the mid 20's so you seem to be getting on par. I am surprised though that AT&T didn't have LTE at your house but tmobile does, normally its the opposite.
 
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