SpeedTest

That's about what my wife gets on her Amazon Fire phone with MetroPCS in the Dallas area. What phone are you using and where?

Yep that's pretty decent. Speeds will vary depending on signal strength, network congestion, and the actual bandwidth capacity of the local tower/network you're connected to. Looks like you had only 2 bars of signal so that's a good speed, if you had full bars it would be faster.
I typically get about twice that on my local tower here.

As Fox mentioned, you'll see better numbers when you have a more solid connection. Also keep in mind both cellular and WiFi connectivity typically vary even under optimal conditions. Best to use a computer using an actual physical Ethernet cable connection to your router or modem to get more consistent numbers on your home network's broadband speed. Of course in a 'real world' sense if you're only trying to find out your phone's connectivity than skip the computer and keep using your phone. Don't forget that you need to try running tests from different places in your home, the closer your are to your wireless router, the stronger the signal.

Oh, and it's becoming more and more an issue but our 'beloved' telecom carriers are deceptively altering speed test numbers for not only their own affiliated speed test utilities but when they detect independent, third-party web sites to make their numbers appear to be more favorable. (Not unlike the situation where Volkswagen tweaked diesel emission numbers during emission tests.) So it's usually best to use multiple sources to check your ISP's connection numbers. I've been using these two web sites lately:
speedof.me
speedtest.dslreports.com
They both use HTML5 as opposed some of the other speed test sites that still rely on Flash.
Also, this 'Open Signal' app will let you test both your phone's cellular and WiFi connectivity speeds individually, with the optional capability to share your results with a crowd-sourced database:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.staircase3.opensignal&hl=en

Anyway, that 25 Mbps is pretty decent. As I'm a Netflix addict my brain just automatically slips into '...will I be able to watch my movies...' mode when it comes to connectivity numbers. A standard definition video will stream fine over over a 3 Mbps DSL connection. Of course a lot of people prefer to live in a 'high def' world so if your household has some teenagers, a spouse, and yourself in it all sharing the same network, then even that 25Mbps might be barely adequate.

LG G Stylo faster than when I had T Mobile!

Different part of town

I did a side by side speed test with my MetroPCS activated Nexus 5X and my work provided Verizon iPhone 5S. I really like the speed on MetroPCS (this, by the way, is the fastest I've gotten yet. They are normally around 30meg for download speeds).

Got this today.

U guys got to understand if u have a cat 6 phone and the towers aren't crowded than u can achieve the same speeds as a T-Mobile customer.

My sister has T-Mobile and we get identical speeds at all times. Not an identical bill though [emoji235][emoji145]

NYC

greenghost2212 said:

U guys got to understand if u have a cat 6 phone and the towers aren't crowded than u can achieve the same speeds as a T-Mobile customer.

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+1 I have a dual sim phone one loaded with MetroPCS and other tray loaded with T-Mobile, the difference is negligible, even on a semi busy tower. Ive ran tests back to back between the carriers and there might be 1-2Mb/s difference and 2-5ms ping, nothing you can discern while just web browsing.

Another interesting note id like to add is, does anyone notice T-mobile/MetroPCS being bogged down ever since the inception of the T-Mobile ONE plan? I been noticing the data speeds have been slowed quite a bit on both carriers in the past couple months, and i travel the same roads everyday, i find my cricket phone which only caps out at 8Mb/s has no trouble streaming Napster Radio but my T-Mobile/Metro service constantly buffers, times out and cuts out during traffic hours, same goes with iHeart Radio and also using data lightly like looking for directions on Google maps. Its really annoying, it never used to do that until they launched the unlimited plan.

Happy new years everyone! Couldn't find the old speedtest thread so posting here, just took this in East Orlando with a tmob note 5 with a byod Sim card

That's quite good. The network here in NYC may be capable of those speeds but I'd probably have to get a newer phone to see them.
That said I don't have any complaints about the speeds I do get, higher numbers would just be for bragging rights and not much else.

Fox Mulder said:

That's quite good. The network here in NYC may be capable of those speeds but I'd probably have to get a newer phone to see them.
That said I don't have any complaints about the speeds I do get, higher numbers would just be for bragging rights and not much else.

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That's pretty much it, on the nail head there. Speed is nice, but it's really hard (for me, at any rate) to tell the difference between 25 Meg and 80 Meg, in everyday usage. I'm just glad Metro doesn't cap the speeds like Cricket does; they cap the LTE at around 8 Meg down. That isn't a bad speed, and you can get all you need to done, but they cap the speed.