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Highest 4G LTE Speed

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Please excuse the re-opening of this old thread but it's pertinent to my question.

When I first got my S3 last year I could get download speeds of 20-30 Mbps. lately I've been lucky to get 5. I understand the network has started to get filled up. I'm just wondering if others are still getting good speeds or not.

The verizon rep says they advertise dl speeds of 2-5 Mbps so I guess I can't complain. It just makes me wonder if we are going to be back to where we were with 3g.

What do they plan to do when they move to using VOIP?

I'm in the metro Washington (DC) area.
 
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I just did a test in my office with my DNA and I got 5.84 download and 0.43 upload. I'm in a poor reception metal building where I get 1-2 bars inside. At home my most recent LTE result was 11.69 download with 8.80 upload on 4-5 bars reception. My home internet from Charter on wifi gave me 17.01 download and 4.90 upload for reference. My old 3G Inc would max out around 1
 
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