Hi,
I really don't like to rant about things but I just feel like I need to right now. It's more about 4G than the Evo. I live in NJ, right outside NYC. As most have read by now, 4G is live there unofficially so I get a bit of service in my home. I'm pretty sure the towers that hit my home have to be in NJ somewhere and I'm not picking up some miraculous signal across the Hudson. Onto the matter at hand, wimax isnt what expected at all.
I'm typing this as we speak from a 4G connection on my deck. I knew penetration of wimax via walls was bad but wow. From where I'm right now, I get about 2mbps down and 1 up. The funny part is that if I hold up my phone about a foot and a half over my head, it goes up to 6mbps with 1 up. I understand the upload cap so that isn't a big deal. If I do the legendary iPhone death grip, I can easily lose a 4G bar and 2mbps down. All these speeds vary from a single location. With a death grip, my upload goes to .5. If I go into my home, its a totally different ball game. I can get up to 8mbps down from bedroom A but if I move to bedroom B, I barely get a singnal at all. It blips on for about 3 secs before being lost. Mind you, the bedrooms are about 15 feet apart. If this is the limitation of WiMax, I hope Sprint makes that change to LTE sooner than later.
End rant.
I really don't like to rant about things but I just feel like I need to right now. It's more about 4G than the Evo. I live in NJ, right outside NYC. As most have read by now, 4G is live there unofficially so I get a bit of service in my home. I'm pretty sure the towers that hit my home have to be in NJ somewhere and I'm not picking up some miraculous signal across the Hudson. Onto the matter at hand, wimax isnt what expected at all.
I'm typing this as we speak from a 4G connection on my deck. I knew penetration of wimax via walls was bad but wow. From where I'm right now, I get about 2mbps down and 1 up. The funny part is that if I hold up my phone about a foot and a half over my head, it goes up to 6mbps with 1 up. I understand the upload cap so that isn't a big deal. If I do the legendary iPhone death grip, I can easily lose a 4G bar and 2mbps down. All these speeds vary from a single location. With a death grip, my upload goes to .5. If I go into my home, its a totally different ball game. I can get up to 8mbps down from bedroom A but if I move to bedroom B, I barely get a singnal at all. It blips on for about 3 secs before being lost. Mind you, the bedrooms are about 15 feet apart. If this is the limitation of WiMax, I hope Sprint makes that change to LTE sooner than later.
End rant.