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Your 4G speed?

Hope everyone enjoyed there Christmas but check the gift metro gave me. I'm at families house & just convinced almost everybody it's not GhettroPOS anymore, some of my cousins i like to call the sprint clique said they might even switch from sprint, that was the whole reason I did a speedtest was to show them I dont get 3megs down anymore
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Anywhere between 1200kbps and 9000kbps at home down and 600kbps to 2000kbps up.

Thats on straight talk with no proxy on att

On proxy it maxes at 24000kbps

When im throttled off poxy max down is 120kbps and up is 20kbps off proxy

On proxy when throttled is 1-2kbps down and 0kbps up.

This is all on h+

This is in the nw florida area

Using the same speed test app pictured above.
 
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Ok, I guess this is as good a place for me to whine as anywhere. ;)

I mentioned in another thread coming back from getting activated last Sunday and I think Id-ing the Metro tower near here. As soon as I got to the tower the bars pegged but by the time I got the 3/4 of a mile to my place they were hovering between 1-2. Well, that's where they've stayed and my data speed is somewhat erratic varying between 2-4.5 Mps. No where near the righteous figures some are showing but quite a bit better than my Verizon 3G.

So tonight I happen to be at the Burger King on the exit North of the tower.
So now I'm about 1/3 the distance to the tower as my place. Bingo Bango. Up goes the bars to 3-4 and the first 3 speed tests were all right at the Best I've seen at my place.

:(

Somedays you're the windshield, somedays you're the bug.

Bruce in Ocala, FL
 
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It seems like Dallas is getting pretty good speed. I guess mainly because the corporate office is located here. But I know there are some places where I can only get 2 down and most places around 11 down .

Many factors affect speed, amount of spectrum(Bandwidth), where a tower is located, type of tower, tower equipment & amount of people on that tower.

All I can say is Dallas & i believe Las Vegas have the most spectrum of all markets so they should have the best speeds & so far through speed test they have shown to have the highest speeds. But if anything is wrong with 1 of those factors above, speeds will dramatically decrease.
 
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I have tested in south PB County Fl, and Volusia County Fl.

Up in Volusia - usually most places I can get about 4.5mb/3.5mb

Down in PB - was getting about .6mb/.4mb up to 2.5mb/2.5mb, depending on locale.

did an upgrade on PRL and I'm doing 8.5mb/6.5mb from my office, which was one of the best spots for 4G that I found in these parts. Changing the PRL definitely helped.
 
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