not surprising, look at att's android phones they needed an update to boost speeds did you think googles first cdma AND wimax device was gunna be perfect?

 

Mine gets over 5mb usually.

 

Sounds like I start research (again) for my next new phone.

 

Um They are not all defective. I have readily gotten the same speeds I've always gotten with my evo.

 

I broke the speed barrier!!

 

Sprint stores overdrives are inactive......

 

Probably a driver issue. Sprint says they're looking into it.

 

at least you get 4g. Ive been all over seattle testing it and the only place it actually got a 4g signal was at the sprint store. I knew the $10 4g charge was a burn.

 

My friend has a 10Mbps connection, and my Nexus S hit 9Mbps on it.

 

While I agree that there are 4G issues (I max out at about 4mbit on my nexus S 4G and test the evo 4G right after and it hits ~11mbit) - the wifi works fine hitting ~10mbit.

Regardless of the slower 4G speeds, this phone loads most webpages faster than the EVO anyway. I hope sprint will fix it, but either way it's still a huge improvement over the EVO.

 

Lest we forget....

Sprint HTC EVO 4G software update fixes WiFi performance and Exchange issues | ZDNet


The Evo 4G was a disaster the first 3 months it was out, I owned one. 4G issues, same wifi and reception issues of the Nexus, screens falling off, light leak, grounding issues...then the fix Sprint put out as you can see from the link, bricked about half the phones that installed it. Then they had to release another new fix. The Nexus problems are nothing in comparison.

 

When you buy "version 1" of any technology product, you must expect some problems. That is why the call it being on the "bleeding edge." Just hope that the issues we are seeing can be fixed with software. If it can be fixed, I assume an update will be available. If it is hardware, that's another story.

 

The thing is, this isn't Version 1

 

Okay I can confirm that the wimax radio is definitely not defective (at least from a hardware perspective).

When tethered via pdanet I am able to get over 12mbit/sec over 4G on my laptop. That's MUCH MUCH MUCH faster than anything possible on the EVO tethered.

So while it seems like there is some sort of software bug in speedtest app, it DOES NOT reflect the actual speeds that are obtainable.

Bottom line - the nexus s 4g hauls!

I do agree that it is odd that speedtest.net app maxes out at 3.5-4mbit though.

 

I just got my Nexus 2 days ago. I upgraded from the EVO 4G. I'm getting about the same speeds in Rochester, NY. I've never topped 6mbps on either device but I've ranged between 1.6 and 5.4 mbps. In it's own right, that's kinda sad because vzw 3g will do about 1.5 mbps here.

I think there's a lot of variables in the cities where WiMax is rolled out.

 

After reading up on this thread, i decided to recreate the test here in seattle, and i got almost identical results. Unfortunately the Nexus S is by a wide margin, slower then the rest of the fleet. Nearly half the speed of all other devices, at the same location, on the same tower. Pretty upsetting...

 

There are mountains of variables in wireless communications, period! Some of the engineering on these networks is a flea's eyelash short of a miracle that it works at all.

 

That's the truth... interference from other phones, wifi, other networks, weather, terrain, 'death grips,' etc...

 

It would be nice if you provided details. Using speedtest app is irrelevant and does NOT provide accurate results.

 

I downloaded the same 10 mb file on each phone, on 4g on each. Each were on the same 4g Tower, and again...Same results. The Nexus was usually about 50-60% slower than the Evo/Evo shift. The Samsung Epic was only slightly slower than the Evo's.

Im not tryin to knock on the Nexus or anything, I ended up buying one myself anyways. Its just the truth about the situation.

 

I'm just Lucky I guess. My nexus works fine and gets speeds in all connections comparable to what my evo got.