holy crap! 4g

[mrdrh99]

I have a moto bionic and live in little 'ol Martinsville, va. They are turning on 4g here, although not currently announced, and I just had speed test results of 21.58 down and 9.03 up! Is this unheard of? Or will it go down when more people start using 4g in the area?

Thanks

 

[smguy101]

It was hovering around that number up here when 4G first came out in Colorado Springs. Right now though since there are probably a lot more 4G phones out there it's been hovering at around 6-7 down and 5-6 up.

 

[johnlgalt]

Mine just got turned on earlier this wek - I saw it Sat morning and did a speed test 14.xx down *and* up.

Did one today and it was more like 16 and 9.

just did three now so we can get a decent average in - here they are:

 

[as439726]

Nice

 

[johnlgalt]

I like it better when my DL speed is lower than 20 - I'd rather have a 14 mbit upstream, since my Cable connection is limited to 5 lol

 

[wildkitten]

I have seen quite a few people put up speed tests over well over 20Mb/s. For me, I haven't see anything above 13 or 14Mb/s. How does bandwidth on a cell phone work exactly? Is there a set bandwidth to each phone, or is it a total bandwidth per tower and every phone on that tower shares that bandwidth?

 

[johnlgalt]

Here is a good answer for general terms:

How exactly does cell phone/tower bandwidth work? - AnandTech Forums

More about LTE specifics: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3GPP_Long_Term_Evolution

 

[BigCiX]

I'm lucky to get 3 mbps on my hspa+ with at&t.

 

[johnlgalt]

I was lucky to get over 1.2 Mbps on my 3G, so I feel your pain....

 

[Satires]

I'm lucky to get 3 mbps on my hspa+ with at&t.

I agree with att sucks! I had my dsl shut off and just run my webtop now. Funny, I was in the att store paying my bill for my home internet service and the rep asked me whom I with. I told him I am with Verizon.

He smuggly says "Oh, you should come to att". I just laughed and told him I used to be a smartphone customer with att and Verizon smokes their network, plus I'm grandfathered in with unlimited. I have no reason to switch.

I think it's terrible what they did to their grandfathered customers...

That's part of the reason I ditched their dsl! Sort of like a boycott of my own.

 

[as439726]

At&t and MS are in the same class as far as I'm concerned. Yuck

 

[johnlgalt]

I do have to add, though, that I'm now experiencing the same issues as everyone else who routinely travels to/from 4G to 3G....

 

[breadnatty08]

When I got my Bionic on launch day I was seeing amazing numbers like you are now. 6 months later things have slowed down quite a bit since the area is more saturated with 4G users. It's all a matter of time.

 

[yewslus]

Hackensack, NJ and I'm getting 10 down and 9 up. Did I mention I'm in the middle of a brick office building, 40' from the nearest window?

Can anyone tell me how much data is used during a speedtest?

<ahem> JohnGalt?

 

[PowerBomb]

I live in a major city and I just got 24 down 11 up.

 

[johnlgalt]

Hackensack, NJ and I'm getting 10 down and 9 up. Did I mention I'm in the middle of a brick office building, 40' from the nearest window?

Can anyone tell me how much data is used during a speedtest?

JohnGalt?

Not sure exactly, but guessing at the time it takes, plus how much data had been used by speed test thus far, I think around 10 - 15 per test.

 

[johnlgalt]

I just checked. Before running a test the data usage was 123 MB. After it was 143 MB. So, looks like it is 20 MB per test.