Came 2 weeks early Shoddy service at my house but anywhere else it's a beautiful thing
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Well, after searching high and low, I just can't find anyone with recent T-Mo experience around San Diego and surrounding areas. Recently I got the chance to use a new G2 and I was overall impressed with the phone, other than the obvious weird hinge, but anyway, it was the first time I was able to use T-Mobile down here. I was less than impressed.
Downtown was one of the few places I saw HSPA coverage, along with the Mira Mesa area. Anywhere south of downtown and north of Mira Mesa and most places in between, including where I live east of Del Mar were EDGE with spotty HSPA. Speed tests averaged 600 Kbps across the board, with peaks of 1.8 Mbps if I was lucky.
TL;DR: So my question is, is spotty sub-par coverage and slow throughput average for the San Diego area on T-Mobile?
I played around my friend's G2 over the weekend around the college area. He didn't even have 3G reception let alone HSPA+ (I think T-Mobile announced HSPA+ launch in San Diego a month or so ago).
Well, this is my first post ever in the XDA forums, but I just thought some people might want to know this:
I have a Sprint epic 4g (galaxy s) and even though Sprint has promised 4G in South Florida by the end of the year, no date was actually given, as we all know. I go outside and push the 4g button every day hoping to get a connection, as in when they may be testing it as many NYC users have reported connectivity before "official launch". I live in Boynton Beach, FL which is in Palm Beach County, which is in-between West Palm Beach, and Ft. Lauderdale. According to Sprint, when they say the "Miami Metro" they define it as "Miami north to Port St. Lucie (which is 40 miles north of me, therfore I am well in the defined area). While I still did not get a signal outside my house today, I started a new job in Delray Beach today (which is the next town south in-between Boynton Beach and Boca Raton) and while at work, guess what!! a strong 4G signal!!!!! All throughout Delray Beach, I used Speed Test and the FCC test to test speeds and I was getting approx 7mb/sec download and 3mb/sec upload with a ping of around 121ms. After work I drove around to see if I can hold the signal (oh, and BTW many people have mentioned that they get 4G outside but as soon as they go inside a building or a car it goes away, that was NOT the case at all with me. Strong signal regardless of inside or outside) So, even though it has not been "officially launched" in the South Florida metro, it is obviously being prepared as promised, so even though Clearwire is pulling out of the Miami metro as declared on their own webpage due to funding issues, Sprint was telling the truth that it will not stop owners of 4g enabled phones (evo and epic) of getting the service that was promised. I am very, very happy. When I pushed that 4g button and it didn't say "4g disconnected" I was in shock! So any of you in the South Florida area, (West palm beach, Ft. Lauderdale, Miami) it really is here (sorta) and it should not be long! I was most amazed that it did not drain the battery in my epic any faster than 3g.
Long shot here?
Friend of mine flying back home to Dublin through Newark this morning. Is there any computer/gadget shop in Newark Airport that might have the XOOM for sale?
Don't know if this helps but here is a list of shops at Newark airport
http://www.ifly.com/newark-liberty-international/shops-stores
Tnx
Just the one shop, I doubt I'll get lucky.
as of late last night and speeds picking up today
I was getting LTE indicator on my Lumia 900 in Cuyahoga Falls and North Akron as well last night. However, heading more north today towards Cleveland and then west of Cleveland (Amherst area) just getting 4g signal.
Well, I recently (3 months ago) bought into Sprint, with 3 HTC One's. Where I live, or frankly, anywhere I go at all, my speeds never have topped 5 Mbps. That's when I get lucky. At home, I barely even get proper voice coverage in the afternoons. My average speeds vary between 30Kbps and 500Kbps. My LTE speeds rarely go above 2Mbps.
AT&T on the other hand is supposed to be much better. I know for a fact that AT&T gives me data speeds literally 10x faster than what Sprint gives me at home (actual speed test). That is, if you assume I'm getting anything at all.
Will SoftBank's acquisition of Sprint or the Network Vision upgrades they are doing improve coverage in my area? I'm supposed to get LTE in San Jose, CA, USA (South Bay) by "the end of 2013, at latest". I dunno if I can wait that long. I do get an occasional LTE signal, which means they're working on it, but it's oh so unstable.
What is Sprint's focus? Is it to spread wider to cover more people, or is it to improve upon what little they have right now?
A friend of mine recently had Verizon terminate his contract for free because he wasn't satisfied with the service. Will Sprint do something like this for me? Or should I force roam? I heard this will drop you from your contract and you won't be hit with any charges. Will there be an ETF or will the phones be permanently disabled? Will there be a grace period?
Wherever I look, there are many people saying Sprint sucks, but then there are a handful of people saying that Sprint's technology is far more advanced and it will all be worth it once LTE rollout is complete. I'll probably be holding onto the HTC One for the next 3 years, and I don't want to be stuck on what speeds I have for the price I'm paying. What should I do? I'm currently supposed to be in a "Good 3G/Wimax area", which is disappointing. Will Sprint try to cover me better?
As you can see from this Sensorly data, Sprint technically covers where I live pretty well. But in the 3 months (ish) I've had my phone, I've never gotten any speeds that could compare to Tmobile's HSPA+.
Sprint just sucks, unfortunately. You can be standing on top of their antennas and still have no reception.
Try cspire lol worst carrier ever.
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Even I would like this to happen
Even I'd like to know what's the tentative plan from Sprint to cover whole of San Jose. I've been a long time customer and am getting frustrated with the fact that the speeds from all other carriers is higher than what I get.