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DSLReports.com has a new article: AT&T HSPA+ Quietly Pops Up In Several Cities At Least According To A New, More Honest Coverage Map (LINK). Going to the AT&T map and zooming on Boston, shows I should have HSPA+ in the area I'm in, but I don't . Any one in Boston getting AT&T's approximately 6 Mbps speeds? If so, what radio are you using? I am using 12.39.60.19U_26.06.04.06_M with Android Revolution 4G 2.1.
6? That's funny. Granted I'm in Burlington-MA and not downtown proper, but I'm lucky to see 0.6 during the day. At 6:00am I can sometimes see 2mb, but it chokes down pretty quick when people start their workday.
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6? That's funny. Granted I'm in Burlington-MA and not downtown proper, but I'm lucky to see 0.6 during the day. At 6:00am I can sometimes see 2mb, but it chokes down pretty quick when people start their workday.
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I'm in the same area, speeds are a joke. Without WiFi, it would almost be a paper weight.
Up to 6 is all HSPA+ is supposed to give us? I've already seen over 5 in Atlanta where HSPA+ isn't even turned on yet. Usually I get around 3 though.
I've seen almost 5 here in STL and thats no HSPA+.... also i get about 2 up
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DSLReports.com has a new article: AT&T HSPA+ Quietly Pops Up In Several Cities At Least According To A New, More Honest Coverage Map (LINK). Going to the AT&T map and zooming on Boston, shows I should have HSPA+ in the area I'm in, but I don't . Any one in Boston getting AT&T's approximately 6 Mbps speeds? If so, what radio are you using? I am using 12.39.60.19U_26.06.04.06_M with Android Revolution 4G 2.1.
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hahah i got mine today and i've been around the boston/brighton/alston area all day. only got above 1 Mbps once and everything else was pretty low...
I work in Braintree and average over 3mbps down, but that's what my other phones generally saw between 2-3.
Northborough 3.3 down 1.3 up
In S. Boston I get: .4 Down and .15 up
At home in Salem: 2.5 Down .8 up
Extremely pathetic... if this doesn't change I will be getting the thunderbolt on VZW. Standing in Boston and not even getting Edge speeds... AT&T Sucks!
So I looked at the map and my office is supposedly in the "4g" area(Burlington, ma). I'm showing the "H+" and running the rooted stock ROM. 0.43 down and 0.65 up at 1:45pm. I know the phone is capable of more since I've seen up to 3mb down during off hours. The ~0.5 down is pretty typical during normal working hours though. I'm also thinking about jumping ship before my 30 days is up.
i feel bad for some of you guys, i dont understand it. (i do understand the upload speed is disabled on the stock ROM).
but on ATT, my nexus one gets 3Mbps down, 1.6Mbps up, for the last year straight. even during daytime and peak hours, those speeds are relatively consistent.
ping is consistently 180 ms. cant complain about that. but certainly that's not HSPA+ yet. leave it to ATT to be slow at expanding network...
In Salt Lake City, I average .6 down and .16 up. With my Samsung Captivate, I got faster speeds on 3G. I happen to also own a T-Mobile MyTouch 4G which has average speeds that are almost 2.5 times faster. I test both the Inspire and MyTouch several times daily.
What this tells me that the download speeds as well as the upload speeds are being artificially slowed down.
Also, HTC or AT&T also brilliantly decided to leave out the 2100 Mhz radio so no 3 or 4G in Europe and many other counties. This and the fact there is no front facing camera, make this phone much less desirable.
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For my local and ROM, the throttling isn't artificial but a lack of bandwidth. During off hours I get respectable speeds but the network becomes bogged down once everyone gets to work.
The lack of front facing camera I'm guessing was intentional. Their network is obviously greatly lacking in capacity in many areas. Giving people hardware to allow video calling isn't going to work well with that.
I am also in the Boston area. I got 2M up 2M down yesterday by leaning out my window at home (I only get 1 bar inside my house when I am lucky). I will say this though, I was talking to an ATT rep in a local store and he said that the towers had been updated but much of the backhaul was still in progress around Boston. He was talking about the Worburn towner specifically being a 4G tower but that the backhaul still meant he only got about .6M.
I have a problem with every ROM except TPC's in that I get crappy HSDPA and HSUPA speeds. In TPC's V2 I get 3 mbps down and 1.3 up with 85 dBm reception. In LeeDroid, AR, and CM7 with the same 85 dBm (doesn't matter which radio or how the build.prop is configed) I get 1 mbps down and .2 up. I do not understand and it is driving me up the wall. If I can get cellular data working properly on CM7 stable I will be as happy as a crackhead that got crushed by a giant crack rock.
my data is never consistent I blame that on att. There was three days straight I got nothing more then 56k down and 5k up. Then there are days I get anywhere from 5mb down to 1 mb down. I don't think it has anything to do with the rom or radio as much as it does with att's crappy network.
What usb transfer speeds are you guys getting? Am i supposed to get over 3.5MB/s?
It's not consistent on my phone. It'll start at 10, then hang for ages which reduces the average down to about 6
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I was playing around with https://market.android.com/details?id=nextapp.websharing.r1 last night, transferring stuff back and forth. There was times when the transfer rate hit like 20 megabits +. I was sending files that were hundreds of megabytes each. I don't know the specs off hand but that would be a good speed test, wireless/wired transfer rates. I remember something being 4xx in speed for the specs of something. It might have been the max speed for USB 2. I'm guessing that theoretically, USB should be faster, but I'm not 100% sure of that either.
I get 6 MB/s usually not that great i know
So I live about 40 minutes out of Washington DC and my LTE has never been all that great, I never saw the big deal. I get about 1 mBps down and it drains battery incredibly fast. HSPA+ is basically just as fast and used less battery. However, this weekend I took a trip to Atlanta and I ran a speed test and got 3.5 mBps down and the battery drained at a very nice rate. I was pleasantly surprised. So just want to hear if LTE is actually as advertised for y'all. I'm on AT&T, so not sure how it will differ for you those of you outside of the US.
Sounds like your local LTE strength is weak. That will indeed kill your battery.
Most places I go, I get decent signal strength and at least 10 Mbps. Battery life is fine unless I get stuck in a dead spot.
My home town (Jefferson City Missouri) just turned on LTE at the beginning of the month. I average about 10Mbps down and my fastest has been about 25Mbps down. Battery life is slightly less than HSPA+, but not much worse.
It depends on the location. LTE is suppose support more connections effectively. However, a tower could be down. If you are getting different speeds in different locations then it ma lay be the tower. Also, you said you live 40mins away. That plays a factor. I live 45mijs away from Nashville, but that is because the drive is on the interstate going 70, not like down the street.
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In Melbourne Australia Telstra LTE is great.
Get around 30 mbps inbound and 18-20 mbps outbound.
Signal strength is 4 - 5 bars and battery drain is pretty much the same as with HSDPA
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Sounds like your local LTE strength is weak. That will indeed kill your battery.
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Yup, def sounds like OP is in a fringe reception area. I often get over 20 Mbps on LTE, and sometimes over 30 Mbps (depending on work or home location), and battery life is very good (often get close to 48 hours with low usage). But the LTE coverage in my area seems very good.
LTE has also done wonders for the data connection at my house. I'm almost always on WiFi at home, but when I've had to fall back to cell network data, it was absolutely awful on HSPA+. On HSPA+, I was getting really slow data speed, 1 Mbps at best, and often a fraction of that, with frequent dropouts just trying to browse webpages. Now on LTE, its rock solid and the speed is excellent (not as good as at my work, but over 15 Mbps).
Everyone's experience is going to be different, depending on location. Some people actually get comparable or even higher speeds on HSPA+, and better battery life. But they are probably not in good reception areas.
Let's not forget building structures, population, and weather. There is a lotbof factors that play a part in reception. I did a speed test on HSDPA plus, and I got 6mb up and 3 down. I haven't done it on LTE yet. But the speed seems faster than my WiFi when I do travel to Nashville.
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Let's not forget building structures, population, and weather. There is a lotbof factors that play a part in reception. I did a speed test on HSDPA plus, and I got 6mb up and 3 down. I haven't done it on LTE yet. But the speed seems faster than my WiFi when I do travel to Nashville.
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If I'm not mistaken, HSPA doesn't go that fast. Sounds like you got your test in megabits not megabytes. There's eight megabits in a megabyte.
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If I'm not mistaken, HSPA doesn't go that fast. Sounds like you got your test in megabits not megabytes. There's eight megabits in a megabyte.
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I was on my phone, and did not feel like going for the "+" logo. As you can see it says "HSPA plus." Also, I have the app set up to show MB, not MiB.
I have LTE turned off and i've noticed i get atleast an hour extra of screen time due to this.
Still am able to stream pandora on my hourly commute.
AT&T LTE is on and off in my area. I think they're testing it.
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I was on my phone, and did not feel like going for the "+" logo. As you can see it says "HSPA plus." Also, I have the app set up to show MB, not MiB.
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Alright, I just thought the max HSPA+ could go was 42 Mbps which is just over 5 mBps
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So I live about 40 minutes out of Washington DC and my LTE has never been all that great, I never saw the big deal. I get about 1 mBps down and it drains battery incredibly fast. HSPA+ is basically just as fast and used less battery. However, this weekend I took a trip to Atlanta and I ran a speed test and got 3.5 mBps down and the battery drained at a very nice rate. I was pleasantly surprised. So just want to hear if LTE is actually as advertised for y'all. I'm on AT&T, so not sure how it will differ for you those of you outside of the US.
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I'm on att in Portland Oregon area. LTE everywhere and screams, connection is far quicker down and up on LTE vs my home broadband WiFi , even out does my laptop streaming Netflix...
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I just got lte where I live in Alabama and I'm getting 25 down and about 7 or 8 up
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I live in Arlington, VA 3 miles from DC and I'm getting 22 down, 10 up. My battery life is great on LiquidSmooth 4.2.2. You must be just a little outside the LTE coverage area.
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When I use ES File Explorer to move files from my (Windows) desktop to my tablet it just crawls. Never over 1MB/s. But when I do a test on speedtest.net I get my max internet speed (roughly 3MB/s).
So this a problem just with ES File Explorer? Do any other file managers show the speed when transerring files? Anyone get any reasonable speeds moving files within their home network?
What I have found with speedtest.net, you get about 1/10 of what they say. On my desktop it says I get about 28 MBps download, but in reality it is 2.8 MBps down. So if you are getting 3 MBps down, then more then likely you are getting about 300 KBps down.
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What I have found with speedtest.net, you get about 1/10 of what they say. On my desktop it says I get about 28 MBps download, but in reality it is 2.8 MBps down. So if you are getting 3 MBps down, then more then likely you are getting about 300 KBps down.
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The speed they report is in megabits per second, whereas the normal unit we use colloquially is megabytes per second. A byte consists of 8 bits, so counting overhead and checksum aspects (the sender/receiver verification of correct transfer) 1/10th sounds about right (the absolute maximum would be a perfect 1/8th -- 28 Mbps would be about 3.5 MBps (notice the unit difference: Mbps vs. MBps).
Back on the original question: keep in mind that your internet speed has nothing to do with direct file transfer over a WiFi network connection. If transferring via, say, Dropbox, then, yes, it matters. In that scenario a lot depends on numerous factors, amongst which the primary one is signal strength at the relevant location; added to that is the fact that the internal storage of the entire Transformer range is not exactly known for its speediness. (That would be the understatement of the year, maybe even this century. )
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Back on the original question: keep in mind that your internet speed has nothing to do with direct file transfer over a WiFi network connection. If transferring via, say, Dropbox, then, yes, it matters. In that scenario a lot depends on numerous factors, amongst which the primary one is signal strength at the relevant location; added to that is the fact that the internal storage of the entire Transformer range is not exactly known for its speediness. (That would be the understatement of the year, maybe even this century. )
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I was just testing the internet speed on speedtest.net to rules things out. Since my internet speed is 3MB/s there is no reason my LAN speed should be lower.
I can't imagine the write speed of the hard drive is lower than 1MB/s, can it?
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I was just testing the internet speed on speedtest.net to rules things out. Since my internet speed is 3MB/s there is no reason my LAN speed should be lower.
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Fully agreed! That part of my reply was "aimed" at Tylorw -- I'm sorry if that didn't come across the way I intended it. It's not meant to be rude or anything anyway.
Your LAN speed -- with a faster storage unit and presuming you have a good (modem/)router -- should easily get you about 30-35 MBps transfer from a traditional hard drive, and about 60-70 MBps from a well-made SSD. Those are the values I get from my NAS disks and my desktop, respectively -- your mileage may vary.
I can't imagine the write speed of the hard drive is lower than 1MB/s, can it?
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The I/O storage controller that ASUS (a Hynix unit) has chosen is very outdated, and exceptionally slow. Even given flash memory aboard the 700 (that should be faster than a platter hard drive) I've seen benchmarks floating around of 0.1 MBps (100 kilobytes per second...) -- yes, that slow. And to add insult to injury, the transfer even at that "speed" is not even continuous but intermittent, with hang-ups and resumes all over the place.
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Oh, and, errr... love the username! (Elmer Fudd reference? ).
I feel for you, man, I really do.
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The I/O storage controller that ASUS (a Hynix unit) has chosen is very outdated, and exceptionally slow. Even given flash memory aboard the 700 (that should be faster than a platter hard drive) I've seen benchmarks floating around of 0.1 MBps (100 kilobytes per second...) -- yes, that slow.
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Yes, but that's only the worst case - random 4 kB updates across a large file, which means the FTL needs to rewrite much bigger blocks in the flash memory. The first SSDs for PCs had similar issues.
For sequential transfers, you can expect up to 30 megabytes per second for reading, and about 17 megabytes per second for writing. So it's not *that* slow usually.
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Yes, but that's only the worst case - random 4 kB updates across a large file, which means the FTL needs to rewrite much bigger blocks in the flash memory. The first SSDs for PCs had similar issues.
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As usual, you are right -- I even held off adopting SSDs for that reason when they were in their infancy. I am so happy with my Crucial M4 now.
For sequential transfers, you can expect up to 30 megabytes per second for reading, and about 17 megabytes per second for writing. So it's not *that* slow usually.
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You know my stance towards benchmarking, but I do not believe I have ever reached those speeds -- especially the writes (the reads usually aren't that bad, so they might be A-OK on my 700...) -- my trusty little tablet does what I need from it, though,so I'm not complaining. :good:
PS: funny who you emphasized that "that", _that. Sorry, I'm cranking up here (@work) -- it's been a little over 3 hours and I've handled 17 outpatient cases (poison control center/Antigiftzentrum/Vergiftungsinformationszentrale, whatever you want to call it). It's going to be a loooooong day.
Luckily, I've come down here on my motorcycle, so at the end of the shift I can at least have some wind through my thinning scalp (hidden under a helmet, don't worry).
Galaxy S4 LAN download speed using AC router
I have a Galaxy S4 with the newest firmware from samsung I9505XXUGNF1 (Kitkat 4.4.2). My router is a Asus RT-AC66U to which My S4 connects to with max speed of 433 Mbps. My internet connection is 120 Mbps.
When I do a speedtest on the S4 I get results of over 110 Mbps, but when I'm downloading a file over LAN from the disk connected directly to the router I get download speed only of ~20Mbps (2.4 MB/s) which is very sucky!
My Laptop have only a N network card, and connects to the router with max 300 Mbps and when I download the same file I get over 7.5 MB/s!! (~65 Mbps).
Speedtest also shows results of over 110 Mbps...
I remember when the phone was new, and it had Android 4.3, I had LAN download speed of over 9-10 MB/s...
I tried with different file managers like X-Plore and others, but it looks like it is not the app problem. Maby is a KitKat problem??
I have a Galaxy Note 10.1 2014 Edition and using ES file explorer, I get only 6MB/s transfer from my windows PC share and around 8MB/s for network streaming over wireless AC connecting at 433Mbps. When I use the speedtest app to test my internet speed, the xposed network speed module will show 20.8MB/s when doing the speedtest which was at around 225Mbps download as stated in the speedtest app.
I think something has capped us from going over 10MB/s.
EDIT: I found a solution to the problem, just go to ES File Explorer Settings, Download Manager, and enable multi-thread copy and download.
Hope it helps