S3 vs iPhone 5 LTE download speeds - Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III

Don't kill me. Why would my wife's iPhone 5 get much better scores on speedtest.net with the same server. I'm getting 5 where she is getting 23.
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Same server but same location?
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I would assume so. I'm holding both phones, choose the corpus Christi server, and hit begin test at the same time.
I'm assuming it's hardware, the antenna or something.
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Anyway to compare the actual reception numbers? Inside my house using the nearest server I get around 5000kbps download and my signal strength is -108dBm 32 asu, that's 2 bars on the display. At my friends apartment where I can practically spit on the cellular antenna I'm so close I get max bars and over 60,000kbps down I didn't take note of what my actually numbers were in regards to signal strength on that one.

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Wifi speed

Any way to get faster wifi speeds on the box than 14 megs? My PC gets 40-50 and my phone can't go any faster than. 14 usually.
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Try changing to 5GHz only
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I get all 30 of my 30 meg connection. I wonder if you're just getting a lot of interference from other networks or something.
More than likely it is a networking issue. Try changing to 5 MHz like previously mentioned. Also use some type of WiFi analyzer to see what channels are being used around you. Channels 1, 7, and 11 are prefered channels for 2.4 MHz. I couldn't tell you the channels for 5 MHz off of the top of my head. My wife has an iPhone4 and it can't use 5 MHz like my HOX. I can say when testing the 5 MHz I saw a big improvement.
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Perfect. Now we're working better. Thanks for the input guys. Didn't realize that my network was pushing out both the 2.4 and 5ghz ranges, and my phone was auto connecting to the 2.4
Much better...
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Just play with the wireless and see what works best for your household. If u have any questions feel free to ask. I'm no expert but have plenty of networking experiance.
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Skyrocket on straight talk .

Anyone getting slow speeds like 0.15 mbps on hspa i can't get connect to hspa+.
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Well, give some details... I just switched over to Straight talk and I have had no problem.
Did you just barely switch to straight talk?
What have you done to fix it?
Do you have the right settings?
Do you have the 4G icon up to?
Share some deets and maybe someone might have an answer for ya.
4G doesnt always mean 4G on the skyrocket. It can as easily actually mean 3G. But still should be better than .15. Thats 2G speed.
This is a question and should be posted in Q&A. On a side note please provide more information when asking something and keep in mind network speeds are specific by modem/region/provider(if it applies) so I doubt (based on on the little info) you will get a helpful answer.
Cheers
Well my max speed is o.15mbps in Seattle area i haven't reach anything higher than 0.15 and im also on sky ics 42f ucle2 modem . Now it connected to 3g than h symbol but still slow speeds. My iphone 4s gets 8 to 13 mbps on straight talk.
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lovell88 said:
Well, give some details... I just switched over to Straight talk and I have had no problem.
Did you just barely switch to straight talk?
What have you done to fix it?
Do you have the right settings?
Do you have the 4G icon up to?
Share some deets and maybe someone might have an answer for ya.
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Yes 4g icon is up and i used att.mvno as my apn same as i use on my 4s.
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try a different radio/modem
How much data are you going through? Straight talk is starting to throttle. Some people speculate that the speeds are slowing down to a lot of traffic also.
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My slowest speed.
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How much data are you going through? Straight talk is starting to throttle. Some people speculate that the speeds are slowing down to a lot of traffic also.
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that would explain it. especially when his 4s gets 8+ right beside it
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How much data are you going through? Straight talk is starting to throttle. Some people speculate that the speeds are slowing down to a lot of traffic also.
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237mb i just started a new month 2 weeks ago , i even tried flashing different modems its the same maybe its Seattle that has the problem .
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just switch sims withyour 4s. If your skyrocket gets good speeds with the other sim then your throttled.
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just switch sims withyour 4s. If your skyrocket gets good speeds with the other sim then your throttled.
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My 4s is getting 6mbps right now i use my girlfriends sim card same thing happen in skyrocket and she on straight talk too she just started two days ago.
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Also i got my sim from Nokia e71.
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I'm in California with a sim out of the nokia. I'm using Sky ICE 4.2e-17 with the ucalc4 modem, getting 5.0mbps down 1.0 up.
I probable do about 200m a day with no issues. So far this modem has had the best signal and speeds for my phone.
Try the modem from here.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=27673527&postcount=2
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I'm in California with a sim out of the nokia. I'm using Sky ICE 4.2e-17 with the ucalc4 modem, getting 5.0mbps down 1.0 up.
I probable do about 200m a day with no issues. So far this modem has had the best signal and speeds for my phone.
Try the modem from here.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=27673527&postcount=2
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Thanks i tried it but i get drop calls on it and signal drops from 3 bars to 1 and the same results .im using ucaulc4 and my signal is good but speed is no good yesterday i went as far as north Seattle same results .i only had straight talk for a month a half but before that i was on for 1 year straight with my iphone 4 .my speeds were not good with android i tried it before with my atrix 4g.
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Heres my set up.
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My speed been like this since day one fml i might be force to sell it my galaxy s3 is the same way oh well back to my 4s.
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Ok before you go off and sell it try a few things. First make sure your preferred network mode is set to GSM/HSPA and not Auto, i had some issues with data on auto.
next double check your APN Settings
they should look like this:
If you notice i do have PAP authentication turned on, it seems to help with me reciving MMS's in my area, and it only affects ICS roms, gingerbread i have to leave it off. My fiancee's captivate i had to turn it on to get the MMS to work as well.
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Ok before you go off and sell it try a few things. First make sure your preferred network mode is set to GSM/HSPA and not Auto, i had some issues with data on auto.
next double check your APN Settings
they should look like this:
If you notice i do have PAP authentication turned on, it seems to help with me reciving MMS's in my area, and it only affects ICS roms, gingerbread i have to leave it off. My fiancee's captivate i had to turn it on to get the MMS to work as well.
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I tried everything but i think my antenna for hspa+ is broken .
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Data drops decreased greatly.....not a fix but it helps

Go to Google play store and download the app called Network signal speed booster by mcstealth and run it.....I been running it for a day and noticed a increase in signal strength and a definite decrecase in 4g dropouts......not a complete fix but it definitely helped a lot...hope it's not just coincidence cause its only been a day of using the app but I thought I'd share anything that seems to help....
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There are many different ones. Which one did you get?
Network Signal Speed booster by mcstealth...sorry..I'll edit the op
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Another thing is if your are in a 3G only area, go into phone info app and select GSM/CDMA Auto PRL. Then switch back in a 4G area for 4G signal.
Speaking of CM10
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Data drops?
Never had such a thing on this phone...
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Bad WiFi speeds

On my Nexus 5, WiFi is fine downstairs near the router (BT Hub 3).
But upstairs in my room where I usually am, speeds are very very slow. Less than 1mbps. On my N4 & N10 speeds are fine in my room like the rest of the house, but my nexus 5 is getting bad speeds.
What is the issue? What can I do? I've tried changing WiFi to 2.4ghz only but no such luck.
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Bump. Anyone know?
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LTE issue

Just got my Nexus 5, coming from a Samsung Galaxy S 3. With the S3 I used to see LTE speeds around 25mbps, as high as 50Mbps when right next to a tower. Now with the Nexus I barely get over 1Mbps, what's the deal. Do I have to change something in the settings? My device says LTE and my signal strength is about 88-89 dbm.
Thanks for any help.
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Just got my Nexus 5, coming from a Samsung Galaxy S 3. With the S3 I used to see LTE speeds around 25mbps, as high as 50Mbps when right next to a tower. Now with the Nexus I barely get over 1Mbps, what's the deal. Do I have to change something in the settings? My device says LTE and my signal strength is about 88-89 dbm.
Thanks for any help.
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sounds like its an apn or on att side.
Yes I think i saw something about APN setting on Nexus a while ago. I'll see what I can find. Or if you have a link that would be cool!
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Its an APN make sure its correct and your account is provisioned properly to that device
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Followed the APN settings here. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1434995. It seems my APN settings are correct. I wonder if something is going on with the towers. I live in New Castle Delaware. I'll be going to Philadelphia later I'll check and see if I get the same results.
Problem solved! I didn't do anything special except put in a bunch of apn's that didn't do anything. Upon going back to original APN and doing a bunch of reboots and airplane mode it just started working. Speeds are very normal for my location.
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