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Does anyone have or know of an att HSPA+ coverage Map? I tried searching google but I could not find one. Thanks.
joeshmoe08 said:
Does anyone have or know of an att HSPA+ coverage Map? I tried searching google but I could not find one. Thanks.
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http://www.wireless.att.com/coverag...7.34808092223004&lon=-93.01661302076396&sci=8
Diamond_dawg said:
http://www.wireless.att.com/coverag...7.34808092223004&lon=-93.01661302076396&sci=8
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That's not what he's looking for.
AT&T has the poorest network of the big four, so their coverage map is deliberately misleading.
If you've seen the Verizon ads with the AT&T 3G map, you see how bad it is.
Other carriers are rolling out 4G, and AT&T can't even get a decent 3G network up and running.
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so true att last one to update to 4g, they like to say how much coverage they have and fastest 3g network, yea if u can get on it u drop to edge in so many places its pathetic. I wish verizon had coverage here its about only place that doesnt have it, much better phone selection. I would switch back to droid x on the spot.
MikeyMike01 said:
That's not what he's looking for.
AT&T has the poorest network of the big four, so their coverage map is deliberately misleading.
If you've seen the Verizon ads with the AT&T 3G map, you see how bad it is.
Other carriers are rolling out 4G, and AT&T can't even get a decent 3G network up and running.
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Wow I can't believe they did that. That map is an out and out lie to anyone looking to compare 3g data coverage. Supposedly AT&T has already upped 80% of their network, presumable their pathetically small 3g network, to HSPA+ but are only making it available to datacard users.
I live in Chicago and don't have 3G much of the time.
If they can't get it working here then where can they?
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l7777 said:
Wow I can't believe they did that. That map is an out and out lie to anyone looking to compare 3g data coverage. Supposedly AT&T has already upped 80% of their network, presumable their pathetically small 3g network, to HSPA+ but are only making it available to datacard users.
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It's available to datacard users only because at&t doesn't have a phone that supports HSPA+.
fatttire said:
I live in Chicago and don't have 3G much of the time.
If they can't get it working here then where can they?
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Are you on the southside or something? I have 3g everywhere in ilinois, i do travel alot so i know. There is couple blind spots where there is no coverage at all but otherwise there is 3g everywhere even downtown. But i do have to agree that verizion is ****ting on att now but they think their service is so great that their customer service is horrible! My friend called once too complain about a dropped call and they told him that has never happened and to forget about it. For me sprint is the best carrier outthere atm they have amazing customer service, their phone selection is getting better and their service is awesome!
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mac208x said:
For me sprint is the best carrier
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When the HTC 7 Pro comes to sprint I might just swallow the ETF and switch to Sprint.
Also holding out hope that Telstra or a Canadian provider gets the HD7.
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fatttire said:
I live in Chicago and don't have 3G much of the time.
If they can't get it working here then where can they?
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I get issues in some parts of Manhattan, though pretty solid in most of San Francisco.
I live in Boston, MA and we have 3G coverage pretty much everywhere in New England. Good speeds too.
So I'm sorry that AT&T's network might suck elsewhere, but it's never been anything but excellent up here.
Shammyh said:
I live in Boston, MA and we have 3G coverage pretty much everywhere in New England. Good speeds too.
So I'm sorry that AT&T's network might suck elsewhere, but it's never been anything but excellent up here.
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lucky, in northern pa, i have to drive like 1-3 hours to get a 3g signal. AT&T is very miss-leading with their service coverage. '97% of all americans' doesn't mean '97% of all americans have 3G service wherever they go'
Probably more like 10-25% of US soil has 3g signal..
mac208x said:
Are you on the southside or something? I have 3g everywhere in ilinois, i do travel alot so i know. There is couple blind spots where there is no coverage at all but otherwise there is 3g everywhere even downtown. But i do have to agree that verizion is ****ting on att now but they think their service is so great that their customer service is horrible! My friend called once too complain about a dropped call and they told him that has never happened and to forget about it. For me sprint is the best carrier outthere atm they have amazing customer service, their phone selection is getting better and their service is awesome!
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Near the skyscrapers. I just get a lot of dropped calls, I guess from walking in front of buildings. Sucks when you hit an area that gives you a 50kbs crawl. Still outside.
Funny thing is the iPhone 3GS was worse at reception... I'm doing better with my Cappy
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I get 3g just about everywhere here in St.Louis..I've only dropped to lower on the complete northern end of the state and in parts of the Ozark National Forest..This phone totally blows Sprints out of the water as far as coverage and download speeds..
Mac
They may not have 3G everywhere, but they have it everywhere I frequent and it's way better having decent speeds. Verizon and Sprint don't even work at my house and they are spotty all around town. T-Mobile doesn't have coverage here at all like most the of US. AT&Ts network is huge and while they may not have 3G everywhere at least there is still some coverage which is more than I can say for Sprint and T-Mobile.
I don't think I've ever been without 3g coverage in San Diego. We're pretty well covered.
The best coverage maps are user verified maps... ie Sensorly Mapviewer maps. I wish everyone used that app.
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I live in Boston, MA and we have 3G coverage pretty much everywhere in New England. Good speeds too.
So I'm sorry that AT&T's network might suck elsewhere, but it's never been anything but excellent up here.
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Agreed. In Texarkana (east Texas) I have 100% 3G coverage, inside and outside.
I am in Philadelphia and have 3g 100% of the time. The problem is the it is so congested that data rarely works at all during the day where I work (Temple University campus).
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I always have 3g coverage here in southeast Louisiana. Verizon also has great coverage here, its sprint and tomible who don't. I can pretty much go anywheres and have 3g. Sprint and T-Mobile are lucky to get a signal period unless you live in the center or new Orleans or baton rouge.
My N5 is not great at picking up LTE service. My AT&T signal is weak at my house and I don't get LTE, although my Galaxy S2 used to connect that way. Not sure if the phone really doesn't see it or if it thinks it's too weak and HSPA would work better.
(Sending from a moving bus so please bear with me)
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rochrunner said:
My N5 is not great at picking up LTE service. My AT&T signal is weak at my house and I don't get LTE, although my Galaxy S2 used to connect that way. Not sure if the phone really doesn't see it or if it thinks it's too weak and HSPA would work better.
(Sending from a moving bus so please bear with me)
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I have the same issue on T-Mobile. My phone sucks about picking up and using LTE whereas my Nexus 4, a phone that required hacking to get LTE enabled, was a champ. My N4 would remain on LTE all day while in the city regardless of signal strength with no real observable detriment to my battery.
With the Nexus 5, I'm lucky to have it switch to LTE in high signal areas. My Nexus 5 will stay on LTE if I force it to connect using LTE Only (you lose voice with this setting) under the secret dialer menu (*#*#4636#*#*), but if I let the phone decide, it sticks with 3G/HSPA+.
I'm paying for LTE and I want to use it, damn it! LTE at half signal strength is still faster than HSPA+ at full strength for me on T-Mobile.
Actually as I travel along the Ohio Turnpike it is not doing too badly, picking up LTE as we pass near metro areas (Toledo, Cleveland). It is also working great tethering my tablet with Wi-Fi as well.
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I'm having the exact same issue here I'm in the Los Angeles area and I have experienced good speeds on LTE up to 23 down and 12 up but one thing I have noticed is my LTE drops a lot in to H. I'm coming from Verizon which always stayed on LTE locked in so I guess I was spoiled. I left verizon because I got sick of them hating on Nexus Phones but man right now I'm hating these LTE drops on AT&T. But I know for a fact that it's a phone problem because when the phones goes from LTE to H I can manually restore the LTE but I can't get it to stay locked. I called them and they're response was it's just the phone switching from tower to tower.
I just helped my son install the hybrid modem for his Nexus 4 and set up the T-mobile APN for it. I was about to tell him that he would have to go somewhere else to test it since I never get LTE at home, and then boom, the 4G icon shows up on his phone! I checked Network Signal Info and sure enough, it's got an LTE connection with about 6Mbps transfer rate. Sitting right next to him my N5 has only 3G with occasional switches up to HSPA and back, and a very low transfer rate. What gives? I am able to get LTE on the N5 in other areas of town and it works wonderfully, but around my home it is very weak and almost never runs in LTE mode.
Could it be that the N4 is connecting on a different LTE band? If so, why is the N5 not using that band as well? Is there something that can be done for the N5 to tweak it to improve its LTE reception or how it chooses how to connect to available LTE signals?
Both N4 and N5 have 1700 band so it should get perfect HSDPA.
It might be the towers in your area are busy or the signal is weak.
I use straight talk t-mobil and I get HSDPA around 15Mbps and my friend get a little more on LTE here in chicagoland.
Also for people on Straight talk if you want to get LTE att version you need to get a new simcard and change APN and for t-mobil
just get a new simcard and boom you get LTE.
Idk if I'd worry about it. In most places the HSDPA speeds for T-Mobile are the same or better than the LTE speeds you would get. I'm in the far north chicago suburbs and I get LTE and HSDPA downloads at 25mbps. The LTE coverage is still a bit spotty. Its probably only worth it if I you're in a developed urban area. However it is a bit strange that you guys have the same hardware, service and location but different connections. The only thing I can think of is that I've seen some people instruct to setup the apn as fast.tmobile.com. however mine only worked with fast.T-Mobile.com (with the dash). I would also check to confirm that your phone is set to lte preferred (LTE/gsm) and not gsm priority. Those are the only things I can think that I can think of. Hope it helps.
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gorilla p said:
Idk if I'd worry about it. In most places the HSDPA speeds for T-Mobile are the same or better than the LTE speeds you would get. I'm in the far north chicago suburbs and I get LTE and HSDPA downloads at 25mbps. The LTE coverage is still a bit spotty. Its probably only worth it if I you're in a developed urban area. However it is a bit strange that you guys have the same hardware, service and location but different connections. The only thing I can think of is that I've seen some people instruct to setup the apn as fast.tmobile.com. however mine only worked with fast.T-Mobile.com (with the dash). I would also check to confirm that your phone is set to lte preferred (LTE/gsm) and not gsm priority. Those are the only things I can think that I can think of. Hope it helps.
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T-Mobile 4G LTE will properly works on fast.t-mobile.com, fast.tmobile.com is not the proper APN (the - matters)
There are just way too many variables. Maybe his modem has better reception, newer sim card, etc.
RobinD42 said:
I just helped my son install the hybrid modem for his Nexus 4 and set up the T-mobile APN for it. I was about to tell him that he would have to go somewhere else to test it since I never get LTE at home, and then boom, the 4G icon shows up on his phone! I checked Network Signal Info and sure enough, it's got an LTE connection with about 6Mbps transfer rate. Sitting right next to him my N5 has only 3G with occasional switches up to HSPA and back, and a very low transfer rate. What gives? I am able to get LTE on the N5 in other areas of town and it works wonderfully, but around my home it is very weak and almost never runs in LTE mode.
Could it be that the N4 is connecting on a different LTE band? If so, why is the N5 not using that band as well? Is there something that can be done for the N5 to tweak it to improve its LTE reception or how it chooses how to connect to available LTE signals?
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Fwiw there are other threads where people have reported that the N4 picks up LTE in the same place that an N5 does not. So you are not alone. N4 may have a stronger radio. That would be unfortunate... Never good to see a step backwards on something as important as that.
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Good news everyone! I too has having this problem. My Nexus 4 was an LTE champ and then it was a huge let down that my Nexus 5 was treating LTE like it had cooties, but now my Nexus 5 works the way it should. What I did was go to my nearest T-Mobile store and told the representative what was happening. He called tech support and they ended up doing some sort of reset to my account. I also had questions about my SIM card and felt that it could have been at fault. He offered to switch it out to the new ISIS SIM and as soon as my phone booted up, it was on LTE. Since then, it has behaved like my Nexus 4. I am even in my office where the Nexus 5 wasn't picking up LTE, but my Nexus 4 was, and it is on LTE at the moment.
I am not sure if the reset that tech support did solved the problem or the new SIM, but I would definately give that a try--it didn't cost me anything and now I am happy with my Nexus 5. Good luck!
In my experience my N4 has slightly better signal pickup than my N5.
The real reason is probably differences in the radios' priority algorithms. Set your N5 to LTE-only and see what happens, I imagine you'll get LTE.
dijit4l said:
I am not sure if the reset that tech support did solved the problem or the new SIM, but I would definately give that a try--it didn't cost me anything and now I am happy with my Nexus 5. Good luck!
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Did you not get LTE at all, or really poor LTE signal/speed?
tcristy said:
Did you not get LTE at all, or really poor LTE signal/speed?
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I would get LTE eventually only to lose it when it reached 2 bars or lower. It was really weird. I would be in areas where one would get 5 bars of LTE and the phone would sit on HSPA until I would show the phone it was on LTE by switching to LTE Only under the secret dialer menu and then back to GSM/LTE (if you use LTE only, you will lose voice). Then it would hold LTE until it reached 1-2 bars and then go back to HSPA.
I hope this helps.
I am seeing strange readings of signal strength. I see a 10+ db difference between what is reported in the phone status and an app like rootmetrics.
I don't know which one is misrepresenting the signal strength but it seems the roometrics is more accurate because my nexus 4 the signal strength is roughly the same on lte.
Can anyone else confirm?
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I have a T-Mobile CelFi booster because the way my house is built, which seems to block out signals to various carriers. The booster worked pretty well for Nexus 4 and HTC One. However, now that I have Nexus 5, I am getting consistently low bars of signal. People on other end of calls often tell me they can't hear me. I am not entirely sure if the booster just doesn't work with Nexus 5. Based on my observation, it seems to be trying to hang onto signals from the tower for longer before it switches to the booster, though I cannot say for sure because honestly I am not sure if that's how it works or not. Anyone have similar experience or might have a suggestion on I can fix this?
booster
What booster do you have?
koei7 said:
I have a T-Mobile CelFi booster because the way my house is built, which seems to block out signals to various carriers. The booster worked pretty well for Nexus 4 and HTC One. However, now that I have Nexus 5, I am getting consistently low bars of signal. People on other end of calls often tell me they can't hear me. I am not entirely sure if the booster just doesn't work with Nexus 5. Based on my observation, it seems to be trying to hang onto signals from the tower for longer before it switches to the booster, though I cannot say for sure because honestly I am not sure if that's how it works or not. Anyone have similar experience or might have a suggestion on I can fix this?
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Theory:
Nexus 4 doesn't provide LTE, only HSPA+. Nexus 5 is LTE. LTE is preferred over HSPA+ when available. Your booster is likely an older unit that only supports HSPA+ and does not improve LTE. Therefore, your Nexus 5 is getting boosted HSPA+ but ignoring it in favor of a weak LTE signal.
Just a theory, though.
Pandages said:
Theory:
Nexus 4 doesn't provide LTE, only HSPA+. Nexus 5 is LTE. LTE is preferred over HSPA+ when available. Your booster is likely an older unit that only supports HSPA+ and does not improve LTE. Therefore, your Nexus 5 is getting boosted HSPA+ but ignoring it in favor of a weak LTE signal.
Just a theory, though.
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that sounds correct to me.
Pandages said:
Theory:
Nexus 4 doesn't provide LTE, only HSPA+. Nexus 5 is LTE. LTE is preferred over HSPA+ when available. Your booster is likely an older unit that only supports HSPA+ and does not improve LTE. Therefore, your Nexus 5 is getting boosted HSPA+ but ignoring it in favor of a weak LTE signal.
Just a theory, though.
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This is certainly plausible -- however, it's puzzling as the OP indicated that s/he's having voice call issues. The old boosters only supported AWS, but I know of no T-Mobile area that would have LTE and PCS HSPA, but no AWS HSPA.
I have an old booster, and last I checked, it appeared that my N5 was using it just fine (I have no real coverage issues, but I stuck the repeater in my basement to improve signal there). However, I don't have LTE coverage at my house, so I'm unsure if there are any LTE->HSPA handover vagaries that the booster could be exposing.
There is a newer booster that supports LTE and PCS HSPA. According to a thread of Howard Forums, T-Mobile has them, but getting one appears to be a challenge. You may want to take a run at upgrading the booster by calling CC or retentions.
CommSoft8086 said:
This is certainly plausible -- however, it's puzzling as the OP indicated that s/he's having voice call issues. The old boosters only supported AWS, but I know of no T-Mobile area that would have LTE and PCS HSPA, but no AWS HSPA.
I have an old booster, and last I checked, it appeared that my N5 was using it just fine (I have no real coverage issues, but I stuck the repeater in my basement to improve signal there). However, I don't have LTE coverage at my house, so I'm unsure if there are any LTE->HSPA handover vagaries that the booster could be exposing.
There is a newer booster that supports LTE and PCS HSPA. According to a thread of Howard Forums, T-Mobile has them, but getting one appears to be a challenge. You may want to take a run at upgrading the booster by calling CC or retentions.
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I got my booster less than a month ago, older version. There are times where I get a faint LTE signal at my house, but the booster usually pushes HSPA+ over the LTE. Maybe the OP needs to position the booster and receiver in different spots? I had to do this as well. To the OP, do you suffer from poor call quality outside of your house in your travels, or just in your house?
i know, most of us care about 3g and 4g reception, but my problem is the opposite one.
my Nexus 5 has no reception of 2g (GSM) cells. Already reflashed Stock 4.4.2 image. Still no reception.
Has anyone any other idea what to try before starting RMA?
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Bernie
Does your network provide 2g coverage? Mine doesn't. Just thought I'd mention it
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Yes it does. Here in the Mountains 2g is often a lifesaver.
Double checked with wifes N4, no Problem on 2g, just lousy download speeds...