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I live at william cannon and beckett and usually get around 2 Mbps down and .75Mbps up. I work out towards dripping springs on 290 just past sawyer ranch rd and outside the office I only get a 3g signal. Inside I'm roaming on verizon. I was at a coworkers house this evening in circle c just off 45 around the golf course and I got no signal at all.
Okay, so I decided to root last night to see what would happen. I flashed Fresh EVO 0.5.3 and the rooting process sent me back to the 4.26 radio which I'll keep for a while because I haven't had much luck with the 5.31 with this EVO or the last. PRL reverted to 60662 and I'll keep it there until I have a better understanding of it.
I took screenshots on the way to work today and it seems more acceptable 4G speeds are back BUT as I feared, my 4G signal was in/out the whole time so I had to watch the notification bar before running speed test each time (and there were several failures along the way). So this isn't optimal either...I guess I'll soon try some of the few "4G fixes" out there but I never had much luck with those on my first EVO. Why can't I have my cake and eat it too?
290/Johnny Morriss:
290/Berkman:
290/35:
35/183:
183/Lamar:
183/Burnet:
183/Mopac:
183/360:
183/Braker:
183/Oak Knoll:
I took screenshots on the way to work today and it seems more acceptable 4G speeds are back BUT as I feared, my 4G signal was in/out the whole time so I had to watch the notification bar before running speed test each time (and there were several failures along the way). So this isn't optimal either...I guess I'll soon try some of the few "4G fixes" out there but I never had much luck with those on my first EVO. Why can't I have my cake and eat it too?
290/Johnny Morriss:
290/Berkman:
290/35:
35/183:
183/Lamar:
183/Burnet:
183/Mopac:
183/360:
183/Braker:
183/Oak Knoll:
Only libs with iPhones are allowed on campus. Sorry.
Here are some results from Mueller at 51st and I35 area. It was hard to find a perfect 4G signal but I got one a few times on my walk to Jamba Juice. I also included a 3G result as a comparison. The 3G upload speed was double the 4G upload speed. I noticed when 4G was on, if I had all 4 arc bars showing, my speeds were upto 1mb faster, as seen above.
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I will be on the feeder road just south of Far West and MoPac at noon today so I will try to remember to do a test.
paradox183
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Wrxdrunkie
Member
Basically 4g here in Austin sucks.
ummmm....if I find that info, I'll post it.
<edit> I just found hardware version 0003, firmware version 2.1update1, PRL 60667, software# 1.32.651.6
First picture is from the intersection of Far West and MoPac. Second one is about 1/4 mile south of Far West on the MoPac feeder road behind some buildings.
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WTF?!?!?!? Seriously???
I was at the Shell Gas Station at Parmer and Mcneil today to gas up my car and ran three speed tests and didn't break 2Mbps. I've never broken 4Mbps on 4G since launch with 2 different EVOs.
Are you 100% stock? Did you take the update this week? Tell me about your phone please...
I'm really not hung up on speed as I may seem. If I could just get 2Mbps consistently instead of constantly dropping in and out of 4G coverage I'd be a happy camper. My coworker has an iPhone 3GS and consistently gets 2.2-2.5Mbps over 3G...
samplerate
Newbie
First i would like to say that I LOVE my Evo, and it is by far the best 3G phone i have ever had!
But...
I have been playing with the 4G that is currently running here in Nashville, and have noticed some things.
1. the speed is all over the place, i have pulled everything from 6.5Mbps down 1Mb up to 530K down and 200K up. it is so variant that i have noticed that sling player (the desktop version via Android WiFi tether) runs better on 3G then it does on 4G. I can run a speed test and get a pretty reliable 4Mbps down, and then on 3g Get about 700K down, and even with that sling player will still run better (reports higher bit-rate) on 3G...
2. Building penetration... I know that WiMax runs at 2.5Ghz and there will be more degradation then 3G, but going into a building where i have full bars of 4G and then dropping down to no bars (but still have signal), when i only loose 2 bars of 3G is a bit ridiculous...
3. Range - I Know that Nashville is nowhere close to being fully deployed, but the towers seem to be highly directional. i can be literally standing below one and get one bar, i move 50 ft out and i get full signal, move about 500 ft more and be down to 2 bars.
My theory is that maybe they are ruining the towers at a lower power then normal until the city gets officially lit, but then again looking at the clear maps i begin to wonder if this is just the norm for WiMax...
Can anyone in a fully deployed city confirm or deny weather this is still the case?
But...
I have been playing with the 4G that is currently running here in Nashville, and have noticed some things.
1. the speed is all over the place, i have pulled everything from 6.5Mbps down 1Mb up to 530K down and 200K up. it is so variant that i have noticed that sling player (the desktop version via Android WiFi tether) runs better on 3G then it does on 4G. I can run a speed test and get a pretty reliable 4Mbps down, and then on 3g Get about 700K down, and even with that sling player will still run better (reports higher bit-rate) on 3G...
2. Building penetration... I know that WiMax runs at 2.5Ghz and there will be more degradation then 3G, but going into a building where i have full bars of 4G and then dropping down to no bars (but still have signal), when i only loose 2 bars of 3G is a bit ridiculous...
3. Range - I Know that Nashville is nowhere close to being fully deployed, but the towers seem to be highly directional. i can be literally standing below one and get one bar, i move 50 ft out and i get full signal, move about 500 ft more and be down to 2 bars.
My theory is that maybe they are ruining the towers at a lower power then normal until the city gets officially lit, but then again looking at the clear maps i begin to wonder if this is just the norm for WiMax...
Can anyone in a fully deployed city confirm or deny weather this is still the case?
You were either on wifi or speedtest effed up which happens.