Verizon LTE... is this for real?

[pragmatous]

I don't get that. When I do get 4g at work I get at most 5Mb/s download and 500 kb/s upload.

I sometimes get 4g at home and I get like 500kb/s down and 400kb/s up. Pretty sad 4g IMO.

Hopefully verizon can pump up the 4g in my area of W-NY.

I was walking to my car from my friend's apartment and
noticed that I had 4 bars of 4G service for the 1st time since I've had my GNex (had it since yesterday... was using DInc previously). I ran a speed test and was completely floored by the results. This is easily twice any of my previous test. Needless to say, this is ridiculous!

 

[paleodust]

I wonder if the new radio in 4.0.3 will help me get more than 4 Mbps.

 

[CAMAN]

I'm in a suburb of Minneapolis and haven't gotten higher than 7.5 download speeds but are usually closer to 5 and my upload speeds are all over the board, from .8 to 5.5.

Kinda jealous of you guys in the 20+ areas.

 

[Dex]

LTE in my area is actually faster than the cable speeds you get on the "standard" connection. It is pretty sick. This phone is more capable at handling it than the Thunderbolt, too. The combination of new OS and newish hardware make this phone a serious thing of beauty.

 

[VTjlee]

Like all current 4G device users, the speed the battery drains using 4G much should stun you even more

4G and battery drain are an equal opportunity bummer for all current 4G devices.

For data capped folks, the speed the 2gb or even 4gb is gone should be a double $tunner.

So far the battery life is at equal to, if not slightly better than my DInc even if I keep it on 4G the whole time.

And thankfully I got grandfathered in so I have unlimited data

 

[milan03]

 

[cmorie]

I'm in O-H-I-O too.... specifically the Columbus area. I'm seriously considering a Nexus but am holding off with the reception issues I'm hearing about. Where in Ohio are you located???

anyone else here in the Central Ohio vicinity with signal quality issues??

My highest has been 26 down and 11 up. No dropped calls yet. I just got the phone yesterday.

I'm in the Columbus area around Polaris

 

[pragmatous]

Verizon needs to cap that and spread the wealth to the rest of us getting lousy 4g signal just saying spread the goodness.

 

[nunyabizness]

I'm in O-H-I-O too.... specifically the Columbus area. I'm seriously considering a Nexus but am holding off with the reception issues I'm hearing about. Where in Ohio are you located???

anyone else here in the Central Ohio vicinity with signal quality issues??

I'm in Lewis Center, about 10 mins north of Polaris.

 

[CAMAN]

My home tower I average about 5 mb download speeds with 2 bars. I'm about 5 miles away at my uncles place right now for xmas and have 28mb download speeds with 3 bars. Its an incredible difference. I'm confused why its such a drastic difference? Both with 4G.

 

[milan03]

My home tower I average about 5 mb download speeds with 2 bars. I'm about 5 miles away at my uncles place right now for xmas and have 28mb download speeds with 3 bars. Its an incredible difference. I'm confused why its such a drastic difference? Both with 4G.

Tower capacity. Verizon has the ability to remotely dial down the backhaul if the amount of users and the usage is low. Towers usually have 3 sectors each capable of 73.6mbps and in some busy areas they load 6 sectors on each tower. That's over 400mbps of backhaul from each tower.
In more rural or less dense areas they dial down sectors to 30mbps or less.

 

[budmonster]

When you pick a server location on SpeedTest.net, you always pick the location closest to you, right? There is a server in Pittsburgh and I happen to live in Pittsburgh. I went on VZW.com and entered in my street address for the 4G map and it says I live in "great" area, the red.

On my DX2 I got 3-4 steady bars for 3G. On my GNEX in 3G I get 2 bars and 2 in 4G, I don't understand that part at all?

My 3G speeds: 0.82mbps D/L & 0.43 U/L (Pittsburgh server)
MY 4G speeds:

I also tried this, another user posted:

He also said if we think our signal is not good enough... go do the Airplane Mode to unhook the phone from the Verizon network, wait a few seconds, and then put it back into the normal mode so that the phone can reconnect itself to the V net (all this without rebooting that can take many minutes.

 

[milan03]

When you pick a server location on SpeedTest.net, you always pick the location closest to you, right? There is a server in Pittsburgh and I happen to live in Pittsburgh. I went on VZW.com and entered in my street address for the 4G map and it says I live in "great" area, the red.

On my DX2 I got 3-4 steady bars for 3G. On my GNEX in 3G I get 2 bars and 2 in 4G, I don't understand that part at all?

My 3G speeds: 0.82mbps D/L & 0.43 U/L (Pittsburgh server)
MY 4G speeds:

the answer is one post above yours.

 

[syntrix]

Tower capacity. Verizon has the ability to remotely dial down the backhaul if the amount of users and the usage is low. Towers usually have 3 sectors each capable of 73.6mbps and in some busy areas they load 6 sectors on each tower. That's over 400mbps of backhaul to each tower.
In more rural or less dense areas they dial down sectors to 30mbps or less.

That's the radio technology, not the backhaul... or the ip based network after the radio that connects you to the internet.

Typically this is a fiber connection, and can be various speeds based on capacity. The market engineers responsible for each network will "buy more bandwidth" as needed, based on capacity.

 

[milan03]

That's the radio technology, not the backhaul... or the ip based network after the radio that connects you to the internet.

Typically this is a fiber connection, and can be various speeds based on capacity. The market engineers responsible for each network will "buy more bandwidth" as needed, based on capacity.

Sorry man, but buying more bandwidth is the single most important component of the backhaul, not necessarily the radio technology. Not sure which part of my post you didn't understand since you technically repeated everything I already said...

 

[syntrix]

Sorry man, but buying more bandwidth is the single most important component of the backhaul, not necessarily the radio technology. Not sure which part of my post you didn't understand since you technically repeated everything I already said...

The part where you combined the radio technology with the backhaul and tried to present as one.

Did you really go there? Look at my location, then think about who's providing fiber to these towers, lol.

 

[milan03]

The part where you combined the radio technology with the backhaul and tried to present as one.

Did you really go there? Look at my location, then think about who's providing fiber to these towers, lol.

I couldn't be clearer in my post. Dependent on the amount of users and the traffic on individual sites, Verizon will scale up/down the amount of bandwidth supplied from the backbone which are the part of the backhaul.
Should I be amazed with your location?

 

[syntrix]

I couldn't be clearer in my post. Dependent on the amount of users and the traffic on individual sites, Verizon will scale up/down the amount of bandwidth supplied from the backbone which are the part of the backhaul.
Should I be amazed with your location?

That's not how the backhaul works, lol. "Backbone" is different, and that's a loose term never really used on the network. Really has to do with the internet drains of the core networks/core pops.

You should be. And if you can't tie it together, then that's all we have to say to each other.

Enjoy your amazing LTE speeds in many markets! I'm an Engineer in the Telco space, and I say Merry Xmas to all!

 

[milan03]

That's not how the backhaul works, lol. "Backbone" is different, and that's a loose term never really used on the network. Really has to do with the internet drains of the core networks/core pops.

You should be. And if you can't tie it together, then that's all we have to say to each other.

Enjoy your amazing LTE speeds in many markets! I'm an Engineer in the Telco space, and I say Merry Xmas to all!

I'm not impressed with your location at all, and if your city supplies the fiber doesn't mean that we should be in awe, but cool story...
Anyway, no need to get in depth any further, and confuse the readers as it seems to me you are just trying to unnecessary repeat and repackage everything I've already said.
I'll just post this link http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Backhaul_(telecommunications) for everyone

 

[syntrix]

I'm not impressed with your location at all, and if your city supplies the fiber doesn't mean that we should be in awe, but cool story...
Anyway, no need to get in depth further, it seems to me you are just trying to unnecessary repeat and repackage what I've already said.
I'll just post this link http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Backhaul_(telecommunications) for everyone

LOL

You are talking about the radio technology, not the 1G+ backhauls over fiber.

Even QinQ isn't going to align with what you are stating. Cool story bro. Quick google shows you are spreading this misconception on other forums **sigh**

Wireless radio connection to the tower - local, limited by LTE radio
Tower to the core pop - backhaul can be 1-10 Gb connection or limited under 10Gb.
core pop to the internet drain - well that's the internet drain, duh.

You haven't even touched on these, much less tried to falsely say the radio technology is the backhaul. Even said that dark fiber is not dark fiber.

We could go on for days. I'd say stop spreading the misinformation. If you need further discussion from someone that touches this every day, take it to PM. Correcting you has been an adventure.

Have a great LTE speed, and realize that your backhaul is usually a lot more than he misrepresents. He's really just talking about the radio communication portion, and that's all that most people here care about.

That article is hilarious, skeleton? LOL. Maybe that's why the ATT backhaul underperforms

 

[milan03]

LOL

You are talking about the radio technology, not the 1G+ backhauls over fiber.

Even QinQ isn't going to align with what you are stating. Cool story bro. Quick google shows you are spreading this misconception on other forums **sigh**

Wireless radio connection to the tower - local, limited by LTE radio
Tower to the core pop - backhaul can be 1-10 Gb connection or limited under 10Gb.
core pop to the internet drain - well that's the internet drain, duh.

You haven't even touched on these, much less tried to falsely say the radio technology is the backhaul. Even said that dark fiber is not dark fiber.

We could go on for days. I'd say stop spreading the misinformation. If you need further discussion from someone that touches this every day, take it to PM. Correcting you has been an adventure.

Have a great LTE speed, and realize that your backhaul is usually a lot more than he misrepresents. He's really just talking about the radio communication portion, and that's all that most people here care about.

That article is hilarious, skeleton? LOL. Maybe that's why the ATT backhaul underperforms

And where did I even mention that radio technology is the backhaul?! Please point me to the wrong direction!

*EDIT* if you're caught up with "400mbps" sentence, it's meant to be "over 400mbps of bandwidth if all 6 sectors are maxed out, meaning the backhaul supply has to be 400mbps or more, usually 1GB or more.
Now go ahead and repackage one more time what I've already said.

 

[The Xero]

im lucky to get 1.5mb on my 4g in socal.