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potatowastaken

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I'm brand new to Metro, so am wondering what the "typical" speed might be. I'm coming from Virgin 3g (which honestly performed like the old at&t edge, at least on my 3 yr old phone) so it certainly feels like an improvement no matter how it compares to the rest of you out there. :-)

Btw, my phone is LG Spirit & I'm in south FL. Ignore the wifi tests.
 

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potatowastaken said:
I'm brand new to Metro, so am wondering what the "typical" speed might be. I'm coming from Virgin 3g (which honestly performed like the old at&t edge, at least on my 3 yr old phone) so it certainly feels like an improvement no matter how it compares to the rest of you out there. :-)

Btw, my phone is LG Spirit & I'm in south FL. Ignore the wifi tests.
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8900 k is 8 meg, right? That's pretty good. I live in the Dallas area, and depending on where I'm at, I get from 4 meg, up to almost 13. Some areas are even about 1.5 meg, but in general I get pretty decent speeds. In the course of my work (I'm mobile and visit various data centers) I can be anywhere from Coppell (a NW suburb near DFW airport) to Garland (where I live). I primarily range along the I-635 corridor. Plano is where I got the near 13 meg speeds.
 
tkntatter,

With Metro, just a couple miles difference in locations can make a world of difference. There is a member here with unusably slow Metro data speeds in S. Fla and he's going to T-Mo because of it.

With any of the non-contracts you really need to scope out their coverage maps Ahead of time.

Bruce in Ocala, FL
 
The problem with the coverage maps is that they aren't reliable. Metro map shows 3g coverage where I live and in fact there is not.
 
yknujssab said:
The problem with the coverage maps is that they aren't reliable. Metro map shows 3g coverage where I live and in fact there is not.
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Metros map doesn't distinctly show the difference between 2G & 3G, only 4G and slower data technologies.
 
It also depends where you are at different times. At my schools cafeteria, it's hard to choose between the wifi and metro's 3g :laugh:

And this is in Dallas, supposedly a good 4g covered city.
 
at work I get about 7-9 mb download and at home (about 15 miles away) I get at the VERY best 2mb down. Usually less.
 
yknujssab said:
The problem with the coverage maps is that they aren't reliable. Metro map shows 3g coverage where I live and in fact there is not.
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It's for this reason that everywhere I go, I run the Sensorly app. Far more accurate than Metro's coverage maps.

If you look at LTE coverage in CA for MetroPCS, almost all of the coverage in San Luis Obispo, Santa Barbara, and Orange counties was done by me, not to mention most of the cities of Long Beach and East L.A.
 
MyUsernameRox said:
It's for this reason that everywhere I go, I run the Sensorly app. Far more accurate than Metro's coverage maps.

If you look at LTE coverage in CA for MetroPCS, almost all of the coverage in San Luis Obispo, Santa Barbara, and Orange counties was done by me, not to mention most of the cities of Long Beach and East L.A.
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I used that app for a short time before. I lit up Baton Rouge with 3g (I'm willing to bet I'm the only one here using Metro that knows how to do a manual PRL update)
 
yknujssab said:
Do an update to another PRL? Without a computer?
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Baton Rouge isn't a metro home area, it's an extended home area where they roam on Sprint normally 1x. So with the 9033 PRL that you have to push manually you get to roam on Sprint 3G, since he's the only one that's mapped 3G in the roaming area.................
 
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