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4g Coverage in your area?

Do you have 4g coverage in your area?

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Bales

Bales

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Call this an experimentation of sorts. I want to see how quickly Sprint can roll out 4g coverage. Vote Yes or No as to whether or not you have 4g coverage in YOUR AREA ONLY. The poll will be open for 1 week. Next month I'll post a new poll along with the results of the previous poll. I'll do this for a few months to track their progress.
 
St. Louis is unofficial but many towers are up and working. Can be spotty. Often I lose it around 10 p.m. until the next morning at some point. But when it works, it's wonderful.
 
Nothing in Detroit Metro. It's supposed to be coming to Grand Rapids "soon", but does me no good there.
 
lopezpm said:
Nothing in Detroit Metro. It's supposed to be coming to Grand Rapids "soon", but does me no good there.
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I have been working with Clearwire in Metro Detroit. Sites have been procured and engineering is taking place. I would guess build to begin soon...
 
I've been using 4g in Chicago quite extensively. I'd be glad to answer any questions anyone has about reception, speed, etc...
 
KoukiFC3S said:
Is it a lot better than 3G while using the phone?
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The most notable diferrence when browsing is with anything media related. Videos load quicker, weather maps load quicker, pandora transitions between songs quicker, etc... It's not a huge difference though. General browsing from site to site doesn't really make a big difference. What I really like about 4g, at least for now while its free, is how easy it is to tether to my laptop, both wired and wirelessly. I generally get speeds between 3-4 Mbps. The highest I've seen on speedtest.net was something like 7.3 Mbps.

Edit: downloading big files is also much quicker. For example, downloading videos from youtube using pwnyoutube.com is much faster on 4g.
 
Getting 1.8 - 3.1 Mb/s in St. Louis and I've only seen it go above 2.2 once in about 40 speed tests. I'm basically getting the same speed as the people at work with other 3g networks. Hopefully it will speed up, this is disappointing but the Youtube HD is nice.
 
I have no indoor coverage at my house although I had weak wimax coverage with XOHM since 2008 there. I am a few hundred meters from good coverage. I tethered my Evo to my laptop tonight at a Barnes and Nobles in Towson (a suburb of Baltimore about 2 miles away) and got 7mbps down and just under 1mbps up. The 4G signal strength on the Evo was showing only one concentric ring out of 3 at the time.
 

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We have some 4G coverage around our area. I don't get any 4G at home exactly, but drive 2-3 minutes in any direction, and you'll be in 4G territory. The only thing is, I can get around 2-3 times faster than 3G. Never saw any more than 3 Mbps. :)

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When I got my EVO they said 4g would be in my area by sept. which seeing as people are getting 4g around SF Bay Area I guess it's true.
 
Bales said:
Call this an experimentation of sorts. I want to see how quickly Sprint can roll out 4g coverage. Vote Yes or No as to whether or not you have 4g coverage in YOUR AREA ONLY. The poll will be open for 1 week. Next month I'll post a new poll along with the results of the previous poll. I'll do this for a few months to track their progress.
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Don't get too excited. I live in Chicago and if you look at Sprints coverage map it looks like most of the City and burbs have it. Its here but very very spotty not a very reliable signal at all. This whole 4G whoo ha is kind of a rouse IMO.
 
dzar said:
St. Louis is unofficial but many towers are up and working. Can be spotty. Often I lose it around 10 p.m. until the next morning at some point. But when it works, it's wonderful.
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I'm in St. Louis too, and I usually get the 4G to work too, but I wouldn't say it's wonderful. It's only slightly faster than the 3G. I do several speedtests a day, and it's usually at 2mbps.
 
Pretty good 4G in the Downtown Raleigh area, however, outside of that... hardly ever see a 4G signal.

A bit disappointing, but I hope it will improve.
 
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