Full speed data?

[kangarooant]

I havnt had a sprint phone in so long its hard to remeber lol

 

[Petrah]

My old roommate that I lived with for many years has Sprint (and at one time we both had the Intercept. His with Sprint and mine with VM. My daughter has my Intercept now). We both always had the same connection speeds. Any time my 3G went out (which was seldom), his was out as well.

Also keep in mind that your speed tests to speedtest.net are not going to be indicative to what your speeds would be to anywhere else. The speed tests you do for speedtest.net simply show your connect speeds to their servers.

 

[MacFett]

 

[zachavm]

I used a Sprint PRL and didn't see that big a difference

The towers might not be doing this based on the phone's prl. They might be doing it based on ESN. Sprint most definitly has these numbers clearly defined and seperated for VM phones.

 

[kangarooant]

The towers might not be doing this based on the phone's prl. They might be doing it based on ESN. Sprint most definitly has these numbers clearly defined and seperated for VM phones.

what does prl mean? sorry still new at this

 

[thebryceee]

My old roommate that I lived with for many years has Sprint (and at one time we both had the Intercept. His with Sprint and mine with VM. My daughter has my Intercept now). We both always had the same connection speeds. Any time my 3G went out (which was seldom), his was out as well.

Also keep in mind that your speed tests to speedtest.net are not going to be indicative to what your speeds would be to anywhere else. The speed tests you do for speedtest.net simply show your connect speeds to their servers.

Yeah, actual download speeds are about 10% of your connectivity speeds.

 

[thebryceee]

what does prl mean? sorry still new at this

Preferred Roaming List. Basically tells your phone where all the cell towers are. Having an outdated PRL can potentially not enable your phone to a closer tower.

 

[kangarooant]

Preferred Roaming List. Basically tells your phone where all the cell towers are. Having an outdated PRL can potentially not enable your phone to a closer tower.

that for vm or sprint also ? also how,do u update it?

 

[thebryceee]

that for vm or sprint also ? also how,do u update it?

There's threads explaining how to do it on here.

http://www.howardforums.com/showthread.php/1725703-HOW-TO-Motorola-Triumph-PRL-Swap

Here's a link to a thread here in case you run into problems, i.e. obtaining your MSL code. http://androidforums.com/showthread.php?t=395533

 

[atrain2324]

Lately I've been pulling 1.5 to 2.2 megs and pinging 130-165 ms around my area in Hoffman Estates, IL at any given time...but in nearby Palatine, IL where I work, can't ping any better than 600-700 ms and pull an avg of maybe 200 kbps.

 

[thebryceee]

Lately I've been pulling 1.5 to 2.2 megs and pinging 130-165 ms around my area in Hoffman Estates, IL at any given time...but in nearby Palatine, IL where I work, can't ping any better than 600-700 ms and pull an avg of maybe 200 kbps.

Location, location, location.

 

[agianne]

Here's MHO. Though I don't think VM is throttled, I do think that Sprint Customers are given priority. What this means to me is that if a tower is congested, the network customers get more allocated bandwidth. If they aren't then you get the standard fair (.8-2 Mbps). I have no real basis for this opinion mind you, just my minimally educated guess.

I once started a thread on another forum to investigate this idea. No one was ever able to turn up anything from a reliable source to substantiate this. People offered all kinds of guesses and logic puzzles, but never found a single press release, engineering document, 10-K statement, FCC filing, state PUC filing or anything else that proved or even hinted that Sprint prioritizes traffic by brand.

You are too focused on the air interface - that is only one network component that contributes to overall throughput. The data has any number of opportunities to get slowed down as it goes from handset to wireless tower antenna to land-line back haul network to data center to public Internet and back.

 

[kangarooant]

I once started a thread on another forum to investigate this idea. No one was ever able to turn up anything from a reliable source to substantiate this. People offered all kinds of guesses and logic puzzles, but never found a single press release, engineering document, 10-K statement, FCC filing, state PUC filing or anything else that proved or even hinted that Sprint prioritizes traffic by brand.

You are too focused on the air interface - that is only one network component that contributes to overall throughput. The data has any number of opportunities to get slowed down as it goes from handset to wireless tower antenna to land-line back haul network to data center to public Internet and back.

agreed deff a long process and travel.