is anyone else experiencing the LTE dropping randomly?

[MyUsernameRox]

At the beginning of this year, I had an LG motion. I initially intended to keep that phone and right things out until the CDMA network was shut off. However the 4G will randomly drop for several seconds at a time at least five to ten times a day. This hastened my decision to switch to the GSM network by buying a new phone.

I bought an LG F6, and for the first couple of months things were fine. However, for the past couple of weeks the LTE has been doing the same thing, randomly dropping several times a day for several seconds at a time. Does anyone else know what might be causing this?

For what it's worth, my zip code is 93422. I usually get full bars of signal in my house, whether I'm on LTE, HSPA+ or EDGE. I have mapped just about my entire town via Sensorly, and the area surrounding my house and the neighborhood I live in shows the strongest coverage.

 

[DirtyDee]

Tmobile network. It happens to me with my byod devices. Both of them

 

[Gman9831]

There have been a lot of reports of it lately in the last month but when it does come back to normal it's normally with better coverage and a wider LTE channel

 

[Big Daddy]

I know in my area. Metros lte towers are being swapped to tmobile gsm. My gs3 doesnt get 4g or lte in my area but my wifes lg spirit does. And here recently ive caught my gs3 for a split second on 4glte so hopefully by summer they will have it all completed. Not sure if this is your issue but alot of people are have 4g troubles right now. And by 2015 all non gsm phones through metro will stop working. As far as service is concerned.

 

[kate]

I know in my area. Metros lte towers are being swapped to tmobile gsm.

I'd check with Metro/T-Mobile to see if your city is being upgraded right now.

Some people using Sprint temporarily experienced similar issues when their local towers where being upgraded with new Network Vision equipment.

 

[DirtyDee]

I'd check with Metro/T-Mobile to see if your city is being upgraded right now.

Some people using Sprint temporarily experienced similar issues when their local towers where being upgraded with new Network Vision equipment.

Honestly my Facebook is full of people with problems with text too and from iPhones on sprint

 

[MyUsernameRox]

Another thing I've noticed lately when running speedtests is slightly slower latency. Where I once got pings of 45-60 ms, I'm now getting in the 130 ms range (at least it's consistent). My down/up speeds have remained the same, though; 35-39 mbps down on average.

does anyone know what might cause the latency to get slower, and if it might go back to the way it was before?

 

[Gman9831]

Another thing I've noticed lately when running speedtests is slightly slower latency. Where I once got pings of 45-60 ms, I'm now getting in the 130 ms range (at least it's consistent). My down/up speeds have remained the same, though; 35-39 mbps down on average.

does anyone know what might cause the latency to get slower, and if it might go back to the way it was before?

Did you change servers? But there's a lot of reasons latency could of gone up like something changed in the fiber network

 

[MyUsernameRox]

I have the server set to auto select.

 

[timmyh318]

Try fixing it to the closest server and keep it there. Manually select the same server each time for accurate results but seriously your not gonna notice any difference in performance with the slightly higher ping time. I wouldn't worry about it at all. That's one thing about those speed test apps there easy to get addicted to to see how high your speeds can go and how low your pings can go but in real world performance they really don't matter much. As long as your getting speeds like that your all good really wouldn't pay much mind to a slightly higher ping.