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Lousy down/up load speed on 3G
- Thread starter johnwoo
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Maybe you accidentally turned on the 4G radio. j/k
Here's a link to the thread on Sprints page...it would really help if folks invested a moment and to the point noted that this is not a satisfactory issue on their site as well..
Samsung Epic:3G Upload Capped?
Samsung Epic:3G Upload Capped?
Its not the phone, its Sprint's lousy service.
jim2point0
Android Enthusiast
The EVO gets great upload speeds and is not capped. The EVO is on Sprint. The Epic does NOT get upload speeds above 150 Kbits, but it is also on Sprint. Try researching before you make trollish comments like that.
Sorry, I was a bit on auto-pilot there.
Well, that's good to hear. Now if we can figure out exactly what else this phone is doing/not doing with it's cellular signal.
Sprint specifically claimed otherwise to me today.
pflol
Android Enthusiast
4g: 7098 dl / 1216 ul
3g: 1723 dl / 148 ul
I'm thankful to have 4g everywhere I go, esp for tethering
! REALLY hope this upload gets fixed with froyo, since like the other poster said earlier (sprint said samsung is the problem). Sad that 4g is faster than my regular internet lol. I only get 4mb on cable -_-
3g: 1723 dl / 148 ul
I'm thankful to have 4g everywhere I go, esp for tethering
! REALLY hope this upload gets fixed with froyo, since like the other poster said earlier (sprint said samsung is the problem). Sad that 4g is faster than my regular internet lol. I only get 4mb on cable -_-Tested yesterday since I was in a 4G area in the SF Bay Area, even though it is not officially out over here yet.
4G: 6.02 down/1.23 up
3G: 1.81 down/.015 up
4G streaming was awesome. I was able to watch ESPN mobile in HQ video and it streamed very well with almost no lag buffering, and it was great because I was able to watch an English Premier League match live during work. I have been lately finding myself using Sprint TV and NFL Mobile to watch sports while outside the house.
4G: 6.02 down/1.23 up
3G: 1.81 down/.015 up
4G streaming was awesome. I was able to watch ESPN mobile in HQ video and it streamed very well with almost no lag buffering, and it was great because I was able to watch an English Premier League match live during work. I have been lately finding myself using Sprint TV and NFL Mobile to watch sports while outside the house.
It is either the phone, or Sprint are performing model-specific bandwidth capping (their systems, as well as Verizon and AT&Ts, even allow capping at the individual device level).
I returned my Epic (after checking two other units) to wait out fixes for this issue, the GPS and the lousy WiFi performance. Having gone to an Evo on the same account, it's getting consistently much better 3G speeds than the Epic ever did.
Upload on the Evo is generally 450Kbps or better on 3G, which is not something I was able to get the Epic to do at all excepting a couple of fluke test the day I picked it up.
Like "robl45" I've seen a couple of freak upload results faster than ~150Kbps, though for me those were all on the first day, and given that I've never reproduced them since, even with MAX signal, I am inclined to think that was a glitch in SpeedTest.Net more than actually achieving those speeds (it has a host of issues).
This is my hunch too. Sprint may be throttling 3G upload speeds on all their new data intensive phones (post Evo) to keep the 3G system from being over loaded. They may have been hoping we'd use 4G and not notice the upload limit.
If they're not careful they could run into an expensive class action lawsuit. Multiply $10 per Epic per month and you're talking a lot of attorney fees. Sprint is charging $10 for a "Premium Data Experience" and delivering less data than other 3G phones. Couple that with the very limited 4G service and pretty much any jury would spank Sprint's ass for that.
Any lawyers out there want to poke Sprint in the eye to wake them up?
Thefoodman52
Android Expert
I still think it's a radio/hardware issue... look at Samsung's other two phones here on Sprint... the Moment's radio locks out if you heavily use it, and the intercept is just slow as balls because it's got a rev.0 radio in it... so far their pattern seems to be intentionally crippling their CDMA phones. As for HTC, they just can't seem to get their screens right. -sigh- Why does the same thing happen time and time again in the exact same pattern from the exact same companies... you'd think they'd learn from their failures and make better stuff.
its definately not hardware, why do people keep saying that, if it was hardware, i wouldn't have pulled 3 uploads in a row between 400-600kpbs on 3G. There is a software issue most likely or some other thing screwing it up, but hardware is not really plausible
It's probably not hardware, but your results there (and mine where I first got the phone) don't mean it isn't. Hardware can have intermittent behavioral issues very easily. I do embedded systems development (hardware and software) as part of my work and this sort of thing happens quite frequently.
Also, those isolated numbers could simply be a result of something wierd happening in the SpeedTest app. It's got enough quirks that I would not rule that out. I've seen it report numbers faster than the transport it was running over is even capable of in the past (bugs happen).
That said, I do think this is a software issue, specifically with the radio firmware on the device. Or, it might be some kind of screw-up/cap on Sprints end.
The real question is will it get fixed?
And I think the answer there is "no" without some major outcry from one of the heavily read tech sites.
It's irritating to see Engadget surfacing "issues" with iOS 4.1 (so it's clearly a software issue) that they can't even reproduce themselves, and yet multiple, consistent, easily reproduced issues on the Epic go ignored.
But then their handling of the GPS issue says a lot there I think.
could be what you mentioned, but i highly doubt it, for one, it worked right after i screwed around with the system settigs and updating stuff, for another, i can't see the speedtest just screwing up for a random two minutes over 3 different tests to different servers. Finally the fascinate doesn't have these problems and I'm pretty sure they are using the same hardware.
If it's the case, why you returned you epic???
i wouldn't quite say no one and ever- i've gotten 203 and 190... hardly good, but over 150...
i wouldn't quite say no one and ever- i've gotten 203 and 190... hardly good, but over 150...
seeing it on the meter run up isn't valid though. it is the average for a upload that is. my 3mps conenction will burst to 4mps for a second or two when first started. I have yet to see an average posted over 150 up on speedtest except one outlier where i beleive the user tested in error.
There were several reasons why I returned the Epic: the consistently slow 3G upload speeds, the GPS that required I reboot the phone to use it, the unusually low GPS signal, the very poor WiFi range performance.
On the slow uploads, that the SpeedTest.Net sometimes does wierd things doesn't mean it is always wrong. Hundreds of tests with it, and other methods, over a week showed a consistent issue. That's a far cry from a couple (literally) of outlier results.
Actually using the phone to upload things was also very slow and it's not hard to time an upload like that and see that something is WAY off, EVERY time.
Samsung and Sprint's silence on these issues didn't give me any reason to wait longer to see if they'd fix them (especially not with Samsung's record on things they have announced!). I liked the Epic, if they get all the issues sorted out I'll buy another one ... not before.
Shane112358
Member
Yeah those are obviously all flipped.
Your Upload seed of 146 is absurdly slow and your bundled, advertised and promoted application of video calls on Epic will not work. uploading any video will be slower than on phones made two years ago.