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Who is experiencing 4G Connection?

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HumorMonkey

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I thought it would be interesting to hear who's getting 4G service on their spanking new Epic. What is your location, with or without 4G?

I guess I'm wondering if anyone has been surprised they've got 4G coverage, or if everyone here is experiencing the type of coverage, be it 3G or 4G, that they were anticipating.

BTW, no Epic goodness for me yet :(, so I've got to live vicariously through your experiences for the time being. Enjoy your phones! :)
 
an even more interesting thing would be for someone who lives in a 4G area to test the 4G radios between the Evo and the Epic...putting them side by side and see if either pick up more bars...its quite obviousy the 4G radio onboard the Evo is crappy..wonder if there is an improvement with the Epic
 
HumorMonkey said:
BTW, no Epic goodness for me yet :(, so I've got to live vicariously through your experiences for the time being. Enjoy your phones! :)
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YES i have faved all the epic threads so i can hear about it and pretend like my shitty moment is as cool as the epic at least im not the only one
 
Went from my home to Dublin, CA (East Bay in the SF Bay Area) to test the GPS functionality. Once at the location I went to, I turned on 4G and I was able to lock a signal (1 bar) and using Speedtest app, I was able to get about 3 Mbps down and a paltry 384 Kbps up, but I mostly care about download speeds in general.
 
getting good 4g outdoors even though my city is not going to be announced for a few weeks. indoors I get a bar but it is lower speeds than 3g indoors.

The 4g absolutely sucks the battery down very very quickly indoors or out.
 
I'm experiencing the 4G network. Never thought about having it. 7M download and 1.2M upload. Westwood, Los Angeles, CA.
 
Eazail70x7 said:
I'm getting good 4G :)
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What's your location?

Aero1 said:
getting good 4g outdoors even though my city is not going to be announced for a few weeks. indoors I get a bar but it is lower speeds than 3g indoors.
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And, what's you local?

fookxixi said:
I'm experiencing the 4G network. Never thought about having it. 7M download and 1.2M upload. Westwood, Los Angeles, CA.
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Damn, that's sweet! Cut off indoors?
 
With both phones at the same location having about the same number of bars, the Epic got connected to 4G much faster than EVO, the data speed was faster on the Epic too. I wonder why...
 
I'm in a 4G area, both at home and at work.

My Evo would usually see, but couldn't ever hold a 4G connection at my home. The Epic sees and connects to 4G much faster and holds on to it well enough to actually use.

I will test this at work tomorrow as well, as I get a full-strength 4G signal there.

I have a Sprint Overdrive as well, and it runs rings around both devices, getting and holding a solid lock with better speeds and lower latency even in the precise same location. Of course it is a dedicated device, so that's to be expected ... but the difference IS greater than I would have though.
 
slrml617 and Torq, what are your locations?
I figured in starting this thread, it's would be interesting to hear each users 4G experience, or lack there of, and each users location, for reference.
 
I live in dallas and work for Sprint @ Mockingbird station and we get 4.7 on the display evo and I just got my epic today and got 5.3 and the apt I live in gets 5.9 insided but its a glass building the techs say that's the reason why I get good signal not much to block signal
 
HumorMonkey said:
slrml617 and Torq, what are your locations?
I figured in starting this thread, it's would be interesting to hear each users 4G experience, or lack there of, and each users location, for reference.
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My bad ... I meant to add that.

Redmond, Seattle and Bellevue in WA.

4G on my Overdrive works much better than on either the Evo or the Epic (as you'd expect). In order it'd be Overdrive > Epic > Evo so far.
 
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