LTE speedtest is slow
Did you update your carrier settings? See http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1970
Also, check out http://support.apple.com/kb/HT2283
What does it say under Settings->General->Cellular->CellularDataNetwork for your APN?
LTE speedtest is slow
Did you update your carrier settings? See http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1970
Also, check out http://support.apple.com/kb/HT2283
What does it say under Settings->General->Cellular->CellularDataNetwork for your APN?
As said in this thread, I dont want to lose tethering.
I havent updated tmo carrier update because i dont want to lose hotspot tethering. May be the update helps with the lte speed. Can someone confirm?
You won't lose the ability to use Personal Hotspot if you update the carrier settings. Mine is on T-Mobile 15.1 currently and I can still tether up to 2.5 GB per month on my unlimited plan.
If he hasn't purchased a T-Mobile Personal Hotspot plan the carrier update will disable it and tell him to contact T-Mobile to enable the feature. He'll have to pay for it.
That is true, although their unlimited data plan includes hotspot as I was saying. He hasn't actually said which plan he's on that I see in going back and reading his posts.
If he is prepaid, prepaid doesn't offer tethering plans. Hence not wanting to apply the carrier update and lose tethering.
My T-Mobile 5s wildly varies anywhere from as low as 4 Mbps up to as high as 40 Mpbs while connected to LTE. It literally depends which city block I'm on and whether I'm indoors or outside. It's quite normal to see a wide range of Speedtest results and I've seen this same thing on other LTE phones (not iPhones) as well. I've also seen the same on AT&T LTE devices as well.
You realize you only have 3 bars and 2 bars, not very good signal. Still you should get slightly better speeds. Try to rest network settings, even though you don't want to.
I also recently switched from ATT to TMobile. I have two iPhones 5s and one iPhone 5. Speeds are horrible to non existent. I'm in NYC and Brooklyn. I get constant dropped calls, and consistent less then 1mbit on 4G, on LTE it's about 7mbit but that's still rare. Im thinking to actually go back to ATT.
what the hell?
Got a 32gb silver 5s last night full price from an Apple store. I plugged it in itunes, it says congrats, your iphone is unlocked. I put my Tmo sim card in, it works perfectly. However, the LTE speedtest is slow
I get 5-7mb download and max 1mb upload. I got up to 15mb download on my old Galaxy S3 which I ditched to go back to iOS because Android is horrible.
Is the slow speed because I'm using an ATT version? Is the 5S Att version the same as the Tmo version? Will I get better performance on a Tmo version?
Thanks,