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AT&T capping 3G upload speed in NYC (iPhone 4)

I've had no issues anywhere in the Boston area over the last week or so since I first checked with SpeedTest. I have consistently gotten at least 1250 kbps upload speed, and have gotten near 1400 several times. I have run the test in at least 10 different areas of Boston and Cambridge.
 
Before July 1st, in my office, I was getting an average of 1497Kbps upload speeds with the iPhone 4 on AT&T 3G. Since then, it's averaged 68Kbps in the same location.

I'm not a conspiracy theorist but something's definitely wrong.
 
This is totally ridiculous. Has AT&T been good for Apple on ANYTHING?

Can anyone confirm that this is affecting only unlimited data plan users, or everyone ($15/200MB and $25/2GB) users as well?
 
I'm getting the same issues in Downtown DC.
I think it's definitely a network issue they're probably trying to resolve.
Ever since last Tuesday, my 3G speeds have been completely wonky.
First it was slow download speeds and now it's uploads. Before Tuesday night, I had zero issues.
 
Here's mine Some of these are in the Davenport, FL area and some are in the Walt Disney World area, which is a fairly highly congested area with a lack of cell towers due to the size of the land Disney occupies. The two with no upload are areas I tested that I did not previously get service at all until using iPhone 4 with the improved antenna design.
 

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Last week I was getting inconsistent results. One minute I would get 5 down, 1.6 up. The next I was getting 0 down, 0 up. Then 1 down, 1.5 up. All over the place. Friday Apple replaced my phone for the green blob. Now I'm getting 2 down, .1 up EVERY time. I was wondering if it was this new phone, but looks like it is the network.

Honestly I'm happier with a consistent down and slower up. I think AT&T has done this to fix the inconsistent results, and now they'll work on opening the valve and actually correcting the problem. I for one am happy to see progress as at least now I can check my mail and surf the web again.
 
Well, I'm happy to report that at least something is fixed; the latency.

Last night latency was through the roof with ping times being in excess of two seconds, sometimes being three and a half seconds. Now ping times are at a more respectable 476 ms. Decent for a wireless network.
 
Seeing this in DC too. Download is about 1 MBps lower than before, and upload is around 96-98 kbps... it used to be 1.5 MBps!! Lame.
 
Been seeing this here in MI since the morning of July 2. On July 1st at 10pm, I was getting 3mbps down, 1.5mbps up. Now, I'm getting 3mbps down, .1mbps up.

What a shame.
 
i guess some of you geniuses didn't realize that the july 4th weekend was perfect to schedule some maintenance that would result in downtime or reduced performance. AT&T is in the process of network upgrades and this would be a perfect weekend to do a lot of them

i work in IT and scheduled some server maintenance for friday night so that if it crashed and i had to go in to reinstall Windows and restore data it would be when people are out drinking and not tuesday morning when revenue needs to come in.

i think i waited at least a month to schedule it on this server just for the long weekend.
 
In Chicago suburbs, I'm getting averages of about 1.8 mbps down, 160 kbps up.

Max values: 2395 kbps down, 404 kbps up.
 
potaco said:
In Chicago suburbs, I'm getting averages of about 1.8 mbps down, 160 kbps up.

Max values: 2395 kbps down, 404 kbps up.
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About where are you in the suburbs? I haven't been capped anywhere yet, and I've been checking quite a bit...
 
smithrh said:
About where are you in the suburbs? I haven't been capped anywhere yet, and I've been checking quite a bit...
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Northwest suburbs... Schaumburg/Hoffman Estates area. I restarted my phone (iPhone 4) and I'm getting very inconsistent speeds now:

4 kbps to 3035 kbps down
0 kbps to 292 kbps up

5 bars, 3G... pings between 200ms and 2500ms
 
potaco said:
Northwest suburbs... Schaumburg/Hoffman Estates area. I restarted my phone (iPhone 4) and I'm getting very inconsistent speeds now:

4 kbps to 2219 kbps down
0 kbps to 235 kbps up

5 bars, 3G
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Well, poop - I'm not too far from you so I decided to re-check, and my results are definitely down from just a few minutes ago to 1.35/0.52 mbps.
 
@travisimo

Travisimo said:
I would LOVE to believe what the rep told you was true... however, a nationwide outage that only affects certain markets and only upload speeds seems very strange. Did he say how long they have been doing this because some of us have been experiencing this for several days now?
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He said the issue has been happening for about 5 days and hopefully should be resolved in 48 hours.
 
Adds Saint Cloud, MN to the list...

I'm so furious! I was bragging to my buddies last week who have Droids and push/pull about 600kbps on their phones. This week the download performance on 3G seemed to have decreased, so I ran speed tests to five different servers and they all led me to conclude that AT&T began throttling the upload bandwidth. This naturally affects the speed with which webpages download as the servers wait for a response from the device. You can see this a chunking, chunks of a web page download rapidly but with a half to a second long pause between the chunks. This really sucks. I am seriously considering leaving AT&T and getting a Droid—still within 30 day return range. I am totally pissed off about this.

My speed prior to AT&T b.s. move: ~3500kbps down, ~1500kbps up
After: ~2500kbps down, ~100kbps up
 
Latest test in DC (intown): 169 down, 35 up. Range this morning has been from zero to 71 up. Downloads aren't doing very well either. Totally discouraging.😱
 
And just to mention one more thing... If I didnt start this thread, and if our forum readers didn't confirm the same problem in their cities, this problem would've never been discussed outside of my circle of friends. TUAW and Gizmodo and other sites may not be aware of the problem for a while.
This way AT&T might actually fix this issue quicker, and show that they actually care. Somtimes.
 
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