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AT&T doubles network speed in New Brunswick NJ
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Is that the best you can do?
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Not to sound rude, but this thread is about 3G speeds with AT&T. So, unless you have such screen shot or a comment regarding the situation, your post can be viewed as spam because of off-topic postings.
Next time you're in front of the student center at the Rutgers college avenue campus, take a look over at the Library, the big 4-story building across the street and to the left, near the end of the street. You'll find some brand new cell towers placed atop that building.
That same building is one of the central network access points for the campus and where all the bandwidth on the New Brunswick side is being routed out of. All of the internet bandwidth is there making it very easy for cell companies to add backhaul, and it's the tallest building on the campus with a good line-of-site to the stadium across the river, so it made sense to pop some new cell sites there. Verizon and T-Mobile are also adding their equipment to that location.
nice, I wonder if that is where the cell service is coming from across the river in highland park. I get much slower speeds and less reliable coverage there.
No, you're probably getting your coverage from the flagpole tower at the recently-built Walgreens on Route 1, where there's a Rite Aid under construction across the street. It's the large white pole off to the side of the Walgreens parking lot, away from the building. There's supposed to be a flag flying from it to camouflage the site, but that hasn't happened yet.
It looks like they've not been able to get much backhaul to that site. That site is less than a year old but has always performed poorly in terms of data speed.
The bad news is, Highland Park is chock full of NIMBYs. A couple of years back, Verizon brokered a deal to set up a cell tower at the municipal parking lot in that town to improve coverage. The town agreed to it, until the tower was erected and they got to actually see what it looked like. Immediately it was branded an eyesore (nevermind it looked better than the decrepit old building it was next to), petitions went out, the city council backpedaled on the agreement (claiming Verizon "duped" them) and Verizon ultimately removed the tower.
And that's why you're always gonna be stuck with lousy cell coverage in Highland Park.
Is that the best you can do?
I could post pictures of my Verizon fios 35/35 line but that's not what this thread is about - please keep it on topic.
No, you're probably getting your coverage from the flagpole tower at the recently-built Walgreens on Route 1, where there's a Rite Aid under construction across the street. It's the large white pole off to the side of the Walgreens parking lot, away from the building. There's supposed to be a flag flying from it to camouflage the site, but that hasn't happened yet.
It looks like they've not been able to get much backhaul to that site. That site is less than a year old but has always performed poorly in terms of data speed.
The bad news is, Highland Park is chock full of NIMBYs. A couple of years back, Verizon brokered a deal to set up a cell tower at the municipal parking lot in that town to improve coverage. The town agreed to it, until the tower was erected and they got to actually see what it looked like. Immediately it was branded an eyesore (nevermind it looked better than the decrepit old building it was next to), petitions went out, the city council backpedaled on the agreement (claiming Verizon "duped" them) and Verizon ultimately removed the tower.
And that's why you're always gonna be stuck with lousy cell coverage in Highland Park.
There is a tower by the river in the park. That is the closest one to my house. I think the problem for me is that my place is at the bottom of a big hill that leads to the river. I get OK coverage, but its not nearly as good as I get at Rutgers.
This is interesting. I'm debating on switching back to AT&T. I had poor coverage here in ocean county/central jersey/the shore. I notice though that AT&T has been working hard to get their crap together and fix things.
Maybe I'll give it a shot with the new iPhone. Still up in the air + it'll cost me more than what I'm paying at verizon now. The economical choice would be to just get a droid and give up my blackberry.
Maybe I'll give it a shot with the new iPhone. Still up in the air + it'll cost me more than what I'm paying at verizon now. The economical choice would be to just get a droid and give up my blackberry.
The iPhone can only reach 7.2mbit/s over 3g, so yes, it is fake.
My town just got lit up with 3G yesterday, I've reached over 3mbit/s. It's so nice.
The Rutgers at New Brunswick, right? Awesome. I don't have AT&T anymore, but I'm planning to get the new one, and live in the city next door (Piscataway).