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How is AT&T's service in your area?
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Denver and north seems fine. You get in areas or situations eg broncos game and the network is slow slow slow. Few dropped calls going north.
Denver and north seems fine. You get in areas or situations eg broncos game and the network is slow slow slow. Few dropped calls going north.
It wasn't that great. In the 28 days that I had At&t I had dropped a couple of calls a week. I didn't get service 7/10 places that I went to like the movie theater, shopping, etc. EDGE was the only internet available and it was super slow 90% of the time, so slow that safari would time out on me. This was months ago and in September I heard that we now have 3g in the area so I'm sure the internet actually works now.
I wish At&t would have worked out so I could be an iPhone user.
I wish At&t would have worked out so I could be an iPhone user.
I live in the Bay Area, not too far from Cupertino actually, so I get really good service. Never dropped a single call and 3G is really fast. However, when I go to San Francisco, there are some areas where I barely get EDGE. However, I have yet to go to an area where I get absolutely no service.
So I guess it's pretty good here. I hear lots of other places have problems, but the way I see it, all networks suck in their own ways. I wish they could all just share towers so we could get service no matter where we go.
So I guess it's pretty good here. I hear lots of other places have problems, but the way I see it, all networks suck in their own ways. I wish they could all just share towers so we could get service no matter where we go.
South Orange County. It is trrrible, just trrible.
I'm in South OC as well, but I haven't had issues. What city are you located in? I'm in Lake Forest, and my net's nice and fast.
living in Southern California (LA area, San Gabriel Valley)
Old home (Alhambra, CA): Excellent!
New home (Rosemead, CA...not far away from Alhambra, CA): between crappy and acceptable...sometimes no dropped call...sometimes a few dropped calls in a day! 3G speed not quite consistent (Sometimes 1.XMbps, sometimes 2xxkbps)
Places I usually go (like Wal-Mart next to my home, Fry's...etc.): Crappy...slow data or won't connect...sometimes calls can't go through on neither 2G or 3G.
School (Long Beach, CA):
2G: Excellent! (5 bars in most places on campus...Looks like AT&T is the only carrier that get reception in the lecture room of the business building...other carriers like Verizon, Sprint are all dead)
3G: Crappy (max 2-3bars)...much worse than the 2G ...Dropped call/call failed/no data on the first day of school...Speed can't exceed 1Mbps most of the time...No 3G in any indoor area...
Old home (Alhambra, CA): Excellent!
New home (Rosemead, CA...not far away from Alhambra, CA): between crappy and acceptable...sometimes no dropped call...sometimes a few dropped calls in a day! 3G speed not quite consistent (Sometimes 1.XMbps, sometimes 2xxkbps)
Places I usually go (like Wal-Mart next to my home, Fry's...etc.): Crappy...slow data or won't connect...sometimes calls can't go through on neither 2G or 3G.
School (Long Beach, CA):
2G: Excellent! (5 bars in most places on campus...Looks like AT&T is the only carrier that get reception in the lecture room of the business building...other carriers like Verizon, Sprint are all dead)
3G: Crappy (max 2-3bars)...much worse than the 2G ...Dropped call/call failed/no data on the first day of school...Speed can't exceed 1Mbps most of the time...No 3G in any indoor area...
Pretty good where I live. When I lived in Diamond Bar and Yorba Linda where my house was uphill, it was pretty bad. Dropped calls all the time. I live in lower elevation, so I'm good now. Never had a dropped call on the 4 yet. Not the clearest reception though.
Mine is pretty good most places around here (Johnstown, PA just outside Pittsburgh). My only really problem is at work, i get little to no service to the point i normally put my phone into plane mode. At my house i normally have 4 bars which is why i don't have a land line.
Edit: I just used the "Mark the Spot" app, so i'll see if they help out at my work.
Edit: I just used the "Mark the Spot" app, so i'll see if they help out at my work.
ATT has a pretty good infrastructure on the east cost. The issue is that they are not very good on the west cost; and this is where the bulk of US tech journalism is based. This means the media experiences significant issues with ATT service and that is what is reported.
BTW - There isn't much ATT can do to fix the situation in much of the west cost. It's a regulatory issue. They need the FCC and local municipalities to license spectrum for new towers, but in many areas this conflicts with zoning regulation or Verizon's legacy licenses.
The US cellular model is flawed at it's core. Cellular providers owning their own towers requires more overall infrastructure while reducing call quality and coverage; and increasing regulatory overhead. The finite nature of spectrum resources work better if you split the infrastructure and carriers into separate entities like they do in Europe. The carriers buy usage rights from a non exclusive infrastructure provider. This increases competition between carriers and improves coverage for customers.
BTW - There isn't much ATT can do to fix the situation in much of the west cost. It's a regulatory issue. They need the FCC and local municipalities to license spectrum for new towers, but in many areas this conflicts with zoning regulation or Verizon's legacy licenses.
The US cellular model is flawed at it's core. Cellular providers owning their own towers requires more overall infrastructure while reducing call quality and coverage; and increasing regulatory overhead. The finite nature of spectrum resources work better if you split the infrastructure and carriers into separate entities like they do in Europe. The carriers buy usage rights from a non exclusive infrastructure provider. This increases competition between carriers and improves coverage for customers.
This is so true, and also relevant to area's like Long Island, NY. Long Island has such strict regulations on cell tower placement when you head toward Nassau and Suffolk county that (at least for AT&T and myself) when I visit back home, I almost want to buy a Droid or an EVO just to use when I'm there. AT&T is beyond terrible where I'm from.
recently hempstead passed a law that pretty much says no new cell phone towers. and the town of hempstead is the ghetto parts of nassau along with some of the nicer ones as well
It's usually 5 bars where i live. Sometimes Edge when you get into more rural areas, but usually 4-5 bars and 3G. Easily the best coverage around here.
Same exact thing for me (10 years in MD, AT&T for most of 7 years). For some reason Towson University has crappy AT&T service.
omg when I went to SD it was beautiful, pretty much full 3g everywhere I went. ran speed test app, got 550kB/s (in bytes). Thats what I'm talkin about! ..much better than 50kB/s that I'm used to.
IP address weirdness
I am late to the iphone game. I was just checking out 3G speed and noticed mine is pretty slow (1Mbps down .5 up ping ~300 based on speedtest app.
I took a closer look, speed test is claiming I am in witchita KS which I am no where near. when I turn off cell data and use wifi, speedtest finds me in the correct location.
I thought this is just the speedtest thing, but through out the day, web on 3G is very very slow like dailup speed. I have reboot 2-3 times any clues?
thanks
I am late to the iphone game. I was just checking out 3G speed and noticed mine is pretty slow (1Mbps down .5 up ping ~300 based on speedtest app.
I took a closer look, speed test is claiming I am in witchita KS which I am no where near. when I turn off cell data and use wifi, speedtest finds me in the correct location.
I thought this is just the speedtest thing, but through out the day, web on 3G is very very slow like dailup speed. I have reboot 2-3 times any clues?
thanks
When I'm at school, the maximum amount of bars I get is 3, and there is no 3G until school is over. Until then it's Edge. However, when I'm at home, I always have 4-5 bars and the 3G is amazing. But I have wi-fi and laptops at home. WTF! 
When I go downtown though, the signal strength is actually pretty good. 4-5 bars with 3G usually
When I go downtown though, the signal strength is actually pretty good. 4-5 bars with 3G usually
Service is excellent is Ann Arbor, Michigan. I think the University of Michigan has some sort of partnership with AT&T. However, my iPhone tends to freak out when I'm in my underground laboratory.