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I finally got LTE
- Thread starter DrakeMcEachern
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Most of my neighbors are now calling and signing up for HomeFusion with Verizon since our only other options are satellite or dial up.
I have spent some time in the woods of Louisiana and I feel your pain that is TONS faster than any internet down there.
Before this, the fastest Internet I could get my hands on was 6 down with satellite but that's with 900-1000 latency.
Yikes. I'll feel just a little bit guilty next year when I get 1Gb/1Gb in Seattle for $80. Just a little.
Yikes. I'll feel just a little bit guilty next year when I get 1Gb/1Gb in Seattle for $80. Just a little.
Not fair! I paid $75 a month for those speeds I was getting!
Ergh, I hope those speeds don't continually decline down to crud over the next year or two like Verizon LTE has done where I live.
Went from 20mpbs to 3-5mpbs. :/
Went from 20mpbs to 3-5mpbs. :/
That's highly dependent on the day of the week and time of day. Where I live (New York city), the speeds can be as high as 47mbps or as low as 15mbps.
Do you have unlimited data? If so get hotspot and use that for tasks that require a lot of bandwidth
150 people? You lucky dog.
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Are you serious? That used to be my 3G speed.
Yea. It's like that all day, but if I test around midnight to 7am ish, I get up to 12/6. It feels like they only enable a couple towers in an area for LTE coverage, and leave the others on 3G.
Will get better come AWS rollout and when they go back and tweak. Although thats no bueno in your area it's not a bad initial rollout. I would call and complain if you haven't already, make them aware of the site.
I actually did complain to their twitter support, and got a phone call. She said she opened a engineering support ticket and said they were going to send them out to the cell tower/site within 3-5 days and see if anything is wrong. She said she would call back after they did that, but I do have a case number.
The thing is, during the night, say 1am-6am my speeds go up to 10-12Mb down and 5-6Mb up. I just don't understand how my town of 45,000 could overload it to the point of averaging 1-3Mb during the day.
Do you have unlimited data? If so get hotspot and use that for tasks that require a lot of bandwidth
I have a 4GLTE jetpack that happens to have unlimited data.
Ewww!
I'd call and complain to someone. If VZW advertises LTE in ur town, and u consistently get those speeds, it would be faster to buy a set of encyclopedias to look up any information u needed. I got faster speeds with my 3G on edge. Lol
It might not be an overloading issue but could be a bad switch or a faulty fibre cable. It happens but they are good about fixing these things believe it or not. AWS will just be icing on the cake and they will do that fast because they don't like AT&T being in the lead speed wise.
I encourage anyone getting less than 2 down on VZW LTE to contact someone about that. That's not right at all