iPhone 4 Users on AT&T Experiencing Widespread Drops in Upload Speed

[BeyondtheTech]

I don't think anyone could dispute this at this point: AT&T hasn't done one thing right since 2007.

They need to either stop imposing the $15/25/30 data plan or allow users to end their contract without an early termination fee, considering that it may be disputed to be a material change in the contract.

At this point, I'd rather have a cellular data-less iPhone on AT&T, or consistent EDGE speed on T-Mobile, plus Wi-Fi everywhere else, than have to deal with AT&T's stop-and-go 3G network. It's like driving a Ferrari with a chemically-imbalanced kid in the passenger seat, yanking the parking brake every other mile down the highway.

Apple, why couldn't you have made this iPhone 4 a "world iPhone" for both CDMA and GSM? Stop touting all this "we just don't have the resources" and "we're the biggest startup company" mantra and hire the right people - you have the funds, so GET the right resources. If anything, they should have made it a pentaband UMTS/HSDPA/HSUPA so that T-Mobile could take a crack the iPhone 4's 3G chip.

 

[egret]

Just ran it here in Athens, GA....

1.5 down.....980 up. No problems here.

The Macrumors headline is Misleading...it makes it sound like the iP4 is the problem.

Again, Headlines sell...whether they are misleading or not.

 

[theOtherGeoff]

throttling

choking is more likely..

Today's testing from downtown minneapolis... 5 bars 3G

0KB download, 0KB upload

From my home near the MSP airport yesterday I was getting 2MBd and 98KBu /s.

ATT does suck in downtown MPLS.

 

[plinden]

2.2Mb/s and 1.2Mb/s up here at work in San Francisco, unchanged from last week.

Unrelated, but at home our AT&T DSL was having regular dropped connections late last week.

 

[The1Q]

No cap in Boston!!

Just ran 3 tests with speedtest.net app

Up: 1504 Down: 1013
Up: 1514 Down: 947
Up: 1428 Down: 935

I'm on iPhone 4

 

[laelfrog]

Issues in Minnesota

A friend returned his iPhone4 when it was doing the opposite ~90k down ~1500k up. We tested it side by side with my 3GS. AT&T is having issues! I was shocked that the upload blew away his download.

 

[FWW]

Why the hell would people be noticing upload speeds? Are we really uploading that much data from our telephones?


Sheesh... Everybody calm down.

 

[CubusX]

Lucky

I'm glad I canceled my iPhone 4 order.

AT&T lacks customer service and their network resources can't handle anything.

 

[nongobi]

No problems in Lafayette, LA.

 

[smithrh]

Why the hell would people be noticing upload speeds? Are we really uploading that much data from our telephones?


Sheesh... Everybody calm down.

Uploading pics and video is not uncommon.

People found this out after the 4th when aforementioned pic and videos taken during the holiday took forever, where previously they had taken very little time at all.

HSUPA is a feature for the phone. While you and I may not use it a lot, others do and are right to complain.

 

[malohkan]

8289 kbps down, 1136 kbps up here in Madison, WI. All seems well over here!

 

[xtrmtrk]

Yep, definitely a problem in Bellevue Washington (Seattle area). On Friday I got 1231 down, 1611 up. Today I'm getting 1402 down, 90 up.

 

[burnside]

Why the hell would people be noticing upload speeds? Are we really uploading that much data from our telephones?


Sheesh... Everybody calm down.

This affects mms or emailing attachments like photos.

Count Portland in the poor upload speeds too. Had 1.9Mbs Down and 1.4Mbs Up last week. Download speeds are about the same, but my best upload has been around 100Kps the past few days.

 

[ag227]

it seems to me that speedtest.net is to blame for this? when i try there speedtest im getting very slow download and upload speeds, but when i try a test like http://i.dslr.net/iphone_speedtest.html then the speeds are much greater.

It appears that the speedtest at speedtest.net is to short so that the speed cant increase enough to max level.

*edit*
i mean for the results are speed given are inaccurate. Not that thats the cause of the slow speeds

 

[bkspero]

Joined at the hip

I have the 3Gs and my upload speeds have slowed down as well. It is BS to blame this on the iPhone 4.

You're right. Not the iPhone 4, but all iPhones. Apple made a decision to link its performance to AT&T in the US. As long as that is the case, one cannot separate the performance of an iPhone from the performance of AT&T. That alliance was an Apple product decision the same as the decision to use LCD screens or to have a non-user-replaceable battery, or to open the APP store. Get an iPhone, get AT&T.

Either live with it, or change phones.

 

[Benster]

I hope there is a software patch coming out soon for this. It must be how I'm holding my phone.

 

[jscro]

I'm in downtown Austin Texas and have been running these test daily with 1-2 MB upload speeds. I'm clocking between .44 and .77 today.

 

[old-wiz]

AT&T is at full capacity. They are maxed out. Their cell structure can't handle much more. Bottom line.
The problem is going to get worse before it gets better. I'm not a Apple fan boy but don't blame on Apple on this. The technology and consumer fascination in smart phones (iPhone) has out grown the ability for wireless carriers to keep up.

The carriers totally underestimated the demand and are now realizing they simply do not have the capacity to handle it. They are far more interested in executive salaries and bonuses than actually improving their network.

It's certainly going to get worse with 3G iPads showing up more and more.

 

[AnalyzeThis]

Slow upload in PA too

I noticed it too, but download rates increased almost 2 times. Internet access seems a bit unstable after iPhone 4 release day, but gradually getting better.

 

[ihonda]

1449/92 in ohio :/

 

[M-5]

My Upload speeds are good, at a little over 1200kbps, but my Download speeds are consistently around 400kpbs.

 

[arn]

It is ironic that other news outlets picked up the Macrumors thread before macrumors did.

Not ironic, by choice. We don't post every complaint as a news story as it happens. I saw the complaints over the weekend, but I'm still not convinced this is a widescale change of AT&T policy rather than a temporary outage.

arn

 

[Wateroksnmud]

Downtown Denver, CO

 

[aggiesrwe03]

why is this a surprise it was a holiday weekend a week after the largest phone launch in history if everyone out there with their new phone is uploading their druken pics to facebook and twitter of course network uploads are going to slow down, and does anyone else find it funny that the same website that may be indited on charges for trade secret violations is the same one that is "breaking" all these iPhone 4 problem stories this phone has no more problems than any other new release people are just pointing them out in public for whatever reason. Out afew thousand complaints out of 600,000 that aint bad!!!! This is crazy psychology at its finest you tell a group of people that someone in the group has a disease and sooner or later they all think they have it, same thing happening here!! my phone smells like cheese!!! lets see if that one gets around LOL!!

 

[sbrhwkp3]

I was wondering why it was taking seemingly forever to upload videos to facebook...