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NYC Thread: 3G issues

I am not in NYC, but I have been thinking about what is causing this issue (Many have been stated from articles and tons of discussions) I bought my original iPhone 3G in Florida, where I did an internship all summer, and had great service. After some phone switches due to cosmetic issues I still remained to have great service. I flew to Chicago a few weeks ago for Lollapalooza and got very good 3G coverage with good data speed throughout the city except in the park during Lollapalooza (Which was understandable).

I am now back home in Huntsville, Alabama and I get 3G almost everywhere and I have not had a single problem with dropped calls or ungodly slow data speeds. I do notice that sometimes the signal bars fluctuate crazy. When I head back up to school next week in Murfreesboro, TN I will test the connection there.

The point from my post is that I haven't seen the problems you guys are, but I am also not up in NYC. Could there be an issue around the city? I am just providing my experience to find out what really could be causing this. For my phone personally, I still think it hasn't reached it's full potential. I believe Apple will fix this whether it's a software update or recall.
 
wexford said:
i work in midtown, live in astoria.

since updating to 2.0.2, i'm actually having EDGE issues. i have 5 bars all of the time (with the E), but the data has been going out intermittently. restart of the iphone doesn't help. if i jump on wifi, it's fine. if i jump on 3G, it's fine.

granted, i'm hardly on 3G, but when i am, my data service seems to be okay. 2 or 3 bars in the office, 5 outside in midtown or queens, and 2/3 bars in my apt in queens.

anybody else with edge issues since updating?
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an interesting addition to my post---

i'm finding that if my Edge service isn't responding and i switch to 3G and BACK to Edge, the Edge service comes alive.

wish i didnt update to 2.0.2.
 
I live in New York and I am going to guess that the problems here stem from the fact that there are still baricades in front of all of the Apple stores in the city to handle the lineups that are still occurring daily for new iPhones. Pretty soon everybody in New York is going to have one and the networks are falling down.
 
@wexford Same thing happens to me on 2.0.1, but with 3G. Once 3G reception bombs and my iPhone switches to EDGE, it'll almost never go back unless I restart or flip Airplane Mode on and off.
 
i'd buy that if it weren't for the fact that my coworkers' blackberries are working flawlessly

if this were a bb outage, rim users would be flipping out everywhere and att would be scrambling to get it fixed, but since it's only affecting the iphone for some reason, it seems they couldn't care less
 
Hahaha... here's some good stuff. I just called AT&T to complain about the lack of data service via 3G. The rep offered to provide me with a free service called the "Signal Booster." I said, "sure, go for it." How stupid do they think we are, really?
 
Wow, just as I start complaining about 3G, it goes dead on me here at work. Connection's alive but everything I try to do just times out.

Someone needs to drop a dead Fail Whale on AT&T HQ.
 
wexford said:
same problem i'm having with Edge.
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Me too. At work in downtown NYC, I'm having issues with Edge and 3G where safari will sit there or time out alltogether.

I live in northern NJ near NYC and I'm having the same issues as downtown NYC.

Phone reception is fine though. That's strange. I thought the voice and internet both used Edge.
 
I called ATT regarding this issue in NYC, he stated that the network was put on some strain with the new iphone, and that they are working to add to it to accomidate the increased volume. dont know if this was bs or not...

My 3G cuts in and out, Sometimes is amazing with 5 bars while around town, other times it says 5bars, but when I open safari, nothing happens and it switches over to edge.

Coming from a regular phone with no internet, I'm actually pleased with edge for internet, but thats still no excuse...
 
I also called AT&T about this issue. The rep that I spoke with told me there

is an issue in NYC and they are working on it.

She told me she couldn't give me an estimated day for a resolution. sigh

lets hope they aren't lying. :rolleyes:
 
BxTruth said:
I also called AT&T about this issue. The rep that I spoke with told me there

is an issue in NYC and they are working on it.

She told me she couldn't give me an estimated day for a resolution. sigh

lets hope they aren't lying. :rolleyes:
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that makes me feel a little better (i guess). at least it seems to be an AT&T problem, and not due to the software update.
 
Last week in the Times Square and Central Park areas - EDGE was 10x faster than 3G, despite the phone showing 3-5 bars of 3G service.
 
23rd and Park, 3g speed is slower than Edge. Also call quality is totally screwed, I call my iPhone from my office phone - keep in mind it is on my desk and I'm staring at it with 3-4 bars of 3g....and the call goes RIGHT TO VOICEMAIL. It never rings.

Reboot and it gets better briefly, then back to slow speeds.

I have pretty much turned off 3g for now. Would rather not worry about missing calls.

Needless to say I hope for a fix soon.
 
Wirelessly posted (iPhone: Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; U; CPU iPhone OS 2_0_2 like Mac OS X; en-us) AppleWebKit/525.18.1 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/3.1.1 Mobile/5C1 Safari/525.20)

Serious 3G wonkiness in Manhattan tonight. Testing under 75kbps since 6pm in Soho and now Union Sq.

*edit* a testament to the wonkiness...a double post from the iphone.
 
As a temporary fix, you could try going to Settings -> General -> Reset -> Reset Network Settings. This sped up my internet browsing/Weather/E-mail for a few hours.....However, it always goes back to being slow after awhile. Maybe I'll get lucky this time and it'll last for a few days.
 
Ok.. Forget it... Spoke too soon... That lasted for about 15 mins.... Stupid 3G Data :(
 
I get dropped calls and no 3g in midtown during day hours(resetting the network fixes it for a while). But at midnite everything seems to be back to normal and 3g gets really good speeds. Lets hope they are working on it and adding more units, because sooner or later every one in the city will get one :) lol
 
I'm jailbroken and I've noticed an issue since Saturday. At first I thought it was the fact that my phone was jailbroken, but my coworker who came up from charlotte for the weekend has a demo iPhone 3g from AT&T and he also had issues connecting to the Internet.

I've restored a few times, both to jailbroken and stock firmwares and have noticed no improvement or pattern. It's been on and off since then, and I'm kinda glad to hear it's a network issue.

On a positve note I just updated to 2.0.2 and jailbroke it as well and now it's connecting as I type this. So let's see.
 
After getting "No Service" for a while, my 3G came back and I ran a speedtest this morning:

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Nice right? I'm glad we're paying $30 a month for this.
 
just got 237kbps, but hey, at least it's working today....

i have also not been getting push which im a little worried about
 
I work downtown, in one of these high rise offices and here on the 26th floor, it's EDGE only... even standing by the windows, where I have a direct view of the AT&T building BLOCKS away, still only EDGE.

I only get 3G for about 30 seconds when I reboot/resest the signal on the iPhone, then it goes back to EDGE.

But when I'm out and about on the streets, 3G kicks back in.
 
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