Post your 3G speed!

[Zaft]

Some of mine from today and the other day. I usually get close or around 2MB with my 3G.View attachment 419025View attachment 419026

What black magic is this? Sprint never gets these speeds I thought

 

[Connor77]

Isn't it impossible to get these speeds on 3G?

I get about 26 so no.

 

[jenni122701]

What black magic is this? Sprint never gets these speeds I thought

Around my lil town that's usually the norm. Though its not always that good. No black magic I'm afraid. Lol!

 

[falkedup]

Crazy speed here! ...can't wait for LTE lol

 

[a$ap]

My rooms like a dead zone too. On tmobiles "4G". LTE is quite fast tho

 

[cynics]

So we can all safely assume Verizon 3G is the absolute worst? Lol

 

[jonasdamn]

At my home it is about 12 Mbps, in city center over 20

 

[DcGamer05]

What black magic is this? Sprint never gets these speeds I thought

I get decent 3G with Sprint as well unless I'm on the other side of town no NV done there yet so speeds are abysmal. But most everywhere I go its been reliable especially as of late I think they are doing a ton of much overdue upgrades.

Although sprints 1900mhz sucks with building penetration and I find myself roaming on Verizon when in basements or deep inside buildings. Oh well.

 

[Apple Trees]

So we can all safely assume Verizon 3G is the absolute worst? Lol

No Sprint is the worst.

When it comes to 3G in the US T-Mobile has the edge on speeds thanks to DC-HSPA

1st - T-Mobile
2nd - AT&T
3rd - Verizon
Last - Sprint

The thing is that for those on Verizon with the iPhone 5, seeing the 3G symbol is a rare occurrence. It's also becoming more and more rare for AT&T users to see 3G data as well since their LTE network is maturing.

Sprint and T-mo users will be used to seeing 3G, "4G", "E", and "O" symbols on their iPhones for a long time to come.

 

[SONiC5]

I'd say Verizon and Sprint are tied for the worst 3G speeds.

 

[MattMJB0188]

I'd say Verizon and Sprint are tied for the worst 3G speeds.

Yes, they both screwed themselves with their CDMA/EV-DO technology. Now they want LTE, a GSM technology.

 

[2298754]

I'd say Verizon and Sprint are tied for the worst 3G speeds.

No way. Sprint is in a whole different class of fail. Why is it that VZW has over 100 million customers (most still with unlimited data), but can provide usable data everywhere, but Sprint can't do the same.

 

[DanBurns91]

Not too bad!

 

[SONiC5]

No way. Sprint is in a whole different class of fail. Why is it that VZW has over 100 million customers (most still with unlimited data), but can provide usable data everywhere, but Sprint can't do the same.

So I take it you surveyed every nook and cranny of both Verizon and Sprint's service areas in order to make that claim.

Both have suckish 3G networks, the difference is that Verizon's LTE coverage is vastly greater than Sprint's at the moment.

 

[Nermal]

DC-HSPA supports up to 43 Mb/s (theoretically).

My speed's relatively high at the moment because it's the weekend. On a business day I'd get about half of this:

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And here we are on a weekday:

Don't you love congestion?

 

[DcGamer05]

And here we are on a weekday:

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Don't you love congestion?

Ill say it before anyone else does. It's looks like your using Sprint. Lol

 

[cynics]

This is about the best I've ever gotten with Verizon in my area (Baltimore).

 

[Nermal]

Ill say it before anyone else does. It's looks like your using Sprint. Lol

I've made that joke myself

Interestingly, Telecom used to be partnered with Sprint (basically Sprint had much larger volumes and therefore better buying power, and would on-sell phones to Telecom for cheaper than Telecom could get them directly). That doesn't affect the network speed though... I just wish that I didn't live right next to a hill that blocks out the other two (faster!) networks

 

[Luis Ortega]

Hi!
I want to see how the 3G networks around the world performs.

Apparently, here in the UK, the iphone 5 is the slowest of all the smartphones.
The next iphone has a lot of catching up to do.

UK consumer magazine Which? has dropped a benchmark bucket on the iPhone, rating it the slowest of seven smartphones under test.

The magazine ran the Geekbench 2 test on seven phones – the iPhone 5, Samsung's Galaxy S4, the HTC One, Sony's Experia Z, Google's Nexus 4, the Samsung Galaxy Note 2, and the BlackBerry Z10.

With a Geekbench 2 score of 3,188, Apple's nemesis, the Galaxy S4, scored 91.6 percent better than the iPhone 5 on the test (scoring a limping 1,664), and 14 percent better than the number-two phone, the HTC One, which managed 2,798 on the test.

The result closely mirrors the same benchmark run in March 2013 by Android Authority, cited by Geekbench developer Primate Labs here. In that test, the S4 hit 3,163 and the iPhone 5 1,596.

It's hardly surprising, of course, that a more expensive device with a 1.9 GHz quad-core processor would outperform the dual-core 1.2 GHz iPhone 5. Which? notes that while getting the fastest on the market also mean forking out the highest price, in the midfield, it's less clear: the Sony Xperia Z was only fractionally ahead of the Google Nexus 4, but the latter is more than ₤200 ($US308, $AU334) more expensive than Sony's offering.

The test results will also be a disappointment for BlackBerry, which has been pinning hopes for a revival on its recently-released Z10, which only managed to score 1,698 on the Geekbench 2 tests.

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/06/25/galaxy_s4_way_faster_than_iphone_5_which/

 

[DcGamer05]

What exactly does this contribute to the topic? This is about 3G speeds not phones processing performance

Apparently, here in the UK, the iphone 5 is the slowest of all the smartphones.
The next iphone has a lot of catching up to do.



http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/06/25/galaxy_s4_way_faster_than_iphone_5_which/

 

[Zaft]

sprint is just screaming fast here in downtown manhatten.

 

[hexonxonx]

This is on a good day with AT&T. Sometimes I get 0.00 here in Denver.

 

[DcGamer05]

Wow that's pretty terrible thank god mine are slightly better than that

sprint is just screaming fast here in downtown manhatten.

 

[jenni122701]

Wow that's pretty terrible thank god mine are slightly better than that

Ditto. That's pretty sucky. :-/

 

[ty7u5]

I love sprint with unlimited data in my town