I live in Southeast Missouri and it seems that when I'm at work (full bars of H signal) I get horrible data speed. My phone won't even load the Xda app. I've been through about 3 different modems and still get the same result. Is there anything I can do or is Att just f###ing us Android users again?
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The Bars indicate the signal strength and not necessarily the quality of your data connection. It is possible to have a good signal but still have slow speeds / poor data quality. It's like that where I work too. I've go good bars but the speed is slow. My coworker called ATT about it and they said they were in the process of getting new towers installed, or upgrade the old ones or something like that, in our area in order to increase the speeds available in the area. ATT told us that they do not throttle speeds but that it was an issue with the quality of the data connection in our area due to the towers in the area and how many people were using them versus the amount of bandwidth the available towers were capable of providing. I hope that gives you a better idea of what is probably going on for you.
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I've seen alot of posts about people doing this. Why would you want to slow down your speed?
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Switching that only slows down internet transmission speed, so if you weren't using your data, or had no immediate plans to you could switch to EDGE- there's a significant difference in battery drain while using 3G
O ok. That makes sense. Think I'll look into that for when I'm at work. Thanks
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Some of us don't have 3G available anywhere near us lol
I keep mine on EDGE because there is a 3G tower just close enough to my house that my phone wants to switch to it constantly. I get about 0-2 bars off that tower but the non-3G tower 2 miles from my house gives me 5 bars. Battery life is nice, too.
Because some people get crappy 3g service but good 2g or edge and the captivate always uses the 3g when available so it can slow your phones internet down
I have cognition rom and instead of having 3g I have this H internet. It sits on 3g for a milla second then switches to H. My buddy with iphone four is getting way higher speed tests than me, why can't I get 3g and get better speeds?
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Since this has only been answered 100 times in the past three weeks...
http://lmgtfy.com/?q=H+instead+of+3g+XDA
AND as far as the better speeds for the Iphone go......you can Google that as well............ I'm guessing your on At&T?
I don't know why but my buddies 3g was consistently hitting 300-350 kbs. The max I was hitting was like 150. We were right next to each other when we were testing this, I guess that the iphone blows the captivate away in 3g reception and speed. Also in the spotty areas he was keeping his 3g and I was dropping down to edge. Kinda disappointed . Had anyone else noticed that the 3g reception isn't that good our is it just my area?
jamezz23 said:
I have cognition rom and instead of having 3g I have this H internet. It sits on 3g for a milla second then switches to H. My buddy with iphone four is getting way higher speed tests than me, why can't I get 3g and get better speeds?
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this is why i hate american cell providers, they want you to remain ignorant. it's not your fault but it is funny that people arent familiar with grps, edge, hspa, and hspa+ it is like they are telling you that you are too stupid to understand so you dont need to know.
the cdma providers are the worst. but att should be proud of having hspa, but i think they want to hide the fact that it is not available in all 3g areas. instead they advertise the hspa speeds as there 3g speeds as hspa works on there 3g network. they dont distinguish the two so you think there network is so much faster in so many places
meanwhile verizon advertises the hspa coverage for att as 3g coverage to make att's coverage look smaller. they say they have so much more coverage, if they showed a current 3g map for att instead of the hspa coverage you would not see a big difference at all. also cdma 3g is totally different from what att has and is not a fair comparison in the first place. how can you compare coverage if the speed is not comparable?
Comparing phones side by side with speed test is also not the best way to test which device is faster, especially if they are on the same network. I am annoyed by the input on this device or Id go in depth. Use some google-foo and read on cell phone signaling and theory and youll see what I mean.
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I see the H+ symbol on my data speed intermittently in Las Vegas with my International Note. A few minutes, then it's gone, it comes and goes. There was a point at about 4am in the morning where I had it for a good 30 minutes. Can someone explain why that is? I thought the International version is only capable of EDGE on t-mobile. Is there a hack or root that can give me H+ in Southern California?
Please advise, thanks!
A friend told me that tmobile is quietly rolling out 1900mhz in select areas. I'm guessing this is why you sometimes get H+ speeds on the note, which doesn't officially get it nationwide on tmobile network. It's good news but it doesn't mean you will have 3g or better speeds everywhere.
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several factors could be the cause
If network has fast dormancy and its switched on(default) then the phone will role back to lower speeds until you actively use network again. It is then a feature not a bug.
Could be reception of data network in city theoretically reception could be lost/weakened by buildings, moving or standing still traffic, etc. Anything from cell tower reach to phone to anything obstructing the radio waves.
Could be battery saving app
Could be settings on phone to conserve battery
Could be buggy modem
etc
Given these you can eliminate. If you battery and speed when using network is not adversely reacted then ignore
edit: roaming on other network could also be a cause. Best switch that off(is default off)
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My phone is showing 4G LTE icon with either full bars or close to it, yet my speeds are horrible. Speed test app would show like 0.29 Mbps on average. I've seen this phone reach high speeds like 39 Mbps elsewhere, but around here it's pretty bad. Data speeds would be slow or I get connection time out errors. During less busy times, I might sometimes reach 1-4 Mbps, but that's temporary. Is there something I could do to get some usable speeds? I remember back in tmo gs1 days, I could edit the build.prop with some lines and improved my speeds. I am on a 910T3 rooted phone with a custom rom on a DOK2 modem. Thank you.
They may working on tower close to you. Call tmo tech support and let them know. I remember when similar situation was going in my area, switching to 4g instead lte gave me faster download/upload speeds.
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darekz said:
They may working on tower close to you. Call tmo tech support and let them know. I remember when similar situation was going in my area, switching to 4g instead lte gave me faster download/upload speeds.
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They recently put up Extended Range LTE in my city, but the speeds/signal look like the same as before. I guess I'll contact them. Thanks.
Hello guys/girls !
I'm using JIO as service provider in India for my Nexus 6. I've recently noticed my speed gone down drastically. Wondering, I downloaded Signal Spy app and found that, when my mobile is locking to specific tower (Found using GCI code), speed is going down to 200 Kbps (transfer speeds of 20Kbps) but when it is locking to different tower speed is going way up (10 Mbps). Sadly as expected my mobile always locks to the poor tower. So just thinking is it possible to blacklist that specific tower? HELP !
People have been asking about blacklisting specific towers since at least 2013, and the answer for all of them has been the same: it can't be done. The hardware isn't designed to do what you want it to do. All the hardware does it find the strongest signal and connect using that. Unfortunately for you, the strongest signal has the lower bandwidth.
The only advice I can give you is this: you either need to switch to a carrier that has better throughput in your area, or you need to move closer to that other tower.