Sprint looks to rock your world

[lothar]

I get those too (Straight Talk), but you took them at 9-10PM. At 12-4 PM and you will get 1-2 Mbps.

I will test sometime between 1-2PM later today and post an updated result.
I'm on Straight Talk also.

 

[soccerballtux]

Network Vision is their roadmap for how they're going to plan out their network, using spectrum they currently own and the spectrum from the Nextel purchase years ago. The new spectrums have far better building penetration.

Congradulations you should be a marketing exec, I still have no idea what it technically does.

 

[soccerballtux]

I typically get about 150-200KB/s on EDGE on T-Mobile. I was getting 80-100KB/s on Sprint's 3G, on a fast day.

uh.....
"EDGE can carry a bandwidth up to 236.8 kbit/s (with end-to-end latency of less than 150 ms) for 4 timeslots (theoretical maximum is 473.6 kbit/s for 8 timeslots) in packet mode."
--wikipedia

You're getting a maximum of 60KB if you use the ENTIRE tower's EDGE spectrum...

 

[soccerballtux]

Chiming in, here in Houston I've been getting sub 200kbps transfers (that's kiloBITS, not bytes) on Sprint's 3G for the past eight months or so. It was nothing great for the year before that. I've been terribly disappointed with their data networks, both in Houston and the few other cities I've been to since switching for the Evo 4G last year at launch.

hm, it must be hit or miss.

 

[soccerballtux]

I will test sometime between 1-2PM later today and post an updated result.
I'm on Straight Talk also.

me too.

How much do you guys use per day/month? I try to stay under 100MB/day and 2GB/month.
Typically I've been at 35MB max/day with music streaming to/from work and webbrowsing.
I am trying to justify not worrying about my daily consumption.

 

[CupCak3]

We'll see how well they well they roll this out. With how they've failed with WiMAX deployment, my faith is not strong. I believe Vision to an excellent idea with the 3 spectrums running on each tower; my major concern is if the 800mhz spectrum will be too heavily relied upon. If it gets over saturated, it could be same 'ol BS speeds if they don't have enough spectrum at 800mhz to handle the # and needs of the connected users.

hm, it must be hit or miss.

me too.

How much do you guys use per day/month? I try to stay under 100MB/day and 2GB/month.
Typically I've been at 35MB max/day with music streaming to/from work and webbrowsing.
I am trying to justify not worrying about my daily consumption.

Congradulations you should be a marketing exec, I still have no idea what it technically does.

Multiquote FTL:thumbsdown:

 

[Brian Stirling]

I have little faith that Sprint will ever pull there head out of there *ss with coverage. There deployment of WiMax was terrible and in less time Verizon has way surpassed Sprint for high speed data. Verizon was 6 months to a year later than Sprint/Clear in going to 4G (WiMax/LTE) but Verizon has vastly greater coverage of LTE than Sprint ever had with WiMax.

There are lots of folks here and elsewhere that think the carriers are rolling in money but Sprint has been holding on by there finger tips and managing a huge infrastructure rollout is not something they are good at -- they just don't have the money or the interest to do it right. Verizon and ATT, for all the negative things we say about them, usually justified, do a much better job managing upgrades.


Brian

 

[Bateluer]

Congradulations you should be a marketing exec, I still have no idea what it technically does.

Thought I was pretty clear. The Network Vision is simply a document that gives their shareholders and customers an overview of what their general network plans for a given time period. Its the same as Intel/AMD releasing a road map of new CPU code names with rough feature sets for the next couple years. It doesn't actually do anything itself.

 

[ElFenix]

Chiming in, here in Houston I've been getting sub 200kbps transfers (that's kiloBITS, not bytes) on Sprint's 3G for the past eight months or so. It was nothing great for the year before that. I've been terribly disappointed with their data networks, both in Houston and the few other cities I've been to since switching for the Evo 4G last year at launch.

eh? my wimax speeds are often faster than my home dsl here in houston. and much better than the dsl ever since att's shoddy repair to the line after it was cut during some construction.

 

[Brian Stirling]

eh? my wimax speeds are often faster than my home dsl here in houston. and much better than the dsl ever since att's shoddy repair to the line after it was cut during some construction.

My Comcast internet averages about 8Mbps whereas my SGNexus with LTE is averaging more like 17Mbps and over 23Mbps at times.

I was never able to get much better than 6Mbps with WiMax (HTC Evo 4G) and the average was closer to 3Mbps -- when I could find 4G, most of the time it was 3G and maybe 300kbps.


Brian

 

[soccerballtux]

Thought I was pretty clear. The Network Vision is simply a document that gives their shareholders and customers an overview of what their general network plans for a given time period. Its the same as Intel/AMD releasing a road map of new CPU code names with rough feature sets for the next couple years. It doesn't actually do anything itself.

right, it's not some new technology that's magically going to enhance coverage

 

[lothar]

I get those too (Straight Talk), but you took them at 9-10PM. At 12-4 PM and you will get 1-2 Mbps.

 

[lothar]

me too.

How much do you guys use per day/month? I try to stay under 100MB/day and 2GB/month.
Typically I've been at 35MB max/day with music streaming to/from work and webbrowsing.
I am trying to justify not worrying about my daily consumption.

3G:

WiFi:

My usage is atypical...In fact I think this entire month has been atypical for me because I have been a bit much busier than usual. This is probably the lowest data I've ever used since I've had my phone at the end of September last year.

1.) I'm not one of those people that has time to be streaming Netflix movies on my phone. I neither have the time nor want to put my eyes through the trouble of watching a TV program or video for extended periods of hours on a 4.3" screen.
2.) I don't stream music or cloud anything yet...That's what my 32GB Micro SD card + 16GB integrated the phone comes with is for. I haven't started doing Pandora, Spotify, Amazon, Google Music and others because I believe what I have is currently sufficient. If I need those services, I can always evaluate my options.
3.) Opera Mobile with the "Opera Turbo: Off when on Wi-Fi"
4.) Google Maps cache. I have the entirety of DC, Baltimore City, and every single where in between them cached.
5.) LBE Privacy Guard. I use it to block stupid permissions that some apps ask for that aren't required for them to do their job. Ex: location request from NPR app and others, reading/writing contacts or SMS, accessing Network, etc...

As a general rule, I don't monitor my data usage. If I need to use it(data), I use it(data).
I'm confident enough in my data usage to not depend on monitoring programs because I don't see myself streaming Netflix or Amazon Prime anytime soon.
Basically, I only have this software installed for novelty value.

 

[AznAnarchy99]

Sprint has lost me as a customer for life. Constant 0.10-0.40 mbit 3G speeds with spotty 4G service for over a year and to them it was working as intended. Switched to Tmobile and then Verizon and Ive never looked back.

 

[ImDonly1]

me too.

How much do you guys use per day/month? I try to stay under 100MB/day and 2GB/month.
Typically I've been at 35MB max/day with music streaming to/from work and webbrowsing.
I am trying to justify not worrying about my daily consumption.

The first month I got my phone I think I did 1.5GB. When I was at work and bored I would surf the web, getting maybe 70-100MB/day once a week.

Now my use has went down. This month I think I used 1 GB almost. I don't stream anything just web browsing, e-mail, calendar sync, sometimes google maps, or downloading PDFs sometimes. I don't really worry about the data use either. I don't think I will ever get to 2GB unless I stream. I'm using an iPhone 4.

I only went over 2GB on Sprint when I tethered or streamed usually.