Verizon users- check you speed. XLTE is active TODAY!

[cmdrdredd]

Why are you switching?

Price mostly. I can save a bit on the bill. It also doesn't hurt that there's more GSM phone options.

Most major devices are on Verizon too (notably no Nexus devices now) so I can overlook that. However, is it worth paying more to stay on this XLTE? It'll be about a $70 per month difference.

 

[Muadib]

Price mostly. I can save a bit on the bill. It also doesn't hurt that there's more GSM phone options.

Most major devices are on Verizon too (notably no Nexus devices now) so I can overlook that. However, is it worth paying more to stay on this XLTE? It'll be about a $70 per month difference.

Depends on how you feel about speeds then. I have at&t with an S4 with 3 bars LTE, and average around 5Mbps down, and 4.5Mbps up at 620pm. At work I get about 3Mbps down, but only 1Mbps up, with 2 bars LTE. Is the boost in speed worth another $70? Only you can decide that.

 

[Suspicious-Teach8788]

Depends on how you feel about speeds then. I have at&t with an S4 with 3 bars LTE, and average around 5Mbps down, and 4.5Mbps up at 620pm. At work I get about 3Mbps down, but only 1Mbps up, with 2 bars LTE. Is the boost in speed worth another $70? Only you can decide that.

Meh I get those speeds on HPSA easily. On LTE I'm well over 20mbps. I suppose YMMV. At LAX I was hauling in less than 1mbps on LTE.

 

[Fritzo]

Quite an improvement! Especially for me on my uml295!

Curiously my Lumia Icon doesn't do so well, significantly faster but doesn't touch what other phones are bringing down even within the vicinity.

My friend's Moto X can't hit the speeds either. Wonder if the processor has something to do with it.

 

[Fritzo]

Depends on how you feel about speeds then. I have at&t with an S4 with 3 bars LTE, and average around 5Mbps down, and 4.5Mbps up at 620pm. At work I get about 3Mbps down, but only 1Mbps up, with 2 bars LTE. Is the boost in speed worth another $70? Only you can decide that.

My problem with ATT is they can never seem to hold a call indoors, no matter what city I'm in.

 

[tsupersonic]

Verizon turned on XLTE today, and HOLY CRAP it's fast:

My max was 50/35 when I had Verizon. I generally averaged anywhere from 30-45 down, and 20-30 up

 

[bearxor]

Odd the iPhone 5C is supported but not the 5.

The iPhone 5C isn't exactly just a repackaged iPhone 5. It shares the same radio system as the 5S, in case you were wondering.

 

[Demo24]

So in terms of congestion, I imagine this means Verizon will have some spectrum in 700 MHz and some in AWS. Will the towers be smart enough to split the frequencies amongst the thousands of data hungry users in the vicinity? I'd hate to have to manually switch to AWS to get respectable speeds.

As far as I can tell that is what its doing. I also see no way, uness someone wrote an app, to switch between the two.

My friend's Moto X can't hit the speeds either. Wonder if the processor has something to do with it.

Curious how my gnex was able to pul mid 30's back in the early days of LTE, now my brand new icon can only do that on xlte.

One question I do have though is whether this will improve LTE signal? Will it penetrate buildings better or be about the same?

 

[bearxor]

As long as the signal is there, compatible VZW phones and those released going forward will use both bands simultaneously, aggregating bandwidth across both sets of frequencies.

Edit: Can't find confirmation that VZW is doing aggregation, it might simply be a failover network. Will need to do some more research later.

 

[Fritzo]

My max was 50/35 when I had Verizon. I generally averaged anywhere from 30-45 down, and 20-30 up

Maybe that's before a lot of people started using 4G. My speeds were like that too the first week or so, then went to 8-10Mbs.

 

[Anubis]

when i tested yesterday when i read this post i got

0.34 Mbps down and 0.51 Mbps up

Yes that was on 4g 2 bars and im in an area that says it was upgraded
later i got 15/3
then 4.6/4.7

this morning it was 21.44/6.86 - which is about as fast as it alwys has been. dont think ive ever seen it over 25 down and 15 up ever

 

[olds]

Galaxy S4 in Sacramento, CA

 

[cmdrdredd]

Like some have said before I used to get these speeds from normal LTE, now I don't get close.

 

[bearxor]

If it's on in Charlotte, I can't tell. I have a Pantech UML295, which is listed as a compatible device. Still getting around 5Mbps up/down.

I'm working closer to uptown Charlotte tomorrow, might try it again to see if there's just a limited number of towers up.

 

[basslover1]

I never understood people that say this- does twice the speed automatically mean you'll use it twice as much?

Well, if all you're doing is speed tests then yea. A single speed test over T-Mo LTE for me (12-25 mb/s) gobbles up about 80+ mb.

 

[mikegg]

I'm quite happy with my T-Mobile speeds. With HSPA, I get 5/1 speeds. With LTE, I get 20/10 speeds. There's nothing I can't do on my phone with a 5/1 connection. Most of my city is already covered with LTE.

I also have truly unlimited LTE speeds.

 

[paperwastage]

Well, if all you're doing is speed tests then yea. A single speed test over T-Mo LTE for me (12-25 mb/s) gobbles up about 80+ mb.

T-Mo whitelisted several speedtesting apps/servers, so that they don't count against your data bucket... but then T-Mo could be treating speedtests differently (like higher priority)

http://www.reddit.com/r/tmobile/com...snt_seem_to_count_speed_tests_as_data/cgfapp3

 

[basslover1]

T-Mo whitelisted several speedtesting apps/servers, so that they don't count against your data bucket... but then T-Mo could be treating speedtests differently (like higher priority)

http://www.reddit.com/r/tmobile/com...snt_seem_to_count_speed_tests_as_data/cgfapp3

Didn't know that. I'm just going on what Android tells me my data usage is. However, this may not be the same for other carriers so YMMV.

 

[isekii]

I'm quite happy with my T-Mobile speeds. With HSPA, I get 5/1 speeds. With LTE, I get 20/10 speeds. There's nothing I can't do on my phone with a 5/1 connection. Most of my city is already covered with LTE.

I also have truly unlimited LTE speeds.

Same. I get great speed on tmobile

 

[hanoverphist]

its pretty sad that i can go to nogales and hit 28mbps (before this new stuff) but here in the valley i still cant peak over 14. i ran the speedtest a few times last night when i was finally in 4g territory, and never got above 9mbps. it was usually at 4ish. and down around 1.4 for about 40 minutes. yay.