What is your 4g LTE experience

[TechnologyWritr]

Hi all,

I'm a writer looking to get a few people's opinions specifically about their AT&T 4G LTE experience for an article--good or bad. Is anyone willing to message/email/chat/talk? If so I'd much appreciate it.
Please contact me ASAP via private message. Shouldn't take more than a couple minutes.

Thanks in advance for the help
JC

 

[T_Yamamoto]

I'm on Verizon's

 

[Geekbabe]

4G LTE ? that's Verizon

 

[MDE]

I've had a great experience on Verizon's LTE network. I couldn't even tell you where AT&T has LTE coverage though...

 

[T_Yamamoto]

I've had a great experience on Verizon's LTE network. I couldn't even tell you where AT&T has LTE coverage though...

I know. At&t has 4G?

Ohhh that iPhone fake crap? Calling 3g as 4g? What a joke

 

[TechnologyWritr]

Actually AT&T does have 4G LTE, not just Verizon. It's just not as widespread as its "4G"-labeled HSPA+ service.

http://www.att.com/network/?

 

[bearxor]

Some of you guys seriously didn't know that AT&T had started rolling out LTE last year?

 

[T_Yamamoto]

Some of you guys seriously didn't know that AT&T had started rolling out LTE last year?

I knew. I was joking

 

[Oyeve]

If its anything like versizon's in nyc then its pretty damn horrible.

 

[alent1234]

how bad is LTE in NYC? ive been thinking about switching to VZW from AT&T

 

[Oyeve]

how bad is LTE in NYC? ive been thinking about switching to VZW from AT&T

Well, my job supplied phone is a droid razr and my personal phone is a tmobile sgs2. My sgs2 is at the very least 50% faster than the razr on 4glte. Most of the time it is 100% faster. the fastest I ever hit on speednet on the razr was 11mbps, on my tmo sgs2 I hit 20+mbps all the time. I think lte is saturated in nyc.

 

[alent1234]

the people i've seen with t-mo in NYC all have connection issues. one time a friend was only getting EDGE on his mytouch 4G when he came over last year

 

[TechnologyWritr]

So is anyone at all interested in chiming in with their personal experiences?

 

[vshah]

the people i've seen with t-mo in NYC all have connection issues. one time a friend was only getting EDGE on his mytouch 4G when he came over last year

indoors in large buildings is iffy, yes. but outside in nyc, tmo >>> all

 

[Aikouka]

Well, my job supplied phone is a droid razr and my personal phone is a tmobile sgs2. My sgs2 is at the very least 50% faster than the razr on 4glte. Most of the time it is 100% faster. the fastest I ever hit on speednet on the razr was 11mbps, on my tmo sgs2 I hit 20+mbps all the time. I think lte is saturated in nyc.

How's the latency on LTE though? ~10Mbps isn't too bad for latency-reliant services if the latency is good enough. It would be pretty sweet if I could use Splashtop over a mobile connection and it was close to a wired connection's response time.

 

[corkyg]

So is anyone at all interested in chiming in with their personal experiences?

Sure! Where I live and where I travel to, I feel lucky to get 3G. Most of the time it is 1XRTT. Just got a new Android with Verizon service, and we're luck to even get 1 bar of signal strength. 4G LTE? In my dreams!

And I tried AT&T - couldn't even connect to the Internet. Lower signal strength than Verizon.

 

[dagamer34]

This picture is worth 1000 words:

 

[TechnologyWritr]

whoa dagamer, is that your screenshot, or one someone else posted? If so, any chance I can hit you up for a quote? Sorry to keep pushing so hard on this, but for whatever reason no one seems to want to talk!

 

[ImDonly1]

If its anything like versizon's in nyc then its pretty damn horrible.

Well, my job supplied phone is a droid razr and my personal phone is a tmobile sgs2. My sgs2 is at the very least 50% faster than the razr on 4glte. Most of the time it is 100% faster. the fastest I ever hit on speednet on the razr was 11mbps, on my tmo sgs2 I hit 20+mbps all the time. I think lte is saturated in nyc.

I like how 11mbps is now horrible.
Horrible is ATT's network data not even working at all.

 

[dagamer34]

whoa dagamer, is that your screenshot, or one someone else posted? If so, any chance I can hit you up for a quote? Sorry to keep pushing so hard on this, but for whatever reason no one seems to want to talk!

Yeah, it's mine, but I returned the phone already. I should state that that was a max, not an average.

 

[T_Yamamoto]

I need a closer server

Will edit when I get full bars and run speed test

best I've gotten on the bus.

 

[Oyeve]

I like how 11mbps is now horrible.
Horrible is ATT's network data not even working at all.

If you actually comprehended what I wrote you would see that I stated 11mps on the razr on lte was the HIGHEST it ever hit. It averages around 3-5 mbps, which is mediocre 3g speed imo.

 

[T_Yamamoto]

If you actually comprehended what I wrote you would see that I stated 11mps on the razr on lte was the HIGHEST it ever hit. It averages around 3-5 mbps, which is mediocre 3g speed imo.

I've gone up to 20+ mbps

 

[SynthDude2001]

So is anyone at all interested in chiming in with their personal experiences?

I've been really happy with AT&T's LTE service...though speeds vary pretty wildly depending on where I am. I usually average 10-12mbps down around town, 25mbps on campus (Texas A&M), as much as 40-50mbps when I'm in Houston or Austin with full signal. Upload is usually around 10mbps in College Station, 20mbps in Houston/Austin.

Considering I was lucky to consistently hit 1mbps here with T-Mobile before, I'm pretty pleased.

 

[EvilYoda]

It's been great when I've been in cities with coverage (New Orleans, Chicago, DC). Damn fast, great to tether my computer with...just eats up battery life but I expected that.