Post your AT&T 4G Speed's :) - America's True Largest HSPA+ network

[RCtennis3811]

Speaking for only your area.

And his only post ;-)

[JoeyDee]

well all the local cell towers here are fiber fed... i know cause i have a buddy that works for at$t construction and thats what he does.... pulls fiber to the cell cites.
But i have yet to break past 3Mbps on my phone nor my company issued laptop with at$t 3g on it... So either there are a LOT of people suking up all the data from every tower i access or its not hot yet....

Is your device hspa 7.2 or is it hsdpa 3.6? If it's 3.6, that's the bottleneck there.

On a side note, how many iPhone are on AT&T? I know they're on pace to retake the top spot for total subscribers away from verizon this quarter, I'm curious how big a role iPhones are :P

[-banned-]

Is your device hspa 7.2 or is it hsdpa 3.6? If it's 3.6, that's the bottleneck there.

nope its an iPhone 3GS rated at 7.2M...

On a side note, how many iPhone are on AT&T? I know they're on pace to retake the top spot for total subscribers away from verizon this quarter, I'm curious how big a role iPhones are :P

a few million from the last time i asked an at$t store rep.. but most of the at$t network issues were from manhattan & somewhere in california... all due to the iPhone...

so either im hitting all the congested towers.. or those towers are not setup for 7.2M yet... if im within the downtown area, my speeds are always around ~500kb, once i leave the downtown area and head away from it, then my speeds go up to 3M but never have exceeded 3.6M...
And most of my travel and work is within the downtown area so my tethering is limited to ~500kb...

[JoeyDee]

nope its an iPhone 3GS rated at 7.2M...
...

Interesting. Does anyone here with an iPhone 4 in an HSPA+ area still have a 3GS they can do a speedtest on? Im curious if a 3GS can actually get the same speedtests an iPhone 4 can. MY 3gs I used to have used to max out at around 6mbps on wifi, my iPhone 4 maxes out at 10-11. . . .

[zephxiii]

3GS is 7.2, but it does not have HSUPA. From what I've seen, iPhone4 out performs the 3GS in most DL situations, UL, and most importantly latency.

[Soulstice X]

3GS is 7.2, but it does not have HSUPA. From what I've seen, iPhone4 out performs the 3GS in most DL situations, UL, and most importantly latency.

I'm assuming it is the same situation with the iPad. I did some speedtests with the iphone 4 next to my iPad and it totally blew it out of the water. I want to get one but I'm holding off. I'm using the iPad data to kind of test the waters with the 2Gb cap and see how that works.

[zephxiii]

Yea, iPad has same setup as 3gs.

[-banned-]

MY 3gs I used to have used to max out at around 6mbps on wifi, my iPhone 4 maxes out at 10-11. . . .

the fastest ive got on my 3GS on Wifi was 12.8Mbps... on a 10M broadband svc
But i dont personally know anyone with an iPhone 4 that i can do a speed test with to see if their phone will pass 3.6M while mine stays below.... All i know is that my 3GS has never hit 3.6M and neither has the laptop...

[-banned-]

Yea, iPad has same setup as 3gs.

yes the iPad and iPhone 4 are both rated at 7.2M but have the 1ghz processor which will make the speed "seem" faster.

[JoeyDee]

Take a look at my sig, West Palm, FL. Oddly enough, I can't get that high on my iPhone. . . Maybe it's because I'm on WAP apn? (Employee plan)

[-banned-]

Maybe it's because I'm on WAP apn?

all the apns lead u to the same place... The internet ..

[JoeyDee]

all the apns lead u to the same place... The internet ..

And there's a thing called QoS that the ISP apn has that WAP does not. That's why ISP gets sub 100ms pings. What I'm asking is if someone knows of a speed cap with WAP...

[iansltx]

So, unloocked my first-get webConnect Rocket stick, which supports HSPA+ on both 850/1900 (AT&T freqs) and 1700 (T-Mobile freq). Tested today in Golden, CO...Denver Metro (so T-Mo has HSPA+) but nobody appears to have more than 3 Mbps going to any given tower here. Yet anyway...WiMAX stops ~3.3 miles from here as the crow flies, more if you're indoors.

Anyway, Denver doesn't seem to be a strong point for AT&T's network by any stretch. While speeds were faster at my apartment than T-Mobile (2.4/1.2 vs. 1.9/0.6) the AT&T connection's latency was all over the place after the first several seconds of the connection, mostly in the several-hundred-millisecond range. T-Mobile's latency OTOH was on the order of 70ms, with valleys as low as 50ms...and TMobile gets routed through Denver to Level3 and XO rather than through Dallas to AT&T. End result: T-Mobile, while slower, had a better conection experience than AT&T.

In answer to the questions that will invariably come up...

1. T-Mobile hits 6-10 Mbps closer in to town (~6 Mbps at Colorado Mills) on downloads. Uploads have been topping out at 650 kbps from what I've seen on their network.
2. I am not a T-Mobile fanboi. My main phone is Sprint. I own an iPhone (first-gen). I have used AT&T aircards for months at a time in the past.
3. For those thinking that subpar 850/1900 support in the Huawei modem is dragging AT&T performance down, I will start A-B testing with my (locked to AT&T) USBConnect 881 and see where that gets me. Testing will start next week...that modem is currently 900 miles away but I'll be in that location over Thanksgiving break...and T-Mobile only has GPRS there.
4. I'm suing T-Mobile's no-overages (5GB then throttled), $40 non-contract aircard plan and AT&T's 1GB, $50 DataConnect month pass. I didn't want to pay $36 to activate, plus $60 + taxes - 15% discount for AT&T's 5GB non-contract plan. Been there, done that, not interested.
5. No I am not a T-Mobile fanboi. I own a Virgin Mobile MC760 (Novatel, Sprint), a CompCal A600 (CricKet, no surprise that it won't pass data to the CricKet network even though it connects to it) and a USBConnect 881 (Sierra, AT&T) in addition to the Huawei T-obile stick. My main phone is Sprint. I have access to a Droid (Verizon). I'm on Sprint because they have 3G where I need it (T-Mobile doesn't) and aren't priced sky-high.

Any other questions?

[iansltx]

One more thing: AT&T doesn't have HSPA+ turned on in the Denver area. Their contention that they're covering a few hundred million people with H+ is a bald-faced lie. I may be the first person to test this in the Denver area (again, the Huawei E1831 supporst HSPA+ on AT&T bands as well as T-Mobile ones) but 'tain't here yet.

[JoeyDee]

One more thing: AT&T doesn't have HSPA+ turned on in the Denver area. Their contention that they're covering a few hundred million people with H+ is a bald-faced lie. I may be the first person to test this in the Denver area (again, the Huawei E1831 supporst HSPA+ on AT&T bands as well as T-Mobile ones) but 'tain't here yet.

Just because Denver doesn't have it doesn't men it's a lie. The NY metro area has it, which is 30M people by itself, and apparently s Florida has it according to speeds I'm getting, which is 15-20M, so between two metro markets there's roughly 50M, just a few more cities and there ya go. I would imagine Denver is coming soon though....

Now only if I can get an internal mobile broadband card that's hspa+....