Verizon 4G LTE Speed Test Results: POST EM' HERE!

[ben7337]

So hwertz, does that mean LTE has only one channel? So all of the EVDO on 850mhz and 1900mhz and such combined only adds up to 1.25mhz? Or is it that one phone can connect on one channel and the amount of spectrum for evdo is much more than 1.25mhz? And if that is the case, how is it that LTE only has 1 channel total? Does that mean only one phone on a tower at a time? I'm not sure I'm fully getting it here, though I want to understand how this works to get just how verizon really can provide significantly faster speeds in the long run as I am highly disappointed with their 3g which is all they still offer in the areas I live in, and I'm not expecting them to hold up to any 4g promises either at this point.

[hwertz]

So hwertz, does that mean LTE has only one channel? So all of the EVDO on 850mhz and 1900mhz and such combined only adds up to 1.25mhz? Or is it that one phone can connect on one channel and the amount of spectrum for evdo is much more than 1.25mhz? And if that is the case, how is it that LTE only has 1 channel total? Does that mean only one phone on a tower at a time? I'm not sure I'm fully getting it here, though I want to understand how this works to get just how verizon really can provide significantly faster speeds in the long run as I am highly disappointed with their 3g which is all they still offer in the areas I live in, and I'm not expecting them to hold up to any 4g promises either at this point.

There's as many EVDO channels as VZW deployed in an area. It's just the phone can use one at a time. In my area (cellular-only) VZW has 3 EVDO channels (and could use more, but don't have any PCS to run it in, and can't turn off any 1X either.) Similarly with LTE, there's probably 1 channel in a lot of areas but could be more. For EVDO, it strictly uses timeslots so within your timeslot you are the only user on that EVDO channel; LTE uses both timeslots and simultaneous channel usage.

As for keeping 4G speeds up long term, I figure...

1) more spectrum. VZW has 700mhz spectrum, as well as AWS (1700/2100mhz) spectrum for LTE, and long term (once enough users have LTE phones) they could reuse some of the 800/1900mhz spectrum for LTE. This alone will help a lot, they've really got quite a lot of 700 and AWS. Technically EVDO could run on these I suppose but it's not (well, other than MetroPCS, who DOES run CDMA and/or EVDO on AWS.)

2) Faster speeds get each individual user off the channel quicker. Pre-streaming some slacker radio, or a youtube video, will be almost instant at LTE speeds, versus taking several seconds on EVDO. Meaning, in aggregate, you'll be sharing the channel with fewer users.

3) As for the heavy user, I read a few years ago when Japanese ISPs began running 100mbps service, contrary to (US ISP especially) conventional wisdom that heavy users will max out any connection they get 24/7, they found even the heaviest users were having their bittorrents and junk finish faster than they could come up with new ones. I suspect this could be the case with LTE as well.

4) Network management. If all else fails, hopefully they'll get over these capped plans, but network management does help. What the satellite ISPs do is have unlimited usage, but they have a MB bucket, say 500MB, when that MB bucket empties the user is throttled. If the user quits using data, the bucket refills at the throttled rate. Overnight, since usage is light, the MBs are not measured and no throttling occurs. Users like in #3 could easily be kept from impacting everyone else either through a thorttle, or giving "lowest priority" network access until they lighten up.

[Trocks797]

OK I've been drinking a little but hey its all excusable since I've been cheering my CATS ON TO VICTORY OVER THE CARDS!!!!...yeah we're in the CHAMPIONSHIP game baby! Anyway so with the cats based in Lexington and the cards based in Louisville, you can imagine how much of a madhouse Louisville is tonight. Nonetheless, with only 1 bar of EVDO, since this bar is not near a cell site, I pulled respectable speeds RIGHT AFTER the game...AT&T is gridlocked here. Surprise surprise..




Verizon has deployed two COWS in the city that I have seen so far but I'm not near them at the moment. So the test results in this post are from a site pretty far away but speeds are grrrreat!!!! So anyway 3G and 4G looking great in one of the most crowded cities in the nation tonight!! GO CATS!!!!!



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[jweek]

tethered from my ipad

[AlexKidd1977]

Got this one just a few nights ago, from a friend's house using my Xoom tablet:



--Kidd

[mariol90]

speeds are all over the place, close to a monopole with LTE they are 15-30 mbit/sec down and 10-13 up, but a little further away they drop to 3-6 down and ~1 up. pings are always 80-100ms with comcast servers.
does this happen with anyone else? even within a half mile to a mile, the speeds will drop that low.


near school (26.46572,-81.78721) which is pretty bad. I get the same speeds at home. usually disabling LTE makes the connection a bit more reliable.

[mac.]

You guys have some great speeds. I can only get 7-8 on dl and 2-3 up.

[Kilj0y]

Mountain home,ID(town of 10k people) just got LTE 2 weeks ago these are my speeds.


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[Trocks797]

Mountain home,ID(town of 10k people) just got LTE 2 weeks ago these are my speeds.

Looks like a mixed bag...were the signal strengths different?



Here are some more LTE/EVDO speeds from the Louisville Metro area.

First off is a site located on a water tower just over the bridge in southern Indiana (see pics here):







Second is a site along I-65 in Louisville (see pics here):

[Kilj0y]

They were all full strength but using different servers sometimes it would pick a server in a different state sometimes a closer server sometimes a little further. I think it was because Verizon was working on the towers at the time. I am no longer experiencing outages.

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[MarkyD]

At the staples center. Filled to the brim for Thunder v. Clippers


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[MarkyD]

Rezound in rural OK, on a site backhauled by microwave:

[AlexKidd1977]

Rezound in rural OK, on a site backhauled by microwave:

Scrumptious!

--Kidd

[ben7337]

Here's what I've been seeing in Burlington, VT. Wish downloads were faster though given how high uploads seem to be. Maybe just my phone though. Either way above Verizon's overall 4g average by pcmag and not too shabby.

[Trocks797]

Here's what I've been seeing in Burlington, VT. Wish downloads were faster though given how high uploads seem to be. Maybe just my phone though. Either way above Verizon's overall 4g average by pcmag and not too shabby.

Nice! Truth be told, your slowest speed was just under 6mbps, which is right in Verizon's range of advertised speeds. If there is something you can't do with 6mbps to your phone, I surely don't know what it is! I know we all get spoiled from speed test results like the one in my sig, but we have to understand things will change....it's the nature of the beast!


Anywho, here are some speeds from this weekend around Kentucky.

First: Thursday night at the Chow Wagon at Riverfront Park downtown. Pretty big crowd:

LTE:



EVDO:



Second: Friday, Oaks Day, at Churchill Downs with the massive mess of people. Over 112,000 people showed up.

LTE:



EVDO:


Both EVDO and LTE were stressed, but in typical fashion, Verizon was the only usable carrier there. AT&T did better with voice calling (intermittent), but data was dead the whole day. Verizon voice calling was great!

Yesterday in downtown Lexington at Rupp Arena for the University of Kentucky May Graduation:

LTE:



EVDO:



Fantastic speeds coming out of Lexington, especially considering the large event taking place at the time!