Post Your Straight Talk Speedtests

[Gman91]

What kind of increases would i see? I hate guessing especially when i have to pay full price for a phone.

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[poki]

It depends on your area. I recently moved, but I was getting around 10-12 mbps on a Galaxy Nexus (HSPA 21 device) but my new area I am only getting around 6-8 mbps. When I switched to a HTC One S, I jumped back up to the 10-12 mbps range. All of your speeds depend on the max speed of your cellular radio on your device and the network in the area.

[Gman91]

It depends on your area. I recently moved, but I was getting around 10-12 mbps on a Galaxy Nexus (HSPA 21 device) but my new area I am only getting around 6-8 mbps. When I switched to a HTC One S, I jumped back up to the 10-12 mbps range. All of your speeds depend on the max speed of your cellular radio on your device and the network in the area.

On campus or even in the city I attend college I get 2 bars at most. In buildings I get nothing Where as my buddy gets 3g with his incredible on Verizon. Cnet has a coverage map I've been looking at, ratings go as followed
Verizon>AT&T>Sprint>T-mobile
I have a strange feeling I would get over all better coverage and maybe speeds with Verizons EVDO network. But like my previous post said, I wish I could attain hard evidence. Would a dealership let me walk in and download speed test on a phone to check speeds?

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[poki]

My experience has been that dealers have most of their phones loaded up with speedtest.net apps already. Verizons EVDO speeds cap out around 1.5-2mbps. If you are still getting reception and data speeds seem to be fine, it really shouldn't matter how many bars you are getting.

[Gman91]

My experience has been that dealers have most of their phones loaded up with speedtest.net apps already. Verizons EVDO speeds cap out around 1.5-2mbps. If you are still getting reception and data speeds seem to be fine, it really shouldn't matter how many bars you are getting.

I can't even load Facebook with 2 bars, they quit selling t-mobile products all over that county because of horrible service, thank god I don't live there. As far as Where I live we have a U.S. cellular store, AT&T shack lol, sprint store and Verizon just opened a store last week, you can obviously see T-mobile isn't quite the leader here lol.

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[maestroteague]

I currently am on T-Mobile, I have a MyTouch 4g (Original) with the 59.99$ 4G plan. My phone says I get 4G but honestly, these are probably some of the best speeds I've ever had here. Would ST be roughly the same speeds? I was thinking about switching to PP but VW 3G wouldn't be any faster correct?

T-Mobile Speeds:

I don't believe anyone actually answered your originalnk question. If you switch to ST using a ST Tmobile sim, ur speeds would be identical to the ones you are getting now.

[Gman91]

I don't believe anyone actually answered your originalnk question. If you switch to ST using a ST Tmobile sim, ur speeds would be identical to the ones you are getting now.

Thanks, and AT&T I guess is just as bad around here. A girl I work with has an Iphone 4 and sees similar issues with AT&T as I do with T-mobile. I'm just going to go with my original decision and stick with Page Plus, At least I'll get decent coverage everywhere, I can handle .5kbps less with them then T-mobile.

[pitflyer]

Two tests from phones sitting next to each other both on att byod sim.

IPhone 3gs 1250k down
Galaxy Nexus 3700 down

Up speeds I don't recall but weren't as far off..makes sense due to faux 4g support on nexus. Each speed test used over 7 megs so careful not to run too many...

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[sstoynov]

I switched my unlocked/jailbroken iPhone 3GS to StraightTalk (used to be on T-Mobile), using ATT compatible sim card. I enabled the 3G on the phone, but the speed I'm getting is no way close to what the ATT 3g speed should be.
Using the Speed Test app the max I get are the following speeds(tried with diff servers)

Download: 1942 kbps
Upload: 180 kbps

I think it is way too slow for 3G. Anyone else have similar speeds. Or do you think I should be getting more?

[gyropilot]

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[Loansharkie]

Just got a "you do not have permission to upload" message for a screen shoot I was trying to post. It has worked before... Any Ideas?

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[Loansharkie]

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[Loansharkie]

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Weird.... Worked for the smaller image size...

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[Redking117]

It depends on your area. I recently moved, but I was getting around 10-12 mbps on a Galaxy Nexus (HSPA 21 device) but my new area I am only getting around 6-8 mbps. When I switched to a HTC One S, I jumped back up to the 10-12 mbps range. All of your speeds depend on the max speed of your cellular radio on your device and the network in the area.

It's funny because when I had my E71 I got 3.5G everywhere.. Crystal clear service... and with my atrix I get EDGE EVERYWHERE :P

[ChazzMatt]

My first speed test on Straight Talk, after I got the data problem straightened out. I'll detail that in another post. Right now just glad I'm up and running.



I just switched over from MetroPCS where I had an LTE phone. Thing is, Metro's LTE speeds are more like really good 3G: ranging 1 mbps - 5 mbps. I usually got in the middle of that range when I was on LTE. However, too many times I was just on their 500k EVDO (they cap their 3G to make their LTE look better), or had NO signal at all like a couple of days ago at the Atlanta airport when I couldn't communicate with my wife as she was waiting for a plane in the secure area and I was back in the general public area. Everybody else was using their phones, but they must not have MetroPCS!

Therefore, neither do I anymore.

So, while this speed is nothing to brag about, nothing extraordinary, I'm glad to see I at least have something comparable to what I left and I'm hoping the Straight Talk coverage is more extensive.

Oh, plus I have a Galaxy Nexus -- which is the type of phone Metro would NEVER have.

And I'm now even paying a couple dollars less per month.

So, it's a win.