1 edit | What speeds & how good is coverage? They call it 4G, but what real life speeds are users getting and how widespread is coverage in the areas Sprint say they are in.
For example, coverage in Philly metro area is fairly limited to most parts of the city, but almost no suburbs where most of the metro population lives.
4G Wimax in BLUE:
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 MattAll noise, no signal.Premium
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1 edit | said by fAcEtIOUs:They call it 4G, but what real life speeds are users getting and how widespread is coverage in the areas Sprint say they are in. For example, coverage in Philly metro area is fairly limited to most parts of the city, but almost no suburbs where most of the metro population lives. 4G Wimax in BLUE:» coverage.sprintpcs.com/IMPACT.js···offerbox The coverage in the Triad (Greensboro/Winston-Salem/High Point) and surprisingly, some pretty rural areas, is identical to what Clearwire covered with their Pre-WiMax service. That's about 2 hours of drive-time east to west represented on the map. Their 4G+3G unlimited plan at $70 is an extremely good deal. If one wanted to, you could use the 4G at home, then take it on the road and fall back to 3G when 4G wasn't available. |
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GOLFnSun, I would assume that 4G will eventually make its way into most of the surrounding Philly burbs. I live in the N.E. part of the city and im very tempted to sign up. I wonder how long the service will stay "uncapped" though? |
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 w0go.O
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Springfield, OR | reply to fAcEtIOUs
This is Clear, Sprint upload is in the 4-5Mbps range with downloads at 16Mbps.
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| said by w0g: This is Clear, Sprint upload is in the 4-5Mbps range with downloads at 16Mbps. Good numbers if that can be maintained with increasing numbers of customers.
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Wimax speed tests here...
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mobbo
join:2005-04-13
Denton, TX | reply to w0g
What's the latency like? Can you game on it (XBox Live)? |
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| said by mobbo:What's the latency like? Can you game on it (XBox Live)? The speedtest shows 77ms of latency. |
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mobbo
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Denton, TX | I guess my question would better phrased: has anyone gamed on this connection and seen pros/cons? |
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MattAll noise, no signal.Premium
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kudos:12 | reply to xenophon
Not bad. It looks like they are already seeing upstream congestion though. A 50% fluctuation in bandwidth is pretty dramatic. |
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said by mobbo:I guess my question would better phrased: has anyone gamed on this connection and seen pros/cons? Well you can game just fine with Sprint EV-DO so this would be even better. At lease 50ms lower latency than what t you would get with EV-DO.
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w0go.O
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Springfield, OR | reply to fAcEtIOUs
That's not upstream congestion; some users are still on the old 6Mbps/500Kbps tier, and those on the 1Mbps tier were capped at 500Kbps for over a month until recently.
DSLREPORTS testing reports abnormally slow results as well, I don't think you're seeing the full throughput on the test here. I always use speedtest.net for that reason.
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