 Z801 point 77Premium
join:2009-08-31
Amerika
2 edits | reply to FastiBook
Re: Oops Service area where AT&T customers get reliable 3G (not mediocre EDGE with 120kbps on a good day holding the device while doing The Crane Technique) service. |
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| I guess what a lot of people are saying, is that att's transmission specs are higher speed, even in "fallback mode" than vzw. I tend to agree with this, after seeing many head to head comparisons in various locations. As far as signal coverage (any number of bars), i'd like to see a vzw user try to watch a video on the same train i ride.
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Z801 point 77Premium
join:2009-08-31
Amerika
2 edits | No for me. Falling back to edge is painful for anything but text emails. Pulling down a 10MB PDF on EDGE is horror.
As an iPhone EDGE, 3G-S and a Laptop Connect customer who travels the US 6-9 times a year both to metro and the sticks, I've had to wax on-wax off, paint the fence and sand the frour quite a few times to get a connection. Here in SoCal I get excellent 3G service, typically 2-2.5Mb down and .768-1.2Mb up but you get out on the open interstates, far away from the cities and you're done, EDGE if you're lucky. Meanwhile my colleges with VZW always seem to have connectivity and 3G service, although always with a horrible handset running an even more abysmal mobile OS.
VZW's network in my experience is far superior in rural areas but being a former VZW customer I found their customer service and billing nightmarish and they don't currently offer a handset I would be willing to take even for free. |
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 MattAll noise, no signal.Premium
join:2003-07-20
Jamestown, NC
kudos:12 | reply to FastiBook
said by FastiBook:I guess what a lot of people are saying, is that att's transmission specs are higher speed, even in "fallback mode" than vzw. I tend to agree with this, after seeing many head to head comparisons in various locations. As far as signal coverage (any number of bars), i'd like to see a vzw user try to watch a video on the same train i ride. - A Four times since I've had my iPhone over the past year I've taken a trip (a 5 hour car ride) while trying to listen to Slacker Radio, Pandora, and XM Radio. Pandora and XM were impossible to stream over Edge, as it was too unreliable. Pandora sort of worked at the lowest bitrate, but XM refused to work over Edge at all. On Slacker, every 2nd or 3rd song would stop due to a buffering error and even enabling "extra buffering" in the app didn't eliminate the problems.
I never experienced that problem on the same trip with Verizon, of course, Verizon has 3G almost the whole way.
It's possible you're in an area where AT&T has overlaid their 850MHz spectrum or in an area where they simply aren't oversubscribed. I understand the 850MHz overlay, even in very dense urban areas really opens the network up and allows it to breathe.
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