| Network good, coverage not The issue is not the network, it's the COVERAGE.
You can have the most advanced network in the world, it isn't worth a pint of piss if it doesn't have enough geographical coverage. |
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iansltx
join:2007-02-19
Golden, CO
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| Yep. I agree that AT&T's 3G network is on average faster than Verizon/Sprint's by the 40%-50% in the article. Connection stability and overall coverage on the other hand are different stories. AT&T is getting better with coverage, but with Verizon you could force your aircard into 3G-only mode and almost never find a dead spot. I have my AT&T card on force-3G and there are a double handful ofplaces that my friends and I go that can't get a signal on WCDMA. |
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said by fifty nine:The issue is not the network, it's the COVERAGE. You can have the most advanced network in the world, it isn't worth a pint of piss if it doesn't have enough geographical coverage. Exactly, I don't have 3g where I live but the 2 cities next to me have 3g. There about 25-30 miles from me and anytime I'm out there I pull around 2.4Mbps. This is in the State College and Altoona area. I've also used the 3g recently deployed in Erie PA and got between 1.6-2.3Mbps.
Wish I could get that where I spend 90% of my time though. |
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deadzonedPremium
join:2005-04-13
Baton Rouge, LA | reply to fifty nine
You are correct about that! I made the correction in my initial post to reflect that. I was talking coverage but used network for some stupid reason. |
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 SeleniaI love DebianPremium
join:2006-09-22
Lanesboro, MA
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When you have 5 bars and data is dead or close to it, then it's a network issue, most likely-especially if this issue seems intermittant. Very much less likely an upstream reception issue. If it was, carriers in the same frequency range would likely exhibit issues, given the tower is yet in clear enough path for 5 bars.
That being said, AT&T is absolutely awesome in some areas, uber crappy in some others, and some in between. Other networks have the same issue to a greater/lesser degree. RF is not always the issue. AT&T is usually good about that part in this region. It's backhaul congestion for the specific tower you're on. If that gets bad, even having an HSPA 7.2 carrier is going to help you any more than EDGE would.
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