mike656
join:2002-04-21
Frederick, MD | reply to Matt
Re: Their fantastic here at least Where he lives according to his info isn't rural, still good speed though. |
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 MattAll noise, no signal.Premium
join:2003-07-20
Jamestown, NC
kudos:12 | said by mike656:Where he lives according to his info isn't rural, still good speed though. 10 miles outside of Birmingham is what I would consider rural. You're right though, they are great speeds. Wish their network performed like that everywhere. |
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| Hoover is the upscale section of Birmingham. It's where all the money is.
All iLive4Apple's sayin is 'What's wrong with the beer we got?'
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mike656
join:2002-04-21
Frederick, MD | reply to Matt
I wish my Sprint EVDO service was that fast, the fastest speeds i've had are over 2mbps. BTW Hoover AL is about as rural as Cary NC if you know the triangle, used to live in Cary and have family nearby Hoover in AL. |
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Hoover is a close suburb of Birmingham - not rural.
Hoover has a population of around 78,000, part of the Birmingham metro area with a population of 1.1 million.
I've been to rural Alabama, and Hoover is to rural Alabama as New York is to Birmingham. |
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MattAll noise, no signal.Premium
join:2003-07-20
Jamestown, NC
kudos:12 | reply to mike656
said by mike656:I wish my Sprint EVDO service was that fast, the fastest speeds i've had are over 2mbps. BTW Hoover AL is about as rural as Cary NC if you know the triangle, used to live in Cary and have family nearby Hoover in AL. Quick stats:
Birmingham Metro Area (including Hoover): 1.2 million
RDU Metro Area: 1.1 million
The RDU area has roughly twice the population density (2800 sq/mi vs 1500 sq/mi) in roughly the same amount of space and has overall, much more affluent residents, therefore, much higher penetration rates of cell service.
I consider the area he is in to be relatively rural when compared to the rest of the country, hence his high speeds. If you suddenly took away half or more of the users in an area like RDU (or NYC), you'd see the congestion problems disappear and speed tests more in line with the OPs. |
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said by Uncle Paul:Hoover is the upscale section of Birmingham. It's where all the money is. All iLive4Apple's sayin is 'What's wrong with the beer we got?' (youtube clip) I could not believe that video was real.
It is real though.
Alvin Holmes comes in at the 5:30 mark.
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said by Matt:said by mike656:Where he lives according to his info isn't rural, still good speed though. 10 miles outside of Birmingham is what I would consider rural. You're right though, they are great speeds. Wish their network performed like that everywhere. Were part of the "Birmingham" Metro area in one of the fastest growing cities'. We have 2 city high school's, a freshman campus, + 3 middle school's and god know's how many elementary school's, city garbage pickup and are covered by 5 cellular provider's, and I live 1/2 a mile from the interstate.
To me rural is cow town Alabama
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said by Matt:said by mike656:I wish my Sprint EVDO service was that fast, the fastest speeds i've had are over 2mbps. BTW Hoover AL is about as rural as Cary NC if you know the triangle, used to live in Cary and have family nearby Hoover in AL. Quick stats: Birmingham Metro Area (including Hoover): 1.2 million RDU Metro Area: 1.1 million The RDU area has roughly twice the population density (2800 sq/mi vs 1500 sq/mi) in roughly the same amount of space and has overall, much more affluent residents, therefore, much higher penetration rates of cell service. I consider the area he is in to be relatively rural when compared to the rest of the country, hence his high speeds. If you suddenly took away half or more of the users in an area like RDU (or NYC), you'd see the congestion problems disappear and speed tests more in line with the OPs. We do have a pretty dense population to cell phone coverage if you look at it as we do not have as many cell phone tower's because of city regulations. So 1 cellular tower is covering about the same amount of people as 5-6 would in NYC or Atlanta. Now it's not overpopulated but far from rural compared to other part's of the South.
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