T-Mobile flicks HALF of the "dimmer" switch...

[rorytmeadows]

Originally Posted by p-slim

i've noticed different reports, are you getting faster speeds in your area? are they noticably faster or you have to do a line speed test to figure out?

Well, I'm getting 50% faster speed on mobilespeedtest using Opera 9. Honestly, I don't really know which browser to use. I've been told to try IE for proper speedtesting, but I can't even get mobilespeedtest to run on IE right now. I haven't been browsing enough to tell much of a difference. My bedroom is a weird place when it comes to coverage; not T-Mobile's fault, just this shitty apartment complex's fault.

Okay, just bombed around in different browsers and I'm noticing a faster and more dependable speed. I still have only 2 bars sitting in this chair, so I'll be getting a better test from my work chair, with 100% signal.

[p-slim]

So not to take away from tmobile but remember i said i live in San Jose, Well guess what, Silicon Valley has a 20 mile radius so our to major technilogical companies and the people that reside in this 20 mile radius are receiving wimax according to this article and will have the official roll out of wimax in 2010. Isn't sprint supposedly releasing a wimax phone soon, i just might have to pick it up.

http://www.betanews.com/article/Clea...row/1238715466

[rorytmeadows]

Originally Posted by p-slim

So not to take away from tmobile but remember i said i live in San Jose, Well guess what, Silicon Valley has a 20 mile radius so our to major technilogical companies and the people that reside in this 20 mile radius are receiving wimax according to this article and will have the official roll out of wimax in 2010. Isn't sprint supposedly releasing a wimax phone soon, i just might have to pick it up.

http://www.betanews.com/article/Clea...row/1238715466

I remeber when HD-DVDs were attractive, too

[p-slim]

Originally Posted by rorytmeadows

I remeber when HD-DVDs were attractive, too

you're are right though, because max output for wimax is 10mbps and 3g+ can have up to 12, so sprint is missing 2 mbps. At least i'll be able to get service everywhere instead of praying i'll have signal where i land.

[brownhornet]

Using my girls G1 I really dont notice any difference. Then again hell we're probably only on edge.

[rorytmeadows]

Originally Posted by p-slim

you're are right though, because max output for wimax is 10mbps and 3g+ can have up to 12, so sprint is missing 2 mbps. At least i'll be able to get service everywhere instead of praying i'll have signal where i land.

stop landing in f*g towns and you won't have that problem!

[brownhornet]

Originally Posted by p-slim

you're are right though, because max output for wimax is 10mbps and 3g+ can have up to 12, so sprint is missing 2 mbps. At least i'll be able to get service everywhere instead of praying i'll have signal where i land.

Do you honestly believe EITHER of these networks will actually see those peak speeds?

[rorytmeadows]

Originally Posted by brownhornet

Do you honestly believe EITHER of these networks will actually see those peak speeds?

nobody ever gets peak speeds, but it was nice to see t-mobile so high on the "compare" link of the mobilespeedtest results page

[codybear]

Originally Posted by p-slim

So basically verizon will be losing out this year, they will be the only ones in 2010 without 4g internet speed. Sprint has wimax already (launching in my area this month ), supposedly they will be able to switch to lte (we don't know how true this is, or how much effort they will need to complete this), tmobile and att will be on hspa+, verizon is waiting till the end of 2010 and even then obviously on first launch it will not be nationwide.

Good thing I live in the city right next to the #6 city in the US(use to be #5), but we got rev-a in my area right when they were talking about releasing it. lol.

Originally Posted by rorytmeadows

Now you have realized the problem with having so many towers!

I don't really see a problem with so many cell towers as one, they provide TONS of service to other cell phone companies......I mean shoot, Alltel has always been ran off of Verizon's cell towers since the day it started.
All of those service they provide equals more income, which equals more towers and more money to spend on making them better.
Therefore the only thing that is stopping them from being able to get it done right now, is not wanting to shelling out the cash.

Originally Posted by rorytmeadows

nobody ever gets peak speeds, but it was nice to see t-mobile so high on the "compare" link of the mobilespeedtest results page

It's kinda interesting that I have got speeds right around the broadband speed, which is 768kbps according to their site, and fast 3g is 1000kbps.
I kept clearing the cache so it was legitimate, but what's really funny about it is I had one bar out of my 5 total that I could have.

I've never had problems with speed or any kind of problems with Verizon over other companies....except customer service at times (since it became Verizon, but with Alltel there was no customer service problems if you called the 1-800 number, the stores were a pain though).

[shaggylive]

just because lte can go 100, I doubt many towers will have back hauls big enough to support anywhere near that. which reminds me, I think wimax is more of an integrated switching network where nodes can use other nodes for back haul, thus 'in-network' traffic is more efficient.