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All of that is beside the point, look what he says here:

another Evo4G in the same area gets 2mbps down.

Now while that is terrible even for 3G, I think it shows the modem is messed up in the phone, return the phone dude.

Re: [Q] Is this normal?
 

Here are some things to consider:

1) What radio version are you on and what radio version is your brother on?

2) What PRL are you on and what PRL is your brother on?

3) What tower is your phone connecting to when its fast and what tower is it connecting to when its slow?

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1) Radio version: 2.15.00.12.19 for both phones

2) Same for poth prl 60687

3) I don't really know how to check this can you explain?
EDIT: IS it the Sector ID? I read somewhere that its the first 4 to 5 digits. if so then its the same tower

I appreciate all of your help. Thank you.

Sprint store doesn't want to replace the phone because they say its an issue for everyone at the moment, but just to hold on till they fix it. I called sprint and they said they have no network outages or issues in my area so someone must be lying.

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you can open up Google maps, go to settings and About and then look for the "myl" its formatted MCC:MNC:SID:BID

MCC- country

MNC- network

SID - area

BID - station id

or you can use an app like "cellumap"

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Ok so my speeds came up by themselves today, but after i restarted the device to see if it was a problem with my device the internet speed dropped. I did google maps and all of the numbers are the same with the "high" and low speeds. Max speed before i restarted was 1.21Mbps when I rebooted the device I got a speed of .03Mbps. SO it does seem like its going to be my modem at this point. I just have to wait till sprint says its fixed which should be this week according to them. Then I will be able to exchange my device.