Alltel Data Speeds

[Riley]

Originally Posted by yearn

I tried the Telus Radio but it wasn't any better, still around 100kbps give or take 20.
What I dont understand is these guys that are saying they are getting 500-1500kbps??
My data isnt superfast but Its hard to believe that other Diamonds are getting speeds 5-15 times faster.

yes, this makes no sense. Where are you seeing this result. what site? is it
www.dslreports.com/mspeed

[yearn]

Originally Posted by rileyd5

yes, this makes no sense. Where are you seeing this result. what site? is it
www.dslreports.com/mspeed

Ya, I was testing directly from my phone at that site and the best I could get was about 125 kbps

I went to speedtest.net while tethering and got these speeds, considerably faster but still not over 1mbps

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[Riley]

Originally Posted by yearn

Ya, I was testing directly from my phone at that site and the best I could get was about 125 kbps

I went to speedtest.net while tethering and got these speeds, considerably faster but still not over 1mbps

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weird. I know that when you use opera mobile to conduct the speed test, the result is usually lower than with ie or pie. I honestly think ie6 also gives a lower result than pie but when you run the test from ie/pie, you should still see a better result. if you are sitting in solid rev a area that is. I just ran it from work (ev 3 bars) and doing the 100kb test, got the unstable screen, picked 400Kb, got 788kbit/sec result, then select 1mb test, got 880kbit/sec but it fluctuates from 500 to 1400 at times. I used pie for these test by the way. will try speedtest.net right now.

[yearn]

Well I called Alltel and they said in my area I should be seeing 400-500k download speeds from the phone and 1-1.5m tethering.
But noone could tell me why mine was so slow so after 30 min of this person and that person they asked what ROM version I had on my phone! CRAP! I didnt want to tell them ugh...Mighty's.
and I know if I had of they would have said that was my problem so Im flashing the stock ROM right now and then Im gonna call them back.

[Riley]

Originally Posted by yearn

Well I called Alltel and they said in my area I should be seeing 400-500k download speeds from the phone and 1-1.5m tethering.
But noone could tell me why mine was so slow so after 30 min of this person and that person they asked what ROM version I had on my phone! CRAP! I didnt want to tell them ugh...Mighty's.
and I know if I had of they would have said that was my problem so Im flashing the stock ROM right now and then Im gonna call them back.

yep, funny, nice catch. that would have been no good telling them Mighty

when you get back on the shipped rom and call back, make sure they check your data settings particularly ask them to check and make sure your device is rev a enabled. Its on the device for sure, with sprint you can get it using ##786#, enter unlock code, data parameters but Alltel is different. they should know how to guide you into settings to determine this. Good luck.

by the way, here is the speedtest.net result for me did a few times but this one is the best one.

http://www.speedtest.net/result/483477149.png

[yearn]

I just got off the phone with them and they were little help. 50min on the phone with them and pretty much all they did was check my ROM and PRL version which was fine. The guy was pretty nice though and got my email and said he would keep checking and msg me if he came up with anything, he also gave me HTC USA tech support number and said to call them and see if they could figure out anything.

Riley I didnt get your message till I hung up already. I dont know Alltels code and not sure Id know what to look for if I did.
I get a revA icon in the taskBar but I dont know if thats what Im recieving for sure.
The guy from Alltel got on a Diamond with me on the phone and went to that site and ran 4 tests and he got a 5xx, 4xx, 72, 582.
I really wish he hadnt got that 72kbps.

Ifr anyone knows how to check what Rileys talkin bout let me know

[Nathan_Barstow14]

Tethering




Phone only @ DSLReports

In IE - The best I got was 1759kb/s, and the worst I got was 1536kb/s out of 5 tries on the 1MB test. Not too shabby

In Opera - The best I got was 1253kb/s, and the worst I got was 818kb/s. (That's sort of disappointing considering I like Opera a lot more )

Benchmarks obtained running Mighty ROM 4R3BORN, and the Telus 1.04.05V Radio.

[yearn]

I went to my sons baseball game last night and thought Id try another test over there. Its just across town, maybe 5-7 milesfrom my house. with the exact same signal (revA with 2-3 bars) all my results were over 500 and the best was 982. Kinda makes me wonder if it may not be a tower issue with wichever tower Im hitting while at my house.