Huge leap in BW speed going from TP to TP2, any idea whats going on?

[elesbb]

Here are my results :/ poopy results compared to you guys ... test was done at 3:09 PM EST.

[mikedboyd]

Make it to the 2nd paragraph and you'll see why I posted in the TP2 forum.

My In-Laws use their Sprint Touch Diamond for their laptop connection, exclusively. I set them up with a stock rom with stealth tethering. it was very adequate. I was recently told that it was slow. OMG, it was almost non-existent. I tested with mobilespeedtest.net and got about 50k/sec. I got a new PRL download, rebuilt with OMJ ROM and no difference.

I have Energy ROM on my wife's TP and my TP2. I checked them to see how much better we were, possibly to give one of these phones to the in-laws, and ....... same results. Three different phones, two ROM's (three if you count the stock Sprint I started with on the Diamond).

Anyone know of any general Sprint download issues or policy changes or ...... ????? I thought maybe they had to borrow from 3G to get the speed they needed for 4G. We're in Kansas City BTW.

[gTen]

Originally Posted by mikedboyd

Make it to the 2nd paragraph and you'll see why I posted in the TP2 forum.

My In-Laws use their Sprint Touch Diamond for their laptop connection, exclusively. I set them up with a stock rom with stealth tethering. it was very adequate. I was recently told that it was slow. OMG, it was almost non-existent. I tested with mobilespeedtest.net and got about 50k/sec. I got a new PRL download, rebuilt with OMJ ROM and no difference.

I have Energy ROM on my wife's TP and my TP2. I checked them to see how much better we were, possibly to give one of these phones to the in-laws, and ....... same results. Three different phones, two ROM's (three if you count the stock Sprint I started with on the Diamond).

Anyone know of any general Sprint download issues or policy changes or ...... ????? I thought maybe they had to borrow from 3G to get the speed they needed for 4G. We're in Kansas City BTW.

The 4g towers are placed next to the 3g towers and usually use the same bandwidth pipe yes..but I don't think 4g is the issue..Here is what I think caused it..before many consumers bought dumb phones..most of those dumb phones did not support Rev A...so most of Rev A was used by us exclusively...now that every device effectively has Rev A and increase use of bandwidth its much more bottled down :/

You can try also flashing a custom radio..that might help a bit oreo :/

[horndoctor]

Wirelessly posted (htc Pocket PC: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows CE; IEMobile 7.11) Sprint MP6950SP)

It could be any number of things. Like gTen said increased usage, or interference from something close by, weather, changes in network equipment or software, and/or other possible issues.

[mikedboyd]

I've updated the radios on all 3 phones, more than once to try to find best fit there. I haven't done all the signal measurements, but I do see voice quality change with different radios. There's really only so much time you can dedicate to these types of activities. My in-laws are about 10 miles away and things work about the same there. I did get my PRL updated in my TP2 last night and that sent me from <100k to between 200k and 500k . I'm going to go down that road next on the other 2 also.

[dtrush]

I bought a used Sprint TP1 to put on Boost for exclusive data use @ 35 cents per day tethering to a laptop. I did speed tests and got these results in an area close to a freeway with great signal strenth. In real world application these work just fine for me. If I would have known the TP2 was better at data speeds I would have purchased one for my car.

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