Originally Posted by strra (Post 1028982)

Q: How can I view my signal levels?
A: - ##33284# is the DEBUG menu. If you are prompted for a password,
enter 183729. Under here you should look at the following 3 sections
(the closer to 0 you are, the better):
Rx Power
Rx Ec/Io
Rx FER

Originally Posted by Thursday (Post 1812562)

Check your signal strength. I can literally go from one spot in my apartment getting 20kb/s and move 10ft in any direction and get +/- 10kb/s. It's all about signal strength.

If you can give us more info like what are you doing for your speed test?(are you going straight to a site from your phone. Or are you hooked up through usb running internet sharing and doing a test on your computer browser)

Also go into your dialer and type in ##33284# and that will bring up "fieldtrial" if your dialer doesn't except codes then go into your windows directory with a file explorer and find fieldtrail.exe or fieldtest.exe forgot which one it's called, although I believe it's fieldtrial. This will give you the most accurate information as to your signal strength (the bars are a very bad representation imho).

Below is a brief overview on the readings, for EVDO speed I believe your going to want to go and select HDR from the left softkey menu. Also change your sample rate to 1. The link below will take you to a thread explaining pretty much anything you would need to know. I know it's not exactly what your asking for, but if you can get a signal strength to go with your speedtest numbers it might make things a bit more clear as to what is going on and why.



Here is a link to the radio thread which has more information, hopefully it will be helpful to you.

Originally Posted by Mswezey (Post 1817573)

on my touch pro in the DFW area i max out around 140 KBs with the FULL signal.
now with 2-3 bars i get between 70-120 KBs. So 100 isn't that bad, wait you are doing kilobytes instead of bits?
if your getting 100 kilobits then yeah that sucks haha
KB = kilobyte
Kb = kilobit

in witchita falls i can get 180 KBs all day while im at college

Originally Posted by Mswezey (Post 1817903)

Then that's about where you're stuck out with Sprint's 3G network.

I've peaked out at 3 Mbps on one speed test up around college, but it couldn't sustain the speed.