Sprint / Q and Data Speeds extremly SLOW! help! EV
 

I am seriously not impressed. I left Cingular for Sprint due to call issues, and I got on the same site for speed tests 900+kb a sec download rates.

I ran Sprint a few days ago and got 150k dl, and now only getting 32kb!!!! It took forever to complete this test. The only things I changed was the batt and speed hack!

Can someone please tell me why the data is so damn slow? I live in one of the largest citys of the US and we have a solid EV DO coverage with Sprint. EV shows on my screen.

It takes forever to load any page period. I sit literally a few minutes while its loading pages.

This is in San Antonio, TEXAS, very large city, and EV DO is working here.

I mean there really isn't much for us to do...

Either

1) the Q you have is somehow defective
2) the network is having issues in you area

This seems more like a Sprint issue than anything we can do, we don't control the towers or data speeds and the rest of us are getting normal Ev speeds (400-700kbps).

What did Sprint say when you called them?

They said they would look into it. 36 hr turnaround.

My friend got 110k on his. He then changed the DNS info on his and got over 500k. Which doesn't make sense. It should work without that. I tried the DNS change and it didn't change my speed at all. :(

Someone mentioned on HF that he upgraded to AKU 3.3 on his Q and now he has fast speeds. I can't seem to find this upgrade anywhere.

DNS changes in no way affects your speeds as they are only for, well DNS lookups, which is the webistes true IP address.

So that is just coincidence and you should be getting much highe speeds. It's probably just a network issue. If you could travel 20-30 miles to a different area and test that could really help.

As far as AKU 3.3 on the Q...I never heard of it and would be very surprised if that were true. Furthermore, I can't see how that would really help the situation since AKU's have nothing to do with the cell radio on your device and what it can pull down in data speeds.

Well my house just cranked out 330kbit with 3.628 latency 18.126d/l time

That's the highest to date so far.

I am really strongly considering the Treo 700wx. I read your review on the other site, and just reading about it from others it just seems to be a better phone especially since the BT issue has been fixed now.

My only concern is the voicemail while on a call dropping people. Must be a way to prevent that from happening.

That latency is pretty high (e.g. I usually get in the 0.70 range).

Like I said, in this regards it's not the phone per se as the rest of us enjoy real Ev speeds and I'm not really convinced the Treo would be any better, espeically if it's a network issue.

I'm curious about the BT patch for 700wx if it really improves connectivity. That's be a step in the right direction as before it was basically useless.

OMG!! They fixed it!

Just did a test at my house, and got 706kbit
.508 latency
7.303 d/l 600kb file

edit:

It seems to be bouncing

I got a few more tests, 500, 300, 120, 150k, weird.

Q is going back though, it turned it self off on me just a little while ago.

Probably gonnna pick up the Treo 700wx due to reliability and its been out long enough the bugs have work arounds if any.

I notice the phone now gets to about 400k downloading and goes to a crawl downloading the rest. It fast up to that point. I cleared everything in IE to see if it helped. nope. back to the 110k range.

And now another 754kbit. hmm .588 and 6.952 dl