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3Gstore_Matt · RV-Dreams Family Member

Who's got the fastest connection, join our SpeedWaves!

bjoyce · RV-Dreams Family Member

People are putting 4G speedtests into your Verizon 3G SpeedWave.

Plus speedtest.net is using where it thinks the speedtest is coming from instead of letting the user put it in. That means it might only get the main link so you can only use the speeds as guides, not the locations. I am in Santa Barbara, CA and it thinks I am in Lodi, CA, which is hundreds of miles away and won't tell you anything useful. Even though we have EVDO here, it is definately overloaded and the speedtest I did was 0.15 download and 0.02 up. Just a bit earlier I did a test and it was 0.38 down.

3Gstore_Matt · RV-Dreams Family Member

bjoyce wrote:

People are putting 4G speedtests into your Verizon 3G SpeedWave.

Plus speedtest.net is using where it thinks the speedtest is coming from instead of letting the user put it in. That means it might only get the main link so you can only use the speeds as guides, not the locations. I am in Santa Barbara, CA and it thinks I am in Lodi, CA, which is hundreds of miles away and won't tell you anything useful. Even though we have EVDO here, it is definately overloaded and the speedtest I did was 0.15 download and 0.02 up. Just a bit earlier I did a test and it was 0.38 down.

Yes, I noticed that a few have confused some of the links during testing. I'm hoping they add in a feature that I can manually delete tests that shouldn't be in the results.

If you click on the more stats you can view a line graph and it will give you each test result in order so the information is helpful. The test environment should give a general location of popular locations etc. It isn't going to be 100% accurate but I think it's still interesting to see the results so far.

I'm actually surprised with the Verizon tests, as they aren't nearly as high as I thought they'd be. A lot of the results aren't even cresting 1Mbps on the downstream.

bjoyce · RV-Dreams Family Member

I am not surprised how low many of the Verizon tests are since they are consistent with what I am seeing while traveling. Some places are faster evenings and weekends as the workers go home and free up the tower, others are slower evenings and weekends as the workers come home and swamp the tower(s). Places with large temporary populations, like Phoenix in winter, are often slow since there are more users on each tower.

3Gstore_Matt · RV-Dreams Family Member

bjoyce wrote:

I am not surprised how low many of the Verizon tests are since they are consistent with what I am seeing while traveling. Some places are faster evenings and weekends as the workers go home and free up the tower, others are slower evenings and weekends as the workers come home and swamp the tower(s). Places with large temporary populations, like Phoenix in winter, are often slow since there are more users on each tower.

I actually thought they'd be a bit higher on the tests. Are you seeing this throughout the midwest or on the east coast too? I live down outside of State College and most of PA typically yeilds around 1-1.5 down for me. In some area's I've even hitten as high as 2.8Mbps down and 800Kbps up!

So far we've got over 100 tests in the waves so thanks again to all that ran a test so far! Please keep them coming :)

-- Edited by 3Gstore_Matt on Thursday 10th of March 2011 02:52:43 PM

bjoyce · RV-Dreams Family Member

I was in Minnesota, Illinois, Indiana, Michigan and Missouri this summer and fall and rarely saw numbers above 0.75 download on speedtest.net. Most were in the .45 to .65 range. I did see 1.76 in Oklahoma City, 1.01 in Albuquerque, 1.67 in Mesa, AZ, and have been slightly over 1.0 in some places in California since then. The best I have seen is 2.24 and that was a couple years back, the same place is now about 1.4.

3Gstore_Matt · RV-Dreams Family Member

bjoyce wrote:

I was in Minnesota, Illinois, Indiana, Michigan and Missouri this summer and fall and rarely saw numbers above 0.75 download on speedtest.net. Most were in the .45 to .65 range. I did see 1.76 in Oklahoma City, 1.01 in Albuquerque, 1.67 in Mesa, AZ, and have been slightly over 1.0 in some places in California since then. The best I have seen is 2.24 and that was a couple years back, the same place is now about 1.4.

Well the good news if Verizon will be launching over 140 new 4G LTE markets through 2011. So, hopefully the slower speeds will be a thing of the past when 4G fills out some more.

I did some testing at home last night to see what type of speeds I was getting. I just ran them directly in the computer and was hitting about 1 - 1.10 down and .5 - .6 up on 3G. This was also with a -60dBm

Bill Adams · RV-Dreams Family Member

Oh boy! Current 38 "markets" with another 140 coming this year. That's 178 markets which should give a full 1% coverage of the land area of the US and maybe 10% of the "markets". Don't get me wrong, I have enjoyed using 4G the few times that I have been parked in the right area, but this is not going to be a quick thing, it's going to take at least 2 more years to have 4G coverage where there is currently 3G coverage. Where there is not 3G coverage it could take longer or may never materialize.
When I was in Vegas, Houston, Tampa, Orlando and Jacksonville the speeds were pretty consistently in the 5MB up and 12MB down range. Strangely enough, it often still took the same amount of time for a page on the web to open whether it was 3G or 4G. The weakest link on the "net" is still the limiting factor for the end user. If you have a 12MB connection and you are connected to a site with a T-1 connection their maximum upload speed is 1.5MB so it won't really make any difference.

bobojay · RV-Dreams Community Member

Bill Adams wrote:

Oh boy! Current 38 "markets" with another 140 coming this year. That's 178 markets which should give a full 1% coverage of the land area of the US and maybe 10% of the "markets". Don't get me wrong, I have enjoyed using 4G the few times that I have been parked in the right area, but this is not going to be a quick thing, it's going to take at least 2 more years to have 4G coverage where there is currently 3G coverage. Where there is not 3G coverage it could take longer or may never materialize.
When I was in Vegas, Houston, Tampa, Orlando and Jacksonville the speeds were pretty consistently in the 5MB up and 12MB down range. Strangely enough, it often still took the same amount of time for a page on the web to open whether it was 3G or 4G. The weakest link on the "net" is still the limiting factor for the end user. If you have a 12MB connection and you are connected to a site with a T-1 connection their maximum upload speed is 1.5MB so it won't really make any difference.

So far in one month of ownership/usage, my EVO 3/4G is seeing the same results with webpage loading, whether I'm on 3 or 4G. The initial loadup "seems" to be about the same for both.