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HemiMan · RV-Dreams Community Member

Millenicom Verizon plan speeds.

Bill Adams · RV-Dreams Family Member

Speeds will vary by time of day and location. There's no one "speed". The speeds you get are the speeds you get. Someone 10 rigs away could get better or worse speeds, there's just no getting a firm handle on it. If your signal happens to be weak then an external antenna could make a big difference and if it's really weak an antenna and amp could be required.
Here are my speeds in Indio, CA and they are not very different from yours. You should be seeing excellent results with those kinds of numbers.

That's 1.3Mbps and .66 Mbps below

-- Edited by Bill Adams on Saturday 18th of February 2012 06:28:16 PM

HemiMan · RV-Dreams Community Member

-- Edited by HemiMan on Tuesday 21st of February 2012 07:55:32 AM

HemiMan · RV-Dreams Community Member

-- Edited by HemiMan on Tuesday 21st of February 2012 07:56:01 AM

bjoyce · RV-Dreams Family Member

Sounds like common speeds on Verizon. I had a Verizon UM150 for over three years before switching to a 760 with Millenicom and my speedtests were much the same with both USB modems. For Florida I have had downloads down to 212 in the Orlando area and up to 1780 in western Jacksonville, plus anywhere in between. Normally the downloads are between about 700 and 1500, uploads between 200 and 600. Pings are normally in the low 100s unless you are in a 1X area, then they can be 800 or more and your downloads can be 15 to 120. My phone is 4G and right now I am seeing downloads in the 9000s and uploads in the 8000s using the speedtest.net app on some speedtests here in Clermont, Florida. My Millenicom 760 showed 920 down and 400 up on speedtest.net I keep track of those speedtests.

bjoyce · RV-Dreams Family Member

My numbers were all Verizon since my 4G phone is Verizon. AT&T is great in Florida, but you will not find it as great everywhere since AT&T covers most of the country in Edge, which is 2.5G instead of 3G. AT&T's 3G can be much faster than Verizon's 3G since the technology is different, but their true 4G (which AT&T calls 4G/LTE) is the same technology. You can install the Coverage app on your iPhone and you can compare coverage all over the country, the authors are on this forum. The Coverage app costs money, but I think it is 99cents right now.

Bill Adams · RV-Dreams Family Member

You don't need an app if you want to see the Verizon coverage. Just go to Verizonwireless.com and take a look at their coverage map. The map won't show you anything that will explain why 3G is good here and not there but it will at least show you that you are in a 3G area (which you are with those speeds).
Millenicom is Verizon so what you see is what you get no matter who you pay the monthly bill to.

Technomadia · RV-Dreams Family Member

AT&T's 3G in general is a faster network than Verizon's - just a different technology (GSM vs HSPA). We notice the difference all over the country. Also, if your iPhone is a 4 or 4S - then you're able to access their HSPA+ network which they also market as 4G on their coverage maps (which, technically, it's not quite 4G), but simply displays as 3G on your iPhone status indicator. As bjoyce said above, they are also rolling out their LTE network, which is more of a direct comparison to Verizon's 4G/LTE network in speed. Confusing, huh?

We too use Verizon on Millenicom and AT&T via iPhone tethering. The combo gives us a great nationwide footprint. There really is no one single best network for those of us that go all over. We've been in plenty of places where only one of the two networks we carry was usable. Since neither the iPhone tethering plan or Millenicom are contract based, we regularly suspend one of the services for whichever is going to work best for us. You can turn them back on when needed. So no need to choose one over the other.

And yes - you can just go to the carrier's website and check their individual coverage maps.

We created the Coverage? app to solve a different problem. Coverage? allows you to overlay each carrier's map so you can create your own personalized map for your devices (such as, for us, AT&T and Verizon), and it works offline. So if you're somewhere with awful signal and can't get online, you can still check Coverage? and know which direction to head to check your e-mail, place a call, stop for lunch, overnight at, etc. We find this format invaluable in our travels, and significantly less frustrating than trying to navigate each carrier's individual maps online.

We created a video demo of the app here, which shows how this is beneficial:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DqORlYHd2ps

The app is on sale through today for 99 cents in the App Store, to celebrate the 2012 update we just came out with.

- Cherie

netters · RV-Dreams Family Member

I just ran a speedtest on my Millenicom aircard in Yuma, AZ and I had a Ping of 240ms, download of 1.96 and upload of .57Mbps.

elbertand mary · RV-Dreams Community Member

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