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Just the other day, Sprint announced that austin tx, along with 100 other markets will have lte released before the end of 2012. With lte, you should get blazing fast speeds (anywhere from 5-30mbps down) compared to what you were experiencing on the iPhone 4s. Once Austin is done, the 3g network will be upgraded too and with sprints advanced 3g you should be getting speeds between 1-2 mbps. If you want my opinion, save money and switch to sprint. The network may not be perfect right when its launched, but it will progressively get better and for unlimited data, and the price, you can't beat it.

 

-Ryan

thanks ryan, im going to tough it out! my roommate updated his PRL and is getting .8! so that helped alot. Sprint here i come

thanks again.

As soon as Sprint announced they were working on Austin, I did a speed test and am now averaging >700kbps. In fact, the last one I ran was 1.14 Mbps. This from 181 Kbps before. Big boost.

 

Still waiting for the day that I get my first LTE signal.

thats great. more than enough to do my work tasks, and most importantly spotify lolol

thanks for the help! i cant wait to have TRUE unlimited LTE.

What 3g speeds do you guys average?! please

I am a long time AT&t customer, looking to switch to sprint when i preorder the iphone 5 tonight.

I tried sprint on the iphone 4s last year, my speeds were on average .2 mbps - .3 mbps. I couldnt use siri, send pics, spotify, etc.

I know LTE is on its way in the next couple of months (*crosses fingers) and i would looooove to have true unlimited LTE.. i just worry service will be spotty in my area/lte will take longer than expected to deploy.

In the mean time i would be stuck with the 3g.. so i'm considering going with verizon.

Thanks a lot

*edit*

really not just austin tx, anyone can post!

Here is a sponsor map of all the towers in the project, which essentially are all the currrent Sprint towers. All will be upgraded when the project is complete. If your 3G signal strength (which is different from speed) is decent at a given location today, you likely will get LTE there.

 

There are other sponsor maps showing scheduled tower upgrades and completed tower upgrades in the sponsor forums. But these maps don't show much realistic about Austin right now because the deployment start was delayed here relative to the original schedule.

once again, thank you. you are the man.

there is a tower a block from my office and one about two blocks from my apartment. wahoo. I guess ill go drive by them and see if they look like the towers you posted off mopec.

Robert is usually pretty responsive about upgrading donor accounts, although he does have a day job.

 

I live northwest of the Arboretum, and work near the Capitol. My 3G speeds at home lately vary between 250 Kbps and about 1.1 Mbps. At work, they are abysmally slow, often in the 50-100 Kbps range or even worse -- probably choked by backhaul. Once the new network is running, the key issue for me is whether I will get strong enough signal strength at my desk to get LTE service, and if not whether the new backhaul will make 3G acceptable.

looks like i have the sponsor now. yay.

can you direct me to the map for towers on the network vision upgrade?

yeah right now i am on "unlimited" ATT my phone is throttled at 3gb, then i have .30 kb/s which sucks.. but will at least let me stream spotify. I wish there was some way of knowing if ill have LTE at my office/house now before i decide to go with sprint or verizon LTE on the ip5. hmm

thanks again for all the help

*edit* found it.

is there not an interactive map that shows towers that are scheduled to be

It is a question of when. The Network Vision LTE rollout was delayed in Austin, but at least deployment work has now begun in the field. The current best guess in S4GRU's Running List schedule is a November 2012 launch and February 2013 completion. That is only an unofficial projection.

 

Welcome to S4GRU, BTW. If you are serious about tracking this stuff, the next step is to become a sponsor.

thanks for the info, i just donated! about how long does it take before i am upgraded? so i can look at the towers.

I really hope austins LTE starts sooner than November.

what do your data speeds run at currently in austin? what part are you in?

I am crying over here in NW Austin

 

damn has that gotten any better?

i plan on trying sprint out again, in hopes of LTE being available in the next couple of months. Im in south austin and my roomate is getting 300kbps at best.