slow data speeds with new official Sprint rom.

[shadowreader]

I'm torn on what to do now. Initially I did the Sprint upgrade to the new rom and then flashed DCD 3.0 kitchen. was having lots of stability issues and slow data speeds(half of what I had with 3.27 radio). To isolate the problem I went back to the new stock Sprint rom. More stable now but slow data speeds on average again of half what I had before. Before with 1 bar I got 700k ish down now I get about 350. Anybody been able to solve this? faster gps lock is nice(suspect it's now using cell tower in combination more efficiently since I get even initial lock deep inside buildings) but don't think that will offset slower data speeds. Think it is same PRL too. 60711 I think. thanks for any help on this.

[proxcee]

I'm torn on what to do now. Initially I did the Sprint upgrade to the new rom and then flashed DCD 3.0 kitchen. was having lots of stability issues and slow data speeds(half of what I had with 3.27 radio). To isolate the problem I went back to the new stock Sprint rom. More stable now but slow data speeds on average again of half what I had before. Before with 1 bar I got 700k ish down now I get about 350. Anybody been able to solve this? faster gps lock is nice(suspect it's now using cell tower in combination more efficiently since I get even initial lock deep inside buildings) but don't think that will offset slower data speeds. Think it is same PRL too. 60711 I think. thanks for any help on this.

Did you turn on rev A.? I think sprint forgot that one little detail. I know some...myself included...had to do it manually.

[shadowreader]

how did you do it manually? I have my msl and everything just don't know where that setting is. thx.

[proxcee]

I JUST read another thread over at pdaphone home that said on PPCGeeks they recommend that you leave the rev A setting as "Disable"...since its supposed to already be on. People have reported big jumps in speed when it is set to Disable.

To check: ##778# > if you dont have your MSL then just view it > select data parameters...I think.

[shadowreader]

tried it both enabled and disabled after soft reset. not much difference. still about half of what I used to get. may go back to 2.3.2 and 3.27 radio as I didn't have many problems with that other than slow gps lock. Would be great to have best of both worlds though :)

[ScottC]

The one thing that helped me most was changing my DNS to OpenDNS.

Also; Speedtest sites seem to be TOO FAST for the browser to handle the data, so to do a reliable test try tethering the phone or use wmwifirouter. In my case my phone usually says it's getting around 350, but when I tether it actually turns out to be between 1000 and 1800.

FWIW; I use the dsl reports speed test to check the speed.

You could of course also make yourself a nice 10Mb file and test the speed manually.

Changing the Rev.A setting does NOT make a difference, if anything it makes it slower. Leave it as it is.

[shadowreader]

I am on Sprint. I am using wmwifirouter v.91 and using speakeasy's speedtest which consistently used to give me 800-2000K(sometimes over 2meg), With new radio struggling to reach 500K. By opendns do you mean 4.2.2.2? haven't tried that. suspect it would make a difference for latency/lookup speed but not so much for data throughput right?

[Geckotek]

To compare, we should all use the same test and browser. So use PIE for real world results (Opera uses a proxy) and I've found the www.mobilespeedtest.com has a better test than DSLReports.

Anybody have an even better alternative besides tethering?

[Geckotek]

I am on Sprint. I am using wmwifirouter v.91 and using speakeasy's speedtest which consistently used to give me 800-2000K(sometimes over 2meg), With new radio struggling to reach 500K. By opendns do you mean 4.2.2.2? haven't tried that. suspect it would make a difference for latency/lookup speed but not so much for data throughput right?


4.2.2.2 is a Verizon DNS server. OpenDNS is different. See opendns.com

[Foetus]

To compare, we should all use the same test and browser. So use PIE for real world results (Opera uses a proxy) and I've found the www.mobilespeedtest.com has a better test than DSLReports.

Anybody have an even better alternative besides tethering?

I have to disagree about the accuracy of each site... I have a full T1 at my disposal, and mobilespeedtest.com churned out the following:

Your current bandwidth reading is:
645.00kbps

www.dslreports.com/mspeed, however, returned:
1358 kbit/sec

I would go with dslreports. ymmv

[Geckotek]

I have to disagree about the accuracy of each site... I have a full T1 at my disposal, and mobilespeedtest.com churned out the following:

Your current bandwidth reading is:
645.00kbps

www.dslreports.com/mspeed, however, returned:
1358 kbit/sec

I would go with dslreports. ymmv

DSL reports only tests 1 file size at a time and the smaller files always fail. We need to find a better option.

Edit: I've got a 6MB connection, DSL reports first said it was 1.9MB but then failed on 3 subsequent tries (too fast).
Mobilespeedtest gave me 277.40kbps first try 749.30kbps second.

So you're right.

[Foetus]

DSL reports only tests 1 file size at a time and the smaller files always fail. We need to find a better option.

Personally, I tether my laptop to my phone and use www.speedtest.net

[Geckotek]

Personally, I tether my laptop to my phone and use www.speedtest.net

To many factors added into that mix to affect the test. I want a speedtest directly from the phone.

[proxcee]

I have to disagree about the accuracy of each site... I have a full T1 at my disposal, and mobilespeedtest.com churned out the following:

Your current bandwidth reading is:
645.00kbps

www.dslreports.com/mspeed, however, returned:
1358 kbit/sec

I would go with dslreports. ymmv

I second that.
I tried mobilespeedtest.com yesterday while connected to a 6meg line...speed was rediculously low didnt break 500k. Tried speakeasy.net...I got 5.9 meg.

[shadowreader]

Just got 225kbps on dslreports 1meg file and 559kbps on mobilespeedtest with 3.35 radio and stock new Sprint rom on sprint network in rev A area 2 bars(not that great of signal but used to get double this speed at same location with 3.27 Radio)