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[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] milan03:
I don't think you have much knowledge of the way UE and RF work. Your blank statement post doesn't get less scientific than that.

On a side note, with Cat 14 UE which Galaxy Nexus happened to be, and favorable weather conditions, users will be able to get on 64QAM and if the backhaul is sufficient, see the speeds approaching 19mbps. Look at my screenshot for speedtest history for that day.

As far as Verizon's LTE, your statements are even more worthless as many users, including myself have been able to pull up to 7-8MBytes/sec sustained using USB sticks, Smartphones, etc. That's up to about 64mbps sustained throughput. And keep in mind, LTE Cat 3 UE limited with 10Mhz physical layer will give you real world peak speeds of 73.6mbps under favorable conditions. Theoretical peak is 86mbps.

Recently, it does appear that in NYC market Verizon has been rate limiting UE to about 40mbps though, again that's recently, within the last 2-3 months.

here some food for your thought:

Verizon: 71mbps peak: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6rwsM7eHRYE

Verizon: 65mbps speedtest: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rueyCgw450g

AT&T's LTE: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=utrutJg-8-M
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] pdxtechdoctor:
It's not the bandwidth that has me questioning those speeds on the nexus and tmobile, but the ping..

Those are LTE or Wifi speed pings.. I've never seen anything below 100 or 90 from anybody using HPSDA
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] reuthermonkey:
The theoretical max speeds for a 21mbps HSPA+ device directly at the base of a tower is in fact 21mbps. The theoretical max for LTE in Verizon's current configuration is 72mbps. Those maximums are per sector, not per user. However, if you're the only user on your sector, near the tower, it's entirely possible to get quite close to the theoretical maximum.

In New York, T-Mobile has 42mbps Dual-Carirer HSPA+ deployed, which allows the 21mbps Single-Carrier HSPA+ Galaxy Nexus to have a better chance of reaching peak speeds.

I have a library of speed tests with pings below 90ms on HSPA+ from T-Mobile and other carriers. I've said it many times before, and I'll continue to repeat it. When properly and similarly deployed, there's little difference between HSPA+ and LTE. LTE is essentially HSPA+ with a different radio spec (OFDMA/SC-FDMA rather than W-CDMA).
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Mr.Mischief:
Here ya go, 80ms ping over T-Mobile. My WiFi ping is under 25ms.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] frigidazzi:
Holy Moly. I thought the 5mb I got one in s blue moon was awesome. So you get 15+ Consistently and throughout the day too?
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] cbutt:
Would anyone using straight talk T-Mobile be willing to share their APN settings? I've recently set my dad up with st tmo on my old sgs2 & he can't receive MMS.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] noneone:
https://www.google.com/webhp?source....r_gc.r_pw.r_cp.r_qf.,cf.osb&biw=1097&bih=541

above has apn settings.

HEY, that S2 is a pentaband phone. T-mobile is also very liberal / easy about unlocking it. Unlock it and it has all the cell capability of the nexus, but with faster data speeds, and you can always put him on ST ATT someday if you want.

GL!
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] cbutt:
Thanks for the info, however, my issue is that he isn't on tmo directly, but rather on straight talk-tmobile... those APN settings & straight talk's APN settings are not allowing him to send/receive MMS. When he sends me one, all I get is either a white box or the downloading option, but it never downloads. When I send him one, it does the same thing. It's not me, since I send & receive MMS back & forth between my boyfriend, sisters, friends, etc... all on various carriers.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] noneone:
Ah, ST tmo. I'm on att right now, but, MMS worked for me with the generic settings, when I was on ST tmo, here they are form the website, I think these are what I had used.

FIELD	SMARTPHONE

NAME	straight talk

APN	wap.tracfone

PROXY	leave blank

PORT	8080

MMSC	http://mms.tracfone.com

MMS PROXY	leave blank

MMS PORT	leave blank

Just to make sure, you're using the generic MMS tools, NOT Google voice, correct? Google voice DOES NOT allow you to mms, just sms.

I've gone all google voice, so, no MMS, I use EMAIL for everything I used to use for MMS. Any pictures I take can be "shared" to facebook, email, MMS, and on and on just as easy.

GL!
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Typhoon!:
ST Indoor Reception

A question for those on ST T-Mobile:

I know with T-Mo, indoors reception is not great, but they roam to att once the signal is lost if you are deep into a building. Is this the same with ST tmo sim?
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] martonikaj:
It's going to be the exact same signal-wise because it uses the same frequencies of 1700/2100 that T-Mobile regularly uses, which doesn't penetrate buildings well.

ST doesn't offer data roaming though, so you won't get AT&T coverage unless you select that SIM from the start.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] cbutt:
@noneone, thanks for the help. Still looking into it, as he still cannot receive/send MMS... I have st-att & everything works fine for me. I used his phone (my old tmo sgs2) on tmo postpaid for about 5 months with MMS working fine. He isn't using Google voice at all. He left Verizon & took the new # straight talk gave him with his sim.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] havran99:
Thanks
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] shovelheadhd:
I have to disagree and agree. At&t does have slightly (and I mean slightly) better signal while inside buildings. I tried both st at&t and T-Mobile at the same time. The days I had my T-Mobile Sim in I had to walk outside or next to the wall to get enough signal to send messages or use data on apps like Google messenger. While I used the st Sim I could text and use data in the building no problem. It was still edge but it worked fine. T-Mobile still won me over with data speeds so I deal with the week signal while I'm at work.

I agree 100% that the" roaming" on st is for voice only and not data.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] frigidazzi:
Att definitely has better building penetration. In my home I get 0 to 2 bars of TMobile depending on where I'm standing. 3 to 4 of att everywhere in my house. Outside in my driveway I get 4 bars of both. Same is true for most stores I go to as well. Not too mention when my TMobile drops to 1ish bars it almost always switches to edge which is still only sitting at 1 bar and almost un usable for anything, but texting.

That said TMobile is usually 4x faster than att given equal signal strength (ie out doors)
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Typhoon!:
But then if the signal is too weak, should it not switch/roam to att automatically?

What I'm trying to understand is, with a T-Mobile branded SIM card, my phone automatically roams to ATT when it loses registration with T-Mobile towers (usually when I am indoors). The only time that I lose connection (voice and text) is when there is neither T-mobile nor any ATT signal available in the place I am at. But I guess with ST tmo SIM, it doesn't roam to ATT if the signal is too weak.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] frigidazzi:
Personally, in the 5 years I had TMobile I never noticed my phone roam, with the one exception of when I was about 3 hours from a major city. And even that was not att. I don't recall the name, but it was some weird carrier I was not familiar with.

Even when I was on campus in class I would sit at no service while my friends next to me had 2 bars on att. I was on contact, off contract, it didn't matter. I had smart phones and dumb phones in that time.

I'm not sure how you got lucky before lol.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Hater McTroll:
Hmmm I always just roamed

Sent from my Galaxy Nexus
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] reuthermonkey:
That is not true. Not now. Not ever. Not for prepaid. Not for postpaid.

If you don't get signal on T-Mobile on 3g deep into a building anymore, it typically will drop down to T-Mobile EDGE.

The places with ATT roaming are

1) never within a market that T-Mobile already covers

2) increasingly rare outside of T-Mobile coverage areas, as T-Mobile does not want to continue paying for ATT coverage any longer.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] cbutt:
This. There are areas I just drop to edge or have straight up no service (westchester, NY). However, when I drive up past albany, NY to visit my grandpa, I roam onto at&t, as T-Mobile doesn't cover the area/not in a tmo market, but at&t does/at&t market. This was on tmo postpaid. I have yet to try it with my straight talk sim.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Hawon:
after reading the entire thread, i ordered AT&T ST Sim. In three days I will post some data from Chicago.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] lettcco:
well I have been on ST ATT for 2 months now. This current month I have to ask for a reset twice now, once at 2.5GB and again at 3.0GB. And plenty of times when I see 4 bars but internet does nothing since ST traffic get lower priority on ATT towers. I think I will go back to Tmobile $30 plan.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] slyydrr:
I wouldn't consider him lucky. I think it's just a misunderstanding. The idea is that TMobile only pays to lease towers in areas where they don't offer service. If you're indoors and lose service due to signal degradation rather than a lack of coverage, you shouldn't expect to swap over to ATT if ATT has coverage in the same building.

TMo will only use ATT to plug their gaps and vice versa. It would be a losing business model if they approached it any other way as they'd be paying twice for coverage in a single area.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] movielover76:
I have to agree, and I've had over a year to compare the two, every day side by side. I've had a Verizon 4G LTE personal cell and a AT&T HSPA+ work cell, both Androids and to be honest the only time I could really notice a difference in day to day usage was if I was lazy and didn't want to bother connecting the wifi to download a rom. Every other activity was the same, webpages and audio/video streaming were identical only real difference was that my LTE phone would be dead by 5pm lol.

Contract is up and I find no reason pay more than double for something that I can't distinguish. In the future we will need LTE for capacity as people use more and more data, but right now it;s marketing and bragging rights.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] movielover76:
ATT Post Paid vs Straight Talk

Even without the proxy server in the apn setup, the maximum speed does seem to be a little lower, I now have a straight talk personal plan and and AT&T postpaid account. Running both speed tests at the same time the postpaid account always tends to be a little faster.

I was waiting for my number to port today and using my work postpaid sim until 8pm, max speeds are higher up ( I've seen up to 6 mbps at my house) after 8pm is Straight Talk.

But all in all for less than half the price, the small speed decrease is worth it, general usage seems very speedy.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] frigidazzi:
Yeah. That makes total sense. But it also makes me wonder why then other carriers don't do this too? I know for sure sprint allows roaming in areas where it's supposed to have superior service. I roamed all the time at home, plus I used roam control in low signal areas.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] harveydent:
I'm on TMo postpaid and don't get handed off to ATT when inside buildings. I just get no signal.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] moltenbobcat:
Has anyone else been having a horrible time with straight talk today? It seems like it's been working fine before today, but starting today I will show as connected with good signal but pages will refuse to load. If I reload the page again then everything will come though it seems like it's been very spotty. I don't have the proxy line in. There is post of howard forms here where people seem to be experiencing problems too.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] s9ortner:
I'm having the same issue in Detroit. I called and got my account reset twice and still the same problem. 1280ms ping compared to my normal 120ms ping, if I can even connect. I started having this issue yesterday.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] bobsbbq:
Also having trouble in Louisiana.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] frigidazzi:
Problems in Oregon
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] defconoi:
Having problems in reading Pennsylvania to Pottsville Pennsylvania loading pages and getting slow speeds. Is it an at&t issue or mvno issue or new restrictions?
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] jlczl:
Trouble in Texas too
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] DOHCtor:
No trouble in cali
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] godefoy:
Trouble in miami
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] jonathan3579:
Okay so I just finished my first month of Straight Talk with T-Mobile compatible sim. Here's all my observations:

- speeds are exactly the same as what I had on $30/mo plan with T-Mobile

- internet very rarely will just disappear and reappear after a brief amount of time

- unlike T-Mobile, you get to actually use your service the whole day on the 30th day

- my data usage is over 6gb for the month and I never got flagged or anything

Hands down, Straight Talk is the best bang for your buck and I would highly recommend it over any other prepaid plan or carrier.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] DOHCtor:
Good to hear. Seems like ST T-Mobile has a higher data cap. I use to get 6GB with ST AT&T with no problems. But now I'm getting throttled every 2.5 to 3GB. But all it takes is a 5 minute phone call to get things reset.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] z3bu:
I wish I could get that much before getting capped...... I get capped every 300mb....its ridiculous.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Hawon:
I usually get 2Mbps... I miss T-Mobile's 8Mbps.

I'm seriously considering to get T-Mobile Sim. I have a question to T-Mobile Sim card users. Does it really have an issue with Google voice forwarding?

By the way I'm in Chicago.

Sent from my Nexus 7
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] bobsbbq:
Not for long, With the new Provider coming out next month, or for some this month. I have straight talk as well but I'm switching over by the end of next week. They are the best deal on the block right now.

49.00 Unlimited Talk, Text, Data (T-Mobile MVNO)

4 Gb at 4G speeds then throttle

Roaming included (one of the only Prepaid carrier to offer Roaming) This means the best coverage of both AT&T and T-Mobile and other GSM's combined.

Other features available for fee, International calling, WiFi calling

Referral bonuses to reduce monthly cost even further

I got my information from 49dollar-cell.com
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] DOHCtor:
Are you using the AT&T or T-Mobile variant? And if you are using the AT&T one, did you leave your proxy blank?
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] z3bu:
AT&T...and yes, proxy is blank.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] DOHCtor:
That's unfortunate...
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] slyydrr:
This is subjective based on how you're using Google Voice. If you use your Google Voice number as your main number and have it forward to your TMo number, then it should work IF you disable your voicemail (which requires a phone call from Monthly4G/Prepaid customers). However, if you're in my scenario which is that TMo hosts your number and you only want to use Google Voice for voicemail, then you're unfortunately out of luck. Disabling voicemail does nothing for you as it's not being routed through GV first, and you can't change your forwarding to a number of your choice due to it being a prepaid plan.

Hopefully that helps clarify!
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] frigidazzi:
What he said. In short. Use Google voice number only. And disable vm with T-Mobile. Then profit !
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] phositadc:
I setup a T-Mobile prepaid $30/mo plan today and so far so good. Getting 10-15mbps downloads compared to 1-3 mbps on at&t post-paid. Speed difference is pretty amazing.

-Sent from my HTC One S.-
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] BennyJr:
Ok so i can't take these crappy speeds with the att sim. If i wanna switch to the tmobile sim should i just go buy a sim online? Idk how they handle swithcing numbers and stuff. This is with straight talk
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] martonikaj:
Buy the T-Mobile compatible SIM and then I'm sure they can just make the switch for you on their end. Couldn't hurt to call and ask first though before spending the $15.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] phositadc:
I'm going to try T-Mobile st next month myself and compare to the T-Mobile $30 plan. Other people in this thread have reported speeds are the same so hopefully my experience will show the same thing ;)

-Sent from my HTC One S.-
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] jonathan3579:
You won't be disappointed. :) I have never been able to feel so liberated with a wireless plan. Now that I actually have minutes to use anytime, I actually do it... it's kinda weird. Lol. Maybe T-Mobile has done some work down here in Houston but my upload speeds are significantly better as well. I'll try to get some speed tests up from a couple different areas since I'll be out tonight.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] jonathan3579:
These aren't my best results but they're definitely a "norm" for areas that are heavily congested.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] BennyJr:
^^Still better then att without 'congestion'.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] jonathan3579:
That's what I was afraid of. Lol. I wanted to get the AT&T sim card but ultimately decided that I'm okay with less coverage and faster speeds. From what I've read, it looks like I'm on the upper hand with no throttling too. I'm totally satisfied. Despite what people say, I get 3G/4G in areas my girlfriend (on T-Mobile postpaid) doesn't so there is something in play behind the scenes here that we don't know about. That's just my observations anyway.

Edit: And as the picture shows, I'm in a basic 3G area too so it can be much better. :)

Edit 2: As you can see, 6mbps + is easily attainable depending on your connection.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] DOHCtor:
Man, I want to go to T-Mobile ST but the service is just spotty at where I'm at. I really hate how slow the AT&T ST can get during congested hours and I can never get over 3mbps anymore. It seems to be capped at 3 now.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] phositadc:
It's kind of a dilemma. I get awesome tmo speeds here in the dc area, and good service most places. But today I was eating lunch very near downtown (in acrowded, popular area) and I had no service whatsoever, while my wife on AT&T had 4 bars. Even if that only happens once a week it is pretty bad. Given that I rarely need 10-20 mbps on my phone, maybe AT&T's 1-3 mbps + better coverage is the better choice.

-Sent from my HTC One S.-
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] DustyFarts:
Do you have any problem signing up for google voice..I did on the $30 plan. I could make out going calls and it would show my tmobile number? But incoming calls to with my setup google voice number would come in ??
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] phositadc:
Did you go into the settings of the Google voice app and choose to make outgoing calls from your Google voice number?

I haven't ported my old AT&T number to Google voice yet. I'm still testing and making sure that is what I want to do...

-Sent from my HTC One S.-
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] DustyFarts:
Ok let me explain..I get my incoming calls ok..people dial my Google voice number I get the call. But when I call them they see my T-mobile number??

When I tried to set it up on Google ..I get an error message that you can not set this program up with a t-mobile pay as you go service??
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] frigidazzi:
I'm using the thirty dollar T-Mobile plan just fine on Google Voice. Like the other poster said you need to open the Google Voice app on your phone, go to settings, then choose always use Google Voice. The error you are getting sounds like when you're trying to setup voicemail (which doesn't work on T-Mobile pre paid)
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] DustyFarts:
Thanks guys..now when I call someone my Google voice number show up. And not my tmobile number..Hurrrray!!

Sent from a Galaxy far far away on a planet called Nexus from a City called Prime using xda app-developers app
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] defconoi:
Any of you guys notice intermittent data issues on straight talk att? Some apps refuse to connect and sometimes all apps for and i gotta toggle data on/off for it to work. Is it because I have no data proxy set? Or is there global issues?
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] martonikaj:
Looks like they solved the issue for you (setting up the GV settings correctly), but I just wanted to note that the reason why you see that error message in Google Voice settings is because T-Mobile prepaid doesn't support "conditional call forwarding", so it can't set up traditional Google Voice Voicemail.

Fortunately, if someone calls your GV#, you don't need to set anything up, GV Voicemail will work fine. It's only an issue for some people that want to use their T-Mobile # and GV Voicemail w/ it.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] dan in la:
I've been having somewhat similar data issues over the past couple of weeks. It started around the time my plan rolled over, so I thought it had to do with that, but ST customer service claimed my account was fine.

At first my data would simply stop working altogether for hours at a time. Voice was unaffected, and I still had a strong signal. The problem would sometimes go away when I put the proxy back in my APN, but not always. After a few days, the problem mostly went away. Now, when I go off wifi, it's just slow to reconnect to data. It claims to have a data connection, but the signal bars stay gray, and data won't actually come in for a minute or so. After that, it seems to be fine.

Over this time, I've been flashing different CM10 Roms, and I've tried a couple of different radios. I don't know if the problem is with the Rom, the hardware, Straight Talk, or AT&T.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] frigidazzi:
Yeah a page or two up a bunch of us were talking about this problem. This is why I switched back to T-Mobile this month lol. I couldn't deal with it.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] TheIowaKid:
Its ST not your ROMs. I have been reading all over that people are experiencing the same issue. I have had this problem for a few weeks now and its so annoying I've decided to try out TMO $30 plan.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] bobsbbq:
I just traveled from LA to MD and my data connection for my GPS was so intermittent it was driving me crazy. I'm on AT&T Straight Talk. I finally switched to my T-Mobile SIM which still is good.

Luckily I will be switching to Solavei this week sometime. Hooray!!
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] defconoi:
What's happening is its switching from umts to hspa to save battery constantly, if we can have it lock on hspa we won't have data issues
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] jonathan3579:
Wouldn't that be possible from the *#*#4636#*#* menu?
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] defconoi:
No wcdma is umts hspap and hspa
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] area5x1:
This is a huge problem for my One X on StraightTalk, it doesn't seem to download any data when the indicator says "3G" but when it switches to "H" it starts going. Very annoying because you'll lose data connection for a little bit when it switches from 3G to H
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] jstrom23:
I'll be curious to hear your experience. I went from Verizon to the TMo SIM on ST and have been very happy. Around Metro DC and mid-Atlantic I have no coverage problems and generally average 3-5 down and 2-3 up.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Logix:
So i got a question i got a tmobile galaxy s2 which is 42 mb hsdpa capable my friend wants to trade me his att galaxy s 2 skyrocket which is still hsdpa but has a lte radio also

is the straight talk tmo network the same kinda "3.5" g network that the real postpaid service is because i can get 17+ on tmobile "3g/3.5" where i live ( tampa fl)

or should i trade him for the better phone and go with the att sim on straight talk 5 is still bearable

i made a bad decision went with simple mobile 3g plan and its 121kbs (faillll) but its about to end thank god.

where i live i got full coverage indoors for both. and tmobile has their better network here ( but i dont know if straight talk takes advantage of that)
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] DarkJatrix:
Hey man. ST will never throttle your data. Sometimes they will need to reprovision your Sim card and reactivate 3g data (confusing I know) they'll either shut you down or leave you alone. Your problem is a crap glitch. Lol. Call them and tell them your going slow and they'll fix it.