3g slower than a dead cat?

[Pasta Prime]

Is it just me or is 3g slower than a dead cat frozen to the pavement? Where I work there is no 4g yet and I usually have two or three 3g bars but its slower than 1x on my old Droid. Anything I can do to improve speed?

 

[WorzelGummage]

Have a look in Settings > Mobile network > Highest connection speed > set to 3G. Otherwise it may be a network issue or SIM card problem.

 

[scottcraft]

I can watch YouTube on 3G fairly easily on my 822.

 

[Vheissu]

On my Original Droid, Trophy, and now 8x 3g has always been awful no matter how many bars I had. If I'm not in an LTE area I might as well just look for wifi or give up.

 

[scottcraft]

My Trophy was pretty horrible for reception. I pretty much had to be on wifi to do any streaming. Prior to the Trophy I had a motorola droid and it did fine on 3G like my 822 does. I guess it depends on where you are.

 

[SOMEnameItried]

Wait a moment... how fast are dead cats?

 

[Vheissu]

Wait a moment... how fast are dead cats?

Faster than Verizon 3g

 

[Pasta Prime]

Well I tried a few things and this phone is so painfully slow its sad. Now when I'm home it won't connect to my WiFi unless I shut the phone off. That problem didn't go away after the update either.

 

[Pasta Prime]

Have a look in Settings > Mobile network > Highest connection speed > set to 3G. Otherwise it may be a network issue or SIM card problem.

I do not have that option or I couldn't find it anyways.

 

[DonMorris]

Where are you and which network are you on?

 

[Pasta Prime]

I live in 97386 on Verizon. No 4g yet here supposed to be this summer. Its just over the hill from us.

 

[o4liberty]

I have noticed over the last few years Verizon's coverage has changed and where I always had good service I now have poor service. I spoke to customer service and they say the 3G is bogged down with excessive bandwidth.
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[despertador]

3g just sucks. 4g lte is amazing!

 

[Pasta Prime]

Yes 4g is amazing I hope to have it soon.

 

[Microsoftjunkie]

You should switch to tmobile and get either an ATT or mobile wp8 device. Tmobile has enabled ATT phones to use their 3g signals. Either way I usually never get below 5mb down and about 2 up.

 

[Laura Knotek]

You should switch to tmobile and get either an ATT or mobile wp8 device. Tmobile has enabled ATT phones to use their 3g signals. Either way I usually never get below 5mb down and about 2 up.

Not all areas have been refarmed yet. The areas that have not been refarmed will only get EDGE on T-Mobile with an AT&T device, which would be slower than VZW 3G.

 

[gladbecker82]

LMAO at Nerds crying that 3g is slow. How old are you and what type of app/stream requires 4g? 3g is fast enough for anything on a phone. Only reason i can see 3g not working is just that everyone has a phone with 3g nowadays and its a bandwith thing. Other than that, 7 Years ago i was one of the few here in Germany that had UMTS on their Phone and i could stream TV, download Music on it wherever i was and it was unlimited data, but nowadays too many people have it and it drags everone down.

 

[anon(123856)]

3G has always been crap for me as well. My Droid and now my 822 are slow on 3G. LTE smokes though when I can get it.

 

[anon(123856)]

I'm only talking about trying to load web pages. It's like reverting to a 56K modem. Request the page... And wait... And wait some more...

 

[Jnbs]

Dude i am on EDGE!!! And I do not complain.. Oh BTW I am on T-Mobile so it is annoying, but for what I pay I don't complain.. At least i get signal.