Nice Christmas Gift from AT&T

[Scott Greczkowski]

AT&T promised us LTE by the end if the year here in the Hartford area.

I have had my LTE turned on, on iPhone for the past few weeks hoping to get a LTE signal.

Up until now (including last night) I only had the 4G icon on my iPhone 5, but this morning Santa came a few days early as I woke up to 5 bars LTE on my display!

I did a speed test and was floored to see it is faster then my cable modem service! It tests at over 50 meg down each time!

The only thing I am worried about now is how easy it will be for me to go over my data cap.

Thanks AT&T for the early Christmas gift

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[Ronnie-]

Sweet! I wonder how long you will keep those speeds? When ours got turned on with Verizon I was hitting in the 40s down. Still getting 30+ down and 17-20 up.

 

[digiblur]

Will be soon for me too... Sprint has swapped out their equipment on a tower close to me. Pretty cool to see them swapping the entire network out even 2g and 3G stuff.

Sent from a little old Note 2

 

[whitewolf8214]

Congrats to all of you

 

[Hall]

The only thing I am worried about now is how easy it will be for me to go over my data cap.

What will do you download differently now just because you have LTE ? We've had LTE with VZW for almost a year now and I don't really download "more", it's just whatever I do download, I get "faster". I never thought it would make a difference, but even web browsing is noticeably faster.

 

[KE4EST]

Nice Scott I don't see LTE coming anytime soon here, but I have been surprised.

 

[Ronnie-]

What will do you download differently now just because you have LTE ? We've had LTE with VZW for almost a year now and I don't really download "more", it's just whatever I do download, I get "faster". I never thought it would make a difference, but even web browsing is noticeably faster.

I agree. My usage has not gone up moving to LTE, I just get what I normally use faster.

 

[riffjim4069]

Good for you!

 

[Scott Greczkowski]

The thing that has me worried is that I watch Slingbox a lot and worry that it may download more since it detects a faster connection.

Other then that I don't see any issues.

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[Neutron]

If you are watching the same amount of tv using sling it shouldn't make too much of a difference.

 

[nelson61]

The thing that has me worried is that I watch Slingbox a lot and worry that it may download more since it detects a faster connection.

Other then that I don't see any issues.

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Always can take a second mortgage on the house for more mb.

We all are going to be data poor or is that poor from data?

 

[Hall]

If you are watching the same amount of tv using sling it shouldn't make too much of a difference.

It will be the "same amount of TV" but I suspect it will be at a higher BITRATE ... because it can (now).

 

[mike123abc]

The thing that has me worried is that I watch Slingbox a lot and worry that it may download more since it detects a faster connection.

Other then that I don't see any issues.

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It is probably more limited by the uplink on your home broadband than by the download speed.

 

[Scott Greczkowski]

My upstream at home is 10 MB/s which is why I am worried.

 

[JAG72]

Does your iPhone have a bandwidth monitor? If it does mark your usage and then stream for a little bit and see what it uses.

 

[mikew]

I change to SQ mode. No real need for an HD picture on such a small device. I have LTE and a 5 MB upload from home.

 

[yourbeliefs]

How far away are you from the AT&T tower? I'm in Southington and Farmington and can't get an LTE signal. I didn't even know LTE had been lit up until I did some research..

 

[Scott Greczkowski]

There is one about a half mile away from my house.

LTE is not officially lit up yet for our area, I am watching it today and they are going from LTE to 4G and back, almost like they are still working on things.

When its officially on AT&T will announce it.

 

[yourbeliefs]

AT&T did officially announce it.

http://www.att.com/gen/press-room?pid=23642&cdvn=news&newsarticleid=35867&mapcode=wireless

I'm tired of this being jerked around by AT&T with their LTE service. I've had an LTE device for a goddamn year and still have yet to experience local LTE speeds. I also love how Bridgeport got it before Hartford did. Bridgeport can't even properly educate it's children yet it gets LTE service before I do..

 

[Scott Greczkowski]

Ahh I didn't see that (and they were supposed to send it to me upon release)

I got one of my co workers here who also has an iPhone 5 and the 4G to LTE and back switching on and off is happening on both devices at the same time. In fact at the moment its 4G and not LTE.