CENTRAL U.S. -- this is so frustrating !!!

once upon a time I was getting really great service with sprint. my 3G speeds were steadily in the high triple digits to low 1000s that I didn't even bother to use my home WiFi. but now ever since February when this blizzard struck my home town in the far north suburbs of Chicago IL. my service has been ____ my 3G speeds are ridiculously slow. it took me 30 minutes alone to even be able to begin typing this post. the apps I have don't even work over half the time because my connection speed is so slow, my battery overheats and drains like crazy because it has to fight for a stronger signal. I called sprint and this one rep ____ed up my data even more which caused me a hard reset on my arrive just to get it working at its current ____ty levels. called sprint another day and was told that cell sites were damaged from the blizzard and are being upgraded and worked on (this was on 4/5 I was promised this would be fixed by 3/25 when I first bought my arrive ). here we are on 5/8 and it seems that my speeds are even worse especially since my home internet is off so I can't use my WiFi like I was. what's more notable is when im at school in Chicago my speeds were like how they were before!! return back to my hometown pure ____ again. im soon going to be paying near $100 a month for service as soon as my credits I had them give me run up. they even offered me an airwave after I pay $150 for it to help with my service but it won't work with my 3G service or at all because currently my home internet connection is off. it just seems like no progress at all has been made so I don't know whether to tough it out or pay an ETF and goto a different carrier. note: no other carrier in my area has a wp7 phone with the coverage and price that sprint has except for maybe tmobile.

 

my contract was recently and secretly renewed in march when I bought my arrive. however since Tuesday it seems as if things are getting better im getting more average speeds in the afternoon (400-900) and slower speeds in the evening (150 to 300) used to be less than half of those and I was also able to watch movies on Netflix at TV quality without interruptions in the afternoon and overnight hours which before was barely possible even overnight. either this could be because the upgrades and repairs are near completion or that there aren't many people stressing the tower as a result of the warm weather lately. I'll know Saturday for sure which one it is as the weekend is when i get the dialup level speeds and slower.

 

yea I do too but it seems that now the speeds I get in the overnight and early morning hours (450-1025) have extended over to the afternoon and the slower speeds I got in the afternoon (150-300) in the evening now and the even slower speeds I got in the evening (65-150) are gone now.

 

it was slower over the weekend especially yesterday but all seems better again now, seems to be a capacity issue. I wonder if VZ had this issue too

 

yea but they're android phones unfortunately. the problems returned yesterday when I was trying to watch Netflix. so it seems that the improvements were due to people enjoying the nice weather instead of using the internet and stressing the towers.

 

things are trying to get better here with the speeds. today seems better than yesterday was and all of last week was better than the last 3 months. before all of this I was getting really good speeds and things are heading back in that direction.

 

it does seem like its getting closer to the light at the end of the tunnel. I didn't think MI was bad this guy on PPCGeeks from there always constantly brags about how much 3G data he tethers per month and what he does with it.

 

maybe he's the one clogging it. I didn't think network congestion problems were as bad on CDMA as they are on GSM. an interesting thing is I saw this article on ZDNet that revealed that sprint and Verizon are tied at 1st in customer satisfaction ratings while att and tmo are going down. I used to be a very satisfied customer till this whole thing happened which is slowly getting better. hopefully its over and done with by the time I go back to school in the fall, which is also when wp7 mango is due to be out.

 

oh WOW! so is that why people with Android phones are having the same problems too in my area? my arrive runs better than any Android out there. no fanboyism is allowed in this thread I should've made that clear in the first post but I guess I have to make it clear now. on a side note the arrive is due for a security and firmware update on Tuesday.

 

on my tp2 I did experience the speed problems in my last weeks with it. it ran great on 6.1 and I made it months without a hard reset and would only have to soft reset 2-3 times per week. 6.5 was ok the thing that messed it up was the HTC sense add on and without the proper 3D drivers to support it .

 

well back to EDGE level speeds again. so I think im going to call sprint and have them credit my account again. im not paying $97 till I get my unemployment moneys worth. and hopefully they don't mess up my data again to where I have to hard reset which is a major PITA.

 

as said before I would get constantly between 700 and 1200 at my house with 3 bars.

 

oh wow what the ...? and Sunday is usually when I experience the slowest speeds. that's the kind of crap that pisses me off. I called them again Wednesday to complain about this and some reps didn't even know what I was talking about. one blamed it on my phone while the other in advanced just said " well the afternoon is a peak time so that's y its slow" its supposed to be a bit slower not down to dialup slow. so finally I got him to put in a ticket on the tower in my area and they say they will call me back on Thursday so hopefully I get credited again because I refuse to pay for EDGE and dialup when im supposed to be getting 3G, especially when I see an Ev icon in the top left of my display. if it said 1x then I could understand the speeds.

 

I think one time last year when i first got my tp2 i saw 3mb a couple times. that's obviously the max for this revision of Ev unless they are working on a new revision of it which would then increase the max to 12mb. i must be pulling from ur tower then cuz i can't think of any other reason y its so slow, ain't that many people here in lake county with sprint that could slow it down. in my mid April call with sprint this one lady did say that some cell towers in my area were removed and being replaced and while that's being done everyone will be pulling from a tower that may be further away.