Are these Verizon Wireless LTE speeds?

By on Sep 30, 2010 at 9:40 AM
Rumor September 30, 2010

Is this a screen shot of speeds achieved on Verizon’s 4G, LTE network? If you’re to believe a poster in the dslreport.com forums, then yes. The speeds, almost 13 Mbps down and 4.4 Mbps up, are reportedly from someone testing Verizon’s LTE network in Edinboro, PA. The list of initial Verizon LTE cities is still unknown — except for San Francisco and Philadelphia — but we do know general areas that should be getting LTE soon; thanks to a previously leaked map. Edinboro, which is fairly close to Erie, appears to be marked as an LTE city on the leaked document. Also, the part of the IP address that is visibile is: 198.226; 198.226.0.1 appears to be owned by Verizon Wireless. It’s all speculative at this point, but isn’t it speculation that makes the anticipation even greater?

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  • Gag

    These numbers won’t last when LTE goes live. WiMax doesn’t get anywhere close to what it promised on Sprint, LTE will be no different when everyone gets onto it. It’s nice to see huge speed test numbers though. But if that’s what you’re into, get FIOS and run your wifi from it. Data speeds for average LTE customers won’t be this high for a while.

    • lechero

      agreed. im happy for now on att with my 7.1mbps download with the overhaul that went live. its been a few weeks and no drop in speed.

    • MajorT

      If you take a look at the FCC spectrum docs you will see that Sprints WiMax operates on MHz of bandwidth (5up and 5down) while Verizon operates at a minimum of MHz (over MHz in some areas) of bandwidth (10up and 10down). No matter the traffic Verizon will always have twice the bandwidth of WiMax

      • MajorT

        Lets try this again….

        If you take a look at the FCC spectrum docs you will see that Sprints WiMax operates on 10 MHz of bandwidth (5up and 5down) while Verizon operates at a minimum of 20 MHz (with 40 MHz in some areas) of bandwidth (10up and 10down). No matter the traffic Verizon will always have twice the bandwidth of WiMax

  • MVTom

    This posting originated from someone on dslreport.com? I think these are speeds on FIOS over WiFi that Verizon is using to hype their LTE service. By “leaking” it from an anonymous poster Verizon can deny that they are spreading false information. There are all sorts of speed claims out there that never come true in real use, because too many things can affect that speed, like proximity to the cell tower, number of users on any one tower, the make/model of phone used, etc. Then again, how many cell phone users are really transferring huge amounts of data? For the average user, 3G speeds are more than adequate.

    • G

      Into conspiracy there’s much? With no proof yourself, that makes your statement no better than the possibility of your theory being fact. Take from it what you can.

  • Fattychance

    Umm…I was driving through Chicago on the I80 corridor and I received a speed test of over 8554 down and 1044 up.

    You can argue all day long that Sprint doesn’t get what they advertise but I have proof that it sometimes does.

    This occurred on 8/22 and 8:32pm.

    • Brandon

      That must be nice… that it SOMETIMES does.

      Based on my tests with the Evo (have done a dozen or so tests on various phones in Houston) 4G goes from .3Mbps to 8Mbps and on average between 2 and 4Mbps. Then add to that the fact that Sprint doesn’t own its 4G network and Clear is throttling users and frankly, to me, that is unacceptable.

      • G

        Sprint is the majority stakeholder in Clear. The cable companies like Comcast and TWC are minority holders. However that doesn’t mean that Clear doesn’t operate under it’s own leadership and it does. However, throttling users would likely be a Clear decision right now considering the fact that service is still being rolled out.

  • josh

    Pointless when it will be tiered with data caps. Everyone says that wireless broadband is so limited, yet they are rolling out 4G, LTE, HSPA+, etc. and capping the crap out of them. I don’t think it’s as limited as the say it is, which is the obvious choice thus the reason to cap data to make more margins on people that go over. And when you have access to very high speeds, you’ll be doing a lot more datawise than you normally do and thus consuming more data, so you’ll easily go over your limit and get charged big bucks, which is the whole point of them tiering data.

    • josh

      I’m sorry if it truly is very limited that would explain the need to cap it, but I think they are trying to elevate that fear as a reason to say “well we have to tier data plans and place caps since broadband space is so limited” but it’s just a way for them to rake in more profits. there’s no need to limit data, especially at the stance at which they cap it at. see AT&T for example

  • Omar

    That’s what tmobile gets already with 3.5 or Hspda+

  • dad

    Verizon is promising speeds no less then 6Mbps on LTE, and a sustained rate of 8Mbps to 12Mbps, we will just have to wait and see whats what when LTE goes hot and handsets become available.

  • josh

    Yeah ditto to what most people are saying, these are theoretical, and speculative at this point. As the old saying goes, “the true test of man lies in action”, we’ll just have to wait and see for ourselves once it’s fully rolled out and has plenty of users until we truly know what our low, average, and high speeds will be. But as Munchbach stated, “speculation that makes the anticipation greater” as well as fun. Get your popcorn ready.

  • PAPINYC

    Verizon LTE = Joke

  • mannyb

    i get about 10mb download but only 1 mb upload on sprints wimax and yes i have screenshots to prove it

  • matthew

    just curious how much a month LTE is gonna cost and what data limit a month it will have, if its so restricted and expensive i will just not stick with the data package on my phones.

  • LTETESTER

    I have been testing VZW LTE. Speeds are 40-50 Mbps Upload and 16-25 Mbps DL. I dare anyone to go out with me to validate this report.

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