Users Say Sprint Epic4G 3G Upload Speeds Limited To 150kbps

Posted by timothy on Sunday September 19, 2010 @02:17AM from the some-limitations-may-apply dept.

Miamicanes writes "Nearly everyone who owns a Sprint Samsung Epic 4G and has benchmarked its 3G performance has discovered that its 3G upload speeds are apparently limited to 150kbps. So far, Sprint has not officially acknowledged it as a problem, nor has it indicated whether this might be a firmware bug, a PRL issue, tower-related, or the result of a deliberate policy to cap 3G upload speeds. Regardless, the problem is causing widespread anger among Epic4G owners, many of whom have bitterly noted the irony of being charged a $10 surcharge so they can endure data transfers that are slower than they had 4 years ago (and a quarter of the speeds enjoyed by Evo owners on the same 3G network)." Cellphone networks are fickle beasts; can anyone out there with an Epic provide a counterexample?

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Opps by QA · 2010-09-19 02:21 · Score: 5, Funny

Epic fail
from Sprint... by brxndxn · 2010-09-19 02:24 · Score: 4, Funny

"Don't worry. We are slowing down the Evo speeds too and we will be charging them $29.99/month for wifi hotspot."

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Re:*Only* 150k? by Anonymous Coward · 2010-09-19 03:06 · Score: 1, Funny

How do you live with 100k? I serve a popular Ruby on Rails website from my cell phone and the 150k limit is really crippling.
Although the phone is literally burning a hole in my pocket I'm still cooool as a motherfucker.