Post your 3G reception

[jecapaga]

Simple enough..take a screenshot of what your typical 3G reception is in your home or at work. If you have the luxury of a 3G coverage map from your provider indicate what it says you should expect and generally where you are located if you feel like it. I'm in Southern California and the AT&T website says I am completely surrounded with 3G coverage. This is my typical coverage unfortunately.

Edit: by typical I mean after having this new iphone for a day. The first iphone using edge consistently was getting almost full bars.

 

[Mac-Addict]

Well I don't have my 3g iPhone yet but on my current (k810i) phone I am constantly on 3g network where ever I go, even way out walking in the woods I am usually connected to 3g. (Live just outside London)

 

[guru_ck]

At Home in San Jose, CA

 

[Blackforge]

I'm at home in Athens, AL

Average is 4 bars. Lowest is usually 3 and I do get all 5 sometimes.

In fact 3 days ago, the coverage map didn't even cover my town. So I was a little surprised when I drove home and never lost 3G signal. Checked the map Friday and the 3G map size in my area had doubled and now pretty much covers mostly everywhere I go. It looks like AT&T may have rolled out 3G in more places or expanded areas. So check that coverage map!

 

[dlamin517]

i did the speed test on iphonespeedtest.com
this was my max sitting in my room.

 

[scotty588]

Same here. On my iPhone 1.0 I usually had full bars at home. Now with 3G I get 2-3 max and the ATT site shows my area is fully covered with 3G.

 

[jecapaga]

Yeah I was more looking for reception bars vs. speed test.

 

[dlamin517]

Yeah I was more looking for reception bars vs. speed test.

well you get both with that pic. look in the top left hand side

 

[jecapaga]

well you get both with that pic. look in the top left hand side

Good point and I should probably add that I'm getting almost your exact same speeds except showing almost no reception via the bars.

 

[dalvin200]

This screenshot has my iPhone 3G reception in my office at home and also speed (by iphonespeedtest.com)

View attachment 124168

 

[iflipper]

I get 1 bar of 3g reception depending on which room I'm in in my home, otherwise it's 5 bars and GPRS only. This is North East Leeds in the U.K. I'm expecting full 3g when I go to the city centre as I always got 4-5 bars and Edge there.

*edit* nvm found out in another thread "Hold the home and sleep buttons together" so I'm about to try

 

[jecapaga]

I get 1 bar of 3g reception depending on which room I'm in in my home, otherwise it's 5 bars and GPRS only. This is North East Leeds in the U.K. I'm expecting full 3g when I go to the city centre as I always got 4-5 bars and Edge there.

PS how do I take a screenshot?

Hold the home button on the bottom and click the top button on the phone. You'll see a flash. The photo is is in your photos app camera roll.

 

[BobboZR2]

Ocean County, NJ

This is here in my bedroom at my computer desk where on Sprint Roaming (which is technically Verizon's network) I was lucky to get 2-3 bars.

 

[tomjleeds]

I get 1 bar of 3g reception depending on which room I'm in in my home, otherwise it's 5 bars and GPRS only. This is North East Leeds in the U.K. I'm expecting full 3g when I go to the city centre as I always got 4-5 bars and Edge there.

*edit* nvm found out in another thread "Hold the home and sleep buttons together" so I'm about to try

That's odd, perhaps your house doesn't like phone signal (that particularly affects 3G, much moreso than GSM). I'm in NW Leeds (Headingley-ish) and get full 3G signal inside (attic) or 3/4 bars downstairs.

 

[marksman]

I don't get 3G at my house for some reason.

I did an expirement earlier, had Pandora streaming, got in the car, and I was amazed I had my wireless connection a good 300 yards away from my house or more. Then it kicked into Edge for a short distance, and then 3G.

So I am surrounded by 3G but it is not getting to my house. Which is fine because apparently have my wireless antenna covering the enitre neighborhood.

 

[pranavss11]

No bars ..! San Jose CA

 

[tttexxan]

at home I usually have one bar but at work 2-3 at best...Im hoping it gets better

 

[drchipinski]

One bar in my house...complete BS

 

[phatcat]

5 full bars on edge on average in Naperville il. Now I get about half with 3G and more dropped calls.

3G may be going back and I'll reactivate my old and trusty 4gb model

 

[yg17]

Full bars here. But there's an AT&T cell tower literally less than 100 feet away from my house, so I'd expect nothing less.

 

[razorianfly]

O2

Widnes, Cheshire, UK

(Indoors).

R-Fly

 

[Lexoticstylez02]

Mine ranges from 3-5 bars so far. I've only been within a 20 mile radius so far so we'll see how it goes.

 

[albeli]

I'm going from 1 bar to 5 bars, depending where in/around my house I am. Crazy.

ETA: screen cap--best reception

 

[rablat]

Not much reception in my house Cary Nc
Out and about is good tho.

 

[rick98761]

I think the reason we are getting lower bars is because the 3g towers are fewer and far between. I get 1 to 2 bars a lot of the Time. Call quality is still great so it's not really a big deal. When I leave 3g area with 1 or so bars, I usually enter an edge area with full bars. Seems lime the phone is just hanging onto 3g for as long as it can, even though it could get an better edge signal. I don't think it will ever lead to a dropped call.