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I've got a Nexus 4 on T-Mobile. I've got a ROM on it that opens up the LTE radio. Normally at my house I'm stuck on Edge (E) but lately its been showing a G for the network. Anyone know what network that is? HSPA shows as H, HSPA+ as H+, and of course LTE is LTE. But I have no clue what the G might be.
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Your on GPRS, Which is pretty slow, is there no 4g LTE coverage at your home? Are your APN settings properly entered? I get this all the time at work.

 

Your APN settings should be

 

fast.t-mobile.com

MMSC = http://mms.msg.eng.t-mobile.com/mms/wapenc

MCC = 310

MNC = 260

APN type = default, supl, mms

APN protocol = IPv4/IPv6

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APN is correct, I live out in Licking county. I get LTE if I drive 8 minutes. So G is GPRS for sure?

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Packet_Radio_Service

 

Going off this page it looks like GPRS is actually way slower than Edge:

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_device_bit_rates

 

Although, that list shows 1xEV-DO as being capable of being pretty fast, but on Sprint it's completely unusable.

 

I just hope within 10 years all the cell companies will have moved everything to LTE and just shut down all the old bands in order to free up spectrum.

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