3G on Droid X - Useless

Hello,
Can someone tell me whether it is the phone (Droid X) or the 3G service is bad?
1. 80% of the time i get only 1X connection speed and virtually no bar in my phone. I get so many call drops and browsing is real slow.
2. GPS and maps stalls every other time trying to find the satellite even on clear day.

pardon me stealing a thread but I have the same issue
I did try uninstalling apps, resetting the phone, clearing the cache, upgrade roaming... basically, everything I can think of. there is no real pattern for me (or my wife). I live in S/E PA, in a metro city. Strong signal at times and then nothing - to 1x. I read in here about the throttle back theory but ever if that were true, our shared is just over a gig per month - mainly because we go to wireless whenever we can due to the low signal.
last time I did a hard reset - and wiped my sd, my logins were all still there so I'm not sure if it really reset everything??
It seems to have gotten much worse after the latest upgrade.
Droidx
Android 2.3.4

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