Just couldn't throw me a bone, eh fellas?

    Here is my original post from this morning and a link to the board I posted it on: http://community.vzw.com/t5/DROID-2-by-Motorola/Signal-Issues/m-p/318800#M1813
What, in more detail, is this update that they rolled out? My 3g speeds have always been on the slow side to mediocre. Then in the past week, they got so bad that even *228 wouldn't work because the signal was so poor, with the 3g only coming in small bursts, and the upload speed consistently way higher than the download speeds. These results were constant with several phones I tested out, most of them being in an actual Verizon Wireless store while they were swapping out my third droid for my fourth, since I suspected it might be a software or hardware issue causing the issue (oh well, my "A" key was sticking anyway, which is much more irritating than it probably sounds like at first, but try texting heavily with that problem for two months ..)
     ...but since yesterday my speeds have been AMAZING. Upwards of almost 2mbps/s..A while driving, which is supposed to cut speeds by about half. Also, I've always gotten an extremely poor signal in my house. But then again, so does everyone regardless of what phone and carrier they have, which indicates it is the design and materials of the house that is likely responsible. But in the two days I've been coasting at similar speeds as stated above as well.
     Anyway, I am just curious as to what this upgrade entailed more specifically as it seems to have made a world of difference.
UPDATE: Had to create a new forum member name for reasons completely unbeknownst to me. Anyway, I KNEW as of writing my previous post earlier this morning that it was just too good to be true. And good old Big Red did not fail in reassuring that I was correct.
     Speeds have degraded back down to even poorer than that as described above before the little 48 hour jolt I enjoyed, which this most download's not even reaching up to .10 mbps, and upload speeds surpassing that by far, all with terrible latency and coming in the aforementioned "speed bursts."
     Perhaps Verizon saw my post and decided it would be amusing to play a prank on me by throttling my speeds down to zilch. Wouldn't ve the first time I've had a prank pulled me by Verizon. (As bizarre as that sounds that last sentence is actually suprisingly true, and was quite a bizarre situation to deal with.) I am still on an Alltel plan afterall, which undoubtedly irritates Verizon to no end. I will be going in for a replacement phone literally once a week, every week, until speeds get back to where they were for those two days. I kid you not.

Next time you get a phone, immediately check your PRL while speeds are good. Compare it to the PRL you have now with the slow speeds.

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