By now, most of you know (or have heard of) the Sprint Overdrive. A small shiny black box about the size of a deck of cards is all you need to get up to 5 devices online via wifi backhauled to Sprint’s Wimax 4G network. So how good is the coverage in Houston?
Short answer: Pretty damn good.
I was pleasantly surprised that the 4G coverage in Houston covered the majority of the areas that I traveled to throughout my working week. Please see the approximate locations and speeds via speedtest.net below:
Downtown Houston – window, 4th floor, Travis @ Elgin – 4G 1.06meg down / 0.98 up
North Houston – Data Center ??? 2nd floor, 45/Rankin – 4G 3.12 down / 0.88 up
Galleria area – (W Alabama/Weslayan) – 2nd floor, by window – 4g 4.19 down / 0.30 up
North Houston – Training room 1st floor, 45/Rankin – 4G 4.35 down / 0.83 up
North Houston – Cubicles 1st floor 45/Rankin – 4G 5.68 down / 0.63 up
North Houston – 45/8 bad reception, still 4G, 1.1 down / 0.04 up? possibly mistake, all nodes showed this upload speed
West Houston – I-10/6 – 2nd floor near windows – 4G – 4.33 down / 0.71 up