Yah Verizon has been talking about that for some time now.
You should be able to pull better speeds. The tower your on might just have a lot of traffic. At my brother in laws house i barely get a bar and i pull a meg or more
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That was a upload test. A thing I did notice none of the 12mb upload test are working?
this is a 6mb test and it did work for me
http://www.testmy.net/tools/test/u_load.php?&tt=1&st=st&ta=1&top=000&align=center&s=5983