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Post your 3G data so speeds please!

I live in a very small rural area and for some reason my results were very high (I posted them earlier) any idea why they would be so high?

2391kbps UP and 877kbps DOWN.
 
Airmaxx23 said:
I live in a very small rural area and for some reason my results were very high (I posted them earlier) any idea why they would be so high?

2391kbps UP and 877kbps DOWN.
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Like NKT said, fewer traffic on the towers and backbone means more speed for you. Living in a small or rural area is actually a good thing with VZW since they have 3G everywhere where as with AT&T or T-Mobile you will be stuck with edge or god forbid gprs.
 
CRPercodani said:
Like NKT said, fewer traffic on the towers and backbone means more speed for you. Living in a small or rural area is actually a good thing with VZW since they have 3G everywhere where as with AT&T or T-Mobile you will be stuck with edge or god forbid gprs.
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Thanks, that's kind of what I figured but I was curious. They put a tower up about 1/2 mile from my house last summer so we get full bars all the time.
 
The first time I did it I got:

D: 1155
U: 504

2nd
D: 685
U: 759

3rd
D: 688
U: 717

I don't know why the last 2 times my up speeds were greater though?
 
Huntersville, NC outside of Charlotte, NC

D: 1,992 kbps
U: 459 kbps

Wow, I can barely get 1 bar of 3G with my iPhone :-/

WiFi just for fun :D

D: 19,162 kbps
U: 778 kbps
 
Speed depends highly on location, physical interferences, and load, so I'm not sure what any one persons speed would mater to any other persons speed, particularly if they are not located close to one another. The OS can certainly handle tens of Megabits per second with no problem.
 
I am in Hilliard, OH. Sitting in my basement, with just 2 bars, I have 805 down, 721 up. I will post more once I head upstairs into full coverage.
 
I'm sporting both an iPhone 4 and Droid X right now, and with Wifi turned off here in my home, I'm getting the following speeds:

iPhone 4:
Download = 2100 kbps
Upload = 96 kbps
Latency = 469 ms

Droid X:
Download = 500 kbps
Upload = 600 kbps
Latency = 245 ms

AT&T has much better download speeds, but to be honest, I have noticed because the improved latency on the Droid means things actually feel pretty snappy. It's only when actually downloading files that AT&T gains the advantage.

The upload speed on AT&T is jacked right now because they have a software problem with HSUPA in many metro areas. For the first week the ip4 was out, I was getting 1600 kbps uploads and they have promised to fix this. But for now, I'm crawling at less than 100.

So each network appears to have its advantages. In terms of raw speed, AT&T is going to win every time right now in a HSPA area. But I do have to admit, the latency is definitely a major consideration.
 
3G
Download - 1390 kbps
Upload - 785 kbps

WiFi (<3 my FiOs)

Download - 9402 kbps
Upload - 1851 kbps

Location - Northern VA
 
1st
697 down
469 up

2nd
918 down
234 up

3rd
1234 down
863 up

im using easy tether pro as my laptop connection. saves me the $50+ a month for dsl... and on my dx my iinternet connection is much faster over my droid.. so far i like it...
 
Yeah, I've been speed testing the iphone4 vs my Evo. The iphone is way faster, but the latency is also a lot higher. Verizon seems to be faster than Sprint. I'm leaning towards returning the Evo at this point.
 
NKT said:
BINGO!

User experience is not just a function of speed (bandwidth), but latency plays a HUGE roll. Check your ping times. They should be much better on EVDO Rev. A than on HSPA.

And just wait for LTE... we're talking wicked fast pings! :cool:



At 100kbps it would take 84s to download a 1mb file.

bandwidth calculator - dslreports.com
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LTE 4g will be tiered and data capped, verizon is getting rid of unlimited for lte 4g rollout. confirmed by the verizon ceo. They said that 3 percent of their smarphone users account for 40 percent of their network use. The other 97 percent of their users are having to pay 30 bucks for internet to basically subsidize the price for the 3 percent who abuse the unlimited, such as tethering... etc.

I can also imagine once they release 4g phones, they will probably force you into a tiered 4g plan, probably making grandfathered 3g useless.

I dunno, what do you guys think? I personally don't abuse data, and I don't use 15gigs a month, like i've heard some people do. I just don't like the idea of a cap, i dunno.
 
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