T mobile faster internet speed settings + What is your internet speeds?

[usualwyy]

Unbelievable

We got 20Kb/S for highest with [SIZE=-1]China Mobile Communications Corporation
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[Barron22]

Thought id register to give my input on this with the speedtest app i get about 300kbps but going to mobilespeedtest.com i get nearer 2mb/s which seems like a crazy difference i dont know what to trust. Also when i got my desire in store they told me i had a 2gb data limit is there anyway of checking this as i should have 3gb limit right?

 

[weirdNumber]

Thought id register to give my input on this with the speedtest app i get about 300kbps but going to mobilespeedtest.com i get nearer 2mb/s which seems like a crazy difference i dont know what to trust. Also when i got my desire in store they told me i had a 2gb data limit is there anyway of checking this as i should have 3gb limit right?

There is no current data plan for mobiles that has a 2Gb FUP. I suspect the people in the shop were confused.

 

[DjLukeW]

This is on O2 HSDPA -

will test it on full signal at work tomorrow

 

[BlueDan]

Tried again - turns out I do get HSDPA at home on T-Mobile (never did with Orange and O2) at around 2700kbit/sec, but I need to change settings to force the phone away from the stronger GPRS signal.

Also means I found out T-Mobile (re)compress images, how do I disable it like I did with O2?

 

[OFI]

How do you know they compress the images?

 

[BlueDan]

Because they end up looking awful, compared to loading them over WiFi. Lots of compression artifacts. Reloading reloads them untouched but it's a PITA having to reload stuff and it ends up using more bandwidth than they were trying to save.

It just seems to effect JPEGs, GIFs and PNGs seem to be left alone.

 

[weirdNumber]

AFAIK you can't change settings to uncompress them. It's bloody annoying.

 

[master_yoda]

On the 3 UK network I get 3800kbps down and 1600kbps up at home most of the time.

 

[s17nj]

Sorry to resurrect this post, but I was just about to post this exact topic when the search found this interesting post.

I have a HTC Legend unlocked running on Tmob UK.
I have been on the phone to them for 3 days straight trying to figure out why my internet is so slow. I am on the 1gb tarrif and read on a post in this thread it is throttled. I currently get 0.3mb/s which is rubbish compared to a someone on O2 getting 2.4mb/s using the speedtest app. They advised I need to go onto the 3gb tarrif but i was have to use my upgrade to do it, they cant just switch me to the tarrif, is this right?
Just to confirm to up my speeds i need to go onto this tarrif? as tmob said "maybe" it will, which isnt reassuring considering using my upgrade will tie me in again for 18months.

Thanks in advance.....

 

[BlueDan]

Hm, I forgot to ring them to try and switch to the tariff my Desire _should_ have been supplied with, I'm still on the standard one.

Shame the Desire is with HTC atm due to rebooting and the TMob SIM is in my old Renoir