I've heard that turning on call forwarding immediately gives you something like 150 kbps, as ordinarily the iPhone reserves some bandwidth to detect incoming calls.
I live in Phoenix, AZ and the top speed i have ever gotten is 362kbps anyone else experiencing this. it's not very fast
So turning on call forwarding will increase your speed? or turning it off?
Well AT&T's 3G maxes out at 1.7mbps... I get around 700kbps on 3G and around 150kbps on EDGE. My area is entirely covered in 3G too, so I dunno why the speed isn't very high. Oh well, I'm on wifi most of the time anyway.
I just tested my Iphone on the 3g Network and I got, 1.72mbps - 1723 kpbs.........
362 kbps!?!
Excuse me but that sucks! The US really has to catch on with its 3G.
Here in Ireland 3G speeds are around 7.2MB in cities/towns and 3.6MB in rural.
That's because you have HSUPA, a chispet the iPhone does not have (actually, few smartphones have it). Most 3G-covered cities on the AT&T network have HSUPA 3.6 enabled, and you can get those higher speeds with a laptop card.
Are you talking about HSDPA? Because HSUPA is about uploading speed, not downloading.
The UK has networks supporting 7.2mbps HSDPA ... I think we need to say whether its the quoted speed or actual speed.
For example my O2 home broadband says I have a 13mb line, but actually i only download at 1.3MB/s. My iPhone 3G downloaded 400Kb in 2.044 seconds so I'm downloading at 196Kb/sec. Which is equivalent to around a 2Mbit line in the UK.
The reason that you were getting 5 bars of signal in the store and great speeds was due to the fact that ATT has a 3G repeater sitting in the back of the store, to make it look like the phone gets a lot better reception than it actually does. You were basically getting speeds of what it would be like standing next to a cell tower.I was getting 1-2 bars of 3g and a speed between 220kbps to 280kbps in Modesto, ca and San jose, ca, so I was not impressed, so I went to my local AT&T to ask some unrelated questions and as I waited to be helped I did some speed test. For the first time inside AT&T I had 5 bars of 3g and a max of speed of 500 Kbps (I ran 4 test). After I was done and left I walked about a 100 ft to my car and noticed I dropped back down to 1-2 bars and the same 250kbps speed.
I realized then that it was possible to get up to 500kbps but for some reason I was not getting it, and I didn't feel the need to pay more for less so I returned my phone on Friday (full refund, no restocking fee)