I was in Canada recently and spent most of the trip roaming on ROGERS. I paid for the 120MB International Roaming Data plan, and it did come in very handy, as I was able to use Google Maps, Twitter, and other applications up there without incident.
However, I noticed two unusual things:
1) Data was EXTREMELY SLOW. We're talking speeds far slower than AT&T 3G was on my old iPhone 4! Loading a web page that normally loads instantly at home took 10-15 seconds or more. I didn't want to run a speedtest as that eats data like crazy but.. I was a bit disappointed. Is ROGERS normally this slow on 3G, or are they just mistreating me since I'm not their customer?
2) Even though I was roaming on a foreign carrier, I still had an AT&T-owned MyCingular.net IP address. Is this normal? Some sort of tunneling going on? I wonder if this might explain the slowness above.
Either way, it was better than nothing. I was able to send and receive text messages using Google Voice, which saved me the 50 cents each roaming SMS charge. It also saved me from having to hunt WiFi all the time like a friend did when traveling abroad. Wheee...
However, I noticed two unusual things:
1) Data was EXTREMELY SLOW. We're talking speeds far slower than AT&T 3G was on my old iPhone 4! Loading a web page that normally loads instantly at home took 10-15 seconds or more. I didn't want to run a speedtest as that eats data like crazy but.. I was a bit disappointed. Is ROGERS normally this slow on 3G, or are they just mistreating me since I'm not their customer?
2) Even though I was roaming on a foreign carrier, I still had an AT&T-owned MyCingular.net IP address. Is this normal? Some sort of tunneling going on? I wonder if this might explain the slowness above.
Either way, it was better than nothing. I was able to send and receive text messages using Google Voice, which saved me the 50 cents each roaming SMS charge. It also saved me from having to hunt WiFi all the time like a friend did when traveling abroad. Wheee...