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AT&T Migrating 3G Network to 7.2 Mbps, Planning for 21 Mbps Later This Year?
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I live in MA too, where abouts are you? I have excellent 3G in Worcester (all major highways around worcester), all of 495, the entire mass pike, framingham, most of the borough's, boston, etc...
Lucky
I guess that is a beauty of living in Europe... well... at least not living in the U.S. Network upgrades to European countries are far easier (partly due simply to their size compared to upgrading the ENTIRE united states), and networks their have been historically leaps and bounds ahead of us folks across the pond...
wow that stinks. i have comcast, and pay the same price but get an advertised 12Mbps. but have gotten up to 30 on speedtest.net
wow that stinks. i have comcast, and pay the same price but get an advertised 12Mbps. but have gotten up to 30 on speedtest.net
I have comcast too. PowerBoost gets me up to 12 most of the time, with normal bandwidth around 6. Not too bad, but I miss my Insight Cable in Indiana that got me 10 all the time.
I could've sworn that we'd already established the iPhone can go past 3.6mbps, as it's been tested to go 5+ mbps in Euroland.
I have no idea who keeps perpetuating this myth.
However, 7.2mbps, 21mbps... good stuff. If this ever gets reliable and cheap, I'll ditch Time Warner and just use my iPhone + tethering for home use.
I have no idea who keeps perpetuating this myth.
However, 7.2mbps, 21mbps... good stuff. If this ever gets reliable and cheap, I'll ditch Time Warner and just use my iPhone + tethering for home use.
It would be cool if it was so fast that you can plug your iPhone into a new Airport Extreme / Time Capsule (w/iPhone docking station) and your iPhone can supply all your home Internet needs while the iPhone is being charged.
humm. cool concept. i wonder if apple would want to try and have your iphone be your home internet.
but what happens when you take ur phone out?
How about 3G
3G coverage in San Francisco is terrible. Most of the time I am on Edge and it is soooo slow.
AT&T is going for headline numbers rather than fixing their real problems.
3G coverage in San Francisco is terrible. Most of the time I am on Edge and it is soooo slow.
AT&T is going for headline numbers rather than fixing their real problems.
Phone calls
How about making it so that my wife and I can consistently make and receive phone calls and not get dropped in the middle of the conversation.
I wish they would work on that. I live in the Seattle area. We shouldn't be having the problems with the phone part of the iPhones. If I could switch to Verizon I would do it.
How about making it so that my wife and I can consistently make and receive phone calls and not get dropped in the middle of the conversation.
I wish they would work on that. I live in the Seattle area. We shouldn't be having the problems with the phone part of the iPhones. If I could switch to Verizon I would do it.
Fix your dropped calls first AT&T...
I live in Los Angeles... and traveling between the valley and hollywood is horrendous for dropped calls.... When i had Verizon I'd get very rare dropped calls... AT&T can drop my calls 10 times in a 5 minute conversation.. all at random points. Atleast with Verizon i could pinpoint within 100 feet specific points where I'd drop a call in my daily commute. With AT&T is a mess...
Fix it AT&T..
I live in Los Angeles... and traveling between the valley and hollywood is horrendous for dropped calls.... When i had Verizon I'd get very rare dropped calls... AT&T can drop my calls 10 times in a 5 minute conversation.. all at random points. Atleast with Verizon i could pinpoint within 100 feet specific points where I'd drop a call in my daily commute. With AT&T is a mess...
Fix it AT&T..
This better affect the iPhone 3g. I know its a network, but it seems from the article that the new Summer iPhone is the only one that can take advantage of it. I would gladly pay 5-10$ more a month for better signal strength/ speed on my 3g.
Yup. And Telenor just started a few days ago with advertising their plans for 150 MBit... Swedish carriers are working really hard to please only 9 million people.
Yeah... it's kind of like having 3-4 major carriers for each state. It's the same with broadband... many Swedish households have had 100 MBit fibreLAN for several years and anyone can get 24 mbit DSL. Sounds overkill, considering many parts of Sweden have about the same population density as Alaska...Lucky
I guess that is a beauty of living in Europe... well... at least not living in the U.S. Network upgrades to European countries are far easier (partly due simply to their size compared to upgrading the ENTIRE united states)
So, I think the pertinent question that needs to be asked is what will be allowed to do with that extra speed? Will AT&T allow streaming video, video conferencing, etc...? And - will it be only AT&T/Apple-sponsored services or can we watch Hulu (when they release it) over a cellular link?
Don't forget that throughput is only one part of the equation; latency is also important.
What kind of latency does one get, compared to DSL and Cable, for typical customers of a 3G data plan?
If they do make 7.2mbps, that would mean we'd probably and hopefully see speeds around 3-4 mbps. That would be amazing.
However the new iPhone will have to have a bigger and better CPU to handle the speed. Hopefully we'll see some tethering options as it would make it worth while to surf the net at 3-4mbps.
However the new iPhone will have to have a bigger and better CPU to handle the speed. Hopefully we'll see some tethering options as it would make it worth while to surf the net at 3-4mbps.
I went to the app store on my phone and typed in "speedtest." A few results popped up. Two of them were free. I'm not sure how accurate it is though.