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Internet and network performance questions

Products tested
iPhone 4 (wifi only)
MSI Wind Netbook (wifi and ethernet) ( 1.6ghz, and 2ghz overclock)
Intel Core 2 Duo Desktop (ethernet only) (can't check speed)

Try to sum up some global findings

a) wifi speed for netbook and Iphone did not vary greatly ( 12 down 11 up for both) and did not matter if it was Speakeasy or Speedtest
b) Speakeasy ethernet speeds did not vary for the netbook vs desktop ( about 92 down 75 upload)
c) Speedtest.net ethernet seems to be more cpu/hardrive intensive, the faster the machine the greater the speeds the 1.6ghz vs 1.96ghz vs desktop
d) it would be nice to have an iphone ethernet adapter to see how fast it can upload/download when compared to a netbook and a desktop PC



Speedtest.net Ethernet

Netbook @1.6ghz
download 60.17 Mb/s
Upload 45.78 MB/s
ping 17ms

Netbook @ 1.96ghz
Download 66.24
Upload 53.78
ping 17ms

Core 2 duo Desktop
Download 90.08 Mb/s
Upload 55.48 Mb/s
ping 14ms

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Speakeasy ethernet

1.6ghz netbook = 1.96 ghz netbook = core 2 duo desktop

Download ~92Mb/s
Upload ~75MB/s
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Speakeasy Wifi = Speedtest Wifi

Iphone4 = netbook
Download ~ 12mb/s
Upload ~ 11mb/s
 
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Both laptop and iPhone 4 are in the same room as the router;

Laptop



I have tested other laptops too, including some pretty old ones, with pretty much the exact same results. The Laptop above is pretty low spec too.

iPhone 4

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I have tried everything (different router settings etc) but i can't get any any results close to my laptop. Other speed tests on other sites/apps confirm my findings.

I have also tried my iPhone 4 at my folks house and it's pretty much the same situation (poor iPhone performance poor, everything else good).

If anyone has any idea's i would love to hear them. I can only conclude the iPhone's WiFi performance is sub-par, in fact very poor.
 
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ItsJustafnPhone said:
Are you serious? that's exactly what I posted in my comment

Your reading comphrehension sucks
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My reading comprehension is fine. The problem here is that you are using inductive logic.

ItsJustafnPhone said:
let me put it to you clearly then

IT'S NOT THE IPHONE THAT HAS THE PROBLEM IT'S YOUR NETWORK

there how simple is that
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You can say whatever you want in bold, but you don't have any evidence to back it up!

ItsJustafnPhone said:
my post proves that if your network is capable of it ( theoretical max for ) then the iPhone can communicate at very fast speeds aswell
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No it doesn't. I've just shown another wireless device (an Apple one running OS X no less) at a much higher speed than an iPhone 4 on the same network.

My network is fully capable of supporting my internet connection's max speed - the iPhone is the only thing that can't.

ItsJustafnPhone said:
the people in the posts before ( and after ) were trying to say that there is something wrong with the Iphone hardware since it was slower on their home networks than their computers. This is a wrong assumption, its not the iPhone that has the problem but the wifi network itself ( not sure why its not communicating with the iPhone correctly but its still not the iPhone's fault)
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How have you reached this conclusion? You haven't got any evidence to say that the iPhone isn't the problem here. If these are fully standards compliant routers/networks and the iPhone isn't behaving correctly then the fault clearly lies with the iPhone. You haven't tested this, so I don't see how you have reached these conclusions.

You have made an induction, by saying that in YOUR experience, the iPhone works correctly. Therefore there can't be a problem with the iPhone.

Maybe there's a problem with the iPhone using certain wireless channels? I'm legally able to use channels that you probably can't (I assume you are in the US). Maybe the iPhone works best with a certain MTU?

The iPhone doesn't have to have completely faulty Wi-Fi where it will be slow for EVERYONE. It may just be that in certain (common and otherwise fine) configurations it doesn't work correctly.
 
domrevans said:
Both laptop and iPhone 4 are in the same room as the router;

Laptop



I have tested other laptops too, including some pretty old ones, with pretty much the exact same results. The Laptop above is pretty low spec too.

iPhone 4

76583223.png


I have tried everything (different router settings etc) but i can't get any any results close to my laptop. Other speed tests on other sites/apps confirm my findings.

I have also tried my iPhone 4 at my folks house and it's pretty much the same situation (poor iPhone performance poor, everything else good).

If anyone has any idea's i would love to hear them. I can only conclude the iPhone's WiFi performance is sub-par, in fact very poor.
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wait this doesn't look like a headsup comparison, one is wifi, the other is a direct connection

edit I stand corrected, strange that only the iphone tells you its on wifi with the image
 
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Adam0306 said:
Unless you have a fractional T3 or your connection is regulated on the inside of your business/home, then you are getting ripped off on your speeds. You should be getting ~43mbps with a T3.
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that was over wifi

directly to the wall

Core 2 duo Desktop
Download 90.08 Mb/s
Upload 55.48 Mb/s

so it's definitely as fast if not faster than a T3 line
 
I have 80-90mbit download and 20-30mbit upload on my wired connection and with my iPhone I only get 10-20mbit download and 15-20 mbit upload. With my laptop I get around 40-55mbit download and 25-30 mbit upload so the iPhone's network performance is definitely worse than a laptop's.

I'm using a Linksys WRT320N router flashed with DD-WRT (got about the same speeds with the original firmware) with almost everything except DHCP set to auto.
 
enectrixx said:
I have 80-90mbit download and 20-30mbit upload on my wired connection and with my iPhone I only get 10-20mbit download and 15-20 mbit upload. With my laptop I get around 40-55mbit download and 25-30 mbit upload so the iPhone's network performance is definitely worse than a laptop's.

I'm using a Linksys WRT320N router flashed with DD-WRT (got about the same speeds with the original firmware) with almost everything except DHCP set to auto.
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go to speedway.net and post your wifi speeds
 
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