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iPhone 3G Speedtest
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25 kbps 
I am from Brooklyn NY...and for some reason on my 3G phone i get SLOW speeds, 25kbps...or 0.02MBps,,, vs 1.14 Mbps WTF!!!
Anyone here from Brooklyn experience slow 3G?
Also...when i am on Edge i have 5 bars, when i am on 3G I have 1 bar, can anyone explain?
I am from Brooklyn NY...and for some reason on my 3G phone i get SLOW speeds, 25kbps...or 0.02MBps,,, vs 1.14 Mbps WTF!!!
Anyone here from Brooklyn experience slow 3G?
Also...when i am on Edge i have 5 bars, when i am on 3G I have 1 bar, can anyone explain?
try http://www.dslreports.com/mspeed
I get between 500-600kbps consistently on a good 3g signal here in Nashville, TN.
Use the larger file sizes for an accurate result.
I get between 500-600kbps consistently on a good 3g signal here in Nashville, TN.
Use the larger file sizes for an accurate result.
I'm getting just under 500kbps. The strange part is I'm getting that both when my phone shows barely one bar and when I'm elsewhere where I had full bars. I just assumed the speed would increase at least some when the reception bars were full.
u are gonna have to provide screen shots of the test to back you up, this is no where near what most people are getting with 3G (mine is 1.47MBS
I did it a few times till it said that the test file was too small and loaded a larger test. At these speeds it needs to use a larger sample.
Wow, our 3G here in North America must be crippled/capped badly. As you can see most of the North Americans get between 1.2 -1.6 Mbps
0.1-0.3 mbps...that's with full 3G service in the Apple Store...I was getting terrible results and thought it may have been my phone. An Apple Store employee's original iPhone beat my phone loading both L.A. Times and NY Times.com.
Also ran the test on 1 or 2 of their phones and it comes up the same...
(I am in Wash DC/Baltimore area)
Also ran the test on 1 or 2 of their phones and it comes up the same...
(I am in Wash DC/Baltimore area)
Well I was playing with it in a store in bk and the thing wont get 3g it stayed on edge.
Been getting around this all day today in north miami-dade from http://testmyiphone.com
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But then I get upto delray beach and can't break 700kbps
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Both had 4 bars of 3G. Must be the level of usage in the area.
But then I get upto delray beach and can't break 700kbps
Both had 4 bars of 3G. Must be the level of usage in the area.
I played around with some 3G demos at a couple different Apple stores near me. The first store only had one bar of 3G signal, and got about 0.1 to 0.2 mbps - about the same as my EDGE iPhone. The second store had four bars of signal, and got 1.2 mbps.
Both tests were through testmyiphone.
Both tests were through testmyiphone.
How Accurate?
How accurate are these speed testers? And which one works best? I'm in South Jersey, and I ran speed tests (using 3G) on three different sites:
www.inetworktest.com --> 572 kbps
www.iphonespeedtest.com --> 428 kbps
www.testmyiphone.com --> 1135 kbps (1.14 Mbps)
It seems that testmyiphone.com uses a much bigger data transfer. So could the difference in speed be attributable to the initial TCP connection time? In other words, does it take a long time to connect, but once connected it is pretty fast?
How accurate are these speed testers? And which one works best? I'm in South Jersey, and I ran speed tests (using 3G) on three different sites:
www.inetworktest.com --> 572 kbps
www.iphonespeedtest.com --> 428 kbps
www.testmyiphone.com --> 1135 kbps (1.14 Mbps)
It seems that testmyiphone.com uses a much bigger data transfer. So could the difference in speed be attributable to the initial TCP connection time? In other words, does it take a long time to connect, but once connected it is pretty fast?
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So far I have only been getting sub 500kbps speeds.... on 3g...
I've been getting similar results for wifi.
So my questions is this. Is it the testing websites? Is it a defect in my iphone? Is it an at&t 3g problem?
I sure hope this gets better..
I've been getting similar results for wifi.
So my questions is this. Is it the testing websites? Is it a defect in my iphone? Is it an at&t 3g problem?
I sure hope this gets better..
First off I want to let you know that I am the creator and owner of testmyiphone.com and I'm going to answer a few of these concerns that some of you seem to have.
First off the problem where the test would not take you to the results page has been fixed, as far as we can tell, I changed a few things this morning and I have not had the problem at all since I made the changes this morning, so I'm pretty sure that problem has been fixed.
The problem ivtecDOu had a few posts up where gave him a wifi like result even though he is connected on edge. This is caused by the unique key that we use for each test. When a speedtest is taken it is given a 12 digit key to identify the test, some times what happens is that key is already in use so when you are taken too the results it pull the results from the first test with that key. We are working on a fix for this, and it will be up real soon. This does not happen often though, only about once for every 1000 tests taken. Its just really annoying when it does happen and I will fix it.
sanPietro98 asked how accurate are these speedtest sites. I can say that they can be very accurate. But sadly most aren't that great, and give inaccurate results because the testing method they use is quite bad. For example any speedtest site that uses a image to test the speed of your connection will always be inaccurate for 2 reasons. 1. The test file size stays the same, no matter if your connection is 512kbps, or 10mbps. and 2. Images can and do get cached by the browser so the second time you run the test you could be pulling the image used from the cache of the browser not from the sites server.
Our speedtest works in the same way a desktop level speedtest does, but is designed to be light weight for the iphone. It is very similar to the way the testmy.net speedtest works to be able to give the user a 6 - 8 second speedtest.
Every time you take a speedtest at testmyiphone.com it does a small 256kb test, then we do some stuff to determine the larger test that needs to be run so you can get a accurate test up to a max file size of 10mb. By doing this we can give you the most accurate results, of any iphone speedtest.
Our speedtest server is located in Montreal Canada, we will be moving to server in Dallas, Tx very soon. Once we do that users on the west coast will have much more consistent results, and users in other countries will also see better results as we will have better international carriers.
First off the problem where the test would not take you to the results page has been fixed, as far as we can tell, I changed a few things this morning and I have not had the problem at all since I made the changes this morning, so I'm pretty sure that problem has been fixed.
The problem ivtecDOu had a few posts up where gave him a wifi like result even though he is connected on edge. This is caused by the unique key that we use for each test. When a speedtest is taken it is given a 12 digit key to identify the test, some times what happens is that key is already in use so when you are taken too the results it pull the results from the first test with that key. We are working on a fix for this, and it will be up real soon. This does not happen often though, only about once for every 1000 tests taken. Its just really annoying when it does happen and I will fix it.
sanPietro98 asked how accurate are these speedtest sites. I can say that they can be very accurate. But sadly most aren't that great, and give inaccurate results because the testing method they use is quite bad. For example any speedtest site that uses a image to test the speed of your connection will always be inaccurate for 2 reasons. 1. The test file size stays the same, no matter if your connection is 512kbps, or 10mbps. and 2. Images can and do get cached by the browser so the second time you run the test you could be pulling the image used from the cache of the browser not from the sites server.
Our speedtest works in the same way a desktop level speedtest does, but is designed to be light weight for the iphone. It is very similar to the way the testmy.net speedtest works to be able to give the user a 6 - 8 second speedtest.
Every time you take a speedtest at testmyiphone.com it does a small 256kb test, then we do some stuff to determine the larger test that needs to be run so you can get a accurate test up to a max file size of 10mb. By doing this we can give you the most accurate results, of any iphone speedtest.
Our speedtest server is located in Montreal Canada, we will be moving to server in Dallas, Tx very soon. Once we do that users on the west coast will have much more consistent results, and users in other countries will also see better results as we will have better international carriers.
That was very helpful. Thank you for responding. And thanks for making your site.
check out my speeds in my sig. that was from an aircard though, taking my sim out and using it on my MBP