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iPhone 4 Users on AT&T Experiencing Widespread Drops in Upload Speed
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That's how the HSPA speedtest should look like. Good for you, and congrats on your new iPhone 4. hope you're liking it as much as I do
Links to validate your synopsis please.
http://www.marketwatch.com/story/ve...than-att-in-2009-says-abi-research-2010-04-12
AT&T has the iPhone, but Verizon and Sprint have sold way more datacards and Mifi devices.
That's how the HSPA speedtest should look like. Good for you, and congrats on your new iPhone 4. hope you're liking it as much as I do
Man I'm sure Loving it. Best iPhone I ever had period. . .
Drop in upload speeds is a non issue. The problem is that people are assuming that their phone should have good upload speeds.
That's about the dumbest response I've seen so far...
No offense.
That's probably what one average AT&T executive thinks too.
Is this what Steve Jobs meant when he said that things will get worse before they get better regarding "the network" at the shareholders meeting or wherever he said that?
September, huh?!
If this is the "worse" part, it would have been nice to have been informed about any major network infrastructure updating by Apple and AT&T in a joint open letter on both companies web sites, so all those new 3G AT&T iPad owners (like me) and new, as well as old timers who were allowed to upgrade to iPhone 4 (like some here), as well as all you 3GS or 3G iPhone owners, that such network degradations will be experienced. Made even more taxing with the rollout of 3 million iPads (although not all 3G) in eighty days and 600,000 iPhone 4's on the first weekend. Congestion and network degradation and no word from either company???
If that be the case, then I have to say a big...
C'mon Guys!
None taken, that was my point - mocking the phone, AT&T, and Apple's response to the problems.
What sort of applications exactly are people using that uploads of that scale actually matter? I can't think of any.
Mine isn't much better here in Richmond,VA. I've noticed a decline in web speeds overall since the launch of the new phone. I made it a point to notice the difference prior to the release and afterward. The largest issue that we'll all probably find out is that the video calling is draining the network.
As for my speeds:
Download: 196.5 kB/s
Upload: 30.0 kB/s
I'm using a 3GS.
Not an iPhone 4 issue...
Gizmodo and Macrumors are both incorrectly reporting that this is an iPhone 4 issue - it isn't. I have a 3G and I am experiencing the very same issues. It is also incorrect to say that this is upload capping - there is degradation in both download and upload speed. Here in Irvine, ca, I am getting ~150kbps down and usually less than ~50kbps, and that is (as I have stated) on an iPhone 3G.
Guys, these articles get picked up by the national media, and it really is unfair to report this as an iphone4 issue - this is almost certainly an ATT issue because there are too many users with older hardware reporting the same issues. However, anyone scanning this headline would immediately assume this is yet another iPhone 4 issue, and it's just not right to slant things that way.
Gizmodo and Macrumors are both incorrectly reporting that this is an iPhone 4 issue - it isn't. I have a 3G and I am experiencing the very same issues. It is also incorrect to say that this is upload capping - there is degradation in both download and upload speed. Here in Irvine, ca, I am getting ~150kbps down and usually less than ~50kbps, and that is (as I have stated) on an iPhone 3G.
Guys, these articles get picked up by the national media, and it really is unfair to report this as an iphone4 issue - this is almost certainly an ATT issue because there are too many users with older hardware reporting the same issues. However, anyone scanning this headline would immediately assume this is yet another iPhone 4 issue, and it's just not right to slant things that way.
Actually, there are none. Well, there are none that matter. If you guessed that there are thousands upon thousands that are experiencing this AT&T data network deficiency and not a single one of them matters, you guessed correctly. The iPhone is such a wonderful, wonderful thing. Absolutely perfect in conception, design, and implementation. It keeps the annoying occupied so the otherwise annoyed can have serenity now. It is also quite humanitarian, as iPhoners will not suffer from the paralyzingly terror that arrives just before the End; supremely distracted, they will likely miss the Apocalypse entirely.
Wow, people try really hard here. You don't think there's a big difference between 90kbps and 1mbps when uploading a picture (let alone several)?
My previous post was deleted from this thread.
Is that common on these boards?
Give me a break.
Is that common on these boards?
Give me a break.
Has anyone had luck using skype over ipod touch?
I was considering getting an ipod touch and a verizon mifi.
I was considering getting an ipod touch and a verizon mifi.
I can see why your post was deleted. That's completely irrelevant. Make a thread in the iPod forum.
That wasn't the content of my previous post.
But thank you for your OPINION.
And the post you are responding to is certainly more relevant than your snide remark.
Indeed this is not an iPhone 4 issue.
My Nexus One couldn't get data at all on full signal last week for 4 solid days. When it came back, it's like how it's reported, upload speeds went in the toilet and my download is down about a mbit as well.
However, if I go grab a sim card out of an AT&T laptop card, and set my APN to isp.cingular, all my issues are gone, uploads back to 1.6Mbit... downloads over 2mit.
What AT&T doesn't want you to know, is when their network is under duress, it's the smarphone users that get the stick, and the data card users get priority. Guess this means what AT&T is saying to me is hey, that $30 is not enough any more, give me $60 if you want your data speeds back.
I do mean back, as in it use to work just fine.
They throttle, or prioritize, when under load, and don't put this their terms or conditions anywhere.
That's not very net nutrality to me.
If you got more priority for paying for the data card plan, they should outright tell the users.
-James
My Nexus One couldn't get data at all on full signal last week for 4 solid days. When it came back, it's like how it's reported, upload speeds went in the toilet and my download is down about a mbit as well.
However, if I go grab a sim card out of an AT&T laptop card, and set my APN to isp.cingular, all my issues are gone, uploads back to 1.6Mbit... downloads over 2mit.
What AT&T doesn't want you to know, is when their network is under duress, it's the smarphone users that get the stick, and the data card users get priority. Guess this means what AT&T is saying to me is hey, that $30 is not enough any more, give me $60 if you want your data speeds back.
I do mean back, as in it use to work just fine.
They throttle, or prioritize, when under load, and don't put this their terms or conditions anywhere.
That's not very net nutrality to me.
If you got more priority for paying for the data card plan, they should outright tell the users.
-James
Thanks for posting that. I had previously asked whether users of other devices such as ipads or non-apple ATT phones were having problems. Unfortunately that post (along with another) was deleted from the thread.
I think non-iphone users should report upload speeds here to compare.