When Web surfing at home on your WiFi network, have you found the iPhone much slower than your Mac? Or does my iPhone have a defective WiFi card? 😕
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iPhone Versus Mac
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Well... The Mac I have is much slower than the iPhone, as it's an extremely old G4 tower. So, browsing on the iPhone is quite a bit quicker. However, the rest of my computers are Windows or *nix, and those are much faster than the iPhone.
Still, the iPhone is pretty snappy for browsing off of wireless.
-jt2
Still, the iPhone is pretty snappy for browsing off of wireless.
-jt2
I have an old Celeron and the iPhone surfs faster.
My P4 is much faster as is my G5 MAC.
Overall a decent experience using wifi.
It depends on the computer that you are placing the iPhone up against.
Your mileage will vary.
My P4 is much faster as is my G5 MAC.
Overall a decent experience using wifi.
It depends on the computer that you are placing the iPhone up against.
Your mileage will vary.
there is nothing wrong witht the wifi on your phone. You are gonna have slow connections speed sometimes on a computer as well.... unfortunatly not everything works as fast as we would liek it to at times.🙂
kdarling
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It's no doubt a slower device. CPU speed is as important as connection speed.
You're lucky the iPhone's CPU is running at 500+ MHz.
You should've been around for a circa 1999 smartphone with a 100 to 200Mhz processor. Waiting for a webpage's Javascript logic to finish its onload routine could be like watching paint dry.
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Thank you for the feedback. I ran some speed tests with wildly varying results, which led me to conclude they're worthless. Instead, I chalk up the pokey WiFi speed to the processor as some of you noted. I'm typing this on my iPhone natch.
iBookG4user
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I find that browsing on my Mac is much faster, practically 5 times faster, so your iPhone is fine.
Yeah, mine too. The latency on the iPhone is kinda highish, about 56k speeds (250-300ms for me) on wifi. It also has a pretty slow processor, has to account for zooming and all that on its resolution, etc.