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[O2-UK] iPhone tethering speeds much slower than 3G speeds
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Well, when you're tethered, wouldn't you want the speed test to be run on your PC?
Isn't this a bit like if i run a speedtest on my PC when I've got Bit Torrent running, the results are slow because BT is taking up much of the bandwidth that the speedtest would use. Wouldn't tethering be eating up the available bandwidth as well?
Isn't this a bit like if i run a speedtest on my PC when I've got Bit Torrent running, the results are slow because BT is taking up much of the bandwidth that the speedtest would use. Wouldn't tethering be eating up the available bandwidth as well?
It's irrelevant which device does the speed test - the connection is going through the phone. What these two images show is that when tethering is activated, there is clearly a drop in performance, and to me, it looks like a deliberately throttled connection, whether it's being used on a computer or an iPhone.
While tethering is activated, you can still use the internet on your phone. This test was done with tethering activated, and the computer inactive.
I've emailed O2, but I'm extremely confused as to why I'm losing 2.5Mbit/s and paying £15 a month for the privilege!
I don't need to do three tests. The difference between the two results is so vast, that no mean average is going to help it. Can anyone seriously help?
I'd still be interested to know what the speedtest results are when done from the PC tethered to the phone
My question would be while tethered what was the PC doing? Ie was it polling for mail or anything else in the background. Just because you don't think you have anything running doesn't mean something somewhere isn't doing something via the network connection.
yes we get that...what we also want to know is what else was the PC doing? for all we know you were downloading via bit torrent or watching BBC iplayer.
It's irrelevant which device does the speed test - the connection is going through the phone. What these two images show is that when tethering is activated, there is clearly a drop in performance, and to me, it looks like a deliberately throttled connection, whether it's being used on a computer or an iPhone.
While tethering is activated, you can still use the internet on your phone. This test was done with tethering activated, and the computer inactive.
I've emailed O2, but I'm extremely confused as to why I'm losing 2.5Mbit/s and paying £15 a month for the privilege!
No it's not.
The application monitoring the network speed will be sending and recieving data, and determining how fast this is happening.
if you are tethering, any data being sent and recieved on the computer youare tethering too, will not be counted in the application you are using
Or this is at least how I believe whatever your using will work..
I just did a speed test on the computer and it read 101kbps. Something is not right here, and there is extremely little network activity to steal bandwidth from the speed test.
I'm certain that something is regulating the speed as this sudden drop in speed only occurs when I turn on tethering.
I'm certain that something is regulating the speed as this sudden drop in speed only occurs when I turn on tethering.