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Post 3G speeds from speedtest.net app!
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I don't get how people are seeing these results (9 - 10+ Mbps). Yes I'm on AT&T.
I just ran back to back tests with 2 different servers and on the 2nd test I got upload speeds of 3.02 mbps and download speeds of 3.13 mbps. How did my upload suddenly get as fast as my download?
I just ran back to back tests with 2 different servers and on the 2nd test I got upload speeds of 3.02 mbps and download speeds of 3.13 mbps. How did my upload suddenly get as fast as my download?
Idk where they're located, but they could just be on uncrowded towers... Me having to connect to NYC I only get around 5-6 max just because of the sheer amount of people that are currently pinging that tower.
its all about location. AT&T has more backhaul in some places than others.
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the 10.92 test up there i posted was right in the middle of downtown Seattle on a weekday. It was anything but uncrowded. A year ago that test would've been 1-2 tops, they've done a lot of enhancements here over last few months.
Three results, the first from the 4S, and the second & third from the 4. Each Phone was held in the same location (my living room), wifi off and tested against the same server which is 43km away both on Telekom (formerly T-Mobile).
The speed difference on the 4S is impressive, though I dislike how long it takes for the network to ramp the speed up. Takes some of the impressiveness off as on small data transactions you aren't really going to notice the improvement.
The speed difference on the 4S is impressive, though I dislike how long it takes for the network to ramp the speed up. Takes some of the impressiveness off as on small data transactions you aren't really going to notice the improvement.
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Here we are in the middle of the day. It'll be interesting to see what it's like at night. I'm using a 4S on Telecom NZ.
I had no idea the Verizon iPhone was so much slower than AT&T. I didn't get an iPhone for frequent cellular data access, and I'm on a family plan so I wouldn't have gone with AT&T either way, but wow, that is surprising to me. Just ran a speed test with 4 bars and got .83 down/.81 up. Not very impressive at all.
AT&Ts HSPA+ network is pretty fast, my SGII is usually around 7-10 Mbps, sometimes it's down in the 3ish range but that seems to be times when the network is much much busier (like people leaving for lunch and making calls around noon etc). Also can depend where your doing the test (like in a house or building where there's more interference and weaker signal). I usually get the highest speeds when I'm out and about. At home the phone stay on my WiFi which is 21 Mbps.
Near Buffalo, NY on AT&T. I've seen a sudden increase in Upload capacity near my house since around 12/5/11 (in other thread).
Finally got a decent result on Verizon in a spot with five bars of reception.
Ps how are you guys posting pictures? I just used Dropbox but that seems kind of cumbersome (upload, copy short link, follow link to get full link, paste into forum upload manger) Surely there is a simpler way to directly upload from the iPhone?
Ps how are you guys posting pictures? I just used Dropbox but that seems kind of cumbersome (upload, copy short link, follow link to get full link, paste into forum upload manger) Surely there is a simpler way to directly upload from the iPhone?
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I'm posting them on my computer. Since I have iCloud/Photostream setup, whenever I take the screen shot it shows up on my Mac. I save it as a jpg and upload it to imageshack.com, which doesn't require accounts or passwords.
perhaps this is my naivety speaking, but the way some people talk about 4G you'd think there was no way to live without it...
during regular hours, i get ~2Mbps over 3G on my 4S, and thats enough to smoothly stream shows on netflix/youtube without any hiccups. non-mobile websites feel like they load almost as fast they do on a computer.
meanwhile, it appears from people's posts that the iPhone is capable of upwards of 10Mbps over cellular on a good network. so my question is this: what in hell are people doing on their phones right now that has people so desperate for 4G?
i get that content will get richer as time goes on, and future proofing is never a bad thing, but the question if its the night-and-day difference that the marketing machine seems to make it out to be.
during regular hours, i get ~2Mbps over 3G on my 4S, and thats enough to smoothly stream shows on netflix/youtube without any hiccups. non-mobile websites feel like they load almost as fast they do on a computer.
meanwhile, it appears from people's posts that the iPhone is capable of upwards of 10Mbps over cellular on a good network. so my question is this: what in hell are people doing on their phones right now that has people so desperate for 4G?
i get that content will get richer as time goes on, and future proofing is never a bad thing, but the question if its the night-and-day difference that the marketing machine seems to make it out to be.
Gah, all these AT&T posts are making me jealous, I'm in Orange County on Sprint, and I pull in .2-.5mbps 
I dont have any screenies, but here in Anchorage Alaska, i average 2.5mbps to 6mbps 3g speeds, service isnt all that bad here.
Here are my results in Rural Norfolk (UK) pretty happy with it. In the city I get well over 8mb/s
