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Post your iPad 3G At&t Speedtest.net results here
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Sorry, do not own iPad 3G. Never ever plan to. Apple supports wireless tethering now, so I am doing it that way. But, my speed goes from
1-5 MBPs download. But, it's never that slow.
NY is very populated area, so that could be why.
Bottom line is, I am not going to buy iPad with wireless radio built in until 4G is widely used in US.
I also suggest not to go with 3G iPads and go for Wi-fi models. Save yourself 130 dollars.
Use that 100-130 dollars on buying wireless portable device like Verizon's 4G (LTE network) or future AT&T's 4G network.
I believe it costs anywhere from 20-60 dollars a month depend on your data cap, but LTE speeds are wicked fast. You get like 5-12 Mbps easily.
Again, I am not planning on spending anymore money on 3G network. I am going with HSPA+ or LTE devices.
1-5 MBPs download. But, it's never that slow.
NY is very populated area, so that could be why.
Bottom line is, I am not going to buy iPad with wireless radio built in until 4G is widely used in US.
I also suggest not to go with 3G iPads and go for Wi-fi models. Save yourself 130 dollars.
Use that 100-130 dollars on buying wireless portable device like Verizon's 4G (LTE network) or future AT&T's 4G network.
I believe it costs anywhere from 20-60 dollars a month depend on your data cap, but LTE speeds are wicked fast. You get like 5-12 Mbps easily.
Again, I am not planning on spending anymore money on 3G network. I am going with HSPA+ or LTE devices.
Guys please enable 3G these speeds suck hard....wait...Jesus! Check out my iPhone speed test thread I started a while back! Way faster!
Thanks for the instruction on taking the picture. Unfortunately I am now unable to get the darn thing into imageshack to share it. Is there a reasonably easy way to do that from the ipad? I used goodreader to put it inky dropbox and then generated URL that I then tried to upload to imageshack but it wouldn't work.
Having said that, you aren't missing anything cause my results are as pathetic as the op.
Having said that, you aren't missing anything cause my results are as pathetic as the op.
These are pathetic speeds, I get faster on VZW 
You guys live in the sticks or something? When I had ATT I was generally between 2-5 where service was available.
You guys live in the sticks or something? When I had ATT I was generally between 2-5 where service was available.It might be your router. I was using an old Linksys WRT54G and was getting similar results with my 50Mbps connection. Since upgraded to a Netgear N600 (which got great reviews for data throughput) and have hit close to 50 (around 45) on my PC. It's definitely not your iPad.
In NJ, btw:
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These are pathetic speeds, I get faster on VZW
No sticks here! NY.
I'm getting similar speeds throughout the area, from the Catskills,(yeah, the sticks
) Putnam, Rockland areas. Hard to believe, but it is what it is.Who would of thought that the NY area would be the lowest performer here.
Hey a fellow NY!
When you say slow, what actual speeds are you getting?
Very interested, since your basically a neighbor.
Just checked now, it took forever to find the nearest server, and this with 4-5 bars of signal. Once it finally found it...
FIRST TEST
260ms PING
0.00 Mbps DOWN
0.05 MBPS UP
SECOND TEST
232ms PING
1.93 Mbps DOWN
0.05 Mbps UP
THIRD TEST
287ms PING
1.45 Mbps DOWN
0.05 Mbps UP
This compares to 3-5 Mbps DOWN and 1.5 Mbps UP (PING is always the same) that I would typically get on a good day. Seems to me they've been monkeying with their network around here recently.
