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Hey guys, i want to do a quick poll. Ever since the free T-mobile wap went down i had to transfer to run my ineternet off the blackberry service (which still runs thru wap.voicestream.com). But since then, i've had dramatically low download speeds. With the free wap, i'd get a download speed from 160-180 kbps. Now with the $20 blackberry plan, im getting download speeds of around 80-118kbps. When connecting my device to a laptop to use as a wireless modem, it is noticeable... its like i just got my dialup service again in the 90s ... please post your results. Thanks!
To make it fair, What are you using to conduct the tests. What is your locations. What time are you running these? Are these form your phone or from you tethering?
My speeds have gone up since they cut off the lechers.
donniesd said:
To make it fair, What are you using to conduct the tests. What is your locations. What time are you running these? Are these form your phone or from you tethering?
My speeds have gone up since they cut off the lechers.
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www.bandwidthplace.com and cnet broadband tests are what i have been using. Tests were run from a browser on my laptop using the phone as a modem.
The other night i got 169 kbps download, which is a lot better, but still around the range of what i got when wap internet was free in the past year. so i don't see an improvment in speed, but at least its within the ballpark of the old free wap speed. I do my tests in the afternoon and evening, and i get about the same results; give or take 10 kbps
I do find it odd that we all pay 20-30 dollars a month for phone internet when home DSL internet is $30
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I do find it odd that we all pay 20-30 dollars a month for phone internet when home DSL internet is $30
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But you cna take phone internet anywhere, Your DSL is tied to one place.
$20-$30 is too much for EDGE. i'm surprised t-mobile gets away with it. sprint is $15 for EVDO, VZW is $30(i think) for EVDO. i guess cingulars is $40(again..i think) but it's 3G.
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But you cna take phone internet anywhere, Your DSL is tied to one place.
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Yah but other networks offer 3G for the same price which is SUBSTANTIALLY faster. T-mobile is $29.99 for speeds less than 200kbps... which is rather irritating to use as an internet connection on my laptop when at home i'm getting 5Mbps download speed
I have an LG Optimus Quantum, and for some very weird reason, the wifi is very slow. I have daily access to 2 wifi networks, home and work, and the phone behaves the same on both. Generally, in order to watch youtube or any other streaming video, I have to turn the wifi OFF or else the video never loads (or in rare cases where the video is small, it will eventually load).
The phone is not unlocked or anything, and I have had it for 4 months and it has always behaved this way.
My home network gets speeds of 17mb/s on a wifi laptop.
Using 3g right I am getting 120, 224, 224, 130 & 156 kb/s using Speedtest app after doing 5 consecutive tests.
Wifi tests 112, 130, 130, 142 & 130 kb/s using Speedtest app (to perform wifi test, I put the phone into airplane mode, then start wifi connection).
Anyone have any input here?
Could be a problem with the firmware? But I think that must be device specific because I haven't noticed that at all (Samsung Omnia 7).
Guess you'll have to see what fellow Optimus users are experiencing.
EDIT: Actually, I downloaded the Speed Test app and my WiFi download speeds ~300KB/s (apparently). Then did a speed test over my WiFi on my laptop and got ~2Mb/s (eventhough it's supposed to be a lot faster than that). So...?
Casey
the92playboy said:
I have an LG Optimus Quantum, and for some very weird reason, the wifi is very slow. I have daily access to 2 wifi networks, home and work, and the phone behaves the same on both. Generally, in order to watch youtube or any other streaming video, I have to turn the wifi OFF or else the video never loads (or in rare cases where the video is small, it will eventually load).
The phone is not unlocked or anything, and I have had it for 4 months and it has always behaved this way.
My home network gets speeds of 17mb/s on a wifi laptop.
Using 3g right I am getting 120, 224, 224, 130 & 156 kb/s using Speedtest app after doing 5 consecutive tests.
Wifi tests 112, 130, 130, 142 & 130 kb/s using Speedtest app (to perform wifi test, I put the phone into airplane mode, then start wifi connection).
Anyone have any input here?
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Same for my HD7. My 3Mb/s DSL WiFi signal averages around 2500Kb/s on my iPhone, HD2 and PC. But on my HD7, the best I can get is around 300Kb/s speed with SpeedTest. It's the same for the data as well. And it isn't anything to do with the carrier.
EDIT - Actually I'm wrong, it's much slower than that. I was paying attention to the bar number and didn't notice the average number upon completion. Mine shows around 200Kb/s. One test was 191Kb/s and another was 212Kb/s.
I noticed this too with the Wifi at work.
At home the wifi is definately faster than 3g but at work the wifi is so slow i just turn it off and use 3g.
Does anyone think that there is a setting in the MFG menu we can adjust that would help?
OFF Topic: What App(Free) did you guys use to test the phone's 3G & WiFi Connection Speed...
Thanks.
Weird. I get my full 10Mbit speeds on my home internet, and full speeds at work and everywhere else I get WiFi. Much faster than the 3G, which gets around 2.3Mbit down on average.
I've got an HTC Surround on AT&T.
the speedtest app in the marketplace got horrible reviews, gonna try BandWidth and see how it does. Right now I'm on my mobile hotspot at work so I should be able to get a clean test as I'm the only one on it.
I have used mobilespeedtest.com in the past but heard it can be inaccurate too.
To the OP, I haven't had any wifi issues. Videos start faster on my home wifi (20mbps), than on my hspa+ t-mobile signal.
Ok, the BandWidth app (free in the marketplace) seems pretty accurate. On first run, I got 590 kbps which is consistent with time warner (aka sprint network) 3g mobile hotspot speeds. Really wish I got 3g t-mobile signal in my office....
I really think this free BandWidth app is fairly accurate.
Just did another test, this time using my mobile hotspot on 4g and speeds came back:
2.7 mbps down
0.47 mbps up
This is consistent with the crappy 4g speeds on sprint (what a disappointment wimax has turned out to be, but still much better than sprint 3g...)
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I really think this free BandWidth app is fairly accurate.
Just did another test, this time using my mobile hotspot on 4g and speeds came back:
2.7 mbps down
0.47 mbps up
This is consistent with the crappy 4g speeds on sprint (what a disappointment wimax has turned out to be, but still much better than sprint 3g...)
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It only works on cellular data networks. I'm needing to test the WiFi speed on my WP7. But, of course, I'm just using the trial version. Maybe the retail version works with WiFi.
Visiting tracert.org via IE on Wifi I tested as 6.18 Mbps (about half the 12 Mbps I achieve on my PC). On 3G I scored 1.74 Mbps in my house which doesn't exactly get the best reception.
This is on a US TMobile HD7.
I get 1,80Mbps on Wi-fi, when I get ~13Mbps on PC. It's poor I have to say, comparing my previous phones.
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Visiting tracert.org via IE on Wifi I tested as 6.18 Mbps (about half the 12 Mbps I achieve on my PC). On 3G I scored 1.74 Mbps in my house which doesn't exactly get the best reception.
This is on a US TMobile HD7.
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Nice! Thanks for the link, mate. My HD7 rang in at 2.61Mb/s. Which is exactly what it should be.
I've noticed this also especially in IE. Xda loads up much faster on my 3G than my WiFi. I also notice that is I turn off the 3G and use edge and WiFi it seems that the speeds should be at where they should be at using a WiFi connection. If I have WiFi and 3G on at the same time the speeds are slower....
Testest Tracert.org on my Focus & my Nexus One.
Focus:
3G: 856kbps download
WiFi: 1.4Mbps
Nexus One:
3G: 1.43Mbps
WiFi: 3.94Mbps
Something is definitily wrong here.
Same problem here exactly!
wi-fi: DL- 56kbps UL- 78kbps ping- 1218
3G: DL- 3106kbps UL- 1228kbps ping- 131
Device: Xperia Arc
On my previous phone, which was Xperia X1 I had much better results on wi-fi than on 3G. Also because X1 runs on WM6.1 there are settings to improve wifi performance, Android doesn't have anything of the kind as far as I know.
My modem is b/g, Arc has b/g/n. I don't know if that has anything to do with it.
I wonder what causes this and what could be done to solve the issue.
I also have slow Wifi . ATT surround .
Mine is coming in at 36.03 Mbps with a download speed of 4.5MB/sec on wifi. I have an HD7.
cech said:
Same problem here exactly!
wi-fi: DL- 56kbps UL- 78kbps ping- 1218
3G: DL- 3106kbps UL- 1228kbps ping- 131
Device: Xperia Arc
On my previous phone, which was Xperia X1 I had much better results on wi-fi than on 3G. Also because X1 runs on WM6.1 there are settings to improve wifi performance, Android doesn't have anything of the kind as far as I know.
My modem is b/g, Arc has b/g/n. I don't know if that has anything to do with it.
I wonder what causes this and what could be done to solve the issue.
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Have you tried to update the phone, even if you just got it but this could be some kind glitch on the software which could easily be fixed by doing an update.
Josh-SEAnswers said:
Have you tried to update the phone, even if you just got it but this could be some kind glitch on the software which could easily be fixed by doing an update.
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I agree, it could be easily fixed by an update if there was an update with the glitch fixed or any update for the Arc at all. I have since found that the wifi connectivity problem is caused by encryption. The Arc can handle WEP but using WPA or WPA2 the connection is painfully slow with a great loss of packets.
Doing a fix through PC Companion and reloading the whole system however doesn't work.
This is probably a total noob question, but I'm curious: is there any hardware reason the HSPA+ transceiver on the Sensation can't be made to be compatible with T-mo's HSPA+ 42 network? I mean, are we theoretically only a hacked radio away from doubling our network speed, like the lucky SOBs getting the upcoming Amaze/SGS2 (kinda like how the Android Revolution ROM can unlock 1.5 GHz CPU speeds)?
Not possible my good sir. The radio in the Sensation is only capable of up to 14.4 Mbps.
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Not possible my good sir. The radio in the Sensation is only capable of up to 14.4 Mbps.
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Bah. Oh well, that's still five times faster than my home internet connection (well, 50 times faster than what it is currently; God I wish I could kick ATT to the curb as my DSL provider too! Their wireline customer service is almost as bad as their wireless was!)
Even if the Sensation was capable of 42meg 95% of users wouldnt get anywhere near that speed on that network anyway. Hell, how many of you get over 10 meg now?
The phones limit of 14meg will only become an issue when the networks theoretical max hits highs of well above 50meg.
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Even if the Sensation was capable of 42meg 95% of users wouldnt get anywhere near that speed on that network anyway. Hell, how many of you get over 10 meg now?
The phones limit of 14meg will only become an issue when the networks theoretical max hits highs of well above 50meg.
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Agreed!
Honestly, anything over 3-4Mb pipe is just extra. It's all you need to stream high quality video to the device with no lag. The only real reason you would need more is for speed test bragging or to run HDMI into your tv, but if you do that you'll use all your data up.
Technically we are lucky T-Mobile has only 3.5 G. My friends here in the U.S. with LTE get 10-20Mb connections (compared to my 6-10Mb) but it completely rapes their battery. We can run 3.5 G all day long but LTE guys need a recharge during the day.
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Technically we are lucky T-Mobile has only 3.5 G. My friends here in the U.S. with LTE get 10-20Mb connections (compared to my 6-10Mb) but it completely rapes their battery. We can run 3.5 G all day long but LTE guys need a recharge during the day.
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Interesting about the battery drain on LTE.
I agree though, the network 'Three' here in the UK has just started rolling out HSPA+ (up to 21meg) recently and like yourself I now average 6-10Mb which is fast enough and my battery last all day easily.
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I have seen up to 8Mb/s in some cities, but I get 1.7Mb/s were I live. I NEVER EVER get to see anything actually DL at that speed though! Whenever I DL an app or something, it does about 200kb/s...So I dont care one bit what the speed it seeing as I never even get to come close to what my speed test can do.
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mrg02d said:
I have seen up to 8Mb/s in some cities, but I get 1.7Mb/s were I live. I NEVER EVER get to see anything actually DL at that speed though! Whenever I DL an app or something, it does about 200kb/s...So I dont care one bit what the speed it seeing as I never even get to come close to what my speed test can do.
Matt
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That actually sounds like some kind of throttling going on, if speed tests and browsing are at much higher speeds than what you get downloading a file.
Thankfully I dont have that problem on the network I use, what you see is what you actually get!
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I have seen up to 8Mb/s in some cities, but I get 1.7Mb/s were I live. I NEVER EVER get to see anything actually DL at that speed though! Whenever I DL an app or something, it does about 200kb/s...So I dont care one bit what the speed it seeing as I never even get to come close to what my speed test can do.
Matt
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200kb/s is the "speed" of your download and equals a 1.6Mb connection "bandwidth". Your bandwidth is listed in bits and your speed is listed in bytes. There are 8 bits in a byte. So multiply the "speed" you see by 8 to get your "bandwidth". Or divide your bandwidth by 8 to determine your download speed potential.
Make sense? Just remember to mult/div by 8.
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200kb/s is the "speed" of your download and equals a 1.6Mb connection "bandwidth". Your bandwidth is listed in bits and your speed is listed in bytes. There are 8 bits in a byte. So multiply the "speed" you see by 8 to get your "bandwidth". Or divide your bandwidth by 8 to determine your download speed potential.
Make sense? Just remember to mult/div by 8.
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Also, don't forget to get the case of you "b" (bits) and "B" (Bytes) correct. ;-)
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HSPA+ 42mbps is actually DC-HSPA. It should operate nearly twice as fast as the current modems in real world conditions, as its operating on double frequency.
This is far different than a bump from 7.2 to 14.4. This will have real world impact in speeds.
Highest I've pulled in my area is 12mbps, which is plenty fast. Im not sure i understand the speed race going on between carriers at the moment since the data is either being capped or throttled. What would you do with 42 mbps and how long would your monthly data last, even with a dongle?
I didn't realize the Sensation was just 14.4mbs but that explains a lot. Highest I've ever gotten on the dl was 8.5mbs in Houston. Average though can be anywhere between 4.5 and 6.5. I'm pretty happy with it though. on the 10gig plan and I've used to to stream HD netflix to the bigscreen while tethered when there wasn't a faster connection available. Even gaming works fine with about 85-100 latency.
all i know it's much much faster than my flip dumb phone i had since like 2005 lmao i'm happy to be up to date finnaly lol
Only TMOUS supports HSPA+?
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Only TMOUS supports HSPA+?
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If you mean specifically in the US, no. AT&T uses HSPA+ too. They are also implementing LTE at this time too. Right now their HSPA+ is only capable of 21mbps while tmous is capable of 42mbps.
These are theoretical speeds of course, but faster the theoretical, faster the real world.
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I'm wondering what your data speeds are like? I've been using the speed test app, and just recently I've been testing my connection everywhere I go. It's funny cause my ping is usually around 100-140, which I thought was relatively high, but then it comes in and gives me 5843kb/s download speed, but then my uploading speed is always horrible at around 600-800kb/s.
Is this normal for other Wind users?
barqers said:
I'm wondering what your data speeds are like? I've been using the speed test app, and just recently I've been testing my connection everywhere I go. It's funny cause my ping is usually around 100-140, which I thought was relatively high, but then it comes in and gives me 5843kb/s download speed, but then my uploading speed is always horrible at around 600-800kb/s.
Is this normal for other Wind users?
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Ping speeds and data throughput can cary based on any number of factors such as cell congestion, network data congestion for your carrier, distance from cell site or obstacles weakening the signal, etc. You have to test it every day over a month or so from various locations to see what is really going on with your carrier.
Testing right now, got:
239ms Ping
1.58 Mbps Down
0.09Mbps Up
4 bars too...
I'm in GTA. I guess Ottawa speeds just beat the crap out of us here..
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Testing right now, got:
239ms Ping
1.58 Mbps Down
0.09Mbps Up
4 bars too...
I'm in GTA. I guess Ottawa speeds just beat the crap out of us here..
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This is typically what i get on a regular basis very rare will i ever even get 2+ Mbps down or anything higher than 0.15 Mbps up i think its a location issue though. I live in Scarborough and the reception here is still very unstable....certain places will be full bars and others none to no reception at all
I've gotten up to 9mbs download around Jane/Bloor area.
around 4-6mbs Yonge/Eg
and around 7-9mbs downtown depending on the hours
Compared my XZ Premium to my G6, and my Wi-Fi download speeds are terrible.
I don't know what to do, I've tried different firmware too. On the mobile network, the download speeds are just fine. When I connect to networks hundreds of miles away via Speedtest, my download speeds sometimes hit 30 MB/s. This doesn't just happen on my home network, but on others too.
I'd post links, but I'm a new user so XDA nerfs me. I did three tests on the G6 and the XZP.
Download speeds for the XZP were .74 mb/s, .35mb/s, and .85mb/s. Upload speeds reached upwards of 24 and 30.
For the G6, the speeds were 10.85mb/s, 8.7mb/s, and 7.5mb/s. Upload speeds between 6 and 10.