I've got the HTC Legend and have been testing out the speeds of the mobile internet with the speedtest.net app.
I'm in Australia and I'm getting download speeds of 7.7kB/s as the absolute highest with average seeming to be around 4 - 5.
However there is something interesting with the upload speed.. it continually says that my upload speed is massive, in the order of 85 kB/s, 170kB/s or higher, often very variable. Is this just completely wrong? because that's higher than my broadband upload speed.
What are some benchmark speeds other people are getting?
First off tether your phone then run the test. On my phone I get anywhere from 3MB down - 42MB down. Tethered to my laptop I get a constance 3.7mb down .89mb up.
Is tethering possible on stock un rooted legend with 2.1?
I'm not sure, could you share your connect through usb with your pc?
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...?
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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.
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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.
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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.
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
So Im in my house next to a window and I get 4 bars on my ns4g. I have 3g on and my speeds are only 392 kbps. Then when i go downstairs I get 1 bar and my speeds are back up to 1 mbps. Why is that so? Thats stupid how that works. I know sprint data capacity s bad but it just goes from 392 kbps to 1000 kbps with fewer bars?!?
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So Im in my house next to a window and I get 4 bars on my ns4g. I have 3g on and my speeds are only 392 kbps. Then when i go downstairs I get 1 bar and my speeds are back up to 1 mbps. Why is that so? Thats stupid how that works. I know sprint data capacity s bad but it just goes from 392 kbps to 1000 kbps with fewer bars?!?
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the bars arent for data, they are for the actual telephone..
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the bars arent for data, they are for the actual telephone..
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how come like an hour ago i get over 1mbps speeds then now i get 0.16mbps speeds
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how come like an hour ago i get over 1mbps speeds then now i get 0.16mbps speeds
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data speed depends on how many people are accessing data. i can get 6mbps download speeds on my ns(tmobile), then 30 seconds later 2mbps. it really is about how congested it is. usually, youll get the fastest/most steady speeds in the middle of the night when the networks arent busy.
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how come like an hour ago i get over 1mbps speeds then now i get 0.16mbps speeds
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aside from the network congestion on any given system
numerous things can interfere with RF
hotrod as any of this hardware gets
it's still connected to a walki-talki for communication...
fwiw
Try to flash the different radio or it can be when you use the internet speed test its changing severs my nexus s does that sometimes
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I'm on LC1 radio. Its supposed to be the best for 4.0.4
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Greetings people,
I've had an interesting experience on the LTE side of mobile phone as of recent.
I had a S4 and could muster 80Mbit in the Speedtest app, However both my Lumia 1020 and my N5 can only manage 40Mbit at a push.
Is there any hardware reason this is the case or is it simply the network has become far busier in the last few months and brought the speeds down?
Thanks all.
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Greetings people,
I've had an interesting experience on the LTE side of mobile phone as of recent.
I had a S4 and could muster 80Mbit in the Speedtest app, However both my Lumia 1020 and my N5 can only manage 40Mbit at a push.
Is there any hardware reason this is the case or is it simply the network has become far busier in the last few months and brought the speeds down?
Thanks all.
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It's most likely the network. I've had upto 50 mbit and there's a thread in the general forum where people post their network speeds and I've seen close to 70 mbits. If I recall correctly, the N5 is a category 4 phone which has theoretical speeds of upto 150 mbits.
Nexus 5 is a CAT3 device which can do up to 150Mbps MAX (theoretical) speeds. So if it's not doing it then it's the network to blame
Then again when do you ever need more than 20Mbps on a phone?
Thanks guys for the update, seems the phone network is holding me back then.
The only time I need more than 20, is when I tether it, also not going to get through 20gb a month otherwise ?
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I've hit ~ 50mbps down 10 up in North Dallas (Carrollton) this morning. I think they recently implemented the 2X20MHz band