Study Shows AT&T's 3G Network Boasts the Best Speeds, but...

3G?! Looks more like 2G speeds :O....I can't beleive it, are the speeds really that bad?

 

I am surprised at the readings, my 3G speeds range from 500-1100 kdps, with average around 800kbps.

 

Maybe they just mis typed it in the report and meant KB instead of Kb? 250 KB would be a 2 Meg speed.

 

Those are slow averages. Maybe they are wrong. In Boston, I get 1350 kbps to 800 kbps. I checked my history and got those in Oct and Nov. from 9am through 2 pm
But I just did a check around 9pm and got 429kbps.
Checked again at 10:15 and got about the same.

I don't think it is a city thing, I seem to get good speeds. Except tonight, and it's late too.

It's better than 2G which is around 90 kbps

 

I checked download speeds in Boston today at 12:50pm, during the peak of the day: 1642kbps !!!

Using dslreports iPhone application. Checked again 20 seconds later: 992 download load; 300 upload

 

I finally figured out what to use for the BB. - Xtreme Labs Speedtest for BB

I did 3 tests in the last hour, the average download speeds were 1469.35, 3580.97, 1997.8 Kbits/s
and the maximum for all three was 22775.0 Kbits/s


Thanks RR

 

I think you got something switched around there. The max was 3580kbps (3600kbps is the max your phone can go to). The average was probably 2277kbps

 

I don't think so I did three tests and the results were:


Average Download - 1469.35
Maximun - 22775

Average Download - 3580.97
Maximum - 22775

Average Download - 1997.8
Maximum - 22775.

These are all Download speeds, so my device's capability should have nothing to do with it, right?

Here is one I just did:

Miserable upload speed but AT&T 3G looks great.

 

i just looked at the attachment. What? It must be to do with the test being done on the server side. You can never get a true measurement from the server-side. You need something installed locally on your phone that can monitor the port and calculated the speed correctly.

 

Any recommendations?

Thanks.

 

Sorry, no :O But I am fooling around with BlackBerry programming right now, maybe I can make something...but by the time I finally finish it you'll probably have a LTE phone

 

That is pretty fast...don't believe it!!! The bold runs HSDPA 3.6

You meant 2275???

Uploads at 19? Too slow. Sounds like something wrong with that program. I think it's the same company that makes SpeedTest for the iPhone, which I found very unreliable...

 

Per my understanding the HSDPA rating of the device does not matter for download speed, that is AT&T 3G speed.

No, I meant 22775. I posted the screenshot of the test results.

I believe the only way to obtain accurate results are by tethering or by having the program reside on the device (per RR), all others are unreliable.

BlackBerry9700/5.0.0.296 Profile/MIDP-2.1 Configuration/CLDC-1.1 VendorID/102

 

For 3G networks, High Speed Downlink Packet Access (HSDPA) 7.2 allows peak download speeds of 7200kbps; HSDPA 3.6 peaks at 3600kbps. I'll defer to someone else, but that is my understanding. It is device dependent. RadioRaiders??

My iPhone (HSDPA 7.2 capable) has an on-device application (dslreports). I got at most 1700kbps on 3G. Wifi is a different beast.

The Bold 9700 has only HSDPA 3.6 capability.

22775 would be 22.7Mbps peak downloads. I don't believe the device or network handles those speeds...


http://www.gearlog.com/2009/05/att_rolling_out_hsdpa_72_faste.php

 

Viewfly, I misread your post, I read it as I couldn't get 2275 download speed with a 3.6 HSDPA device.

From what I have read so far, with BBs it is nearly impossible to get an accurate speedtest w/o tethering. The one I used is the only that works with BBs albeit incorrectly.

Another site was recommended, although site specifically mentions that the BB's system will produced skewed results.

Here are the results from that.



I heard back from the first one and they said that only the average download speeds are mostly accurate but the other 3 line items should be disregarded.


I will just wait for RR to design one that works.

BlackBerry9700/5.0.0.296 Profile/MIDP-2.1 Configuration/CLDC-1.1 VendorID/102

 

22775.0 Kbits/s??? LOL! that sounds like the software got fooled by the data cache. That speed is just impossible with any current 3G technology.