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Has anyone tested their US tmo 3g speeds at any test sites?
i did mine today while connected to 3g and it only showed a DL speed of
68Mbps (484 Kbps)
thats like not even 1% better then edge speed....
i tested at testmyiphone.com
Those numbers don't compute. 68Mbs is blazing fast. Faster than even my cable modem, faster than any cellular connection on the planet, and way, way faster than 484Kbps.
68Mbs = 68000 kbps
484kbs = 0.484 Mbps
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my bad. sorry if forgot the point.
so its:
.68 Mbps not 68
i downloaded a 3MB file in 83 seconds....
.68mbps is a lot? I thought 3G was at most like 1Mbps? I tethered to my laptop and got .86Mbps down and .30Mbps up.
no my first posting said 68 in error.. it should have read .68.
so his comment was regarding 68 being too fast and incorect on my part.
so the question stands at .68 for evaluation
about the same here
.47Mbps(469Kbps) DL speed3072 KB in 53.6 seconds
Have tested higher before
ok good..
what gets me is when the page says its only a small percentage faster then edge... this is my first 3g... so i have nothing to compare it too....
loueber said:
ok good..
what gets me is when the page says its only a small percentage faster then edge... this is my first 3g... so i have nothing to compare it too....
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Much faster than edge on my retired tmo wing...lol
Saw 880kbps in downtown Rochester NY using the DSL reports mobile speed test last weekend. Much slower on 3G in Newport News VA during the week, in the 400kbps range (can't remember exactly)
Which browsers are you using to perform these tests? Opera? PIE? I got 120 KBs on PIE using 6mb test and 71KBs on Opera. Is this test even accurate for WMo considering it was setup for Iphone? I tried the download and the combination test, the download speed was much faster during the combination test.
Sorry to be off topic but i just had to ask this... I currently have a blackberry data plan with t-mo and would like to know if this will work with the touch pro 2 as far as internet connectivity goes. I didn't get it to work with the g1 and the mytouch since it connects with google servers and required web2go. any answers or thoughts?
Greenarcher707™ said:
Sorry to be off topic but i just had to ask this... I currently have a blackberry data plan with t-mo and would like to know if this will work with the touch pro 2 as far as internet connectivity goes. I didn't get it to work with the g1 and the mytouch since it connects with google servers and required web2go. any answers or thoughts?
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works for me. Using BB plan on my Tmo TP2 no problem.
cool, thanks for the heads up. this is way cool.
Here are my data tests from when i first got the Tmo TP2 when it launched.
that's not bad at all.
i haven't tested since then, but i may
Good news guys tmo just sent out an internal letter to all employees that they will be throttleing up there 3g speed to 3.6 by late oct early nov. and 7.2 by mid december. and it also stated that there hsdpa 21 is in the near future at the begining of the year. that is pretty much verbatim of the email.
that's great news! now we're really making progress.
1.07Mbps/1065Kbps/130kBps tmobile 3g download test on testmyiphone site. BB curve managed to get 4-6kBps on edge before I switched to tp2
When I first got the TP2, I was getting speeds consistently over 1 M on the stock rom using mspeed, kind of shocked me as the google phones were never close to those speeds. I'm using the genesis rom now and still get pretty much the same speeds. I wonder why this phone is so much faster than the android phones!
So anybody who gets T-Mobile 3G now is able to take advantage of The new upgraded HSPA 7.2Mbps 3.5G network. Phone that are able to take advantage of this are the HTC G1, HTC MyTouch, HTC Dash 3G, HTC Touch Pro 2, Samsung Behold 2,and I believe the Blackberry 9700.
Check your speed using you phone browser at www.mobilespeedtest.com
Here is my speed in Miami, Fl.
Must not be in every market. 3g In phoenix seems to top out around 250kbps...at least right now.
Should in all 3G markets. It might be rolling out to different cities throughout the day.
http://www.tmonews.com/2010/01/t-mobile-officially-upgrades-to-hspa-7-2mbps/
Also try doing the 1Mb or larger test.
Yeah you're probably right. I'll just keep checking through the day. These speeds will nearly make the fee for 3g worth it.
Mine is 541kps, is that good? lol Have no idea about phone speeds.
The way ISPs advertise speeds is in bits. When we download is its bytes. So 7.2MBPS should be equilvalent to 7200 / 8 = 900 Kbytes a sec. So 900kbps should be max on our phones which is in between dsl and cable modem speeds. This is of course on the Tmobile Network. The fastest I got on my Tmobile TP2 was 800kbps full 3G bars.
I'm in the Tampa Bay area with full 3g bars. I did the 1MB test and got 717kb's per second. Not sure how to tell if I improved from before tmobile "upgraded" to hspa
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I'm in the Tampa Bay area with full 3g bars. I did the 1MB test and got 717kb's per second. Not sure how to tell if I improved from before tmobile "upgraded" to hspa
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Sound just about right for 7.2MBPS.
WOW!!!! 6283 kbps here in PA
i have 727.273 with about 2 bars..is that good?
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i have 727.273 with about 2 bars..is that good?
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Me too, just about the same, which is an upgrade at least 50% from before. I can't wait to try it out at work tomorrow with a full signal!!!
1774kbps in phoenix right now...pretty decent...
I have always used :
http://www.dslreports.com/mspeed?jisok=1&more=1
However the site posted here gives me much better results, so I think I prefer it. Bit odd though.
Ok guys. When you test it out it gives yous the small download test. You need to retest at 2Mb or higher to see the real speed. I used the 7Mb test to test my connection and was consistently getting 6500Kbps - 7000Kbps
I noticed quite a difference between Opera and Opera 10 Beta. What's the most accurate browser to use?
To get a "true" test I use Internet Explorer
Too bad all this speed won't mean **** because our CPU is slow. You will only take advantage of these speeds when you tether to your computer.
Not sure the test is reliable, got so many reading on my end. 700+kps, sometimes 25kps (huh????) sometime 650++, etc.
I've tried 3 times using dslreports simple mobile test. 1MB and got
~700kb
~800kb
~900kb
thaddyusmaximus said:
I've tried 3 times using dslreports simple mobile test. 1MB and got
~700kb
~800kb
~900kb
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Yeah I'm now getting all over this range.
I am unable to test with PIE for some reason though. Just hangs at "running test"
Just in case anybody cares.. thought I'd throw in my 2 cents after having it for a couple hours.
My last phone was the Tmobile galaxyS 4g . First as far as size.. normally I may have an issue with it but being so thin and light and the beauty of the screen makes up for the footprint. Biggest improvement for me would be internet cruising.. screen size/font size and general slick and quickness makes it a huge benefit over older phones for browsing. I typically use my tablet for light couch browsing.. but this phone may possibly change that. Flash video loading .. for example justin tv or twitch tv is insanely fast close to desktop speeds. Netflix works like a champ as well. Everything at this point has been pretty much instant.. this phone is bloody fast especially for being right out of the box.. will be cool to see how custom roms and kernels will do with it. Oh yeah and the gps is super quick to lock on.. 10 seconds or so versus an inconsistent 1 to 2 minutes with the original galaxy.
I would have to say the only downside of this for me is the network speeds.. 3g speed test in my area show if I'm lucky 1mb at best.. and 3-4mbps with 4g. My tmobile was a solid 5+mbps at the very least.. I traded tmobile's faster yet limited network for Sprint's slower yet steadier and consistent wider spread network.
Thanks for your initial impressions. I'm also making the switch from T-Mobile to Sprint and knew I'd have to compromise with network speed. T-Mobile's HSPA+ is pretty damn fast and Sprint has paused their WiMax rollout. I had an Evo before returning it and noticed that WiMax was tough to get indoors. I'm hoping Sprint will be making a major infrastructure transition over to LTE (it's in the plans) and by switching now I'll grandfather into a nice unlimited plan.
25% off monthly, unlimited data, nights @ 7pm, unlimited mobile to any mobile, google voice integration made the switch pretty easy for me.. but I don't expect data speeds to be that impressive
25 percent off? that'd be great.. how? Sprint guy told me to join a local credit union and I'd receive 10 percent off.. I thought that was great.
Also yeah it kinda sucks about Wimax.. are they going to transition completely away from it?
I think data speeds have been getting worse for Sprint as Boost and Virgin mobile get more popular .. that's alot of data usage
In my far from scientific test I have noticed something very weird. I'm throwing it out there so others can test as well.
I used two 4G phones: Galaxy S 2, dual cell 4G, and Galaxy S 4G, single cell 4G. For me anything above 15 Mbps on S2 uses Dual Cell 4G.
Here are the results after 5 speedtest on each.
S2 - used around 100 MB per T-Mobile data count
S 4G - used around 50 MB per T-Mobile data count
Since I have 2GB plan I'm very limited on how much I can test in one month. I figured that throwing this out there will definitely speed up the testing process.
Well that's interesting considering speedtest.net only uses 3MB of data to test. Might need to rethink your method.
From a technical side...so dual cell is just combining of spectrum into a bigger chunk...so counting it as double is not easily built into the system. Besides your signal the entire time is just one data stream
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Yeah. I agree with Buckeye. I don't think that T-Mobile would make such a big blunder. Even if they did, they would have had a mob with pitchforks and torches after them by now.
aranurea said:
Yeah. I agree with Buckeye. I don't think that T-Mobile would make such a big blunder. Even if they did, they would have had a mob with pitchforks and torches after them by now.
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This and it would take MORE work on their billing end to implement something like that.. now Verizon & AT&T yes I could see them doing it.
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This and it would take MORE work on their billing end to implement something like that.. now Verizon & AT&T yes I could see them doing it.
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Yup. I would've gotten an iPhone 4S with AT&T, but i realized that a Galaxy S II was better and had a cheaper deal with T-Mobile.
I have contacted speedtest.net support and got the explanation on how the program calculates the connection speed. It actually runs download and upload tests for 10 second each and measures the amount of data it sends or receives. Based on the amount of transferred data it calculates the achieved speed.
That also explains why Galaxy S 2 transfers more data, faster connection, then Galaxy S 4G.
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I have contacted speedtest.net support and got the explanation on how the program calculates the connection speed. It actually runs download and upload tests for 10 second each and measures the amount of data it sends or receives. Based on the amount of transferred data it calculates the achieved speed.
That also explains why Galaxy S 2 transfers more data, faster connection, then Galaxy S 4G.
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Can you please post their official response? because you can spotwatch it the time it takes and its longer than 10 seconds. Sorry.
AUTX_buckeye said:
Can you please post their official response? because you can spotwatch it the time it takes and its longer than 10 seconds. Sorry.
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Ask them yourself - SpeedTest.net contact form
the speed test is probably time based
in the same amount of time its natural for a dual cell phone to download twice the data vs the single cell
Hi all,
Had the S3 for about a month now and love it. Until about a week ago my 4G speeds here in Seattle were great. Averaging 4-12Mbps down and 1-3Mbps up.
However, in the last few days my speeds have been all over the place. Sometimes I'll have 40ms ping and a 12Mbps download speed. 10 minutes later I'll have a 500ms ping and .5Mbps downloads. And it isn't just the Speedtest app. I only run the tests when I notice a website is incredibly slow to load or Google Reader is taking 30 seconds to refresh (it usually takes about 4 seconds).
I called T-Mobile worthless support line who basically said "restart your phone". Ugh.
Anyway, I'm not rooted and not terribly interested in flashing a new ROM (stock is running fine for me).
I came from Sprint where they could run profile updates if you were having data issues. Does Tmo have anything similar?
thanks!
PS I'm still within my 90-day Costco return/exchange period, so I'm happy to take it in if needs be.
Not here to answer your question but I'm on the edge of leaving sprint for tmobile for this phone....would you say your experience has been better?
akasan said:
Not here to answer your question but I'm on the edge of leaving sprint for tmobile for this phone....would you say your experience has been better?
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Much better than my friends who are with Sprint. I get around 20Mbps download speeds on average everywhere I have 4G (which is just about everywhere).
There's been some thread popping out with slow data speeds, might be T-Mobile doing something with their towers.
I'm experiencing the same issues.