I've noticed a discrepancy between actual data speeds on the AT&T Tilt 2 from various users on the board.
Some people are happy with 1.5mb rate, others have about 400kb, and then some people's signatures have a data speed rate of about 4mb!
I've also read that AT&T put a 1.5mb hardware cap on the Tilt 2, which negates the Tilt 2 owners who say they have 4mb download speeds.
My device gets from 400kb-1.5mb (roughly) from standard HSDPA data connection, and a more steady 1.5mb using Wi-Fi.
Is this the same with all Tilt 2s?
Thanks in advance.
I'm running on the EDGE network using mobile internet explorer, I just ran www.mobilespeedtest.com 3 times consecutively & here are my results.
2162 kbps
2439 kbps
2478 kbps
I purchased my tilt 2 Dec. 30th 2009. I did add the "speed up your data connection" cab
I'll try the data speed fix today.
Does anyone know if there is a data cap on the Tilt 2?
The fact that T-Mobile has the same phone w/7mb speed is ridiculous.
This is the phone I've been oggling for a while, but if there's a cap, it'll be a no go. To ask a rookie question, since I'd be coming over from CDMA and have been hearing nothing but trouble about the Nexus One in the last few days,...
Can you buy an unlocked T-Mobile Touch Pro 2 and then use it on AT&T without the cap?
Any educated guess would be much appreciated.
The T-mobile version will not work on ATT 3G, you will only get Edge
Bah. Vicious rumors....
(Frack.)
Out of curiosity: Presumably if HTC is making phones for both, then it would be a matter of swapping or hotwiring the circuit board? But then would the WiFi be capped? Newb question, I'm sure. Sorry. I'll root around the forum, unless you're willing to reply.
For speed tests use skyfire. Have yet to try opera 10
Opera 9 : 600 kbps
skyfire : 7200 kbps
seems pretty unrestricted as long as you got the right stuff doing the job.
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BTW, this is on a VZW locked phone with the dataspeed fix. I didn't do a before and after on skyfire for the dataspeed fix but I may try it later.
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Also, IE didnt work much better. Best results have been on skyfire so far.
skyfire is DEFINITELY incorrect. it parses pages through its own servers before spitting them out to you so their speeds are inflated.
here are my speed tests:
www.mobilespeedtest.com - 2MB for more precision (keep in mind this is kilobits per sec not kilobyes per sec; for more information go here:http://www.dslreports.com/faq/1061)
opera 9.7 - 649kbps
i/e - 795kbps
skyfire - 6452kbps
and heres how you know skyfire is BS. you do the speed test for 7MB and you've downloaded 7MB in 4.8 seconds for a 11667kbps. That is a ridiculous number that even most internet connections at home dont get.
edit: this is with the jh20001 speed fix and also the sh4y one. and the youtube one i made. on an at&t tilt2 running energy rom 28011
http://www.mobilespeedtest.com
DEFIANTLY gives erroneous results and I really think that people should stop using it. I know EXACTLY what the maximum speed I can get is because I have an email from my network telling me what they have limited my HSDPA to and mobilespeedtest.com happily tells me I am getting multiples of this number.
The most accurate I have found is the 1Mb test :
http://www.dslreports.com/mspeed?jisok=1&more=1
Also - don't use any version of Opera with "Turbo" turned on or Skyfire as this will measure the speed that the proxy in between you and the test site will get. NOT your actual speed.
Thanks for all the replies.
I've also read elsewhere that Skyfire is not a good method of determining data speed.
dslreports.com's 1mb test does seem more accurate in conjunction with Opera.
I applied the datafixspeed cab and my speed still tops out at about 1500kbps on HSDPA with good reception. Even w/Wi-Fi, it doesn't go beyond that.
Am I to assume that people bragging about their 4mb d/l speed are using Skyfire, mobilespeedtest.com, or some other erroneous method of obtaining speed info?
Is 1500kbps d/l considered good? I mean, I finally gave in and got the data plan just for this phone. I wasn't expecting web browsing to be perfect, but the speed still hampers most sites that I visit. It also seems that friends w/the Droid and Blackberry have an easier time accessing the web than the Tilt 2 w/Opera. I'm not complaining, I just want to know how well our product compares to others and get the best experience I can w/the Tilt 2.
Skyfire and Opera Turbo both work by downloading the information you have asked for to a proxy server that sits between you and the data (web site).
The server downloads the data then it compresses it and sends it on to you, so it speeds up your pages loading because the phone has to download less data.
If you do a speed test you are testing the speed of the proxy, not your phone
No idea what's going on with mobilespeedtest.com apart from the fact that there's an advert before you run the test and people like good news ......
i have att and my speeds are nowhere near 1500.
i get 363kbps on dslreports lol. wtfs wrong with mine!
There's nothing wrong with yours.
It's the network. 3G runs at 384kbps so either the network in your area's not upgraded or your network's limiting your bandwidth.
My network is limiting my bandwidth, which I am a bit miffed about
Here is one everyone can use. Its one i use. Its on my server.
Payload size is 3MB
I know it is accurate. If you theater to your phone and download the payload you will get the same results as if you ran just the test. I would avoid using opera as it will give you false numbers, just use PIE.
http://ithappensconsulting.com/speed/initialmeter.php
http://ithappensconsulting.com/speed/payload.bin
Ok, clicked the first link on my TP2 using Opera 9.5 and....
Your current bandwidth reading is:
-3865258.70kbps
which means you can download at -483157.34 KB/sec. from our servers.
??????????
Edit : Payload (.bin) is 3.7Mb not 3Mb - don't know if that effects anything cos I'm not entirely sure what "theater to your phone" means
dik23 said:
Ok, clicked the first link on my TP2 using Opera 9.5 and....
Your current bandwidth reading is:
-3865258.70kbps
which means you can download at -483157.34 KB/sec. from our servers.
??????????
Edit : Payload (.bin) is 3.7Mb not 3Mb - don't know if that effects anything cos I'm not entirely sure what "theater to your phone" means
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I forgot to edit my post here. But dont use opera. Use IE. Opera cant seem to know what 2 + 2 is.
teather means to use your phone as your internet connection for your computer.
You mean use IE on my computer ?
My computer doesn't have IE, and even if it did there's not a chance I'd be using it !
dik23 said:
You mean use IE on my computer ?
My computer doesn't have IE, and even if it did there's not a chance I'd be using it !
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Use IE on your phone.
Firefox and IE work great on computer.
Why do I have to tether to my PC if I am using IE on my phone ?
And IE does work, but not very well on Linux
dik23 said:
Why do I have to tether to my PC if I am using IE on my phone ?
And IE does work, but not very well on Linux
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Forget about the computer.
Just open IE on your phone and go to the link.
i just installed frox6 and its running great . howevr ihave a few issues 1) time sync is 4 min off real time. 2) gps location doesnt work in all apps 3) in winmo i had aprogram to use phone as a wireless router for internet. is this possible in android? 4) when i put phone to sleep it stays asleep for awhile even when trying to wake it up? Also pardon my ignorance, but what is roofts files for? which folder in the sd card do you copy the files to?
1- When is 2.3.4 update coming in Canada?
2- Whenever I try to transfer a movie/video of large size to my phone it takes hours and hours.... It should be maximum 20-30 minutes. No, my computer isnt slow, its a 3gb 320hdd running at 2.3ghz
any help?
btw, did anyone find the solution to wifi disconnection problem that occurs in some of the xperia arcs? where it shows that wireless is recieving signals but its actually not working and it disconnects like every 1 or 2 minutes.
1. You know...Rogers always take forever to update, if u really want to get 2.3.4, just use flashtool to flash international version.
2. it probably because of your sd card. The lower class of sd card, the lower write speed.
athris said:
1. You know...Rogers always take forever to update, if u really want to get 2.3.4, just use flashtool to flash international version.
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Rogers simply stinks at new releases of firmware. Once the phone is ou the door and on sale they could care less about supporting it.
athris said:
2. it probably because of your sd card. The lower class of sd card, the lower write speed.
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It could also because of the USB cable you're using.
But in either case, my suggestion would be to take the card out of the phone and put it in a usb card reader to test it on your computer. If you're still having problems transferring, it's your card that's either broken or simply too sloooowwww.
One other thought: where are you transfering these videos into? What program I mean. Because it SOUNDS like they might be being trans-coded along the way (being converted into another video format). The length of time being taken to 'transfer' is actually just the time it takes to convert file formats on your old-ish computer.
To see if that's what's happening, use the card reader I mentioned and make sure you're just doing a straight drag and drop from windows explorer.
use card reader instead of transferring via cable, and yes, check what is your sd class. its better class 4-10
Also, what connection type are you using? Mass storage (where your card shows up as a drive in your PC) is fastest.
Hi,
Thanks for reading this question. My question is very basic one.
I am trying to send files to my friends samsung phone($100 one) iwth astro file mnager.
Its taking almost 15minutes to transfer a 8 mb file.
Whats the problem with this blue tooth though its latest version?, it shopuld be fast but very slow.
do i need to install any third party software whihc use the regular speeds. Please suggest me what to do. Its an embarassing situation for me as a normal $50 phone can transfer the same file in a minute.
Hi,
Anyone noticed that the unrooted Note 7 transfer rate is very slow on SMB/CIFS (network sharing). Copying from a SMB server is around 200 kb/s. I usually get 3-5 mb/s on my Note 3 and Note 2 but both Note 3 and Note 2 are rooted.
A solution without rooting the phone is appreciated.
programatix said:
Hi,
Anyone noticed that the unrooted Note 7 transfer rate is very slow on SMB/CIFS (network sharing). Copying from a SMB server is around 200 kb/s. I usually get 3-5 mb/s on my Note 3 and Note 2 but both Note 3 and Note 2 are rooted.
A solution without rooting the phone is appreciated.
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Usually the smb protocol is embedded in the application not on the OS (so , the app could use an old library)....just try another file manager like Total Commander or FX File Explorer. The protocol itself it is very susceptible to latency ... big latency = very slow speed. Because of this reason you could try another protocol to transfer files like ftp or ssh (scp).
I have the same exact problem. Doing benchmarks between my old Note 4 and my new Note 7 and I have extremely slow SMB/CIFS transfer speeds. I seem to be bottlenecked strictly to 10mbps or below, which is unusable for streaming any content from my home file server. It is not networking as far as I can tell since I can transfer at ten times the speed on my old Note 4 (100mbps+).
What's weird is that over FTP I can transfer much faster (not as fast as SMB/CIFS on my old Note 4, but about 40-50mbps). Another weird thing is when I first got the phone the slow CIFS/SMB transfer speeds wasn't an issue for the first week or so I had the phone but suddenly started to become a problem. I've done everything, trying to tweak Wi-Fi settings, restarting the phone, changing configuration on my home router. Nothing helps.
This is a weir, strange bug. I signed up on this forum just so I can reply to this thread, so in a way I'm glad I'm not alone in this, which means this is probably some software-related bug either in the OS or the phone that is artificially throttling SMB/CIFS transfer rates since I can never break 10mbps.
I also signed up to post my similar issues. I've been going crazy over the past few days trying to figure out why my transfer speeds from my NAS were horrible while my old Note 3 was fine. Both my original Note 7, which was recalled, and this one have this issue. I get roughly 200-500 kbps down while my Note 3 is getting MBs higher. However, if I connect to it as an FTP through ES File Explorer (app I've used on both phones, even tried other ones to no success), I'm getting the speeds I should be getting. This is truly odd... I thought it was my router but it turns out to be Note 7 related. I've also noticed that if I use the app for my NAS (Synology) to connect to it, it uses an HTTP protocol, so I'm also getting the speed I need there too.
Hopefully there's an update in the future that address this. I don't mind using FTP but it's unfortunate that I spent so much diagnosing hardware and software to find out it's Note 7 related. :/
Unless of course I'm just missing something...