What's your 3G Speedtest?
 

In a similar fashion to the Speedtest thread in the Computer forum, I thought it would be fun to have a 3G thread here.

The best way to test would probably to tether to a PC and use the full version website.

Here is my result... I'll try several different locations and see if it improves. I doubt I'll ever see full 7.2 Mbps, but it would be nice to get higher than this!

http://www.speedtest.net/result/595427296.png

I get around 60 KB/s to 740 KB/s.

3.6 Mbps MY ASS. :lol

I have to say, my first day of 3G has been great. It makes my phone infinitely more useful. I was using it to research while shopping for an oven, even downloading a 6MB PDF file, something that would have been impossible with 2G.

But holy crap does it rip through battery life!

K lets try this again. 4:42AM Rogers Network. Wireless tethering. North Burnaby
http://www.speedtest.net/result/595596216.png

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Do you live in the Capitol Hill area?

Somewhat in that area. Closer to the skytrains.

3G sucks at my place.... a lot faster when I'm at my office tho...

http://www.speedtest.net/result/596031514.png

did it again... download speed went up, but upload speed went down.... lol
http://www.speedtest.net/result/596032501.png

got a bit faster for download, but upload continue going down!!!

http://www.speedtest.net/result/596034101.png

Compared with my ISP
http://www.speedtest.net/result/596034853.png

http://www.speedtest.net/result/596089859.png
Up at SFU. alot better in terms of download

Holy crap BCRDUKES how did you manage to get 6X the bandwidth as everyone else?

Actually, that's just a slow day for me.

I've gotten speeds of up to 5.5Mbps.

Do you work for them or something? lol

I wish.

WTF that's as fast as my ISP speed. :lol sigh...

I thought while I'm at it, I might as well test out all my connections...

My regular ISP
http://www.speedtest.net/result/597293850.png

Directly connected on Blackberry Bold. Don't know why my upload is so slow! Tested a couple time with the same result.
http://www.speedtest.net/result/597300774.png

Bluetooth on Blackberry Bold. Upload is faster using bluetooth for some reason.
http://www.speedtest.net/result/597304288.png

http://www.speedtest.net/result/597332479.png

No matter where I go in Burnaby, Richmond, Surrey, or Vancouver, I always get these crappy 3G speeds on my 3G iPhone.

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I think your phone is fUx0r3d.

Your test is the only one I have ever seen from a North American 3G network that gets more than 1Mbps.

I'm not sure what you guys are doing but I get some pretty good speeds and that's approximately average for me. :lol

I'm using a Novatel USB stick, a Nokia N95, and an iPhone (both are tethered.)

I wanted to see my full download potential, and using 20 download streams I get about 4.3 Mbps from home, from the Giganews server in USA

iPhone Wifi:
http://www.speedtest.net/iphone/15694324.png
iPhone 3G:
http://www.speedtest.net/iphone/15694452.png



Home Wifi:
http://www.speedtest.net/result/593817052.png

I hate you all. Rogers Wireless, N97 NAM running at full "3.5G" in Killarney:

http://www.speedtest.net/result/601719486.png
http://img18.imageshack.us/img18/854...1024124646.jpg

But how come you guys get the Richmond server instead? I was wondering that, and tried it again using the Richmond server:

http://www.speedtest.net/result/601722049.png

And the Vancouver server:

http://www.speedtest.net/result/601722609.png

This ain't cool, man. :mad:

wtf

http://www.speedtest.net/result/601812249.png

the difference between those two is negligible and would probably look more similar if you did each test 5-10 times and averaged them.

I know that. The point is, it's much, much slower than it should be. 3.6 Mbps my foot!