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USA Internet Connection Speed Test

so...how fast is your sapphire surfing the web?
Speed Test
download/upload kbps
1. 3862/173 (482.8 kb/sec download transfer rate)
2. 2500/189 (312.5 kb/sec download transfer rate)
3. 3571/151 (446.4 kb/sec download transfer rate)
avg: 3311/171 (413.9 kb/sec download transfer rate)

thats pretty good

why would you post wifi speeds? thats not comparing anything.

kchau said:
why would you post wifi speeds? thats not comparing anything.
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That looks like good 3G speeds.
My speed(Download) is usually about 1800-2200kbps, but I have reached over 3000kbps(About 3400kbps) and thats over 3G. Please note I'm in Denmark, not the US.
The HTC Magic/My Touch/Sapphire supports HSDPA 7.2 Mbps, but remember that it's only a theoretically max, and that real world max is under ~5Mbps.
And please note: 8 kbps = 1 kBps
Small b is bit and big B is Byte (8bit = 1Byte).
To many sites and programs doesn't uphold this and therefor theres a lot of confusion about it for the average user.
Eg. 2200kbps = ~2.15Mbps = 275kBps = ~0,27MBps

I never understood that myself. It's a marketing thing I think. WOW 5 Megabit speeds! It's like Neogeo of our times.(330 Megabits!!!...41.25 megs) I wish they would show the actual speed that people can understand.. at least to me. I never use Megabits for anything, nothing! I use bytes. So everytime i see "5 megabits" I have to divide by 8 every time to figure out real world speeds (625 kiloBytes a second). It's probably the word MEGA, it sounds huge so people are like.. WOW its 5 Megabits and have no idea what it means. I'd rather them tell me that i'll be getting 625kB a second speeds. It's like when you look at how big a program is you see it in bytes not bits. So it's going to take me 2 or 3 seconds to download a 1.2 meg file.

kchau said:
why would you post wifi speeds? thats not comparing anything.
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...just wondering difference between tmobile mt3g and hacked rogers' magic on att as well as regional differences... otherwise, curiosity plain and simple. maybe anyone has swapped their radio and get outrages speeds claimed to be the hardware's max.

k because my 3g speeds dont get anywhere what t-mobile should be. im usually stuck around 300kbps. yes kilobits.

kchau said:
k because my 3g speeds dont get anywhere what t-mobile should be. im usually stuck around 300kbps. yes kilobits.
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I'm using this app to test the internet speed:
http://www.androlib.com/android.application.com-xtremelabs-android-speedtest-jpAp.aspx
On t-mobile 3G:
Max Download: 801.5 Kbit/s
Max Upload: 138.2 Kbit/s
On Wifi:
Max Download: 5670.9 Kbit/s
Max Upload: 1040.2 Kbit/s
On computer:
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Hi,lpasq I am in usa i checked out my internet speed in i knew that my connection speed is high after test the speed in that site http://www.ip-details.com/internet-speed-test/

Wow! The Vibrant does well on AT&T :)

I just plugged in my wife's iPhone SIM into the Vibrant to unlock, then ran the SpeedTest.net app.
I got 1209 kbps down and 347 kbps down in West LA.
Not bad, considering that at the same spot I get 400-600 kbps down and 700-1000 kbps up on t-Mobile.
Anyway, it means that the Vibrant can do perfectly adequately internationally.

And in West LA, with the spirent settings removed, the GPS works pretty good too!

Once I get my phone unlocked, I'll post my Canadian TMO Vibrant 3G scores.
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How does LA get worse than Columbus, OH? Amount of people on the network?
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hmm
I get great speeds here in tampa, FL

scrizz said:
hmm
I get great speeds here in tampa, FL
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Nice numbers! How many gma's are surfing the web down there?!

I get anywhere between 500kbps (1 bar) to 1200kbps (5 bars) download, and between 100-300 kbps (1 bar/5 bars respectively)
TMOs 3G is pathetic in this part of town (my home).

oc3rulz said:
Nice numbers! How many gma's are surfing the web down there?!
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lol u really think it's just gmas and gpas?
lawlz

scrizz said:
lol u really think it's just gmas and gpas?
lawlz
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no, I used to live in Tampa. Bradenton / Sarasota is the gma's and gpa's

5462/1692, 66 ping. I'm down the street from TMO HQ in factoria washington.
5708/4215 51ms on wifi (comcast)
Ha, test server is in Bellevue up the street. Amusing.

1900MHz carriers are rarely used because AT&T has their network spaced out for 850MHz. 850MHz is probably the most overcrowded and slow.
For the record, 1900 is hardly "international"

heygrl said:
1900MHz carriers are rarely used because AT&T has their network spaced out for 850MHz. 850MHz is probably the most overcrowded and slow.
For the record, 1900 is hardly "international"
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the same can be said for AWS
LOL

Yeah T-Mobile either seems to be really fast, or just plain sucky. Luckily I live in a place where it's really fast

The TMO 3G situation at my place is quite amusing. I can get around 1-2mbps from where I am, but if I drive about 2 miles in one direction I'll get 4-5mbps easily. Go the opposite way 2 miles and I am lucky to get 700kbps. Would be great to see the backhaul to the surrounding towers upgraded a bit more.

DI18 fixed 3g upload speeds, but 4g download speed is cut in half!

anyone else in 4G land experiencing the same problem?

asenduk said:
anyone else in 4G land experiencing the same problem?
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Can you do this repeatably? I think this is probably a case of bad sample data. 4G speeds tend to fluctuate *wildly* because of a.) environmental impacts of a 2.5GHz signal (ever tried to measure actual WiFi performance on a laptop over 802.11n? You'll see what I mean - no two tests are remotely the same) and b.) Network congestion, usage, and number of devices, and c.) Signal strength. If you're indoors, don't even think about comparing 4G speeds, as the 2.5GHz frequency is terrible at penetrating buildings.
In order for your claim to be valid, it would be useful to have time-dependent data, and at least say, 10-20 test results. Then, the same after the update would be useful as well. I've seen 4G speeds on my Evo be 400kbit/s one day and 3.9Mbit/s another day, same place. My Epic 4G has given me speeds in excess of 5Mbit, but later tests didn't get the same performance.
I'm not saying that there's no chance you're right, but I'd say that *much* more data is needed. Try it again tomorrow, at different times, in different places. See how it stacks up. I'm just gonna put this as bad data. (Also, reboot your phone just in case you have a data hog running.)

Yeah you really can't tell anything by one or two tests. I just ran three tests and I got download speeds of 6300, 3200 and 5300. Uploads varied from 430kbps to 1300kbps.
I'm in a fairly poor signal area right now but even in good signal areas it can vary a lot. At work I get anywhere from 6000kbps to 9000kbps.

i just did 3 tests as well from inside my room with all but 1 bar and i am also in Brooklyn (a area that has 4g but it's not officially live yet) and my results were...
Download/Upload
7638/1142
6970/1128
8009/1119
I don't know what they were before but speeds like that are just fine for me i think it was just a random mess up for you

My 4g is fine.
1 bar
3791/1135
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My 3 upload got fixed but my dl speeds are horrible now. My upload speeds are higher than my dl speeds now!
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ravizzle said:
My 3 upload got fixed but my dl speeds are horrible now. My upload speeds are higher than my dl speeds now!
Sent from my Epic 4G
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Same here!!!

I'm good to go on all fronts. Uploads/downloads are good on both 3G and 4G with an increase on 3G ups and an increase in overall 4G speeds.
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General 3G Speeds

So, let's post what 3G speeds we get, and where (copying this thread after lurking around the Fascinate forum for a while).
Here is my speed in Dallas, TX.
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Yea.. I get like 1.5Mbps on a good day.. Southern California, KA7

Try flashing the KB1 modem. I may not get as good battery as with KA7, but I do get MUCH better data speeds.

My average is 3-4 mbps, on a good day i can get 6 mbps. California area and modem is KA5-KA7.

iynfynity said:
My average is 3-4 mbps, on a good day i can get 6 mbps. California area and modem is KA5-KA7.
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I'm hearing all of this good stuff about KA5-KA7 modems... How is the battery life and how do they hold 3G? I know that KB1 will hold it for a while, but after it drops to 1 bar, I lose 3G and it drops to EDGE.

Well for me battery is the same with KA5-KB1 modems. But KB1 was really a nightmare for me, a lot of data drops.

I've noticed that with the KB1 modem. I just flashed the KA7 modem, and I'm actually holding data for once.

Here's what i have.

iynfynity said:
Here's what i have.
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It just shows a blank picture for me.

there you go.

This is max i got!

impressive speed doesn't it?

galvic said:
This is max i got!
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So you in India? Who is the provider and how much for 3G?
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This is on KB1. I generally use KA7 because I work in the boonies and that holds the best signal for me out there. But this is for dang-a-lang swang-a-lang lol.

Here is mine. In McKinney, TX sitting here at work. Funny thing is, if I run this again right after this, I only get 1M down and 500k up? It's never consistent.
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My best I've ever gotten was 5.38 Mbps download, 3.33 Mbps upload, 85 ms ping on a work trip in Birmingham, AL.
Dropped my jaw. It was FAST.

Brooklyn NY
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I'm currently at school, but when I get 3G, I can't wait to see what speeds I can get.

wow. That upload speed is impressive.
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Average around 500-900 k download here in MA. Service is terrible around here in terms of data speed. Voice quality is great something att and Verizon don't have here
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Town size and internet speed

Alright so after traveling around and experiencing wimax for the first time I came up with an idea.
In smaller towns the speed tests I took showed that they had under the .6 mbps required for 3g. Now the larger towns I was in scored at that mark or above. Now I had to pass through 8 places. Three of which were rather large and one was LA. The other had less than 50k people. To me it seems a lot of slow internet on phones are in the smaller regions.
Now this was just the test on my moat recent trip to the beach but I wkonder if anyone else had this realization.
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well san antonio isnt exactly a small town and i still see sub 56k speeds most of the time.
the small towns in the hill country out here are the places where you can get decent 3g speed lol.

2k4mach said:
well san antonio isnt exactly a small town and i still see sub 56k speeds most of the time.
the small towns in the hill country out here are the places where you can get decent 3g speed lol.
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lol i dont really consider 600 kbps decent

aimbdd said:
lol i dont really consider 600 kbps decent
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was pulling consistent 1meg speeds earlier in kerrville

Ahhh well it is just the things I've noticed. Always getvbetter speeds when I go to a bigger town. In my town we have 30k people and I see needs fmof .3 mbps all the time , and answer thing with the towns I went through. Maybe its must my area
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It depends on how close you are to a(n internet) backbone as well as what speedtest server you are using. One of the internets major hubs is in LA so you should see pretty decent speeds there while some towns further out may have a ways to go before they can even get on the main part of the internet.
Think of it like one person living a block away from the interstate while another has to take side roads to get there.
edit: I got curious and found a newer map of Sprint's network. This should give you a pretty good idea of where you might get better speeds, just keep in there are a lot of other factors that can affect it too.
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2k4mach said:
was pulling consistent 1meg speeds earlier in kerrville
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i do live in the middle of no where though.. might have something to do with it.

State capital of LA here. Below 50 kilobit is the norm in town. If I head out to fringe areas I can get 800-1000. I roam on VZW 3g quite a lot.

I live in a town of 5k people, about 25 miles east of Houston TX. I used to have AWESOME 3G speeds, up until about a month ago. Not exactly sure what happened, my thoughts are sprint used to use a Verizon town a few miles from my house and now it doesn't. I went to a Verizon PRL and speeds are back up