Didn’t it cross your mind that the results are EXTREMELY fast on all connection types?

It is IMPOSSIBLE for Edge (2G) or even the Bold’s 3G (which is only 3.2Mbit) to download a 1MB file that fast. I would say it’s even impossible wifi as I’ve never seem my 9700 download anything that fast.

Basically your tests are flawed. The issue is likely that your browser is caching the data and not actually re-downlaading it each time. The discrepancies in the test results are due to the time it takes each connection type to hit the web page and confirm the info (much less than 1MB).

Download the Xtremelabs app and try again.

Actually, since I’m up anyway, I ran some tests myself. I ran each test a few times and averaged the results. There were no large discrepancies when re-running the test on the same connection type so I did throw out the best and worst times (also, I’m holding a 4mo old and I can’t be bothered to run the tests more than I already have).

Results:

2G 250kbps (32 seconds)
3G 2200kbps (3.7 seconds)
WiFi 722kbps (11 seconds)

Now, I’m looking at the numbers above and I’m thinking – wtf is up with wifi? It’s not my internet connecting which is 13Mb. On a hunch, I turned of Bluetooth and sure enough, the speeds doubled! With Bluetooth turned off I was getting ~1690kbps down, so more than twice as fast (~5 seconds for a 1MB file). Anyway, those speeds are still not the best – I think it’s likely due to my encryption/wifi router compatibility.

I re-tested 3G as well and it went up another 1000kbps to 3200kbps (2.5 seconds).

Lastly, upload speeds sucks on both 2G and 3G from my house – my couch more specifically. Both 2G and 3G were around 40kbps – so that would take about 3min 20 seconds to upload 1MB.

In a reversal of the download speeds, WiFi uploads speeds came out on top with 900kbps (10 seconds for 1MB).

Happy Sunday.

-V

Didn’t it cross your mind that the results are EXTREMELY fast on all connection types?

It is IMPOSSIBLE for Edge (2G) or even the Bold’s 3G (which is only 3.2Mbit) to download a 1MB file that fast. I would say it’s even impossible wifi as I’ve never seem my 9700 download anything that fast.

Basically your tests are flawed. The issue is likely that your browser is caching the data and not actually re-downlaading it each time. The discrepancies in the test results are due to the time it takes each connection type to hit the web page and confirm the info (much less than 1MB).

Download the Xtremelabs app and try again.

Actually, since I’m up anyway, I ran some tests myself. I ran each test a few times and averaged the results. There were no large discrepancies when re-running the test on the same connection type so I did throw out the best and worst times (also, I’m holding a 4mo old and I can’t be bothered to run the tests more than I already have).

Results:

2G 250kbps (32 seconds)
3G 2200kbps (3.7 seconds)
WiFi 722kbps (11 seconds)

Now, I’m looking at the numbers above and I’m thinking – wtf is up with wifi? It’s not my internet connecting which is 13Mb. On a hunch, I turned of Bluetooth and sure enough, the speeds doubled! With Bluetooth turned off I was getting ~1690kbps down, so more than twice as fast (~5 seconds for a 1MB file). Anyway, those speeds are still not the best – I think it’s likely due to my encryption/wifi router compatibility.

I re-tested 3G as well and it went up another 1000kbps to 3200kbps (2.5 seconds).

Lastly, upload speeds sucks on both 2G and 3G from my house – my couch more specifically. Both 2G and 3G were around 40kbps – so that would take about 3min 20 seconds to upload 1MB.

In a reversal of the download speeds, WiFi uploads speeds came out on top with 900kbps (10 seconds for 1MB).

Happy Sunday.

-V

EDGE has a theoretical max speed of 473.6 kilobits (not bytes) per second. Which is 60 KB/s which means that at maximum speed it would take 17 seconds for EDGE to download 1MB. More realistically you’re probably only going to be getting 1/2 that speed? Maybe less. So it should take more around 40 seconds to 1 minute.

I would suggest the speed test app made by XtremeLabs to get some better results.

EDGE has a theoretical max speed of 473.6 kilobits (not bytes) per second. Which is 60 KB/s which means that at maximum speed it would take 17 seconds for EDGE to download 1MB. More realistically you’re probably only going to be getting 1/2 that speed? Maybe less. So it should take more around 40 seconds to 1 minute.

I would suggest the speed test app made by XtremeLabs to get some better results.

I make that 4708 Kbps for 3G, which is faster than those recorded by Wired Magazine in the US earlier this year: http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2009/07/3g-speed-test/. Perhaps networks are being upgraded?

I make that 4708 Kbps for 3G, which is faster than those recorded by Wired Magazine in the US earlier this year: http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2009/07/3g-speed-test/. Perhaps networks are being upgraded?

Here’s a preview of the next installment.

Test 2: The email test. Testing email transmission and reception for emails big and small. Email is priority one for BlackBerry users, determining a winner will mean a lot of test emails and a stopwatch.

I’d love some feedback too. Let me know if you’ve devised a test that you’d like me to try out!

I’m using OS 4.6 and the 2G and 3G flavors I’m using are GSM based so the 2G is EDGE. I want to keep this series of tests simple, if you’d like to post your CDMA-based findings I would be thrilled!

Here’s a preview of the next installment.

Test 2: The email test. Testing email transmission and reception for emails big and small. Email is priority one for BlackBerry users, determining a winner will mean a lot of test emails and a stopwatch.

I’d love some feedback too. Let me know if you’ve devised a test that you’d like me to try out!

I’m using OS 4.6 and the 2G and 3G flavors I’m using are GSM based so the 2G is EDGE. I want to keep this series of tests simple, if you’d like to post your CDMA-based findings I would be thrilled!

Here’s a preview of the next installment.

Test 2: The email test. Testing email transmission and reception for emails big and small. Email is priority one for BlackBerry users, determining a winner will mean a lot of test emails and a stopwatch.

I’d love some feedback too. Let me know if you’ve devised a test that you’d like me to try out!

I’m using OS 4.6 and the 2G and 3G flavors I’m using are GSM based so the 2G is EDGE. I want to keep this series of tests simple, if you’d like to post your CDMA-based findings I would be thrilled!

my 2 cents.

my 2 cents.