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AT&T rolls out 7.2 everywhere
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When I use the SpeedTest app, why is it connecting me to albuquerque, New Mexico, and the server is also in New Mexico when I am in San Luis Obispo, CA?
I would guess that AT&T is routing your 3G data through a server in Albuquerque. Speed test can only see the point at which your data leaves it's internal network.
it's a crappy app
i'm in NYC and it connects me to Ohio. when i'm on my cable internet it connects me to NYC. but on 3G i don't see a NYC server in the list.
i use the Xtreme app as well and i can run two tests within a minute of each other and the results will be at least 20% apart.
the reason it says Wichita is that most likely all of AT&T's wireless network customers are routed to Wichita internally and then to the "internet".
my iphone gets a 10.x.x.x IP which is a private IP range. the external IP is a 166.x.x.x IP in Wichita.
I used a few free geo-location IP apps and the external IP is north of Wichita and one of them says the IP belongs to Cingular.
No, AT&T's internal routing is crappy. AT&T is clearly routing your data through some distant server. Speed test bases the location of its recommended servers on the first locatable external IP address in a traceroute. I remember when I was on Edge that used to be in Virginia even though I'm in CT. Since the new tower came online near my house, I'm getting a much more accurate location. It's not SpeedTest's fault that AT&T sends your data to Wichita (or wherever) before it lets it go onto the Internet.
Love all these people complaining about how slow the 3G is where they are 
At lease you have 3G. 7meg or 200kb, it beats my 17kb edge network i have here. Be thankful you have 3G.
At lease you have 3G. 7meg or 200kb, it beats my 17kb edge network i have here. Be thankful you have 3G.
Hopefully some of this misrouting will change with newly installed fiber backhaul.
Carriers in general have been switching routes so that user data is shunted to the internet as close to the tower as possible... thus speeding up data round trips, while freeing up the rest of the carrier network for voice and control.
Carriers in general have been switching routes so that user data is shunted to the internet as close to the tower as possible... thus speeding up data round trips, while freeing up the rest of the carrier network for voice and control.
I can't imagine why they haven't been doing that all along; the faster you can get the data onto someone else's network the better, as far as resources are concerned.
Funny all this talk of inconsistant speeds, this morning I tested my 3g speed on speedtest, got my highest ever, by far, about 3400 Kbps, fastest was usually 2400 prior to today, then in a different location maybe 1 hour later, no joke, 25 Kbps! That was a fluke, both were really, but it shows how hit or miss it can be. Typically when traffic is slow, ie early or late, I max out around 2300 or so, when lots of people are on the network, like from 8 am to 8 pm, it slows to a pretty steady 700-800, which I can live with, but obviously like most, I look forward to AT&T achieving better speeds throughout the day.
Are you jailbroken? Because i have gotten really low results every once in a while and i am now starting to believe it may be caused by blackra1in.
Blackra1n cannot have the affect you suggest. Blackra1n does nothing but break the chroot jail on your system and install the blackra1n app on your springboard. Neither makes any changes that could affect your 3G speeds.
Blackra1n only bypasses the lock, that's it. The speed and other communication commands are handled by the X-Gold CPU... so, might be there the problem.
This is true... no comment. Only to say, Geohot is sloppy because he rushes hru things just to make people happy and release stuff.
blackra1n and blacksn0w both have unintended effects.
I've restored and rejailbreak my iphone quite a few times and one time when i jb'd it i got the wifi problem.
As for blacksn0w i used it once and half the time i wouldnt even have service.
I would not be surprised if stuff like slow speed (3g) or safari being unstable were somehow related to these hacks. Then again it could be said that if apple made jailbreaking easier, maybe the code would be better.
i've noticed some days i get a Ohio server and other days a NYC server when testing. NYC server is always in the morning even though the data is still going to Wichita.
AT&T's routing is crap, but i wouldn't trust speedtest all the way. there are a lot of other variables to the speeds it gives
I don't think you have any idea what blackra1n does. Blacksn0w might have some effect on WiFi, since it messes with the S-Gold chip, but blackra1n simply cannot.
All that the speed test app does is suggest a server based on what it thinks is closest to you geographically, then run a download and upload speed test. The accuracy of SpeedTest's geolocation of your phone (and the nearness of the servers it suggests) depends on how near to you AT&T connects your data to the Internet. How fast your data travels has nothing to do with SpeedTest; the only variables affecting speed are the bandwidth of the test servers (none of which belong to Ookla itself) and the efficiency and level of congestion on AT&T's network and the Internet. Any variables affecting the speed it gives are entirely under the control of AT&T, its backbone providers, and the test servers it employs. The SpeedTest app itself has absolutely no control of where or how fast your data travels between your phone and the tests server. None whatsoever.
That was with the closest server on the list. lol
It ok though, While Im at home I use wifi so it dont slow me down.
Do not be so closed-minded. You did not code blackra1n nor did you code the iPhone OS. So you can not possibly say there is NO chance the 2 interacting together would cause some adverse effects. Also there is cold hard proof that blackra1n messes up with wifi, youtube, push notifications.