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EDGE speeds pumped up tonight?

Confirmed in San Diego

My buddy just confirmed the speed bump - I emailed him the thread and he tried it out - he works in my IT department and is the sharpest tool in the shed by far, and was VERY skeptical about the iPhone being on EDGE - here is his direct quote in his email reply to me:

"HOLY SCHITT!!!!! Google maps is now entirely useable on EDGE!!!!

OMFGWTFBBQ! This rocks my socks!"

Good enough for me! Amazing - way to go, Apple and AT&T!:D
 
Rojo said:
Ok -- went to the speedtest page on my EDGE phone:

Personal test results
Speed

1.7 megabits per second
Communications 1.7 megabits per second
Storage 205.5 kilobytes per second
1MB file download 5 seconds
Subjective rating Great

Info
Date & time Thursday, June 28, 8:16PM*
Test type IDT4 Free
Connection type Wireless: EDGE
Region New York
Data size 1024KB
IP address xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx
Provider [AT&T]
* MDT (-0600)

I don't know what the hell any of that means, but "Great" sounds pretty good. :D
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For many places, that is DSL speed. That is way faster then EDGE should be.

That can't be right...
 
Rojo said:
Ok -- went to the speedtest page on my EDGE phone:

Personal test results
Speed

1.7 megabits per second
Communications 1.7 megabits per second
Storage 205.5 kilobytes per second
1MB file download 5 seconds
Subjective rating Great

Info
Date & time Thursday, June 28, 8:16PM*
Test type IDT4 Free
Connection type Wireless: EDGE
Region New York
Data size 1024KB
IP address xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx
Provider [AT&T]
* MDT (-0600)

I don't know what the hell any of that means, but "Great" sounds pretty good. :D
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Something seems wrong. 1.7 mbit/s is well above EDGE's theoretical maximum. Make sure your WIFI isn't on and confirm your cache is cleared?
 
I'm getting about 50k - thats on my laptop tethered to my Moto SLVR. I've never been sure I had the tethering setup correctly.

With that said, last I did this test about 2 weeks ago I got around 22k.

I'm a half hour north of Boston.
 
Dermot81 said:
Something seems wrong. 1.7 mbit/s is well above EDGE's theoretical maximum. Make sure your WIFI isn't on and confirm your cache is cleared?
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Well I don't have WIFI! :confused:
I've barely used the Opera Mini browser on this phone (just downloaded it last week).

Maybe the test is buggy?

Or EDGE is working ridiculously well in NYC?
 
Dermot81 said:
Click 600k
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I tried, but it said it was too unstable/fast, and to try a larger size, so I chose 1MB. This was the result:

719 kbit/sec

0.244s latency
11.63s d/l time

I have no idea what that means, other than it doesn't sound as good a result as the other test. :eek:
 
Deanster said:
Never tested it before, but from what I understand, these results are at (or above?) the theoretical limit for EDGE. Tested on Blazer 4.5 on a Treo 680 on AT&T EDGE about 5 minutes ago. North Seattle (Near the University - and the Apple Store), 5 bars.

Speed
337.2 kilobits per second
Communications 337.2 kilobits per second
Storage 41.2 kilobytes per second
1MB file download 24.9 seconds
Subjective rating Not bad

http://www.bandwidthplace.com/speedtest
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I dont know about this site. I ran the test three times:
First test

Speed
7.7 megabits per second
Communications 7.7 megabits per second
Storage 942.9 kilobytes per second
1MB file download 1.1 seconds
Subjective rating Awesome

The second test came back at 9.1mbps..

The 3rd test said speed was to high or too low for the type of network I selected

Anyone else in Denver confirm a hugh speed bump?
 
Rooskibar03 said:
I dont know about this site. I ran the test three times:
First test

Speed
7.7 megabits per second
Communications 7.7 megabits per second
Storage 942.9 kilobytes per second
1MB file download 1.1 seconds
Subjective rating Awesome

The second test came back at 9.1mbps..

The 3rd test said speed was to high or too low for the type of network I selected

Anyone else in Denver confirm a hugh speed bump?
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did you clear your cache?
 
Rojo said:
I tried, but it said it was too unstable/fast, and to try a larger size, so I chose 1MB. This was the result:

719 kbit/sec

0.244s latency
11.63s d/l time

I have no idea what that means, other than it doesn't sound as good a result as the other test. :eek:
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Also too fast...Should be around 200kbit/sec...Hmm, not sure what's wrong.
 
somebody posted this at howardforums

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yeah, the ATT data network was unavailable this morning in San Diego, now it's back and seems faster... talk about last minute upgrades.
 
wtf?

i just ran tests on my desktop from 3 dif. sites numerous times and i have 2mb/s isn't T-1 a max of 1.5? im on broadband, is that a normal speed?
 
toddp73 said:
i just ran tests on my desktop from 3 dif. sites numerous times and i have 2mb/s isn't T-1 a max of 1.5? im on broadband, is that a normal speed?
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Who is your DSL or Cable provider? I am on AT&T DSL and for some odd reason speeds test(2 of them) are saying that my speeds have increased, so I thought I test that by downloading a common file I get and no speed change there. Odd.
 
There's a poster over on the Howardforums thread who says we're mostly seeing results of increased proxy server speed, rather than real network increases - he sure *sounds* like he knows what he's talking about, and it looks to me like the only test that's giving repeatable, reasonable results is the http://www.dslreports.mspeed test, which is specific to mobile...

at 190Kbps, it's showing an excellent, but realistic EDGE speed. I'd say that anything over about 210-215 with EDGE is seriously suspect, as the theoretical max is 236Kbps... under lab conditions.
 
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