UK: How do we know if EDGE is working? Seems very SLOW.

[netdog]

I have a blue box with a white E inside most of the time, but the network seems very slow. I am certainly not getting anywhere near the sorts of speeds that people say EDGE should achieve. It is SLLLOOOOOWWWWWWW.

This is in Westminster. Any ideas?

 

[skeen]

I created a thread about how fast it is, here. Visit http://inetworktest.com/ and take the test - what's your speed?

 

[netdog]

410 kbps according to the site. Seems slow as molasses to me.

According to this site, that speed is very good. I wonder if it is not the EDGE connection, but O2's handling of Internet transactions on their side that is slow.

 

[Kuffdam]

366.6kbps on T-mobile in the UK

I think the speed is good... I was with Orange and moved.... Orange was terrible

 

[unity]

All wireless net access is slow, including 3G when compared to anything else. Really it feels maybe twice as fast as dial-up.

 

[movielover21]

It's expected, Edge is slow, reminds me of the painful days of dial-up.