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V3xx 3G Speed Seems Slow
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Posted by: Demodave

I was just reading on the iPhone category that people were reporting speeds of about 150-180 kbit/sec from www.dslreports.com/mspeed. Of course, this is using the EDGE network.

So, just for kicks, I decided to run it with my sleek and fast Motorola V3xx with 3G. I am in Las Vegas with a full five bars of 3G. I ran the test using the phone's included Opera browser and downloaded the 1MB file and got these results:

Test 1: 177 kbit/sec
Test 2: 161 kbit/sec

Obviously...that seems really slow for 3G. What are the possible problems? My SIM card is a Cingular 64K smartchip that was given to me by an AT&T store when I bought the LG CU500 which also had 3G. The SIM does not have the 3G fireball on it. Then I transferred my SIM to the new RAZR phone.

Should I call AT&T? Do I need a newer SIM card?

Posted by: zephxiii

Wirelessly posted (Moto RAZR V3XX: MOT-RAZRV3xx/96.71.95R BER2.2 Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; 11063081) Profile/MIDP-2.0 Configuration/CLDC-1.1 Opera 8.00 [en] UP.Link/6.3.0.0.0)

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Originally Posted by Demodave

I was just reading on the iPhone category that people were reporting speeds of about 150-180 kbit/sec from www.dslreports.com/mspeed. Of course, this is using the EDGE network.

So, just for kicks, I decided to run it with my sleek and fast Motorola V3xx with 3G. I am in Las Vegas with a full five bars of 3G. I ran the test using the phone's included Opera browser and downloaded the 1MB file and got these results:

Test 1: 177 kbit/sec
Test 2: 161 kbit/sec

Obviously...that seems really slow for 3G. What are the possible problems? My SIM card is a Cingular 64K smartchip that was given to me by an AT&T store when I bought the LG CU500 which also had 3G. The SIM does not have the 3G fireball on it. Then I transferred my SIM to the new RAZR phone.

Should I call AT&T? Do I need a newer SIM card?

i was in a 3g market today and ran a couple tests that turned out to be a little on the slow side too. i think the mid 300's was the highest i could pull. wonder what the deal is. make sure you have a nice clear signal when you run the test, i know that at least makes a big difference with EDGE

Posted by: Baldilocks

DSL reports isnt a very good site to measure true speed anyway. I dont know why anyone uses it.
I suggest trying www.testmy.net then choose Download Test and then Smarttest.

Posted by: Demodave

The site: www.testymy.net seems like a spammer has taken it over. It's nothing but a bunch of sponsored links.

Posted by: Baldilocks

Woops. Sorry, I edited my post to reflect the correct link.

Posted by: Demodave

Thanks for the new link. and that seems to yield much better results. My download speed with 2 to 3 bars of 3G signal at home gave me 1186 kbps. Much better.

By the way, I tried the mobile link from DSL reports with the home computer on a 10meg pipe and got 335 kbps. Obvously, something is seriously wrong with that site. It's too bad that www.dslreports.com/mspeed is the website that most mobile users seem to be using to judge their speed.

Posted by: SimplyDrew

dslreports.com/mspeed is the site that Cingular actually refers customers calling in to report slow download and upload speeds to so they can test their speeds. I think it's also a standard response from Verizon and other data providers, so I'm sure it gets clogged on a regular basis.

I usually use testmy.net, speakeasy.net/speedtest, or speedtest.net.