3G HSPA Speed on iPhone

[lovemov]

Just did some speed testings, I am getting 700k down 200k up, is this normal speed on Bell? Seems quite slow when I see youtube compares to Rogers, Bell should be much faster?

[clewis4u91]

Depends how your signal is. At home I can easily achieve at least 5.5Mbps. Live 1km away from the cell site. If you are surrounded by buildings, your connection will suffer a little more. I would recommend tethering to your computer, and running a test from speedtest.net. For some reason, the iPhone app is always slower than when I tether (even though I'm using the exact same server).

[mitsubishiman]

it also depends on how many users on a cell site you are using.

3gs has a 7.2 mpbs modem so you should see up to 6mpbs down and 1.2 mbps up however as I said in my previous posts once the Bell & Telus network gets loaded it will be much slower.

Remember, bell and telus are sharing RAN, that means that the radio resources are also shared.

Rogers does not share RAN with anyone and that's why is hell of a lot faster then Bell and Telus.

Wait until it gets even busier, it is going to be a mess unless more capacity is added, guaranteed.

[clewis4u91]

Rogers does not share RAN with anyone and that's why is hell of a lot faster then Bell and Telus.

Wait until it gets even busier, it is going to be a mess unless more capacity is added, guaranteed.

If anyone thinks that the Rogers network is faster, overall, than Bell HSPA, they are horribly mistaken....

And BTW, the iPhone 3GS hardware is restricted to 384Kbps upload (not 1.2Mbps).

[ings]

Just did some speed testings, I am getting 700k down 200k up, is this normal speed on Bell?

On an iPhone 3GS I get between 1 and 7 Mbps, depending on my physical location and time of day.

A previous poster suggested tethering and using speedtest.net. No need to tether to test, there is a speedtest.net app in the app store. My tethered speeds are similar to untethered.

I have read that HSPA+ is nominally 20ish Mbps, but (a) that's nominal, I once heard an Intel Fellow state that all nominal wireless ratings should be divided by 2 in the real world, and (b) as a previous poster mentioned it is shared cell tower bandwidth.

[mitsubishiman]

clewis4u91,

if you are sharing ran, node b capacity is shared as well,

so yes, capacity will erode and access, speed will be affected.

bell and telus are selling a half *** network in my view since no carrier has control of their resources, cheaper to build but a pain down the road

I believe you are right about 3gs, it does not have e-eul.

[ings]

On an iPhone 3GS I get between 1 and 7 Mbps, depending on my physical location and time of day.

It probably would have been more helpful to say that my typical download speeds are between 2 and 4.

[taichanie]

my speedtests on an iphone 3g normally leave me in the 2-3m and around 300k up

rogers never saw over 1 and my ping is much better 300 or lower vs 500 or higher

i have been to some areas where my ping was much higher but i was nearing the swap between powers on the 401

[Sharky2006]

I get between 1.5 and 5 down and about 0.3 to 0.4 up, on my 3GS.

[Doju]

I get around 2MBps as a minimum and up to high 5s as a maximum on my 3GS.

[Zeekme]

Can anybody post speeds taken from downtown toronto. Close to king and bay. I am thinking of switching. Rogers is unusable here.