I said US cell providers - nobody's talking about phones as plenty of 3.6Mb-capable handsets out there including my TyTn. When I wrote deploy I meant network devices, equipment- that's missing, not the phones.
Sry for ressurecting an old thread, but I'm waiting on HSDPA to get deployed in my area since i'd drop my evdo connection in a heartbeat IF its faster since I can get a 3rd party ATT employee data plan for half the price of my evdo connection. According to my AT&T rep, the Albany, NY area will be one of the first areas to deploy HSDPA under the 850MHz band, not 1900MHz... Im a little concerned about how that will effect performance if any.
The thing that gives AT&T a big advantage thereticly is that they own most the T1's and T3s going to cell sites, so you would assume they could max out HSDPA to its full potential, unlike sprints EVDO which in many areas has a max DL speed of about 1280kb/s because of just a single T1 on that tower being dedicated for Data. When they get WiMAX though, I'd assume they'd buy a T3 for each cell site. . .but im just guessing there...but it would make sense...
Also, someone mentioned a new version of EDGE? The new speed seems nice...but hows the latency? If its still 1-2 second latency, that extra speed isnt going to be a huge improvement...
Are you guys getting steady latencies? or does it vary for you just as much as your connect speeds...?
AT&T Sim in my Dell Precision with an HSPA 7.2 card. . . . And my Comcast. . .
The test in post #259 was done using Sprint. Until HSUPA is deployed, AT&T can't get past the 384kbps barrier on the upload (which in real life is more like a 300kbps barrier). Sprint calls it "Connectile Dysfunction"
aye, its also my sig, I wasnt trying to compare. Im just curious because on paper everywhere I see wcdma is supposed to have latency in the 50-150ms range, opposed to evdo with 150-250ms. A 300kbps upload is plenty fine for me, as long as its stable, I just want to start seeing those higher downloads :P
From Phoenix, using Los Angeles SpeakEasy test
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Download Speed: 1424 kbps (178KB/sec transfer rate)
Upload Speed: 346 kbps (43.3 KB/sec transfer rate)
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