Telus Touch Pro 2 Data Speeds

[Armani G]

Ok guys everyone get your Telus Touch Pro 2's out and do a mobile speed test!

When I had my Touch Pro1 in my room with 1 bar i was getting 1.4meg
NOW i am getting about 300kbps with my TP2

When I am outside of my house I have full bars and i was getting 2.57 or so outside with TP1
with TP2 I am getting no more than 600kbps..

My TP1 had the Telus V1.04.05V Radio now my data on this new phone is slow and I can't stream music I cuts out way to often.

The area I am in where I was doing my speed tests is Etobicoke... And there is a cell tower 2 blocks away from me....

Oh and my PRL is 08085

So what speeds is everyone eles getting and in what area!
Thanks guys!!

[Armani G]

ya so what no one is having slow data speeds??

[CovKid66]

I have pretty bad reception where I live. I just tried and got anywhere from the 200's to 1169kbit/sec. Average tended to be 500-750 range though. I'll try later today when I'm out and about.

[Armani G]

humm thats ok i guess i just want to get a feel of what other people r getting before i take the phone back and try a different one. just the speeds i was getting on my tp1 was better than what i am getting everywhere. i am right now in at my work in the core of downtown toronto and i have full bars and i am hitting 500kbps when i was hitt over 1.50megs or even 2megs this is strange its like i am only getting evdo rev0 speeds and not revA.

[Rick#2]

Bump. What kind of speeds is everybody seeing on this device, and where are you? I'm in Vancouver and the highest I've seen is about 700kb/s down (usually around 350kb/s, Rev.A my ***) and about 40 to 90 up.

[briggs]

what site are you using to do your speed tests?

[Rick#2]

Tether your phone with ICS/WMWifiRouter/Whatever you tether with and use this website: http://www.dslreports.com/mspeed

It'll probably tell you the 100k test is too small, so just use the 400k or the 1MB test file. I'm not sure where the test server is located but it doesn't really matter; if everyone used the same speed test we could compare notes.

[TheBundo]

Originally Posted by Rick#2

Tether your phone with ICS/WMWifiRouter/Whatever you tether with and use this website: http://www.dslreports.com/mspeed

It'll probably tell you the 100k test is too small, so just use the 400k or the 1MB test file. I'm not sure where the test server is located but it doesn't really matter; if everyone used the same speed test we could compare notes.

Why are you introducing a 2nd connection for the phone to deal with? Shouldn't you just go to that site with the phone browser and do the test?

[Rick#2]

I've always found that tethering through the phone gave better results. I don't really trust the browser or processing power of the phone, but I guess my thoughts are completely unfounded... I figured by tethering you'd just be using the phone's radio as the connection and your PC to process the incoming information, but I don't really have any hard data showing this works better.

Just my experience.

[Armani G]

I never hit 1meg with this phone