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Old 03-12-2008, 09:11 AM
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Re: Should I enable REV. A in ##778#?

I find it sorta funny everyone is testing their download speeds to determine if they have rev-a working... that's not going to tell you much of anything.

The only real world noticeable gain from the Rev-a is upload speeds. If you can hit above 150kbit/s upstream (uploading) rev-a is working... You were limited to about 150kbit/s upstream with EVDO (rev0). With rev-a the upstream link is capable of 1.8 Mbit/s (with one person on it). So realistically expect 400-900kbit upload speeds /w other people using it as well in your cell sector.

EVDO (rev0) was capable of downstream (download) burst speeds of 2.45Mbit/s (not that you would ever see that regularly). rev-a changed that from 2.45 Mbit/s to 3.1 Mbit/s on the downstream. So not much of difference there... From what I remember of Sprints EVDO (rev0) launch a lot of the cell sectors we're limited to 1.8Mbit downstream at launch anyway. So using download speeds to gauge if rev-a is working is kinda silly.

I'll await the post after this posting their download speeds yet again to gauge if rev-a is working

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