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Originally Posted by haydad07
1. No change
2. 670+ using mobile test/1-1.4 using phone as a modem
4. St. Louis MO
5. Yes
Could someone explain why using Phone as a Modem allows me to get double the speeds I get when running a test via IE on my phone?
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1. The mobile speed test sends a huge page and measures how long it takes to load. The problem is that IE has to allocate enough memory for the page.
e.g. 600k of memory for the 600k test, and 1 MB of memory for the 1 MB test... etc.
This is something that our PPCs are not very efficient at.
2. Speed tests for computers are usually optimized flash or java applets that are designed for fast downloads speeds. They often create more than one connection to the server to increase throughput.
Because the mobile speed test's data is stored within the HTML source itself, pocket IE cannot open another connection to the server to speed up loading.