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[sumo911]

Im in CT...getting roughly 3MB DL and 1.5 UL tethered to a Win7 tablet since the HSPA+ rollout in my area! I am living it up in the boonies! And loving my lovely Leo!

[gokuman56]

Originally Posted by wmphoto

Yeah, so I travel a lot for my job and I've been doing the www.mobilespeedtest.com thing on my hd2 and I've found an interisting thing. When I test with Opera I get at the fastest so far anywhere, around 2megs download... Now when I us explorer I've gotten 22megs download at it's fastest? Tested at the exact same location and within a few seconds of each other? So wtf is up? anyone?

Opera Mini has servers that compress the page and send it back to you, to do that, you will need fast servers, so that is the speed of the opera server, not your phone, try it on internet explorer and see your speed

[JQuill]

I now get full bars with HSDPA almost everywhere in my home town as well as where I work and in the city. HSPA+ hasn't even launched for me yet so I can only image it getting better. T-Mobile is king.

[Blades]

I just got tmobile today.. big let down..

[Blades]

I just retested after I posted that.. 1 megabit download.. roughly half of what I got with verizon.. and a whopping .12Mb/s upload. I could fart the data in morse code faster than that.

[Blades]

And another update.. I switched radios.. Same shit speeds. Evenw with 20 connections to hotfile (I have an account). NNTP seems to be the quickest, occassionaly going over 1.1 to 1.2 Mb/sec as if it were breaking the law. I swear theres some unreasonable speed cap around here..

Its 4AM too. Seeing as I'm such an optimist, I wanted to try it when the network wasn't possibly flooded. I'm going to try the sim in a different leo.. Thats right. I have two of them

[JQuill]

Originally Posted by Blades

And another update.. I switched radios.. Same shit speeds. Evenw with 20 connections to hotfile (I have an account). NNTP seems to be the quickest, occassionaly going over 1.1 to 1.2 Mb/sec as if it were breaking the law. I swear theres some unreasonable speed cap around here..

Its 4AM too. Seeing as I'm such an optimist, I wanted to try it when the network wasn't possibly flooded. I'm going to try the sim in a different leo.. Thats right. I have two of them

I'd honestly stop testing lol. It sounds like T-Mobile isn't the greatest in your area. And that's what it's all about, finding out who has the best service in your area.

Even for me, some areas around here are dead zones. Foruntetally for me T-Mobile is great in general, but I live in the Boston area, not far from the water at all. And the closer I get to the beaches south of Boston I slowly start to loose HSDPA (in the city is always perfect, even in the harbor), and by the time I get to the beach I have shit data service. Voice I almost never loose, rarely I'll loose signal for a couple seconds while I'm on the beach or out on the boat a little offshore, but even then I can usually get voice service (and then I have a sat phone / TV and CB radio on my boat so I wont be stranded lol)

If you're getting speeds that slow I doubt you'll see much improvement in your area for about a year unfortunately. (oh and if you're not using google chrome then you need to re-test. Firefox and everything else is about half the speed if not worse, when compared to chrome)

[Blades]

I tested using 30 nntp connections, downloading 300mb! And I have 4 bars with the H in my taskbar. HSPA+ is said to be coming to my area in a few weeks.

[JQuill]

Originally Posted by Blades

I tested using 30 nntp connections, downloading 300mb! And I have 4 bars with the H in my taskbar. HSPA+ is said to be coming to my area in a few weeks.

So overnight it just changed from completely horrible to amazing and HSPA+ isnt in your area yet?

[mgioia2]

So either this speakeasy 'net connection test site is crazy or Uzard does something goofy that lets speed tests show ridiculous numbers...