Can these tethering speeds be correct?

[bondosho]

Originally Posted by chuckton

TMobile sim in Sprint TP2? If that's the case as it appears, you max out at edge speeds. My guess is you were inadvertently piggybacking or misread or misinterpreted the speed.

The TP2 will work on any carrier basically. When I was in the UK, my Sprint TP2 hooked up fine with Orange (with an Orange SIM).

Just to be safe, don't stand between your phone and the tower...you might end up with a tumor the shape of a TP2.

[skuddy]

EV-DO Rev. B is a multi-carrier evolution of the Rev. A specification. It maintains the capabilities of EV-DO Rev. A, and provides the following enhancements:

• Higher rates per carrier (up to 4.9 Mbit/s on the downlink per carrier). Typical deployments are expected to include 2 or 3 carriers for a peak rate of 14.7 Mbit/s. Higher rates by bundling multiple channels together enhance the user experience and enables new services such as high definition video streaming.
• Reduced latency by using statistical multiplexing across channels -enhances the experience for latency sensitive services such as gaming, video telephony, remote console sessions and web browsing.
• Increased talk-time and standby time
• Reduced interference from the adjacent sectors especially to users at the edge of the cell signal which improves the rates that can be offered by using Hybrid frequency re-use.
• Efficient support for services that have asymmetric download and upload requirements (i.e. different data rates required in each direction) such as file transfers, web browsing, and broadband multimedia content delivery.

source: wikipedia

im wondering if they made the upgrade like us cellular supposedly did. esp downtown.

if not were you magically connected to wifi?

[eric12341]

if 4G exists now then I'm pretty sure Ev.B is now the standard.

[mplsfalls1973]

Just to clarify, I was hooked up the the Wi-Fi sharing account only. There are other WAP's in my building but they are all encrypted with WPA-2 which last I checked would not allow itself to be hacked without any input on my part.

On Saturday evening after the air show was finished my speeds went down to a modest 1.5mbps. I tried again today while most of the residents in this area are at work and again was getting speeds in the 4-6mbps range. When I checked my usage from Sprints website it showed the data I had used.

I know that theoretically EVDO rev.a it is not possible to achieve these speeds, so I acknowledge the posting of the Wikipedia user but these are in fact the speeds my TP2 was transmitting to my laptop through a wireless tether connection. I currently do not have a SIM card in the phone, so it was not using a HSPA connection via T-Mobile or At@t, besides with all the iPhone users I doubt I could get even close to 1mbps in this location. I also do not know if the TP2 would even be capable of recieving TIA-856 rev.b signals.

[slimjimany]

wow... i think your phone is defective... its too fast... you should return it to the nearest sprint store... jeje..

[1900]

While running wifi router

Bring up the dial tab
Go into ##debug#
go to the hdr tab
What is the requested data rate?

Mine fluctuates between 300k and 1320k. Maybe yours will show way higher!

keep in mind if you were downloading a compressed ZIP file (there are also a few others), the computer will show an improper transfer rate. it usually decompresses on the fly and then gives the "total" data rate if you will.

internet exploder is notorious for these false readings.

the TP2 could not do HSPDA or EV-DO rev.b no matter how much you sit and stare at it. the radio just doesn't support those specs (nor can it without changing the broadcom chipset inside), which is quite impossible.