Re: GPRS NextG/3G mobile data Q

Ahh good to hear.
I have always had good reliable results with http://www.ozspeedtest.com/ as
usually you can chose the ISP you are connected with, so you aren't speed
testing the internet or your ISPs interconnects.


On Sat, Feb 14, 2009 at 12:08 AM, Voytek Eymont <[email protected]> wrote:

>
> On Tue, February 10, 2009 11:16 pm, Morgan Storey wrote:
> > Nope EDGE is actually 2.5g like running multiple GPRS connections about
> > 144kbps max iirc. The 3g is WCDMA/UMTS at probably 2100mhz. But those
> > speeds are about right for 3g. NextG is pretty wide spread, next G is
> sort
> > of 3.5g with a bit of Telstra proprietry sauce, (Note I am not a fan of
> > telstra but NextG is pretty good). Check that your phone can do 850mhz
> > HSDPA, if not then you won't get HSDPA
> > on telstra, only the fallback 3g.
>
> Morgan,
>
> I think I have it largely worked out:
>
> Motorola phone brings up 'GPRS data' when something links to it via
> bluetooth, rather than, USB cable (that brings 'USB link' in same LCD
> space.
>
> so, that 'gprs' screen label appears purely an indication of terminal
> connection to the phone; not an indication of net link (as I thought)
>
> '3g' icon lights up to indicate network availability, 'h' only lights up
> during data transfer, once traffic stops, 'h' reverts to '3g'
>
> the dslreports/mspeed, not sure how reliable it really is, today, it told
> me 5k test file was too small, tried 200k, it told me 200 was 'too small'
> tried 400k, gave lousy results
>
> I did some gmaps lookup from Palm, '3g' icon altered to 'h' during data
> transfer.
>
> so all's well
>
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