Real World GPRS speeds, is this the usual?
Hi all,
So today my broadband went out (Thanks Adelphia!) So I thought it would be a good time to finally hook my Nokia 3650 up to my PC thru bluetooth and use it as a modem. I've done it before, but never for more than kicks. Today I wanted to see how hard I could push it. So I started an FTP download and a bittorrent download, and watched the graph that sygate personal firewall gives you. I watched it for about a half hour, and I'd say I was averaging about 4.2KBps and getting the occasional spike to 5KBps. doing the conversions, that puts me at an average of 33.6Kbps and bursts of 40Kbps.
Now from what I understand, GPRS's theoretical max is 40.2Kbps, so from what data I gathered, I was doing pretty good for the real world. It's sti...
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So today my broadband went out (Thanks Adelphia!) So I thought it would be a good time to finally hook my Nokia 3650 up to my PC thru bluetooth and use it as a modem. I've done it before, but never for more than kicks. Today I wanted to see how hard I could push it. So I started an FTP download and a bittorrent download, and watched the graph that sygate personal firewall gives you. I watched it for about a half hour, and I'd say I was averaging about 4.2KBps and getting the occasional spike to 5KBps. doing the conversions, that puts me at an average of 33.6Kbps and bursts of 40Kbps.
Now from what I understand, GPRS's theoretical max is 40.2Kbps, so from what data I gathered, I was doing pretty good for the real world. It's sti...
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I use my V300 as my primary modem so I'm using it all the time. My connection is about that speed too. I'll max out around 5 KBps so that is the right connection speed for T-Mobile Internet. Does your computer say what speed you're connected at? Mine says 115.2 Kb/sec, but that's because of the USB 2.0 connection to my computer.
So it's just like dialup, but it's a tad faster.
So it's just like dialup, but it's a tad faster.
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Yeah, mine says I'm connected at 115.2 Kb/sec as well. Same deal though, I'm using a bluetooth link, through USB (Although I only have USB 1.1)
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here's the REAL world speed results:
location: 8th Ave, 37th Street, Manhattan, NY
equipment: nokia 6820/n-gage + HP H1945 (pda)
test site: http://text.dslreports.com/mspeed
result:
with nokia n-gage (Class 6 GPRS: up to 36k/12k=dl/up)
27-30k
with nokia 6820 (Class 10 GPRS: up to 48k/12k=dl/up)
35-39k
location: 8th Ave, 37th Street, Manhattan, NY
equipment: nokia 6820/n-gage + HP H1945 (pda)
test site: http://text.dslreports.com/mspeed
result:
with nokia n-gage (Class 6 GPRS: up to 36k/12k=dl/up)
27-30k
with nokia 6820 (Class 10 GPRS: up to 48k/12k=dl/up)
35-39k
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