I'd love to answer this post but upon first booting my 3G iPad today, I discovered that the only coverage in my home is 2 bars of putrid edge. This is the first at&t device i have owned and according to at&t's map, i should have 3g. I'm not gonna sign up for the 3G until I do some traveling later in the month.
how fast is your 3g
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gentlefury
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I average between 1.5 - 3 Mbps tethering my droid.
On Friday I was MFN (Middle of Freaking Nowhere (love that one DavidNM 
) and I was just getting Edge speed (and thankful for that . I tried the Speedtest X HD app, but it was working too slowly, so I gave up.
Yesterday I was out on a bike path and I was getting 3G. I ran Speedtest again and got 2.13MB, which is faster then I get a home on my cable modem!
) and I was just getting Edge speed (and thankful for that . I tried the Speedtest X HD app, but it was working too slowly, so I gave up.Yesterday I was out on a bike path and I was getting 3G. I ran Speedtest again and got 2.13MB, which is faster then I get a home on my cable modem!
From Orange County, Californai, here are my speeds using Time Warner cable modem in an Airport Extreme Base Station wireless network:
Connection Type: Download: Upload:
WiFi 5801 Kbps. 983 Kbps
AT&T 3G (5 bars). 733 Kbps. 25 Kbps
EDGE (Tmobile MyWi). 79 Kbps. 95 Kbps
Odd that the EDGE connection has faster upload speed than the 3G connection. Either way, I would need to be REALLY in need of an Internet connection and outside an area AT&t serves if I decided to use my MyWi connection on my unlocked/jail broken iPhone.
Connection Type: Download: Upload:
WiFi 5801 Kbps. 983 Kbps
AT&T 3G (5 bars). 733 Kbps. 25 Kbps
EDGE (Tmobile MyWi). 79 Kbps. 95 Kbps
Odd that the EDGE connection has faster upload speed than the 3G connection. Either way, I would need to be REALLY in need of an Internet connection and outside an area AT&t serves if I decided to use my MyWi connection on my unlocked/jail broken iPhone.
Great info! Is tmobile mywi running 3G?
Unfortunately Tmobile has chosen a different radio band for their 3G service, so best the iPhone can do is EDGE.
MyWi is a hack that you can load via Cydia to turn your iPhone into a WiFi hot spot. You'll need to jailbreak your iPhone to install and use it.
Oh ok, my wife has a company BB Bold with Tmobile and it gets 3G service so I wasn't sure if your iPhone did or not. Thanks for the info.
SugarMouth
iPF Noob
3G iPad:
AT&T 3G 609kbps down 52kbps up
WiFi 16547 kbps down 6701kbps up
Nexus One Tether (T-Mobile)
846kbps down 754kbps up
AT&T 3G 609kbps down 52kbps up
WiFi 16547 kbps down 6701kbps up
Nexus One Tether (T-Mobile)
846kbps down 754kbps up
gentlefury
iPF Noob
So I guess I made the right choice since I seem to be getting twice the bandwidth speed tethering my droid.
SugarMouth
iPF Noob
Yep! A Wifi iPad tethered is just fine!
