The test must be "wacked" because it is reporting (consistantly) that I am getting 401kbit/sec. This would seem to be impossible on a 1xRTT network with a max speed of 144kbs.
Would someone else give this a try and report back?
you will get different connection speeds, thats the nature of the beast. network congestion (bandwidth, etc..) is what effects your speed. opening up a trouble ticket will not change your plan or make much of a difference.
i have the free unlimited vision on my plan also and i have done several modifications to my plan and still have it.
Originally posted by b52hbuff I tried this test over the last couple of days. I get speeds
between 17k-20kbps.
One obvious question ... is this Kbs (kiloBITS per second) or KBs (kiloBYTES per second). Some of the bandwidth tests are unclear about what there are reporting.
From Sunday afternoon to this morning, I was getting a 130 error message when I tried to connect. This morning, things seem to have cleared up. (So, I was getting 0kbs!).
Most test sites use Kilo bytes. Sprint quotes speed as max 144 kilo bits. roughly equal to 56 kilo bytes or standard dial up.
I have tested my G1000 connected to my laptop as amodem at dsl speed reports and have seen 33-40 kilo bytes download.
I have also noticed that when downloading a large file that way I get transfer rates of 9-11 k per second. When I had 56k dial up in my office my transfer rates were never over 4k per second. I am pleased with the performance I get.
Also when using as a modem to my laptop I have noticed I get much faster speeds with the G1000 than I did with my Sanyo 4900.
Dan
It's kbit/sec. So it looks like I'm not getting much more bandwidth
than I got from my old 6035...
So the idea is that Sprint _isn't_ capping certain customers?
...I wonder if there is a difference between 'metropolitan' areas?
I live in the SF Bay area, I wonder if it is a problem of too many
geeks and not enough b/w?
Originally posted by ddwire Most test sites use Kilo bytes. Sprint quotes speed as max 144 kilo bits. roughly equal to 56 kilo bytes or standard dial up.
Standard dialup is 56 kilobits. The 1xRTT network max speed of 144kbs is basically the speed of an IDSL connection or ISDN with the D channel added in. ISDN is 2 B (bearer) channels of 64kbs + 1 D (data) channel of 16kbs. Normal ISDN data channels can bond the to B channels for a single channel of 128kbs ... IDSL adds the D channel to that for a total of 144kbs. The upper bound in kilobytes should be ~18KBs, typical transmission/packet overhead would lower that into the ~16KBs range. (I had an ISDN link for a year and got rather familar with the underlying technology as I struggled to get my ISDN modem connected.)
I have used GSplayer to play some shoutcast streaming audio at 24kbs per second and still had bandwidth to browse the web and download e-mail. (When I boasted of my accomplishment to my wife, she rolled her eyes ... good thing she tolerates my geek moments!)
if you would like legitimate information regarding this speed test just try looking at the thread that was started 2 days before this one that gave a link to the BBR discussion about the speed test instead of following a link that goes directly to the speed test.
Originally posted by dumwaldo if you would like legitimate information regarding this speed test ...
I appologize for starting this thread ... I did not see your thread first.
BTW, I played with streaming audio on my G1000 today. I used GSplayer to play a radio station on my drive home from work. My commute is ~35 minutes covering about 28 miles. (Worthington, Ohio to my house in Harrision township, Licking county.) I only lost audio for a fraction of a second. I have been curious as to the ability to hand off a data call from tower to tower without serious impact and the test seem to prove that the hand offs work without data loss. I was impressed ... of course, it makes the G1000 a very expensive internet AM radio! (The best stream I have been able to get so far is 24kbs mono.)
I think most Sprint Devices are set to use TCP IP Compression by default. That will apear to give you faster than 144K speeds depending on how the test is performed.
Originally posted by kcir I think most Sprint Devices are set to use TCP IP Compression by default.
There are a number of tests that have a "text" test and a "graphics" test. If the graphic were not further compressable, then the two tests should have a significant difference in performance. ... ah ... time for an experiment ...
new connection speed test
illegitimate thread continues ...
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