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| Good Features, Not Enough Backhaul Bandwidth That's cool and all, but AT&T is in no way prepared to actually offer that kind of bandwidth. As it stands the iPhone 3G can do 3.6MBps, but you won't find anyone getting it. You'd be lucky to find someone getting 1MBps.
AT&T simply doesn't have the bandwidth needed to feed the massive influx of iPhone users. Between oversaturated towers from a wireless perspective, to a lack of sufficient backhaul bandwidth from many of those towers, AT&T is already out of bandwidth for smartphone users.
As such no one is going to be able to get anything close to 7.2MBps out of a new iPhone unless AT&T starts playing tricks and throttling people or something similar. If the network is being fair, the new iPhone won't be any faster than the 3G until AT&T can resolve their bandwidth issues.
Of course iPhone owners in other locations (I hear O2 is doing well) will have different stories. They may actually stand to benefit from a faster iPhone. | | |
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 MikePremium,Mod
join:2000-09-17
Pittsburgh, PA | I just ran a speed test in the middle of Pittsburgh.... 472kbps on 3G.
It's a good night. | |
 en102Canadian, eh?
join:2001-01-26
Valencia, CA | reply to ViRGEdx
On Sprint, I get between 500kbps and 900kbps on EVDO Rev A. (Treo 800w)
On AT&T, I get between 500kbps and 900kbps on HSDPA (HTC Tilt)
Tethered, I got more.
These devices aren't built for handling high volumes of data to begin with. Even on WiFi, I get --
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 NerdtalkerWorking Hard, Or Hardly Working?Premium,MVM
join:2003-02-18
Tucson, AZ | It's anecdotal, for sure, but it's about true.
I routinely get between 1 and 1.2 megabits down on my Touch Pro tethered. It doesn't even seem to be very signal dependent past about 30% of perfect signal, it just sits there. I consider that pretty good for Rev.A around where I am.
Out here, AT&T has been awful, (and I mean, AWFUL) until about a month ago when they decided they were going to upgrade everything. There are mini towers spread all over some parts of the foothills, others for areas where the dips in terrain make it absolutely necessary. I've never seen cellular antennas these small (they're about a foot tall, perhaps 3 inches in width), all over the place. Mounted on street lights, power poles, lonely poles, just about everything more than 10-15 feet in the air.
I'm assuming it's now a lot better around those parts.
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