AT&T's 3G Network Struggling to Keep Up?

how can i test my speed?

how can i test my speed?

uh, google "iphone speed test" from your iphone.

yes, it's not as impressive as they made it out to be. oh well; who expected to be blown away? honestly...

Ive worked with Telco's that also provide the toy called IP.

They generally suck at it, and somewhere, in some conference room, is some product manager with a stack of slides that determined exactly how many bits & bytes each user would consume per billing period based on some crappy survey done by someone like Boston Consulting Group (example only because ive had to explain to them NUMEROUS times things like the difference between IP peering and transport) who polled god knows who from some mailing list without asking if they even used a phone like an iphone..and golly, these users are not averaging out their alloted bits & bytes evenly across all 2,678,400 seconds in a billing period!

So therefore AT&T wont change anything, because the consultants data makes sense, and the PM's plan to offer every iphone user 10Kbps over every second of the day is accurate.


Anyone else bitter about working in phone companies in here?


:p

I'd say this makes sense. I picked up my iPhone today and wasn't super impressed with the 3g speed (still faster than edge). And my guess is all the iPhone users in Boston right now are going nuts. Hopefully it won't be this bad when I move to Florida at the end of the month.

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http://forums.macrumors.com/showthre...517057&page=11

post 271

July 11, 9:55am:

The internet, and large company server farms, are not ready for large scale international software centric rollouts yet.

All I can say is thank goodness Apple highly crippled initial product supplies to insanely small unit numbers per location, or it would actually be worse.

Anybody want to guess how long it will take to reach product sales "equilibrium"?

I say 2-3 weeks.

July 25 to August 1 was the prediction.

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http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?p=5434953#post5434953

Message #7 May 13, 2008 (came true)

I agree. I hope ATT is sourcing UNIX boxes for nodes from Apple!

Blackberry is an ATT friendly thing as well, but they have back end services to compliment the palmtop and network front end.

Oh, wait, Apple owns the former Worldcom telco center. THEY could offer Blackberry (crackberry) like back end services too.


Rocketman

cite:
http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2006/02/27/apple-buys-california-data-center/

Ya, so far, 3G speeds have been worse for me than EDGE was on the old iPhone.

Ya, so far, 3G speeds have been worse for me than EDGE was on the old iPhone.

same here, iphone 3G = 50kbps, iphone Edge = 178kbps.... plus at the same spot... i get 4-5 bars on edge, when i switch to 3G on the same spot, signal drops down to 1 bar.

Something is fishy

This is total Bull, When i turn off 3G i get a great signal and am able to make calls, with 3G on I cant make a call and have no signal I am standing in the same spot while doing this.

while in the same spot with my GF's 3G phone she gets full signal. So what does this tell us.


ITS NOT AT&T, IT'S APPLE. This iPhone 3G is not so 3G.

The post says as low as 200Kpbs? Try much lower, like around 50 and sometimes less.

Full 3G bars and I get 50

I'm glad AT&T is charging us an extra $10 a month for the opportunity.

This is total Bull, When i turn off 3G i get a great signal and am able to make calls, with 3G on I cant make a call and have no signal I am standing in the same spot while doing this.

while in the same spot with my GF's 3G phone she gets full signal. So what does this tell us.


ITS NOT AT&T, IT'S APPLE. This iPhone 3G is not so 3G.

It tells us you don't have any 3G signal