My employer was kind enough to give me an iPhone — unfortunately with the condition that I do something resembling work with it. Part of that involves writing down my experiences with the iPhone, so expect more posts along these lines.
There were reports that AT&T upgraded its EDGE network ahead of the iPhone’s release, though their work was only to ensure a higher minimum speed — 80 kb/s up from 40 kb/s. More interestingly is that people already using EDGE devices noticed the network’s average speed improved as well. EDGE has a theoretical max of 200 kb/s, and AT&T has stated that people should expect around 130 kb/s. It’d be useful to know just how slow EDGE in Boston really is.
Here are my results so far, using the mobile speed test from dslreports.com.
- Quincy Center (~150 kbit/s with 5 bars of signal strength)
kbit/s latency (s) total (s) size 153 1.057 6.12 100k 163 0.894 5.797 100k 144 0.975 12.068 200k 149 0.976 11.669 200k 129 1.033 38.024 600k 151 1.038 32.641 600k failed 1MB failed 1MB 152 1.277 54.793 1MB 143 1.032 58.099 1MB
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