Sunday, March 25, 2007
Roaming Data Speeds
I am roaming on T-Mobile right now and noticed that the "G" on my screen (for GPRS) had switched to an "E" (for EDGE). So far, I haven't noticed much of a difference in speed, but I will be roaming on T-Mobile for most of the week, so I will continue to check it out and report back.
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Where are you at? EDGE is much faster in most places. I've found EDGE speeds are better on Cingular than T-Mo though, it depends on your phone. I've found that some Motorola phones have crappy EDGE stack implementations, and PDA phones really seem to be the worst...
I've usually found average speeds as follows:
Des Moines: Tmobile: 7-9k Cingular: Not available (won't roam)
Chicago Tmobile: 10-12k Cingular: 10-15k
Dallas Tmobile: 6-9k Cingular 15-20k
Austin Tmobile: 10-15k Cingular: 15-20k
On the way back from Chicago a few weeks ago, I managed to get a steady 15kb/s almost the entire trip -- well, until I was about 40 miles out of the quad cities and was forced back onto i Wireless :)
I don't know where you were roaming at, although given your employer, I would assume it was around the Des Moines area for some sort of training. I too have found EDGE to be significantly faster, specifically on the Chicago area I would consistently get greater than 15kB/sec speeds on my S620, while back in the CR/IC corridor, I never get better than 4kB/sec.
So... should we throw a fork in this blog? Is it done? Its been a month since the last post. How about bringing things back with an update on when EDGE will be available in Cedar Rapids?
He doesn't know anything important...he won't be able to tell us when we are getting EDGE in Cedar Rapids.
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