Guest Brody Posted June 3, 2003 Report Posted June 3, 2003 PPCW.Net has an article on testing the speed of your wireless internet connection. It links to http://www.markab.it/meter/html/Meter_eng.asp which can be viewed on your smartphone to test GPRS yourselves :lol: The red bar is your result and the blue bars are comparison figures :D The following is a screenshot from my PC connection! The best i've had from my SPV is about 106 kbps! :wink: PPCW Article: http://www.ppcw.net/index.php?itemid=1299testspeed.JPG
Guest Simon Desser Posted June 3, 2003 Report Posted June 3, 2003 The best i've had from my SPV is about 106 kbps! :wink: I like things like this, but it just shows what nonsense they are, if it gives readings like 106 kbps on a Smartphone :!: In my experience, readings closer to 20kbps are more realistic :cry: (By the way I got 80kbps when I tried it)
Guest Monolithix [MVP] Posted June 3, 2003 Report Posted June 3, 2003 Seeing as the SPV is the 4 timeslot version of GPRS, i think its fairly unlikely you ~actually~ got 100+ kbit/s. Using http://www.pcpitstop.com/internet/bandwidth.asp i got ~40kbit/s on both the Compal and SPV using Orange GPRS with full signal. You might want to try several tests each on 2 or 3 sites (google bandwidth test) and average them out, most site will give different results each time.
Guest Simon Desser Posted June 3, 2003 Report Posted June 3, 2003 This website seems quite good on the subject of GPRS etc.
Guest DamianJauregui Posted June 3, 2003 Report Posted June 3, 2003 I think that the SPV uses two channels for downloading and one channel for uploading. On the GPRS system each channel is 21.2 kbps. Remeber [i know you all do] that we're talking about bits, not bytes. That means the the SPV should have an upload speed of 21.2 kbps and a download speed of 42.4 kbps. This should relate, with the overhead of http, wtp, whatever protocol is being used, to a couple of kilobytes per second, hence the sluggish speed when you look at a page in the browser. Damian.
Guest Simon Desser Posted June 3, 2003 Report Posted June 3, 2003 I'm afraid I don't really understand it, but I read somewhere that the SPV is "4 + 1 Timeslot Class B" (whatever that means) Also, I believe that Orange have "stifled" the speed of the SPV in the major UK update, which probably means it's running much slower than it's actually capable of :?:
Guest DamianJauregui Posted June 3, 2003 Report Posted June 3, 2003 I didn't think that any European telco has the hardware to provide four down slots for GPRS. :? I know that some of the TETRA [a public services version of GPRS for police, fire, etc.] systems allow for this, but not the telcos GPRS systems. Damian.
Guest Simon Desser Posted June 3, 2003 Report Posted June 3, 2003 According to the website I linked to above, it says:- Class 8 One Up, Four Down 8-12Kbps Send - 32-40Kbps Receive Ericsson T39, R520 Motorola v60i, v66i Samsung Q200, S100 Siemens S45, ME45, M50 Trium Eclipse :?:
Guest Brody Posted June 3, 2003 Report Posted June 3, 2003 I agree with the inaccuracy, thats why i posted it with an exclamation mark! I averaged around thirty something which i think is far more realistic :wink:
Guest Simon Desser Posted June 12, 2003 Report Posted June 12, 2003 I agree with the inaccuracy, thats why i posted it with an exclamation mark! I happened to try it again the other night, there's inaccurate, and then there's total nonsense :shock: I got 160.3 kbps and then 320.6kbps on my Smartphone 8) :!: (I've not done anything in Photoshop etc.!)Internet Meter.gif
Guest morpheus2702 Posted June 12, 2003 Report Posted June 12, 2003 So basically what everyone is saying is this program is unadulterated BOLLOCKS?!? :lol:
Guest Rustyk1 Posted June 12, 2003 Report Posted June 12, 2003 yep, i think that's about right. I reckon it just generates a random number, lol. Rustyk
Guest Brody Posted June 13, 2003 Report Posted June 13, 2003 Its weird as the initial screenshot i took was using my PC (obviously) and the result is not too bad. I have also had some pretty accurate results on my phone but i sometimes get some rather "dodgy" ones too!! :wink:
Guest Monolithix [MVP] Posted June 13, 2003 Report Posted June 13, 2003 It depends on your conn speed and any overheads that you're currently experiencing (downloading a 500 meg file while 20 people are IM'ing you will give considerably different results ;p)
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