Mobile speed test: how fast is your mobile network?
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The Guardian have done a test and results are in...
Download rates on Three averaged 2.73 Mbps, and Vodafone was in second place at 2.72 Mbps. O2 came in almost bang on average, at 2.64 Mbps. Orange and T-Mobile, which have been merged and now share a network, brought up the rear, reporting a combined average of 2.59 Mbps.
So all those O2 bashers out there... It seems O2 is slightly better than nothing nowhere
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2012/nov/19/mobile-phone-connection-speed-survey
Download rates on Three averaged 2.73 Mbps, and Vodafone was in second place at 2.72 Mbps. O2 came in almost bang on average, at 2.64 Mbps. Orange and T-Mobile, which have been merged and now share a network, brought up the rear, reporting a combined average of 2.59 Mbps.
So all those O2 bashers out there... It seems O2 is slightly better than nothing nowhere
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2012/nov/19/mobile-phone-connection-speed-survey
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Hypocrite.
https://www.dropbox.com/s/1rkl4ng4v56j1u8/2012-11-19%2017.52.06.png
picture recently on EE 4G
The problem with this sort of test is that it's grossly unscientific. You're not comparing the networks like for like.
To do an accurate comparison, you need to test each network in the exact same location using the exact same hardware.
It's not really a fair test to compare results from a phone that can hit speeds of ~20mbps with one that can only manage ~5mbps. It drags down the results.
One sign is you notice how quick the download test finishes.
I'm guessing they were stood right under the mast to get that speed on O2?
Why pay EE prices?:)
The result was that 3 provided the best overall performance including in building, the best SMS speed to delivery and the best overall data speeds. No wonder over a million people switched this year.
Change your APN username to bypass. That should get you round the proxy issue.. It will screw up tethering etc so use at your own risk!
Dont think that works on giffgaff or other mvno's
O2 is slower but on a good day I can get around 4mbps at home.
about 1mb indoors with vodafone but tbh indoors i'm usually on wifi.
Using a standard 3 ZTE112 dongle plugged into a TP-Link 3G router sat on my window ledge..
www.speedtest.net is popular. There is a Speedtest app available for iPhone and Android.
Yeah it's a feature phone, rather than a smartphone really with it's own OS. I don't think you'll get much in the way of speed test aps etc.
Down: 3.51 Mbps
Up: 2.23 Mbps
Ping: 73 ms
Test done on an iPhone 4 with 3/5 bars so only 7.2 Mbps max.
http://www.speedtest.net/iphone/373578018.png
This isn't a one off. Gives same results all the time.
The tester they use on this is crap. Where i'd see 15mb+ on any speediest.net server the guardian page only shows 2-4mb. it just doesn't test for long enough!
I did a test this morning on EE LTE. Speedtest.net app registered 39mbps.. this silly test only could manage 5!!
Also NONE of my tests have shown up on the map! it also thinks a 3G iPad is a desktop....