Apparently, edge is faster then 3G compared to my old iPhone 3G. When I put them side by side and loaded a page on the Nexus with Edge, and iPhone with 3G, the Nexus loaded significantly faster.
Does it have a better modem? Does the CPU and RAM have something to do with it?
If you're comparing to an iPhone 3G, and not a 3GS, the Nexus One is able to render pages faster, under equal network conditions.
Though - with 3G performing to reasonable levels, the iPhone 3G should at least be putting out comparable if not better page loads than the Nexus One on EDGE.
Having said this, AT&T 3G is overloaded in some areas, and can sometimes be even slower than EDGE in data speeds...
So what's the conclusion here?
- AT&T EDGE is very solid, and varies less in data speeds while 3G can be spotty with slow speeds (though this is very dependent on your area)
- The Nexus One has the CPU power to render pages faster
All that said, I'm not too surprised of your observation. To get some more data, perhaps you should install the speedtest.net app on both phones, and see how you do on each? This will show relative data speed rates, and reveal whether 3G is actually congested in your area.
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I've seen alot of posts about people doing this. Why would you want to slow down your speed?
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Switching that only slows down internet transmission speed, so if you weren't using your data, or had no immediate plans to you could switch to EDGE- there's a significant difference in battery drain while using 3G
O ok. That makes sense. Think I'll look into that for when I'm at work. Thanks
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Some of us don't have 3G available anywhere near us lol
I keep mine on EDGE because there is a 3G tower just close enough to my house that my phone wants to switch to it constantly. I get about 0-2 bars off that tower but the non-3G tower 2 miles from my house gives me 5 bars. Battery life is nice, too.
Because some people get crappy 3g service but good 2g or edge and the captivate always uses the 3g when available so it can slow your phones internet down
I have cognition rom and instead of having 3g I have this H internet. It sits on 3g for a milla second then switches to H. My buddy with iphone four is getting way higher speed tests than me, why can't I get 3g and get better speeds?
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Since this has only been answered 100 times in the past three weeks...
http://lmgtfy.com/?q=H+instead+of+3g+XDA
AND as far as the better speeds for the Iphone go......you can Google that as well............ I'm guessing your on At&T?
I don't know why but my buddies 3g was consistently hitting 300-350 kbs. The max I was hitting was like 150. We were right next to each other when we were testing this, I guess that the iphone blows the captivate away in 3g reception and speed. Also in the spotty areas he was keeping his 3g and I was dropping down to edge. Kinda disappointed . Had anyone else noticed that the 3g reception isn't that good our is it just my area?
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I have cognition rom and instead of having 3g I have this H internet. It sits on 3g for a milla second then switches to H. My buddy with iphone four is getting way higher speed tests than me, why can't I get 3g and get better speeds?
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this is why i hate american cell providers, they want you to remain ignorant. it's not your fault but it is funny that people arent familiar with grps, edge, hspa, and hspa+ it is like they are telling you that you are too stupid to understand so you dont need to know.
the cdma providers are the worst. but att should be proud of having hspa, but i think they want to hide the fact that it is not available in all 3g areas. instead they advertise the hspa speeds as there 3g speeds as hspa works on there 3g network. they dont distinguish the two so you think there network is so much faster in so many places
meanwhile verizon advertises the hspa coverage for att as 3g coverage to make att's coverage look smaller. they say they have so much more coverage, if they showed a current 3g map for att instead of the hspa coverage you would not see a big difference at all. also cdma 3g is totally different from what att has and is not a fair comparison in the first place. how can you compare coverage if the speed is not comparable?
Comparing phones side by side with speed test is also not the best way to test which device is faster, especially if they are on the same network. I am annoyed by the input on this device or Id go in depth. Use some google-foo and read on cell phone signaling and theory and youll see what I mean.
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I live in Southeast Missouri and it seems that when I'm at work (full bars of H signal) I get horrible data speed. My phone won't even load the Xda app. I've been through about 3 different modems and still get the same result. Is there anything I can do or is Att just f###ing us Android users again?
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The Bars indicate the signal strength and not necessarily the quality of your data connection. It is possible to have a good signal but still have slow speeds / poor data quality. It's like that where I work too. I've go good bars but the speed is slow. My coworker called ATT about it and they said they were in the process of getting new towers installed, or upgrade the old ones or something like that, in our area in order to increase the speeds available in the area. ATT told us that they do not throttle speeds but that it was an issue with the quality of the data connection in our area due to the towers in the area and how many people were using them versus the amount of bandwidth the available towers were capable of providing. I hope that gives you a better idea of what is probably going on for you.
So I just bought a galaxy skyrocket for my wife. I'm in an LTE area. It is TEN TIMES FASTER on the skyrocket than the Note. Literally 10x. Used SpeedTest. Averaged 12800 download and 12200 upload. That's faster than my wifi. My note gets 1380 download and 380 upload. Horrendous!
I couldn't believe it. Now I realise why LTE is so good. Of course there aren't many people using LTE yet in NYC but still. That's unreal.
I have continued to test the Note v the Skyrocket and I think its not just LTE. I switched the sim but the lte sim didn't work on the note. However the note sim worked in the skyrocket and it still showed 2-3 x the note speed in a non LTE location. I cant get more than 1800 download when the skytocket shows 7000 in the same location same network. I tried the apn setting from the skyrocket but it doesn't work on the note. On wifi the skyroxket also showed double or more speed. Its very odd.
Anyone got any ideas?
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SpeedTest. Averaged 12800 download and 12200 upload. That's father than my wifi. My note gets 1380 download and 380 upload. Horrendous!
I couldn't believe it. Now I realise why LTE is so good. Of course there aren't many people using LTE yet in NYC but still.
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I am not going to say LTE is slower than HSPA+, because it should not be.
BUT, what I can tell you is HSPA+ can be really fast, and it usually never is a matter of the cellphone, but the network.
My Note, in a random speedtest I did yesterday:
That's pretty much 9Mbps down and 3Mbps.
That reduces a lot the diference to what you can get with LTE.
I would choose for improving a lot HSPA+ networks before starting with LTE...
By the way, during busiest hours of the day I can always get 5-6Mbps down and 2-3Mbps up.
At night, it is easy to see 11+Mbps
My network is Vodafone Spain, which here it is HSPA+ 14.4Mbps. And the tests I make are in Valencia, Spain.
I used to have the T-Mobile Galaxy S2 same hardware as the ATT skyrocket just no LTE.
I use to pull down 16-18Mbps on their 4G network, super fast almost matching my home cable internet.
Unfortunately the Note doesn't support T-Mobile's 4G so I had to switch to AT&T, now on average I get about 1.5-3Mbps, and most I've seen is peak to 7Mbps.
On T-Mobile I paid $20 a month for 5GB of data, now I'm paying AT&T $25 a month for 2GB! Too bad T-Mobile wasn't able to run my note on full data speeds or else I'd never switch.
wierdly side by side with the skyrocket in a Non LTE area the skyrocket still gets double the speed on H. On wifi it does the same.
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wierdly side by side with the skyrocket in a Non LTE area the skyrocket still gets double the speed on H. On wifi it does the same.
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Speed on a smartphone literally means squat. Those super fast speeds on the ****rocket are almost never utilized because of its crappy Snapdragon chipset.
The speed advantage that LTE phones have is almost never seen when browsing or anything because the Snapdragon is a piece of trash chipset. It's laggy, unreliable, but its the only chipset that works on LTE phones.
Thats why Im NEVER buying an LTE ****phone till they find a SoC that can outperform the 1.4ghz Exynos and put it in an LTE phone.That won't happen for a long long time. 12 months min.
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@ eker - it must be your APN - i get about 3-3.5k down and 1.2k up
but I also get a MUCH better reception than my inspire 4g (in same spots that inspire barely got any reception, I get 2-3+ bars, and the whole thing just seems faster. I used standard APN settings - same as I used on my Inspire.
I'm in Boston area - and we got this retard heaven - Brookline, where they banned cell tower - so I used to not get any reception in many spots - now I do, and it's somewhat faster (internet speed that is) - in youtube for example
That's a lot of anger. Its just a phone... anyway in side by side tests with the note, loading web pages running maps or Google earth... actually every app, the phone speed is about the same. Have you actually tied the skyrocket????
I am happy with the note but trying to figure out why, in non LTE and side by side in wifi, the skyrocket is still significantly faster than the note. It feels a generation faster which is weird.
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Speed on a smartphone literally means squat. Those super fast speeds on the ****rocket are almost never utilized because of its crappy Snapdragon chipset.
The speed advantage that LTE phones have is almost never seen when browsing or anything because the Snapdragon is a piece of trash chipset. It's laggy, unreliable, but its the only chipset that works on LTE phones.
Thats why Im NEVER buying an LTE ****phone till they find a SoC that can outperform the 1.4ghz Exynos and put it in an LTE phone.That won't happen for a long long time. 12 months min.
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Slow speeds?
On at&t. I know they have a huge r&d operation in Israel but not Dubai
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Just posting a quick result of a speed test on the might mix 256gb version. Vs the iPhone 6s+. Same network was used both in 4g and WiFi test on both devices, and the same Sim card as well.
The iPhone and mi mix performed equally good on WiFi. Both connected instantly. The Mix was a bit faster at loading uncached webpages.
On 4g it was a different story however. The Mix took on average about 30 seconds to connect to 4g (seems it favors H and H+) where as the iPhone almost had a 4g signal before I popped in the sum tray. There was also a noticeable speed difference of about 30% in favor of the iPhone, hitting a whopping 140-160mbps. The mix topped out at 90, but generally stayed at 70-80.
I live In a country with one of the strongest 4g connections in the world. It seems the iPhone is able to connect to 4g+ but the Mix isnt. What a shame. What are your network findings?
And the results from the iPhone 6s+ on the same network with the same Sim card
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And the results from the iPhone 6s+ on the same network with the same Sim card
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something odd
yes, the U.S (country that I live in) does not have the fastest LTE but even then no country has 140MBps (this is like the router speeds being touted for all kinds of MBps while the pipe into the home is nowhere near as fast; also depends on receiver h/w, if transferring files between computers versus communicating with outside world (internet))
maybe some aggregation going on?
I can see though the I6+/I6 connecting much faster as they have a much bigger band coverage and so tapping into whatever is available and connecting much faster .. that is true
(disclosure: do not own either of these devices..just trying to learn)
http://bgr.com/2016/02/04/lte-speed-test-comparison-global-2016/
https://opensignal.com/reports/2016/02/usa/state-of-the-mobile-network/
https://www.verizonwireless.com/arc...plans/4g-lte-speeds-compared-to-home-network/
http://www.apple.com/iphone/LTE/#iphone-6s-iphone-6s-plus
http://superuser.com/questions/235784/router-speed-vs-isp-speed
http://www.radio-electronics.com/in...-lte-advanced-carrier-channel-aggregation.php
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_devices_with_LTE_Advanced
This is on my 150/150 line. Router being a Netgear 6250.