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BTW, I pay $20 a month for service here at work.
Tried it again this morning using speedtest.
First test, Evo with 4G tethered to laptop.
Last edited by Cry Havoc; 07-06-2010 at 09:15 AM.
BTW, I pay $20 a month for service here at work.
I want a 50+ MBPS DL speed. I just give my dad 40 a month for whatever he can get. Wonder how much it would cost to get something like Ginnnooobbbiilliii.
Two people with similar outrageous DL speeds? Is it a Roadrunner thing?
work:
download should be higher in mornings/evenings, everyone is here right now.
lee, how much do you pay?
nothing for my work connect, I don't work at home yet. I have UVerse at home.
garbage...
I think the answer we all want to know is how much free Apple do you get?
Home
Not sure if that speed or living in Lexington is worsegarbage...Kidding.
I feel my speed sucks. I can't imagine what you guys under, or just about 5 MB feel.
Once my 30% discount for my 10Mbps/60GB cap connection is done, I'll have to leave for another ISP that has 5Mbps/Unlimited. Gotta love the compromise.
Just did another one right now, 5 pm CST.
20% off my AT&T phone account, 25% off each product line once per year (laptop, iPod, Desktop - iPhone or iPad not discounted), 15% off for friends and family in "reasonable quan ies" 15% off accessories on online store, and 10% off in Apple Stores, but you gotta show your badge. A lot of third party promo pricing. Pretty damn good overall
Consider me jealous. ing jealous.
if u have friends that work at the isp, get them to credit ur account
does anyone know how to check speed according to 2g...3g....4g and such?
many of you have speeds ranging from 5.00 to 120! how does that convert to G speeds?
Not sure I totally understand the question but a good 2G speed would be less than 1Mb (half or less), a good 3G connection can get about 3Mb, the only 4G speed posted here was about 7Mb, and an average Road Runner connection is about 15 Mb/sec (for the best one).
There is no conversion, they are all the same, just different. Think of it as 1MPH, 3 MPH, 7 MPH, and 15MPH. (Miles Per Hour) All the same kind of speed, but some are faster than others.
Last edited by PM5K; 07-12-2010 at 05:46 PM.
The xG's are just gerational developments for various carrier standards. The data rate depends on other factors, especially how much traffic is on the same tower. Like the freeway. If there are few cars on the road, you can go the speed limit. When you get more traffic, it gets to the point that everyone slows down.
To complicate things farther, I can find 13 2G standards, 11 3g standards, and 2 4G standards.
Rates will vary by carrier and traffic load.
I believe the practical limits of 3G is 14 mbit/sec, and 4G is 100 mbit, this due to allotted frequency bandwidths and data standards.
When you hear someone talk about 2, 3, and 4G, you are hearing them referring to a cellular network (or more specifically, the equipment within that network). The "G" stands for generation. The first batch of cell phones released in the US could push little to no data at all through the signal. 2G (sometimes mistakenly called EDGE) allows for very slow data transmission, but this is all based from a cell phone. 3G came along and was pretty highly trumpeted due to the iPhone 3G -- it's the main system that's still in place in most urban areas of the country.
The connections that most people are listing are hard lines from their homes, i.e., the internet attached to their personal computer through a LAN cable or Wifi router.
The "G" speed is the same thing as any other -- they are typically measured in megabits per second (mbps). But since cell phones are much smaller and are forced to work through the air to transmit data to remote cell phone towers, they have historically been very slow compared to a land line that uses an actual internet wire to send internet data back and forth.
Even though the 7 megs per second that I posted with my Evo is incredibly fast for a phone, it's relatively average in comparison to a home broadband connection. As of now, there is no way to make up for the speed that a hard line provides. This is why 7 mbps for a phone is phenomenal, while even 15 mbps for a home connection is considered unremarkable. But they both measure the same thing, it's just that when you hear someone talk about "Gs", it's referring to a cell phone network.
Oh great, let's see how many different versions of the same answer we get this time.
Since the person asking clearly doesn't know much about the internet or transfer rates, I thought it would be nice to give a somewhat more comprehensive answer. He/She asked what the difference was between "Gs" and the other internet speeds were, so I didn't feel that "14 mbit/sec" is going to give said person much information, since they probably aren't even familiar with the terminology.
Maybe you should start from the very beginning.
If the person doesn't have much knowledge on the subject, sometimes getting a different version of the same answer is a good thing.
When I'm clueless about something, I ask the question until I get an answer I can understand. I'm not clueless about much anymore, but am FAR from an expert. So I continue to ask questions. Sometimes I get answers I don't understand. And sometimes people give the same answer in a different way until I do understand.
No harm in that imo.
none at all
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