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Beezzy

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Use the Speed Test app from the Android market, works much faster than the web version

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Beezzy

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Next time, turn off the GPS, I got faster speeds when I turned it off. I was getting 3.4 before and 4.1 after.
 

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Salem, OR:

3G: 2194/858
4G: 1673/993

I don't even bother using it. I mean, even if it was faster or if I could actually get good enough reception to use it reliably, I want more than 6 hours of battery life.
 

dekcufi

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i find the reading to be considerably different when using speed test / cnet bandwidth meter. i might try a few other places now for comparison
 

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I've found the variation from test to test, and site to site, to be incredibly variable. To get any meaningful results is going to require averaging a bunch of tests. And any test is location dependent, so ideally you'd want to repeat them from multiple locations.

Anyway, here are 10 tests each for 3G and 4G, using 2 different test services. I've got full bars on the 3G signal, and only 1 on 4G. Hopefully 4G will get faster as the signal gets stronger. All tests were from the same location, within a span of about 30 minutes.

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	mobile.speedtest	        	speedtest.net Android app			
Test #	[COLOR="Blue"]3G down[/COLOR]		[COLOR="Red"]4G down[/COLOR]		[COLOR="Blue"]3G down[/COLOR]	3G up		[COLOR="Red"]4G down[/COLOR]	4G up
1	928		816		766	737		1408	1041
2	722		1489		1372	674		2400	918
3	688		1381		1312	674		2051	1011
4	543		1283		652	537		1362	1035
5	1012		1282		783	643		1401	797
6	793		1275		739	697		787	855
7	1299		1276		908	637		2111	804
8	1168		1452		1116	697		1740	960
9	1451		1418		937	692		1489	850
10	1396		1404		841	715		2237	874
Sum	10000		13076		9426	6703		16986	9145
									
Avg	[COLOR="Blue"]1000		[/COLOR][COLOR="Red"]1307.6	[/COLOR]	[COLOR="Blue"]942.6[/COLOR]	670.3		[COLOR="Red"]1698.6[/COLOR]	914.5

So on the mobile.speedtest site, 4G was, on average 31% faster. On the speedtest.net app, it was 80% faster. How representative is this? No idea.

Oh, I read somewhere that speeds are slower if you have the GPS radio turned on, which I did. I also had BT turned on. Maybe next week I'll try again with only the 3G and 4G radios on.
 
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