Reduced Data Speed When Mobile Hotspot Tethering

**daThomas#AC** · 07-18-2011, 02:14 PM

How much reduction in data transfer speed should I see on my tethered laptop through Mobile Hotspot versus data speed on the phone?

For example: I do a speedtest on the phone and get 5 megs down, tether to my laptop and do a speedtest on it and the speed is one tenth. Is tethering throttled?

**Dolomite** · 07-19-2011, 01:06 PM

According to a Verizon rep, tethering is 3G. They denied throttling as well. Having said that, it was a Verizon rep.

**MaxBuck2** · 07-19-2011, 06:05 PM

Not sure what's up for you fellows. I'm tethering and reaching about 12 Mbps down and 7.5 up. That's faster than I see for the phone itself. Clearly the tether is not 3G for me.

**icemanhcj** · 07-20-2011, 06:54 PM

Haven't tried speed test but my laptop loads pages at a satisfactory speed and i only have 3g service.

**daThomas#AC** · 07-22-2011, 10:13 PM

Ok, my original post was from my work location which is a bit more suburbia than my home location. Tested from home and get the following:

First, testing phone data throughput on phone alone:
6 megs down, 3 megs up with speedtest app
13+ down 5+ up with Speakeasy browser speedtest

On laptop with Mobile hotspot
4.9 megs down 4.5 megs up with speedtest.net web page
21 megs down

, 6 megs up with Speakeasy browser speedtest

So I don't really know how to get a consistent measure of the data throughput of the mobile hotspot.