OK so XT is seriously quick.

Bought a prepay XT simcard to test the water before I jumped... latency, bandwidth, coverage... All markedly better than Vodafone. Didn't think the difference would be so pronounced!

*tallyhooooooo

that just seems standard internet speed?
or are the levels much lower for wireless connections.
I will be provided with a vodem on an netbook soon for on call work so I will do some testing then.

Thats pretty good but I bet I will do the same on my VF account.

Im sitting in a dungeon where I get almost no reception at the moment with my 3G card and get this

I wonder how it will go once more people join up.

It will drop remarkably But it will still be awesome, there is no doubt about it. Brand new network - cant complain about that.

Reaction get your mouth off DG's cock and get real

Backhaul; Telecom has it, Vodafone doesn't. As is evident by the speeds, come see it for yourself tomorrow Q, latency/bandwidth are way better. WAY better.

Your "DG cock/mouth" joke is getting old. My view on VF has nothing to do with him. And I have nothing against Telecom, I have never been with them so have never had an issue with them.

I have a new business XT sim, might try it in the next week.

I've experienced similar speeds on Vodafone a few times, but I've experienced it in more places with Telecom.

Vodafone have plenty of backhaul also, that's not the issue thats holding the speed back.

No its not, you say completely different things on here than you do in person so i'll keep hitting you up about it!

And JTC, lets not forget you work for the company that built Vodafone's WCDMA network!

But lets break it down anyway:

Phone <radio> Tower <microwave/fibre> NOC <fibre> Internet

Once i've got a connection to the tower (quicker on XT), I should hold that connection until a set timeout period right? Contention rates would impact the handshake because there are only a certain number of slots..?

Once i'm on, unless they've opened up far too many slots, that same contention rate shouldn't impact my browsing speed unless the upstream (quicker on XT) is limited or very poor quality? So what's wrong on Vodafone? Is it that they only built out a budget, shitty Nokia network? Is it cards on the towers? Or backhaul?

Am I wrong in saying Vodafone uses way more microwave backhaul than fibre compared to Telecom?

If 100 people connect to a single Telecom cell-site and 100 to a single Vodafone one, I would easily bet Telecom would win.

I bet you believe all the shit you talk.

Anyway did a test from Greenlane Countdown this morning. To embarresed to post the results

i get 1.15 Mbps on my phone, so 2.95Mps is pretty freaking quick.

Lol I can't even break 0.11mb/s on Voda. Are these higher Voda speeds only available in CBD or something???

Rebooted the phone and managed to get 0.5mb. Ping went down considerably though - 330 odd. Still can't get anything near 1mb though.

Oh, mines on the Virgin (aka Optus) HSDPA network.

:> blazin

will try with a t stick later.

How did you get that screenshot from your iPhone Andrew? I can only email normal png links to myself.

similar thread over here if you want to compare

Classic so its very possible that the phones are restricting the data transfer Andrew can you do a test with you VF sim on the 3GS phone please?

I hope you got yourself a good deal Andrew...

http://store.telecom.co.nz/mobile/special-offers/iphone-sim-only-offer

just posted that in the lounge, final email coming this morning so i'll make sure all that is in there and more

I'm getting about 1Mbps cable-tethered on XT. Might be phone that is holding it back though...

sux 2 b on voda slow

That looks photoshopped...

cannot be jtc

the png is from the dsl test folks

from Newmarket this morning and the best I could get was the worst of dialup speeds you could expect

this is from my wifi

and this from a commercial outfit

so my iphome is ok at least

and when the n00b remembers he'd turned off the 3g this is the result



fast enough for me: I'll stay with voda for now

Y'all ready for this???

Nice!

set to get even faster with hspda due to come into service shortly

What??? Go read this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-Speed_Packet_Access

ok so I might have the protocol name wrong but higher speeds are acoming I hear

Higher classes of HSPA are due before the end of the year. This is true on both Voda and Telecom. There won't be too many devices able to use much more than 7.2 this year though, couple of data cards and a handful of handsets.

i got a Telecom USB modem on XT for the laptop and am getting 120 ms ping 2.5 MB/s down and 1.5 MB/s up. So speed is not a problem
But data usage is. jeez cant even check a normal website without using 10's of MB's of data so its not very cost effective - read - its fuckin expensive. Wont be usin it much at those prices

I havent ever really had to think about data usage before as I've always been on unlimited plans. and of course the way the internet is now with so many ads and unwanted graphics comin at you , a bit of casual surfing costs a fortune on wireless.

wifi update


I wuvs adsl2+

It's super fast over here! Cable

Last Result:
Download Speed: 9665 kbps (1208.1 KB/sec transfer rate)
Upload Speed: 509 kbps (63.6 KB/sec transfer rate)

from washington dc wireless

Hmmm wonder why my fucken link is not working anyway went up north past Orewa on the weekend to do some tests on the VF 900Mhz network was getting up to 4.2Mbit and 0.6 down.