[sportbos]

It's not even a rare occurrence, O2 are terrible.
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[MoreEndotte]

I've learnt to pay no attention to speedtest on the iPhone. Because of latency is looks a lot slower than it is. I can still watch "exotic films" through internet tethering on mine and that's as fast as I need it. Saying that, when I first got it I was getting speeds of 2meg + and now I'm lucky to get 200k + reported. AND I pay £15 for internet tethering on top of a £45 a month tariff.

[Bgfbukpf]

Wow, my friend was only playing £5 extra for internet tethering.... although he also agreed that it was god-awful.

Strange considering o2 Home Broadband is so good.

[MoreEndotte]

Strange considering o2 Home Broadband is so good.

It's not really. One uses the BT network of copper wires, the other uses the massively over-saturated 3G mobile network.

[Hervams]

even if the speed was good i wouldnt want an iphone

[vRmy0Fzg]

I just got this:



As mentioned, the network speed on o2 3g is good enough for videos, web pages etc....though not quite the 7.2Mbps HSDPA speed as advertised for the 3GS. Does o2 even support HSDPA?

edit - just ran the test again

[MoreEndotte]

even if the speed was good i wouldnt want an iphone

Let me guess....anything popular is too common for you?

[flopay]

Well at least you get tethering in the UK... spare a thought for those of us on AT&T. I just did Speedtest where I am not and got 0.04 download and 0.00 upload (ha ha)... although I am currently in Jersey City, which is the US equivalent of Slough.

Wireless internet is not exactly supposed to be FiOS, just good enough for light browsing and email/IM.

[mylittlejewelaa]

though not quite the 7.2Mbps HSDPA speed as advertised for the 3GS. Does o2 even support HSDPA?

HSDPA is provided by O2. The 7.2Mbps the maximum theoretical throughput for the iPhone; it is dependent on whether the network can provide those speeds.

On my E71, I used to cap out at about 1.8Mbps on a supposed maximum of 3.6Mbps. I just ran a couple of speed tests on my E72 and I was getting throughput of about 4.75Mbps (max 10.2Mbps for the phone) without a full signal though I am in a little town in Surrey so I doubt the network is saturated with users at the minute.

[chelviweeme]

In the Washington DC area my iPhone jailbroken and tethered would give me around 900kilobits to a megabit. My HTC Tilt would give me more consistent speed 1bit-1.5mbit. ATT network.

[MoreEndotte]

I just got this:



As mentioned, the network speed on o2 3g is good enough for videos, web pages etc....though not quite the 7.2Mbps HSDPA speed as advertised for the 3GS. Does o2 even support HSDPA?

edit - just ran the test again

That's roughly what I get in central Manchester. It drops to half of that when I go home to Hulme and piss all anywhere else.

[vRmy0Fzg]

HSDPA is provided by O2. The 7.2Mbps the maximum theoretical throughput for the iPhone; it is dependent on whether the network can provide those speeds.

On my E71, I used to cap out at about 1.8Mbps on a supposed maximum of 3.6Mbps. I just ran a couple of speed tests on my E72 and I was getting throughput of about 4.75Mbps (max 10.2Mbps for the phone) without a full signal though I am in a little town in Surrey so I doubt the network is saturated with users at the minute.

You're right, I just came across this link which allows you to search o2 coverage by area...and London is pretty much HSDPA covered: http://www.webmap.o2.co.uk/

[Bgfbukpf]

It's not really. One uses the BT network of copper wires, the other uses the massively over-saturated 3G mobile network.

Well, to be fair, EVERYTHING uses the BT network except Virgin who use their own fibre-optics. I've had no problems with it in the 3 months I've been using it. Near constant 20mb connection, only about an hours downtime (and that was the same day it was activated so proberly just teething problems) there's no caps, no throttling, the router they include is pretty good and, although I've not had to use it, the customer service is apparently excellent.

Maybe I've just been lucky but reviews of them on the net seem to have them as the most well-liked UK supplier.

Plus a 1 year contract only cost £13 in total so that went a long way towards me liking them [rofl]

[discountviagraman]

Well, to be fair, EVERYTHING uses the BT network except Virgin who use their own fibre-optics. I've had no problems with it in the 3 months I've been using it. Near constant 20mb connection, only about an hours downtime (and that was the same day it was activated so proberly just teething problems) there's no caps, no throttling, the router they include is pretty good and, although I've not had to use it, the customer service is apparently excellent.

Maybe I've just been lucky but reviews of them on the net seem to have them as the most well-liked UK supplier.

Plus a 1 year contract only cost £13 in total so that went a long way towards me liking them [rofl]

Virgin may advertise Fibre but it's still all copper cabling afaik. A few companies are rolling out some trial runs of fibre at the moment but nothing large scale. I was on Virgin 20meg at Uni, loved it. Moved back home and I'm now on BT 8 meg ... it's horrendous in comparison, but then I'm also a lot further from the exchange then I was in Guildford.

Just tested my iPhone, 64.0kB/s down 42.9 kB/s up in Surrey ... it was so much faster when I first got it. Running the test a few times seems to help though, on my third go I got 229.2 kB/s down and 29.0 kB/s up. Not great, but usable at least. The test does constantly speed up, maybe if the test time was twice as long it would return better results ...

[Dildos]

Virgin may advertise Fibre but it's still all copper cabling afaik. A few companies are rolling out some trial runs of fibre at the moment but nothing large scale.

If they weren't using fibre optics they wouldn't be allowed to advertise their service as using such. AFAIK they use fibre optics up to the box in the street, but copper cable from the box to your house.

[SM9WI8oI]

Well at least you get tethering in the UK... spare a thought for those of us on AT&T. I just did Speedtest where I am not and got 0.04 download and 0.00 upload (ha ha)... although I am currently in Jersey City, which is the US equivalent of Slough.

Wireless internet is not exactly supposed to be FiOS, just good enough for light browsing and email/IM.

I'm in the US on AT&T but I jailbroke my iPhone, and I'm so glad I did, internet tethering being one of the pluses. I've also got an app that shares internet over wifi so you don't even have to jack in to share your internet. Also nice to have a nifty call-blocking app to block unknown numbers, etc. which you can't do on the iPhone for some reason, even though my mom and dad have AT&T also, and each have the same cheap $50 phone which has that option...

[discountviagraman]

If they weren't using fibre optics they wouldn't be allowed to advertise their service as using such. AFAIK they use fibre optics up to the box in the street, but copper cable from the box to your house.

True, what I meant was that they have just started rolling it out in (very) select areas, it's not what their main service is built on, but it allows them to advertise it. But I could be wrong, it certainly wouldn't be too far-fetched for their infrastructure to be based on Fibre and copper to the home. All I was really pointing out was that us poor folk in the UK don't actually have fibre internet in the home yet, we're still very much all copper.

[BegeMoT]

I'm don't seem to be having any issues.