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Is this normal?
Okay I am getting to point where I need to decide if I am keeping this HTC Aria. At work in the middle of tall building and concrete, the AT&T signal is great. They have been there for awhile. At home where the network is new, I can agree that their have delivered on their promise to be similar to the network I had before. However if I go out of my home town just a few miles, the signal drops quickly to EDGE or GPRS. It may be good voice signal strength, but I have to use my phone as my sole source for the internet when I am in that area for extended periods of time. This area had Verizon 3G. It might have been on their lower end of 3G, but I could easily use it without noticing a drop in speed.
Is normal EDGE speeds?
50 kbps down, 72 kbps up, 1188 ms
111 kbps dn, 88 kbps up, 1333 ms
111 kbps dn, 78 kbps up, 957 ms
122 kbps dn, 88 kbps up, 1095 ms
Are these normal 3G (HSPA) (selected results) speeds?
389 kbps dn, 129 kbps up, 388 ms (lowest test)
405 kbps dn, 97 kbps up, 256 ms
619 kbps dn, 97 kbps up, 389 ms
726 kbps dn, 92 kbps up, 542 ms
990 kbps dn, 131 kbps up, 423 ms
1212 kbps dn, 102 kbps up, 184 ms
1546 kbps dn, 136 kbps up, 1506 ms
1868 kbps dn, 114 kbps up, 356 ms (highest test)
For comparison Verizon 3G (selected results)
1751 kbps dn, 828 kbps up, 287 ms (highest test)
1555 kbps dn, 738 kbps up 257 ms
1202 kbps dn, 537 kbps up, 332 ms
985 kbps dn, 806 kbps up, 316 ms
880 kbps dn, 352 kbps up, 349 ms
594 kbps dn, 834 kbps up, 278 ms
428 kbps dn, 388 kbps up, 534 ms
244 kbps dn, 432 kbps up, 314 ms (lowest test)
126 kbps dn, 168 kbps 12 ms (I think this one was 1x)
All the speed tests were done with Ookla's speedtest.net app for android.
The download speeds seems to be about equal between networks. The upload for AT&T is just SAD. The ping latency on AT&T can vary a bit. I only put one example of the 3G on here, but there were others that were in the 1000+ ms for tests. The EDGE latency is just as bad.
What do you as AT&T users think?
Can AT&T's signal range widely while been in one place? I went from displaying three bars to zero in the span of minutes. It will do this all day in my home.
Sorry for the blurry camera shots. The other phone just couldn't focus that close.
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Still, either are quicker than your AT&T Aria...
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Ann154
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The speed tests in the original post were the results from the Eris.
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RicoLX
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I was in an EDGE zone yesterday and used SpeedTest.net with an without wifi. to see what i get. I only ran it once (wasnt in the area too long).
EDGE
ping download upload
11ms 151kbps 74kbps
WI-FI
ping download upload
79ms 2768kbps 670kbps
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Ann154
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Well your up and down speed matches what I was seeing on the EDGE network with the Aria. The ping rate is a heck of a lot nicer than what I was experiencing. Now that I look at it again, that speed results lines up nicely with the 1x speeds of the CDMA network here.
Still happier with the Eris or the Thunderbolt 😉
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Ann154
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Test Date: Apr 18, 2011 7:14:28 pm
> Connection Type: Ehrpd
> Download: 1913 kbps
> Upload: 466 kbps
> Ping: 314 ms
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Ann154
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Okay back to the reason for this post.
AT&T phone, edge network at -95 dbm 9 asu, 2-3 bars, slower than dirt data transfer, voice call quality = passed. I made a 5 minute call. It didn't drop. Yeah!
Verizon phone, EDVO 3G network at -100 dbm, 0-1 bars (it still connects with zero bars highlighted), download range 400 - 1670 kbps, upload 93 - 587 kbps, ping 300 - 350 ms. Wide range of course. The thing is I don't notice a big difference in speed compared to full bars. I can connect to the Internet and type this post. 😉
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Hey Ann(droid154) sound like some progress was made. I have to say that i have had the BEST call quality over last two years. I think AT&T really worked on the call drop issues that they were plagued with for so long. Now they are working on the data speed . lets see what unfolds over next year.
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I was shocked to get some these numbers over the past few days and not all on full bars. All on the other network. Some of these were where AT&T only had EDGE.
Sampling of the higher test results
ping, down, up
270 2477 781
287 2043 667
291 2028 904
270 2024 904
250 1979 848
274 1974 900
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