In reply to a post by MrSaffron:

Did this on Monday when in a good 3G area but the connection in actual use felt like the tbb one. The graphs to help understand the actual connection are very important.

Just now (ie, 11:10pm) with my iPhone 5 connected to the PC using the USB cable and "Personal Hotspot" enabled. No WiFi in this desktop and I unplugged the Ethernet cable to my router first.

http://www.thinkbroadband.com/speedtest/button/13626...

The graphs bounce as I'd expect from an RF based connection, but these speeds are not abnormal.

i get like 2Mbps max speed but i live right in town so i guess high load on the masts all the time.

In reply to a post by epyon:

i get like 2Mbps max speed but i live right in town so i guess high load on the masts all the time.

Some phones max out at the slower speeds, depends on the radio chip and CPU in the phone, my "work phone" is an unlocked iPhone 4 and it maxes out at 6megabit when I use my T-Mobile chip that gives 15+megabit in my iPhone 5.

Could also be an overloaded tower. Or I've seen T-Mobile customers getting slow speeds when using the former Orange network - its almost impossible to tell now they both show up as EE. Some older phones still show the two network names.

I have a GSII

so the phone shouldn't be an issue

when i move out a bit i get better speeds

when im right in the town like shopping ect

the net doesn't even work, though theres lots of wifi hotspots to use >.>

Edited by epyon (Sat 09-Mar-13 11:01:20)

In reply to a post by epyon:

I have a GSII

so the phone shouldn't be an issue

Galaxy S II is generally quite in terms of 3G radios now, assuming you have the I9100 this is actually the same as the standard S3 which is capable of HSPA+ 21megabit/sec download, and 5 megabit/sec upload in perfect conditions with no other users.

Summary - to get DC-HSPA support (the 42megabit spec) you need an iPhone 5 or an S3 LTE, or anything newer. The standard S2, S3 and iPhone 4 and iPhone 4S don't support it.

I'm not sure what Three are like in the rest of the country, but my experience of them down here has been that they tend to blow EE 4G out of the water on everything but upload.

I generally get 50-60ms latencies, 8-23mbps down and 3-5mbps up.

The few places I've seen EE in operation, the best I saw was 12 both ways.