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December 12th, 2008Rogers HSPA speeds no slouch after all?

Posted by Editor in datarates, HSPA, Rogers

Canadian mobile shop Xtreme Labs Inc. kindly let WirelessNorth.ca know about some 3G speed testing results from their iPhone bandwidth app. It would have been good to know how consistent these speeds were, but on the average, Roger’s network scores high:

We found in the US that average download speeds of 841 Kbit/s compared poorly to Japan with download speeds of 1,213 Kbit/s but compared favorably to the UK where download speeds averaged 663 Kbit/s. Canada stands out at a respectable 1,314 Kbit/s.

Here’s the global averages:

	3G	EDGE	Free Wi-Fi	Private Wi-Fi
Average Download Speed	955.6 Kbits/s	218.4 Kbits/s	2,502.0 Kbits/s	2,905.3 Kbits/s
Average Upload Speed	152.6 Kbits/s	37.3 Kbits/s	773.9 Kbits/s	738.8 Kbits/s
Average Latency	484.2 ms	907.3 ms	205.0 ms	184.4 ms

Why we think this is interesting: 3G or 3.5G or whatever you want to call it, is starting to show some impressive bandwidth numbers. Impressive for a lot of media streaming applications. Plenty of data/media bandwidth to fill a small screen. Where 3G is still clearly hurting however is latency. Nearly half a second is not too snappy and maybe why real-time 2-way voice/video/gaming over IP applications are just not quite there yet for mobile.

What we need is LTE (2010 – 2012ish) which should even more bandwidth, but even more importantly, sub 100ms latency (depending on how far you are pinging etc.).

Link: What is the REAL speed of your 3G connection?

http://whoyoucallingajesse.com Jesse Rodgers

Speed of the network isn't the issue, capacity is. At night you see the speed, during the day (when you need your device) you don't — well I don't in the Waterloo area. The opposite is true for cable modems from Rogers. During the day they fly but at night (and closer to the uni's) they are dead slow.
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I agree Jesse. It is all about capacity. Capacity and speed are two totally different issues.
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Wow some amazing figures you have put up there, it is really a proud feeling to have been ahead of well developed countries like the US, UK .. I am going to use these figures in the technology report I am working on. Thanks again..
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Is this really true, I am really amazed to know all this.. Cheers Canada..
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The upload speed looks to be low relatively. Usually it is not so less compared to the download speed.. I am not sure what is happening..
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Nice to know the figures you have mentioned.
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Interesting facts..
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Jesse's absolutely right. The issue is not the speed, but the capacity. Good thing the guys behind the company are are coming up with better results as of their latest update.
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really informative and interesting facts dude… nice post!!!
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ohh… ohh.. great stuff been posted… good work on the figures given .. thanks for sharing the info!!!

December 12th, 2008Rogers HSPA speeds no slouch after all?

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