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