Carrier Wars: Last but not least, T-Mobile
What a long strange trip it’s been, mobile fans. Our Carrier Wars series has managed to tons of conversation surrounding the state of wireless carriers here in the US. Sure a lot of it is senseless banter, but beyond that there are legions of subscribers who are genuinely interested in learning what kind of performance BGR readers from across the country experience on their respective carriers. We told you each of the big four here in the US would be covered and sure enough, here we are at the last stop: T-Mobile USA. While T-Mobile’s 3G network is still in its infancy — albeit horribly late in the game — subscribers are often quick to sing Tmo’s 3G performance praise. Well T-Moblers, it’s your time to shine. If you have a 3G-ready handset and happen to find yourself in a covered region, we want to know what kind of speed you’re seeing. Remember, an ideal report includes handset model, AVERAGE download speed, AVERAGE upload speed and a link to a screenshot of your test. Feel free to throw your maximum speed numbers in there as well but they don’t concern us. Ok — hit the comments section and get to work!
T-Mobile G1 in Silver Spring, MD on 3G
0.90 Mbps Down / 0.30 Mbps Up
http://www.speedtest.net/result/539112630.png
Speed test results:
Rooted G1 (Maxisma v2.1)
Dallas, TX
Download: 680.6 kbps Max 680.6 kbps
Upload: 113.4 kbps Max 125.6 kbps
Sprint is for high Speed data customers and have been around since the 1930s so he doesnt know that even Sprint stock is the winner today lol
Not sure how that’s possible since T-Mobile has stated that they are currently limiting 3G speeds to 1 Mbps.
T-Mobile currently limits data speeds to 1 Mbps while they are building out their network, so while they can technically provide speeds equal to At&t’s 3.6 Mbps they don’t right now.
I just got my brand new Touch Pro 2 yesterday. It’s a nice phone, but I didn’t find the 3G speeds too impressive. It was certainly faster than the EDGE on my Shadow, but still, you know?
I looked all over the web to do the test in Windows Mobile on Opera 9.6 with both download and upload speeds. I couldn’t find one. But the last speedtest I ran, it yielded a
399kbps download speed.
Sorry, I don’t have a UL result for you BGR! If anyone points me to a place that can do that on WM, I will be sure to run the test.
Tmobile G1.
Avg. Download 584.5
Avg. Upload 119.6
Posted on mobile in beautiful Las Vegas.
Tmobile – G1 – 3G – San Jose – Down: 8408 Kbps or 8.21 MBPS
Download speed: 805.7
Upload Speed:132.5
Washington DC
dont know how to link a pic.
but running mytouch 3g in brooklyn, ny
download 925
upload 224
T-mobile G1
Tucson Az
Average download: 818kbs
Average upload: 123kbs
Sorry guys, don’t know how to do a screen capture
Max Download Speed: 760.9 Kbits/s
Max Upload Speed: 149.80 Kbits/s
http://imgur.com/hmIen.png
Atlanta, GA
Mytouch 3G
test
don’t know why my results with links to screen shots doesn’t post but here:
Tmobile
Touch Pro 2
Phoenix, AZ
DSLReports Flash test
Avg Down: 770 Kbps
Avg Up: 279 Kbps
Speedtest.net
Avg Down: 850 Kbps
Avg Up: 273 Kbps
Location: Augusta, GA
Phone: SE TM506; tethered with a XP laptop
Average download speed: 1.01 Mbps
Average upload speed: 0.36 Mpbs
Tested with speedtest.net – figures very consistent with every test.
wow a week later & only 2 touch pro 2’s in the whole thing? wow.
8900 EDGE
Here are the Speedtest results for my Blackberry:
Connection Type: Carrier
Avg. Download Speed: 100.35Kbits/s
Max. Download Speed: 100.35Kbits/s
Avg. Upload Speed: 46.77Kbits/s
Max. Upload Speed: 67.11Kbits/s
Visit Xtreme Labs website at:
http://www.xtremelabs.com/apps
Sent via BlackBerry from T-Mobile
966 kbps download
276 kbps upload
Minneapolis, MN with 1 bar 3G inside my house.
Sony Ericsson TM506 tethered to my laptop
http://www.flickr.com/photos/buckmn/3841712796/
My Touch
Average download: 1300kb
AVERAGE upload: 138kb
http://img11.imageshack.us/img11/5170/img1103lry.jpg
Location: Ladera Ranch, CA (Orange County)
MyTouch 3G… Network did show 3G
Used Xtremelabs SpeedTest app
Download Speed: 570.4
Max: 602.7
Upload Speed 128.0
Max: 142.9
I think its pathetic that the cqrrier war winner hasnt been announced yet. Its obvious that tmo is doing much better than anticipated by the bgr staff. I imagine they are finding a way to get around these results. Cant wait to hear how verizon and sprint rock and tmobile just plain sucks. So predictable.
I agree. Just because your wife is a lawyer, it does not mean she is smarter than anyone else on the board. My brother is a lawyer too….and though I
What does your wife being a lawyer have ANYTHING to do with this conversation. My sister is an ER doctor, brother is a dentist and my other brother is a lawyer. They are all good at what they do, but they hardly have any common sense.
So, no – it doesn’t mean she is an idiot, but it sure does NOT convince me to try that phone/or service based on the fact that you stated she was a lawyer….who cares?
Well I can’t wait to get one of these myself, personally.