T-Mobile 7.2Mbps HSPA rolling out now?
By Ross Miller 
posted November 4th 2009 11:27PM
posted November 4th 2009 11:27PM
Reports are coming in, by and large it seems via Android and Me, that T-Mobile's begun its rollout of its 7.2Mbps HSPA network for some extra speedy mobile browsing. We've done some testing in the listed cities, notably Chicago and New York, but so far are coming up with the usual, mundane speeds. It'd certainly make up for yesterday's snafu (almost), but at this point we're classifying as unconfirmed. Anyone else having better luck?
Thats awesome... except I only get EDGE in my area anyways... Still thats nice for people who actually get 3G.... sigh.
2.4Mbps in Orange County, Calif (previously 560Kbps max)
Also having done carrier deployments in a previous life... it's easy here for TMO-US to move to HSDPA on existing 3G coverage while also STILL building 3G coverage... Those whining about "I would rather have more 3G coverage" don't get the fact that deploying 3G on top of an existing GSM network isn't easy - frequency bands are different which means coverage will be different... Deploying HSDPA on top of UMTS is basically a SW upgrade as long as the infrastructure has the upgrade path... Whereas deploying 3G over a GSM network means new antenna's, new RF uplink and in most cases wider capacity back-haul... not something you can pop in to random cell sites; but something you plan for region by region.
anybody run the dslreports mobile speed test yet?
@ Ben
link?
Won't run gets the "unstable/too fast"
I can run the iPhone one dsl reports shows... I did notice they have a strange method for testing though... If I choose 3G as the test method its 1Mbps... If I retest with the WiFi option I get 3.6Mbps (I'M NOT USING WiFi, using 3G but selected the WiFi test)
http://www.dslreports.com/mspeed?jisok=1&more=1
wow great guys!
Wow. So is this now faster than AT&T iPhone ??
The NETWORK is, yes. Phone has little to do with it if they both support HSPA+ speeds.
It's not related to yesterday at all.
That was about some stupid ass in Snoqualmie Data center changing a switch which resulted in a broadcast storm and killed the network.
I just ran test on all 4 of my iPhones on AT&T 3g. 1.800 Mbps inside my house. I haven't used wifi in 25 days. In trying to hit the 1 gbyte download . I tether 4 iPhones to 3 laptops all the time. It's sick dude.
Doing another test on AT&T iPhones tethered. Downloading 3 netfllix movies simultaneously.
Plus 80-200 songs limewire. Com on each laptop. Just for the heck of it.
Ok I just programmed netflix to download 9 netflix movies on AT&T iPhone 3g via tethering. Sick dude. And after this will download n install vista updates plus 45 app updates. How sick sweet it us.
Me: Mytouch 3g, tmobile, Seattle
1mb file
Results: 4734kbps
Latency: 0.563 seconds
Transferred 1000 KB in 1.69 seconds
And btw idk if it matters, but i only had 1-2 bars of service.
Tethered speedtest.net results only please!! Also I thought Tmobile was deploying HSPA+? Meaning its 7.2mbps speeds because that's all that anything can support at the moment.
Why tethered only? You think that all these phones with full html browsers and video downloading can't make use of a 7.2mbps network? I don't tether and it matters to me anyway. So, yeah.
What? Why the hell are you even bringing that up? This is about proper benchmarking using a reliable setup, one that will also eliminate any sort of proxy compression while also providing the best possible performance.
i think there is a problem with the website.
I am using a nokia 2630 (seriously) on a 2.5G edge network in Thailand. The website consistently (more than 5 times) said my speed was greater than 4,000kbps.
Yea, the speed said i was running at 8500 kbps and im on 3G in thailand.
Dude... why would they do rural po dunk areas before LA, NY, Chi, FL...? Hit the biggest cities first, no?
Ha! I agree with you - but I think it's funny that you have LA, New York, Chicago, and... wait for it... FLORIDA! The most populated metro in Florida is Jax - at less than 806,000 people.
Don't get me wrong, I love Florida... I'm originally from Florida... but I don't think you can seriously put it in that list with NY, LA, CHI... maybe if you're counting the whole state against these other cities - but that hardly makes sense.
No I agree with you (because I agree with me) ... I was mentioning FL last because it didn't fit in. :)
The Miami metropolitan area has over 5.5 million people. It's one of the largest in the country after NY, LA, Chicago, Dallas, Philadelphia, and Houston. It's also one of T-Mobile's top markets. The ignorance of some people.
In Chicago I'm getting 3.6 to 3.8 mbps on a mytouch.
Rebooted and now I'm getting 4.5 up to 6.5 mbps. This is using the 2mb test. Bananas.
man i get 6557.377kps!!! sweet!
Jacksonville, FL is up and running! :D
I'm getting pretty good speeds in Waterbury CT
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Umm
Better link
http://www.mobilespeedtest.com/results/021809tmobile6250.jpg
I'm getting 1.9Mbps in OC.
7.273mb in Dallas
http://www.mobilespeedtest.com/results/021809tmobile7273.jpg
http://www.mobilespeedtest.com/results/021809tmobile2775.jpg
Yorba Linda area.
I'm in Reston, VA. I just did a Xtremelabs Speedtest and got:
* 510.1 Kbit/s down
* 140.7 Kbit/s up
I think that's pretty crappy compared to some of the other reports.
That's pretty close to what I'm getting: 534/120 also using Xtremelabs Speedtest.
I suspect you and I are one of the few people actually using the right test software with wifi turned off.
Man, now I can't wait to get the Nokia N900. Hurry up and release it already Nokia!
i'm in jersey city, nj, and just racked my speed via the speed test link at 6,153kbps.
HOWEVER, when i access websites, they don't appear to be loading any faster than the old 3G service. Don't know why that is...
3703.704 Kbps doing the 3MB test!
I got 4706 Kbps. Not bad, if only coverage was better around the Trenton area, or it's just the phone I use..
Make that the nation fastest fastest wireless network, I got almost 3000 Kbps in the Bronx NY
Here is my prove
http://www.mobilespeedtest.com/results/021809tmobile2740.jpg
7729KBPS in San Diego...pretty noticable difference in speed.
I'm American, living in Italy, on the Telecom Italia Mobile network. Europe has had 7.2 for, well since I got here 2 years ago, and a pretty good while before that... My eyes were really opened when I got here that Americans are just getting screwed. It just exemplifies the fact that US cell phone companies are lacking in this area, among others. The US is sooo far behind Europe in pretty much every category of mobile networking.
Not even that, but you can't even buy a phone over here that's locked to a network. Something needs to happen in the states with this. I don't know if it has to do with laws in the US, or if its just the cell phone companies locking their phones (screw Verizon, with their no SIM card BS... 'course, I haven't had a US celly for 2 years, so I dunno if they allow SIMs now). Just my 2¢.
Just ran te test myself and got 3065 on a cache cleared browser, and as high as 5.5 on one without a cache clearing.
(both of these numbers are actually faster than the Office DSL i send this message over right now 2630)
Crazy!
I'm American, living in Italy, on the Telecom Italia Mobile network. Europe has had 7.2 for, well since I got here 2 years ago, and a pretty good while before that... My eyes were really opened when I got here that Americans are just getting screwed. It just exemplifies the fact that US cell phone companies are lacking in this area, among others. The US is sooo far behind Europe in pretty much every category of mobile networking.
Not even that, but you can't even buy a phone over here that's locked to a network. Something needs to happen in the states with this. I don't know if it has to do with laws in the US, or if its just the cell phone companies locking their phones (screw Verizon, with their no SIM card BS... 'course, I haven't had a US celly for 2 years, so I dunno if they allow SIMs now). Just my 2¢.
I got 4372 kbps here in Chicago
mobilespeedtest.com is wrong, FYI.
said my speed is 4-5000 kbps, where every other speed test gave < 1Mbps.
I think this is a bunch of hooey
ran multiple time in chicago, got 7272 kpbs for the 500k test, 2134 for the 3mb test, and 4372 for the 1 mb test.
About 1150 KBPS here in Oldsmar, FL, but to be fair I'm inside the Nielsen datacenter with some thick ass walls (several feet of concrete).
Further out west where I live, using joikuspot I'm actually able to get 2200ish kbps download, mostly because I'm right on the edge of ATT 3.5G (according to my 5800 XM) and there is basically no one using the cell tower but me lol.
On average I see about 1900ish kbps.....
It's funny to think back in the day before most of us knew the difference between KBps and kbps we thought that 384k DSL should be (more then enough) and were disappointed getting 70 KBps trying to download real player episodes of pokemon and the doom Id Shareware version lol.
On the plus side, our other internet connection maxes out the network card (tested at almost 94,028 kbps) at night and during the day still doing 45,000 down/14,000 up. (so obviously both the Iphone (with no sim just wifi) and the 5800 are connected to that network).
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Hmm, looks like preliminary info may be right, SoCal looking good!
Does anyone know if there are special towers for 7.2Mbps HSPA? Something is being put up about 5 blocks away from me and its obvious that the hardware has to do with telecommunications of some form. The thing is there are no directional panels on it like you see on the side of water towers and such. Just a tall poll, so I have no idea what it is.
3MB test gives me 4.8MB down. I'm in Midtown Manhattan.
http://www.mobilespeedtest.com/results/1121084800.jpg