as a follow up to my LG-VX8000 review i did last week, where is stated DSL reports was telling my the EV-DO connection was only at 82 Kbps, but it felt much faster to me, i tried testing the connection using Jeremy Gillick's Mozilla/Firefox bandwidth tester extension, and it's giving me a more acceptable answer: between 250 Kbps and 380 Kbps.
I tested the connection on my train ride this morning at different points and got those two results. wow.
i think the DSL reports test is optimized for the "large download" scenario - but doesn't test bormal usage scenarios, like browsing. i don't know enough about TCP/IP internals and how things like MTU affect downloads and such - but i do have to say, even these speeds are surprising.
That's real mobile productivity. I spend an two hours on the train every day when commuting to our office in the city - and i used to get by using 1X or EDGE, but EV-DO is livin'!
now, how can i get this to work on the plane?
Posted by Steve at February 14, 2005 09:27 AM | TrackBack