I'm on AT&T with a corporate BES plan. My company give us BlackBerries and unlimited tethering. I'm running a Torch 9800 with OS version .450 and a PlayBook with OS version 1690.
Nashville (Brentwood), TN outside, 4/5 bars and 3G showing up on display.
BB browser: 374kbps
Laptop tethered to my BB via USB: .75 / .53
PB Tether (using ATT (isp.cingular)): .75 / .26
PB Bridge: .28 / 0.00
This is pitiful. I don't know if there is anything I can do at all. That's why I wanted to see if the USB tether to my laptop was any different. I think that our IT policy is strictly monitoring all traffic and that surely slows it down.
What really bugs me though, is that when setting up a tether option - there are two ATT choices. I've asked around the forum and never gotten an answer - there's the "broadband" option (which won't work) and the "isp.cingular" option (which does work). I am under the impression that the option I want is faster and the option I can use is EDGE capped.
Who knows. But, if anyone has any insight - I would also add - that the company gave me a 9700 Bold. I bought the 9800 and swapped SIM's and purchased the PB on my own. I've never had any issue since I just input my settings back onto the server and let my IT guy know. I just wonder if there's something slowing me down.
Here's my speed from my Telebec/Sympatico DSL line at the cottage. I wasn't expecting in the megabits, specially since my signal strength was just at two bars
For comparison, Sony Vaio laptop on Rogers rocket stick:
Upload: 1.24 Mbps
Download: 1.00 Mbps
How can the Bridge browser be tested on this site if the phone doesn't support flash? I tried to test the bridge and I had a message that I needed flash version 10 or higher.
I'm curious what OS you all are using. I just updated to 576 on my 9800, and i've maxed out at 1.5Mbps down, but tonight (for example) I'm not getting more than 500Kb and my upload is pitiful. The consistency is just not there. The 4xx versions seemed to have similar issues, but I'm not 100% on that (I updated to 570 originally because 450 was so slow on tether). Even the regular browser on the phone is about the same.
Maybe I'll drop down to 448 and see if I can get it back to normal...
VZW 9930 OS 7.1.0.342 Los Angeles. I activated the mobile hotspot option. I was curious to see the difference.
Bridge
Ping 439 Ms
Down .38Mps
Up .22Mps
Wifi Hotspot
Ping 132Ms
Down 1.40 Mbps
Up .33mbps
used speedtest.net
Anyone know if VZW is using a different internet gateway connection for the hotspot? if you don't know it's an additional $20 per month for the privilege of using your own bandwidth your already paying for. 2Gb cap.
The change is speed is pretty ridiculous . One thing that I noticed is that while using bridge the website shows my isp as RIM where as using tethered it shows as optus.
So I'm assuming that RIM has junk network speeds in Australia? If that's the case I'm rather disappointed.
This is all using bridge. The 3 from the same Site were all done one right after the other. A lot of factors contribute. What phone and carrier are in my info above.
In Brossard which is Montreal South-Shore suburb on Bell Mobility with a BB9900 and PB 64G, speed was 3.3 once and second time 4.2 download and 0.67 upload.