Anyone using Storm 2 Bridged to Playbook?

Blacklac · Thread Author #1 10-05-2011, 11:55 AM

If so, what are your speeds when you run Speedtests on your PB?

Mine are awful and I'm curious if its something OS related or the phone itself.

I was getting like .7MB, but I reloaded my OS (.713) about a week ago and I only got .2MB this morning. My data was Wifi, just to see what I could get at max speeds. PB Wifi was off, Storm 2 network data was off and Wifi was on.

Anyone else, post results please.

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Mike_Luchia · #2 10-06-2011, 10:35 AM

I ran the test at toast.net with the shuttle from Toast.net II in Canada. On my Storm 2 on Telus, same OS as you, I got 419K and Loaded 414,161 bytes in 7.912 seconds. That was through my data network on my phone, not wifi on the phone.

Mike

Blacklac · Thread Author #3 10-15-2011, 12:49 PM

bump. Anyone else??

bbboogie · #4 10-19-2011, 04:43 AM

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Originally Posted by Blacklac

... PB Wifi was off, Storm 2 network data was off and Wifi was on.
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Here, I'm using my Storm 2 with my PlayBook 16 GB. I can't see the point why you're trying the speedtest in this configuration. You have the bottleneck in the Bluetooth-link between PlayBook and Storm 2, and when your Storm 2 is linked to several Bluetooth devices, it is may be even slower. Your WiFi-network should be much faster, so why don't you just enable WiFi on you PlayBook, link to your network and try the speedtest again?

tamhanna · #5 10-19-2011, 12:42 PM

Oh my. Bluetooth speeds again (http://tamspalm.tamoggemon.com/2004/...thy-so-slow/):

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Most bluetooth chips use the HID protocol for communication-and usually connect to the host CPU via a serial link(USB dongles use-nomen est omen-USB). These serial links usually cannot acheive much more than 115200bps. Thus, most stacks are designed for only this speed. If the link is faster, the stack slows it down.

oldie but goodie

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But, on a similar beat: my wife uses her Storm I with her PB, and it is slow as molasses too.

Blacklac · Thread Author #6 10-19-2011, 01:35 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by bbboogie

Here, I'm using my Storm 2 with my PlayBook 16 GB. I can't see the point why you're trying the speedtest in this configuration. You have the bottleneck in the Bluetooth-link between PlayBook and Storm 2, and when your Storm 2 is linked to several Bluetooth devices, it is may be even slower. Your WiFi-network should be much faster, so why don't you just enable WiFi on you PlayBook, link to your network and try the speedtest again?

It was just to test my maximum throughput capability. Obviously, using Wifi will show me the top speeds I am able to achieve. I'm reading people getting close to 1-1.5Mbps over Bridge on OS6 devices, which are still very similar hardware. I'm just trying to figure out if any OS will effect this or its simply a phone limitation. It seems so hit or miss on who has solid Bridge speeds and who has slow speeds like me.

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Blacklac · Thread Author #7 10-19-2011, 01:37 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by bbboogie

Here, I'm using my Storm 2 with my PlayBook 16 GB. I can't see the point why you're trying the speedtest in this configuration. You have the bottleneck in the Bluetooth-link between PlayBook and Storm 2, and when your Storm 2 is linked to several Bluetooth devices, it is may be even slower. Your WiFi-network should be much faster, so why don't you just enable WiFi on you PlayBook, link to your network and try the speedtest again?

It was just to test my maximum throughput capability. Obviously, using Wifi will show me the top speeds I am able to achieve. I'm reading people getting close to 1-1.5Mbps over Bridge on OS6 devices, which are still very similar hardware. I'm just trying to figure out if any OS will effect this or its simply a phone limitation. It seems so hit or miss on who has solid Bridge speeds and who has slow speeds like me.

From what I've read, the Bluetooth bottleneck itself is around 1.5-2Mbps. Obviously, on a +20MB network, Bluetooth isn't my bottleneck here.

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bbboogie · #8 10-19-2011, 06:06 PM

ok, now I've got the point. You want to know the performance of your bluetooth-link. Well, I've done this for you now also: WiFi on PB off, WiFi on Storm 2 (with OS .1015) on, linked over the bridge and started the bridge-browser on Speedtest.net - The Global Broadband Speed Test - my result is 0,66 MB. Not that bad for a bluetooth connection in my eyes.