What is your cell phones Internet speed?

[Corey]

You can download the speed test at your phones market or at www.speedtest.net

I have 4G LTE on my new Droid Bionic, and I was told when I bought it that it is around ten times faster than 3G, possibly more.
It approaches the speed of my high tier Comcast Internet at home.

Here are two results from this morning.

Test Date: Oct 5, 2011 6:31:39 am
Connection Type: Lte
Server: Billings, MT
Download: 19.09 Mbps
Upload: 12.79 Mbps
Ping: 67 ms

External IP: 166.250.1.109
Internal IP: 10.166.161.126, 192.168.20.1
Latitude: 47.46518
Longitude: -122.25076

Test Date: Oct 5, 2011 5:59:19 am
Connection Type: Lte
Server: Seattle, WA
Download: 15.26 Mbps
Upload: 14.08 Mbps
Ping: 43 ms

External IP: 166.250.2.192
Internal IP: 10.173.248.174, 192.168.20.1
Latitude: 47.46518
Longitude: -122.25076

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[Pskhaat]

Lucky, I avg about 9600 baud on my blackberry...

 

[evldave]

You officially suck

I haven't tested lately, but my Atrix 4G (yeah right) down here in Vancouver usually gets 1.5mbs...I can't wait for AT&T to start turning on their LTE here!

 

[haven]

Go ahead, rub it in, Corey! The Droid Bionic is a great phone. I'm very interested learn what Samsung and Google will announce next week.

To answer your question, AT&T provides download speeds around 800 Kbps to 1.2 Mbps in the San Francisco area. My Comcast cable service at home is slower than your LTE service.

 

[Ludedude]

How many minutes does it take to eat your entire monthly data allotment at those speeds?

 

[Corey]

It is very fast after having the original Droid for almost two years.

I heard the Samsung phone will have a 1.5 GHz cpu, slightly faster than the Bionic.

On the data plan, mine is $30 per month ($72.00 total per month) for unlimited data.

Watching the phone download a 15 mb file takes just a few seconds.

 

[haven]

And what sort of battery life does the Droid Bionic have? The first generation LTE radios are reported to be power-hungry.

 

[AmericaOverland]

Nyet...

"Speedtest.net requires at least version 10 of Flash. Please update your client."

On a crapberry. I hate my phone.

 

[Corey]

And what sort of battery life does the Droid Bionic have? The first generation LTE radios are reported to be power-hungry.

Slightly less than my original Droid.
Bigger screen running pulls a little more juice.
I pull it off the charger at 2 am when I leave for work, and by 7 am it can be down to 80% or less.
But that is surfing on it in the breakroom.

I cover about three sites with around 20 miles driving a company rig during the day, so I put it on the 12v charger a few times.

If you use it as a regular phone, it could go a whole day.
The more you surf on it, do your email, it starts to go down quicker.

I hear they have a bigger capacity battery for it that is the same size, I am going to check into it.

It even has two bookreaders on it with Kindle being one of them, pretty cool.
So it works like a mini Kindle, and picks up where you left off, even if reading multiple books.
That alone can eat the battery pretty fast.
That is why I may go for that Kindle Fire down the road.

If you have the means to charge it up a few times while away from home, it is pretty much like having a laptop.
I really like the Android OS too.

Another thing with the 4G LTE, a few of us have the Droids out during lunch checking YouTube, and my vids start playing right away in HD while the other Droids are still streaming it in before it starts playback.

 

[BKCowGod]

I'm sitting here on my MacBook connected to the "WiFi hotspot" option of my Nexus One (remember those?).

I turn on the hotspot at 8am and turn it off at 3pm and the battery is about 25% discharged in that time. I am only connecting on Edge because the Nexus is an AT&T phone on a T-Mobile network. I'm tempted to buy the Samsung Galaxy Mini so I can take advantage of my 3G.

Oh, and I'm paying $10/mo for unlimited data on my family plan

Unlocked phones are fun...

 

[TRegasaurus]

Sprint 3G - Las Vegas - Slow to painfully slow

 

[762X39]

Wow, I just use my phone for the odd text and of all things, phone calls. I have a toughbook for computer type stuff. A real screen and real capacity (just me though I guess).

 

[nwoods]

Wow that's fast. I'm sitting (deep in a building with 3 bar signal) near the airport in the middle of Irvine, CA (southern california) on my AT&T 3G network using a 2.5 year old iPhone 3GS and I got:

Ping: 285ms
Download: 1.43Mbps
Upload: 0.10 Mbps

I'd say, yes, you are ten times faster than me.

 

[Corey]

For example to compare my Bionic above to a high tier package with Comcast at home, here is a test on my main PC.



The download on my phone is about the same, but the upload on my phone is faster than Comcast at home.
So Verizon's 4G LTE is around the same download as Comcast, simply insane.

I have seen download speeds at home on Comcast around 25 megabit too.
Depends on the server and ping.
My ping is normally less than ten, but on the server above it was 38.