There is a great website that is specifically meant to test your iPhone’s network speed. It is TestMyiPhone.com. It will tell you what the speeds are on your iPhone for 3G, Edge, and Wifi. I want to see what the results are for ehPhone visitors.
Here’s how to do it:
- Go to www.testmyiphone.com on your iPhone.
- Click on the green ‘Start Test’ button
- Select what network you are on
- Post your results in the comments with the time of your test and the city you are in
- Then we can all compare results
Here are my results:
Speed - 958 / 117
Network - 3G
Location - Whistler, BC
Time - 7:30
The 958 Kbps is the connection speed, the 117 kB/s is the download speed. I guess we are only really interested in the 3G speeds since we already know that Edge is slow and Wifi doesn’t really matter. The key of these tests is to see how fast the 3G network is across the country and if it slows down at certain times during the day. I will be posting more results at different times and locations.
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32 Responses to “Post your iPhone’s network speed”
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1. Alessandro Says:
August 31st, 2008 at 8:19 pmSpeed - 1144 / 27 Kbps (Slow upload, second try timed out)
Network - 3G
Location - Windsor, ON
Time - 11:15 PM
Late at night, so probably not a lot of usage. Will test tomorrow during the day and see what type of results I get.
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2. Joshv Says:
August 31st, 2008 at 8:21 pmYour connection is: 2.11 Mbps (2107 Kbps)
You download at: 257 kB/s
You are: 10.54 times faster than EDGE
Connection type: 3g
Test Type: Download
Tested from: iPhone
Test key: s1154Qo4860S
Test date: 08.31.08
Latency: 536 msI am assuming that is good.
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3. Joshv Says:
August 31st, 2008 at 8:26 pmSpeed - 2321 / 283
Network - 3G
Location - Toronto, ON
Time - 11:20Tried 3 or 4 times, this was the best result I was able to achieve.
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4. Teebs Says:
August 31st, 2008 at 8:44 pmSpeed: 1.04Mbps(1038Kbps) / 127KB/s
I am: 5.19 Times faster than EDGE.
Network: 3G/Rogers
Location: Victoria, BC
Time: 8:40PMFrom my condo building with 2/3 bars. I’ll try when outside with Full Bars later sometime.
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5. Tej Dhami Says:
August 31st, 2008 at 8:45 pm1.65 Mbps (1654 Kbps / 202 kB/s)
Transferred 2048 KB in 10.1 seconds.Test Result Details
Your Connection is: 1.65 Mbps (1654 Kbps)
You downloaded at: 202 kB/s
You are: 8.27 times faster than EDGE.
Connection type: 3g
Test Type: Download
Test from: iPhone
Test key: *I don’t think i should give this out (Privacy reasons ofcourse)
Test date: 08.31.08
Latency: 520.5 ms -
6. Teebs Says:
August 31st, 2008 at 8:48 pmEarly Prediction: “Central” Canada gets the best coverage. Ottawa/Toronto and everything in between
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7. Teebs Says:
August 31st, 2008 at 8:49 pmYou people are forgetting your Location. Location is a big part in the experiment that is being conducted.
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8. Eric March Says:
August 31st, 2008 at 10:52 pmI took a bunch of tests to get a good average (I know it provides averages for you but Safari crashed twice on me during the tests so I’m going to go with my own), so I’m going to provide a range here:
Location: Brampton, ON
3G Download Tests (14):
Minimum: ~1.9Mbps
Maximum: ~2.6Mbps
Notes: Tests were more often at or above 2.2Mbps, dropping below 2Mbps only twice in 14 tests.3G Upload tests (3):
Minimum: 256Kbps
Maximum: 261Kbps
Notes: Pretty consistent here, not much variance.Not bad, all things considered. Definitely some solid coverage where I am.
Note that it’s a synthetic test with one file (two when it skips the 512k file for the larger one on the download test) testing maximum throughput, so it’s not really very real-world, where web pages are often loading many dozens of smaller files sequentially. It’s here where the real bottleneck is, establishing those connections to the sites you visit. Great for downloading large images, but connection times — HTTP requests, ACKs, etc., really bring the overall average speed down. Of course, given that it’s faster overall anyway, it’s a damn sight better than EDGE.
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9. Myke D Says:
September 1st, 2008 at 6:04 amConnection: 1.86Mbps (1864 Kbps)
Downloading at: 228kB/s
9.32x faster than EDGE.Location: Burlington, ON
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10. Skwid Says:
September 1st, 2008 at 7:32 amLocation: Downtown Montreal
2.33 Mbps (2325 Kbps / 284 kB/s)
Transferred 1792 KB in 6.3 seconds.Your connection is: 2.33 Mbps (2325 Kbps)
You downloaded at: 284 kB/s
You are: 11.63 times faster than EDGE.
Connection type: 3g
Test type: Download
Tested from: iPhone
Test key: t1128Pn663H
Test date: 09.01.08
Latency: 1804 ms -
11. redhearts Says:
September 1st, 2008 at 8:04 amLocation: Downtown Toronto
2.29 mbps (2290/280 k)
Transferred 1792 kb in 6.4 seconds.11.45 times faster than edge.
@ 11:04am.
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12. Tipsymcfragger Says:
September 1st, 2008 at 8:37 amLocation: Markham, Ontario
2.17 Mbps (2169 kbps)
Transfered 1792 KB in 6.8 seconds
Connection Type: 3G10.85 times faster than EDGE
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13. Memphis Says:
September 1st, 2008 at 8:46 amLocation: Ottawa, On at 11:46am
1573/192 kbs
Transfered 1536 in 8 seconds
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14. LoWd0Wn Says:
September 1st, 2008 at 9:07 amLocation: Kelowna BC
Download Speed - Connection 3G
1.6Mbps ( 1602 / 196 )Time 9:00 AM
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15. Crewser Says:
September 1st, 2008 at 10:07 am1866 Kbps / 228 kB/s Transferred 1536 KB in 6.7 seconds.
Location: Barrie, ON 1:00 PM
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16. Arcadio Says:
September 1st, 2008 at 11:48 am1.73Mbps (1730 Kbps / 211 kB/s)
8.65 times faster than EDGE
Location: Charlotte, NC, USA
Day: Monday, September 1st, 2008 - 2:45pm -
17. ruffdeezy Says:
September 1st, 2008 at 7:24 pm1.36 Mbps (1361 Kbps / 166 kB/s)
Burnaby BC
7:15 pmFinally got over the 1Mb mark, still not seeing the nice results some people have posted.
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18. Teebs Says:
September 1st, 2008 at 7:28 pmCould it have anything to do with out mountainous geography?
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19. Teebs Says:
September 1st, 2008 at 7:31 pmis 3G faster than some WiFi connections??
> I just did a test myself with WiFi .n Airport Express router and I’m 1.33 MB -
20. Chookaboom Says:
September 1st, 2008 at 7:52 pmRan 5 tests for 3G download @ 10:45pm ET Richmond Hill, Ontario
Average score was around 1.48Mbps
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21. ruffdeezy Says:
September 1st, 2008 at 8:03 pm@ Teebs
It shouldn’t be faster, maybe they are slowing your home connection down on purpose…lol -
22. KevC Says:
September 1st, 2008 at 8:14 pm2.39Mbps (6.1s)
2389/292
3G 11pm Monday Night
Yonge/St.Clair - Downtown TO. -
23. Teebs Says:
September 1st, 2008 at 8:25 pmHa I wouldn’t be surprised. I’m tethered on the road heading up Island on the #1 right now. Ran some testmyiphone.com tests and right now I’m averaging 1.8Mbps with full bars.
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24. Genexxa Says:
September 2nd, 2008 at 7:02 amOttawa
Your connection is : 1.64 Mbps
You downloaded at 200kB/s
You are 8.2 times faster than EDGE
Connection type 3G -
25. DP Says:
September 2nd, 2008 at 9:34 am2.37 mbps (2371kbps)
download: 289kb/s
3g
Port Coquitlam, BC
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26. bc Says:
September 2nd, 2008 at 9:43 am1.14 Mbps (1144kbps) download, 3G
Rogers
Vancouver BC
9:40am -
27. tony Says:
September 2nd, 2008 at 9:50 amrun 2 test in morning 9:27 AM tuesday, Sept 2nd, in Richmond, BC
result
1.38Mbps (1384Kbps/169kB/s) download
.16 Mbps (166kbps/20kB/s) upload
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28. Mike Says:
September 2nd, 2008 at 12:49 pm250kB/s
Downtown Toronto
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29. ruffdeezy Says:
September 3rd, 2008 at 12:48 pmDownload - 72 kB/s
Burnaby BC - 12:45 pm
What a joke! -
30. bc Says:
September 3rd, 2008 at 6:43 pmre-ran the test
6:30pm Vancouver
3G
Download 2.24Mbps
Upload 0.43Mbps -
31. Chizzy Says:
September 6th, 2008 at 1:52 pmYour connection is: 1.52 Mbps (1221Kbps)
You download at: 186 kB/s
You are: 7.6 times faster than EDGE
Connection type: 3g
Test Type: Download
Tested from: iPhone
Test date: 09.06.08
Latency: 641.75 msLocation:
Winnipeg @ 3:45pm -
32. dizzy Says:
September 10th, 2008 at 6:56 pmI like testmyiphone.com, but as a web developer I felt the need to create my own and since there aren’t that many iPhone test sites out there thought there was room for one more.
It’s called My3gSpeed (http://my3gspeed.com)
Also, the server is located in Chicago so it’s Canadian friendly eh
Any feedback is appreciated - info@my3gspeed.com
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