In message <Xns9C32E3E92A19Enoonehomecom@74.209.131.13> Larry
<noone@home.com> was claimed to have wrote:

>DevilsPGD <DeathToSpam@crazyhat.net> wrote in
>news:53c04594te2irifaf7r233jbpl48vct8fr@4ax.com :
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>> I'm also seeing speeds of up to 9Mb/s or so via WiFi,
>
>WOW! Who's wifi has a 9Mbps cap?! The most I've seen is 6Mbps but that's
>because I installed it raw at a friend's pizza shop after the cable guys
>left. 1.4Mbps is about normal DSL wifi at most any restaurant here, capped
>so others can simulcast on it.

I can do about 70Mb/s sustained across my WiFi, speedtest.net from the
browser reports about 12Mb/s across the same WiFi, so 9Mb/s seems to be
the iPhone's independent limit.

I'm on a 15Mb/1.5Mb cable mode, although I traffic shape that to
12Mb/1.2Mb for most traffic to leave some breathing room for VoIP and
ensure latency stays reasonable.

The speeds are decent enough for a low power chipset, certainly faster
then my Windows Mobile device (AT&T Tilt) can manage to sustain in
browser-based download tests.

>But, that wasn't what this was about. This thread was about the 3GS being
>much faster than a Pre or old 3G iphone on a shit sellphone data link
>plodding along in the middle of all that voice traffic.....Bullshit.

I thought we were talking about comparing devices to other devices?

Obviously if the limiting factor is outside the device then such a
comparison is relatively meaningless unless said device has some
technique to address network slowness (Windows Mobile's Skyfire browser,
Opera Mini, etc)

Removing the mobile network from the equation helps to compare the
devices directly, and is still a fair test since 1) most modern
smartphone devices have wifi, 2) most smartphone owners (in my circle of
friends and business associates) have their devices on wifi at home, and
often at work.

At $DAYJOB we have multiple corporate wifi networks, one for company
owned equipment (laptops and blackberries) and one for everything else
(originally for visitors, since we hold conferences at our office, but
once the infrastructure was in place, we started encouraging employees
to use it for personal laptops and mobile devices)