In message <Xns9C3374590DD88noonehomecom@74.209.131.13> Larry
<noone@home.com> was claimed to have wrote:

>DevilsPGD <DeathToSpam@crazyhat.net> wrote in
>news:2ck045h859dl02n0u2rtbcvvjl1psdf4d4@4ax.com :
>
>> 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 find that simply AMAZING, seeing as how the iPhone is an 802.11b/g device
>who's absolute maximum dream speed is 54Mbps!
>
>http://compnetworking.about.com/od/w...stis80211g.htm
>
>It does NOT support the proprietary Linksys or Netgear 802.11g 108Mbps
>extensions, which makes this speed test you tout simply a lie!

How so?

I didn't say the iPhone is getting 70Mb/s, just that I can do about
70Mb/s across the WiFi in general (from my laptop) -- Sorry if that
wasn't clear.

>54Mbps would only take place in space or a screen room or way out in the
>boondocks, with no other wifi signals present to crash against
>it....another dream world we'd all wish we could have.

Not as much a dream, as a relatively large condo in a building with
relatively large suites, a building that isn't fully occupied at this
time of year.

There are no other adjacent buildings, an agricultural reserve
(farm-land) is all I see looking out my window, and no wifi interference
coming from that crop.

I only see a few other wifi networks in my area, and they're mainly on
the same channel as each other (1-2), I'm on the far opposite end of the
2.4GHz spectrum, plus I also have a access point on the 5.8GHz spectrum
where I'm 100% alone.

>Makes one wonder if the iphone app isn't made to make someone's device look
>much faster than it will really go....sorta like a motorcycle or jetski
>speedometer, 20-30% "optimistic"....(c;]

So, a brief recap:

The iPhone is reporting about 9Mb/s from speedtest.net.

I see about 12Mb/s from my laptop (W7 x86) on speedtest.net.

Both of those are realistic for a 15/1.5Mb/s cable modem connection,
especially since I traffic shape to limit to a 12/1.2Mb level of service
to keep latency down for specific devices.

I haven't attempted to test speeds from my internal HTTP server to the
iPhone, I'm unclear how I would do so since I don't have any apps that
can download large files that also report speed.

70Mb/s is from an internal server to a laptop, which I only mentioned to
point out that my wireless LAN's uplink, router and internal switches
are capable of doing much faster then the 9Mb/s-12Mb/s speeds I see from
speedtest.net.