Most Reliable Speed test

[yannyb]

I appear to be one of the many people getting conflicting info on whether we can get HSDPA activated on t-mobile web'n'walk.

I've been trying to determine if it is activated on my account by trying a couple of website speedtests. Unfortunately their results vary quite a bit so I'm not sure which one to believe!

www.bandwidthplace.com/speedtest

This site rates my connection speed between 700kbps and 1.2Mbps which indicates to me HSDPA is activated.

However,

www.dslreports.com

tends to return results between 370 and 405kbps. These are around normal 3G speeds as far as I understand.

Obviously the two tests are providing markedly different results which I understand could be due to a whole host of reasons.

I'd be interested to know what other people's results are, or if there are any other speed test sites they would recommend?

Cheers

[CodeSmoke]

If your getting over 300kbps then you are using HSDPA. There are 3 connection you can get 1) GPRS 30-70 kbps, 2) EDGE 70-140 kbps and 3) UMTS/HSDPA 320kbps-1.2mbps.

[darkjedi]

But I think what he's trying to say here, which test is the most reliable? because the test at 2Wire, has HSDPA going up to almost 3Mbps, which isn't true at all. I personally don't know which is the most reliable really.

[yannyb]

This may be of interest for those of you following this thread:

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=276154

I finally got my my-t-mobile pin through so I checked to see if HSDPA was listed in my services (see the thread above). It wasn't so I phoned up and luckily got a helpful CS person who said he could acitvate that no problem.

I then went and did some more speed tests at the websites listed above. The summary of results is as follows:

Pre-HSDPA being turned on

bandwidhtplace - between 900kb and 1.2Mb
dslreports - between 200kb and 400kb

Post-HSDPA being enabled

bandwidhtplace - between 900kb and 1.4Mb
dslreports - between 400kb and 900kb

What this says to me is that the test at bandwidthplace is totally unreliable as I clearly didn't have HSDPA enabled before yet I regularily got results > 1Mb and it hasn't really changed much since!!

Hope this is of use!