X10 3G Bandwidth

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Is anyone having issues with their 3G speeds?

I'm sat next to my colleague (iPhone 3G) and I'm on the 20th floor of my building which is in the middle of London (City of London).

We both have the Bandwidth tester from Speedtest.net

We are both connecting to the same server (London. Hosted by Namesco)

We test @ the same time ... He is getting about 850kbps and I'm getting about 56kbps

This is quite embarrassing because I've been going on about my new fone like a geek all week .....

I HAVE noticed that when I choose the servers (within the Speedtest.net app) it seems to think that I am 130 miles away from London!

I switched on the options under 'Location' from within the phone's settings so that it could find out where it was. (I normally have this turned off to save juice) Still the same result tho

Does anyone know how I can improve this???

(FYI...Phone debranded & running R1FA016 but on UK Voda)

Are you both on Vodafone ? Sounds like your phone is on Edge and not 3G. I guess the capacity of the network must be a little stretched in the centre of the City.

I am typically getting 3500kbps on 3G with 'Speedtest' where I am !

I did the exact same test against a friends 3GS, both on vodafone (in syd australia) at the same time, in the same room, with speedtest.

I got close to 900kbps, and he got high 400's

I'm running 016 also.

I've seen a little over 2mbps max so far (depends on location of course)

He's on O2!

I thought that 50 metres up in the air in the centre of London would be the LAST place suffering from bad 3G coverage! LOL

Any ideas on the '130 miles distance to the London Server' part?

thanks!!!

Just switched to '3G only' and got 603k!!!!

I think you sussed it! I can live with that!!!!

Thanks all

I noticed that when I was i Covent Garden last week, crap bandwidth, I was trying to use maps but gave up waiting and just asked someone which way to go lol.
I would have thought central London would be good for speed but I guess its just really busy and over subscribed.

I've got mine on Vodafone, got 2.5Mbps the other day, just tried it again and got 1.8Mbps