The best of 2G
I recently moved from T-Mobile to AT&T, and it wasn’t to get an iPhone (I already have a 2G iPhone I used with T-Mobile). After T-Mobile finally rolled out their 3G network 10 miles from Ann Arbor, I decided it was time to move.
While I’ve enjoyed HSDPA 3G Internet speeds in Ann Arbor, Lansing, and Grand Rapids, a recent visit to northern Michigan put me back on the EDGE network. EDGE can really fluctuate; I clocked around 100 kilobits per second several times. Yet, just today in Kalamazoo, I reached 211 kilobits, just shy of the 236.8 kilobit maximum speed for EDGE. My guess is that a great number of people were sleeping off the night’s revelry, giving me access to more network resources than usual. If EDGE was reliable at these speeds, I wouldn’t have been in quite the rush toward 3G, though it’s still shy of the 1+ megabit I often enjoy.
Speed Test results: 211 kbits/sec