Imagination in VGA » Mobile http://joshuamorse.com Thoughts on Usability, Design, and Gadgets from Josh Morse, User Experience Designer Wed, 11 Jan 2012 20:19:20 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 The best of 2G http://joshuamorse.com/2009/01/01/the-best-of-2g/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-best-of-2g http://joshuamorse.com/2009/01/01/the-best-of-2g/#comments Thu, 01 Jan 2009 21:53:10 +0000 Josh http://joshuamorse.com/?p=8 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

Speed Test results: 211 kbits/sec

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