On Wed, Mar 26, 2008 at 1:10 PM, Laurent GUERBY <laurent at guerby.net> wrote: > Hi, > > When connected to the internet through a bluetooth phone I can't seen to > find someone reporting more than 20-25 kbyte/second even with 3G or 3.5G > phones + unlimited data plans in France at least. > > With my Nokia 6086 which is EDGE only I get 20-25 kbyte/second spikes > and overall average of 10-15 kbyte/second which is as expected. > I'm evaluating wether or not to buy a 3.5G phone like the Nokia E51. > > If you're in France or Europe you can test download speed in a X > Terminal as follows: > > wget http://test1.guerby.org/test -O /dev/null > > Hit C-c after a few minutes once you've got an idea of download speed > (test file is 10 Mbyte of compressed data). If not in Europe replace the > URL with one of any compressed file URL near you. > > I'm interested in data plan/phone combo that get good download > speed in France. > Hi Laurent, I just got a new SE W890 which has Edge and 3.5G (I can't figure out if that's the same thing...). I'm using the PAN to connec to my N810 to the phone's modem. The sevice provider is 3 (http://www.three.com/) and I have a 1GB/month plan at Euro 21. With your test file (from Sweden at night), I got up to 55Kb/s with an average at around 44Kb/s. Good luck with your search! /henrik
