aggie99

Wha part of dallas did you run your test? Im noticing the closer to downtown I get the better speeds I get. I live in Rowlett and was getting speeds around 3 down this morning. In mesquite im topping 4.2. Lakewood area I hit 4.5 once. Im wondering if the "4g" is only live in the downtown area and the suburbs are on the fringe?

Evil.Bonsai

Used speedtest.net, server in Temple and Houston (pretty much the same either way)

Austin, TX
3.75
.33
627ms

Used wifi for kicks

13
1.3
42

Juijin

I guess i just had a bad one, i ran it in the store near live oak (idk the exact street) might of been a bad test. now im in Richardson so yeah not much different. Ill try again this weekend.

tpdtopcop

I work in Toledo Ohio and did several speed tests and consistantly getting over 3.2mbs down and 200-300kpbs up with pings in the 90's-170's

redrider67

Using the browser on the Atrix gives consistent speed tests over the app.


http://www.speedtest.net/result/1174529362.png

Last edited by redrider67; February 26th, 2011 at 12:20 AM.

tical2k

ready for a HUGE speed test csv result from since i got the phone? What is UTMS?

Date ConnType Download Upload Latency ServerName
2/21/11 20:02 Cell 381280 43550 246 New York, NY
2/21/11 11:03 Cell 340700 42615 497 Wichita, KS
2/21/11 20:06 Cell 304640 43619 153 New York, NY
2/21/11 20:05 Cell 295968 41211 255 New York, NY
2/21/11 19:53 Cell 292316 40627 252 Asheville, NC
2/21/11 20:06 Cell 287149 41561 256 New York, NY
2/21/11 19:51 Cell 282803 38543 507 Wichita, KS
2/22/11 22:55 Cell 265365 43823 130 Hickory, NC
2/22/11 22:55 Cell 259928 42313 232 Hickory, NC
2/22/11 22:49 Cell 256399 39855 144 Hickory, NC
2/21/11 19:58 Cell 248888 29136 9 Greensboro, NC
2/25/11 22:43 Cell 244158 40894 8 Wichita, KS
2/22/11 22:59 Cell 240160 30280 233 Hickory, NC
2/22/11 22:58 Cell 225686 35717 253 Hickory, NC
2/21/11 20:05 Cell 221421 23119 159 New York, NY
2/21/11 20:00 Cell 214692 34357 251 Charlotte, NC
2/22/11 9:51 Cell 207774 40000 249 Hickory, NC
2/22/11 9:49 Cell 186564 27004 243 Hickory, NC
2/23/11 11:43 Cell 176497 41111 170 Hickory, NC
2/26/11 11:34 Cell 174066 39696 430 Wichita, KS
2/21/11 20:01 Cell 167546 13244 678 Charlotte, NC
2/22/11 23:10 Cell 159184 40121 656 Hickory, NC
2/22/11 9:50 Cell 143002 44276 613 Hickory, NC
2/21/11 19:56 Cell 139440 37732 723 Wilson, NC
2/25/11 8:46 Cell 134402 36262 1427 Wichita, KS
2/21/11 19:59 Cell 126141 35128 496 Greensboro, NC
2/21/11 19:57 Cell 119020 37748 697 Wilson, NC
2/22/11 9:45 Cell 116782 130909 512 Wichita, KS
2/22/11 22:55 Cell 114082 44503 126 Hickory, NC
2/22/11 9:46 Utms 112625 31555 6 Wichita, KS
2/24/11 9:00 Cell 107980 40091 390 Wichita, KS
2/22/11 17:10 Cell 100012 39199 660 Hickory, NC
2/21/11 20:03 Cell 95255 24356 635 New York, NY
2/22/11 22:50 Cell 90595 44073 646 Hickory, NC
2/24/11 8:55 Cell 85898 40299 413 Wichita, KS
2/24/11 8:54 Cell 75128 41003 177 Hickory, NC
2/24/11 8:56 Cell 74291 23580 401 Wichita, KS
2/24/11 8:55 Cell 64217 33231 402 Wichita, KS
2/21/11 19:56 Cell 61472 39715 642 Hickory, NC
2/25/11 8:55 Cell 51976 23996 7 Wichita, KS
2/22/11 22:49 Cell 15966 30375 615 Hickory, NC
2/22/11 9:07 Cell 15445 13493 50 Wichita, KS

Last edited by tical2k; February 26th, 2011 at 10:51 AM.

syntrix

Easy to tell by looking at your ping times. There is NO way you are going to get that fast on HSPA+, in fact, the ping times above are quite scary.

Please post your ping time as well as raw up/down speeds. One is useless without the other.

CmegaMighty

I'm in LA county and I usually get 1,500-3,000mbps

dimammx

A bit off topic, but what is highest you got ON WI-FI ?
It doesn't seam to go higher then 6.5 on wi-fi (while desktop can get up to 12)

Evil.Bonsai

as posted above, I got 13.

I also updated my email signature from my phone:

Sent from my Motorola Atrix 4(-ish)G

gzrecoil

I'm able to get 15/5.5 at work on Wifi.

I get about the same on my desktop.

Probably your router or wireless settings.

kgeissler

I wonder if AT&T did something to cap the speeds recently. I pulled out my old N1 and looked at the history of my speedtests. On 2/14/11 I got 2996 down and 1335 up, on 2/20/11, 2785 down and 1253 up...today 3345 down and 339 up. Ran it a second time and got 3119 down and 304 up.

My N1 was flying on upload speeds and now all of a sudden I am capped. WTF?

zizo79

welcome to the club lol

zizo79

I have a 10 Meg connection at home and I am only showing 5 Meg on my Atrix (on WIFI)..Weird

KingL

i have both here r the speeds i get here in NJ

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monsteroyd

Duluth ga 30096
695 kbs up
295 kbs dn
2-3 bars

Last edited by monsteroyd; February 28th, 2011 at 05:26 PM.

blackego

The fastest for me was 4.5megs down. But I've been getting 1.5 on a consistent basis. Im in Houston but streaming youtube or watching flashed based content on webpages have been rather snappy despite 1.5 speedtests. My iphone 4 was never this fast.

syntrix

Iphone is provisioned differently than atrix. You either don't have hspa+ or your phone is provisioned WRONG.

Or there's other problems like different towers, leaving it in a lead box, etc... Too many unknowns over the internets!

I'd be calling ATT ASAP!

zizo79

Awesome !!

Jeremy81

I've been getting as high as 3.8mbps today. Top speed I'd ever received before with iPhone, Nexus One, or Dell Streak was 3.5. The speedtest.net app has become basically useless for me for some reason it triples my ping times and shows my download speeds as 300kbps. If AT&T would just turn on HSUPA I would be perfectly happy with my service.

zizo79

I got up to 2.8 down and .17 up today..Upload speeds can't pass the the .2 mark

Jeremy81

My uploads average around .35. Good compared to some that I've seen buy my iPhone 4 and Streak were getting an average of 1.5mbps. I really hope AT&T does something about the upload speeds soon.

zizo79

Neither Moto or AT&T are saying anything about these crippled uploads speeds. I hope that the petition that I started works....

KoZoTo

You can blame T-Mobile into forcing At&t into calling HSPDA+ "4G"
At least they will go LTE by years end

papabri

Although I posted this in the Atrix in Canada thread, thought I'd put it here too:

I tested the Atrix speeds on the telus network in Burlington, ON and got:

1st test
2.93mbit down
0.34mbit up
331ms

2nd test
4.52mbit down
0.34mbit up
1834ms

3rd test
3.31mbit down
0.32mbit up
193ms

redrider67

You using the application or going to an actual speed test site?

Try going to Speedtest.net - The Global Broadband Speed Test or Homepage of Speakeasy* - The Powerful, User-Friendly Computational Software to Solve, Create, Explore and run a test since the Atrix has flash.

I have great downloads I normally average anywhere between 2.5 to 4.5 down load up loads still suck at 300kbs on upload.

zizo79

I actually use multiple apps to do these speed test..the most accurate one IMO is speakeasy (the website).

Phoneguy65

Speed Test
03/06/2011
11:44am, Bartonville, TX. server (Just North of Dallas)
Down: 3236 kbps
Up: 337 kbps
Ping: 225ms

syntrix

How do you know that speakeasy is the most accurate?

I'm just curious as different speed testing sites use different methods for testing. Some will use a single socket, some will use multiple sockets. Some a combination based on ping times, etc....

The best test would be a two part test:

• Atrix to the radio tower bandwidth
• Radio tower through the landline backhaul

Ok, maybe 3. Backhaul internet drain to the destination Most of these "speed tests" are testing all 3 as 1.

Keep them coming! Looks like the ATT network has high ping times, but the telus network seems to be a lot better!

zizo79

My speeds got really bad this afternoon (still bad): .5 Mbps down and .12 Mbps up. I am not sure why..hmmm

CX876

San Francisco, CA

the most I got around 3.26 - 1.16Mbps UP, and 0.24 - 0.42MBPs DOWN,
no a big problem for me when using this phone but I found that I normally get higher speed in early morning or late mid night when not many people are using their cell phone

oHIobellboy

I know I'm thread jacking....but how the hell do you do a screen shot with this thing?

zizo79

You have to root your device and then install an app called "screenshot" .

oHIobellboy

Thanks. I'll hold off on that. Haven't had it a week yet. I did find that I can email the results to myself on the speedtest.net app and then upload the pix to truck forums I'm on.

brawndo

Is there anything I can do to improve my speeds? Does rooting it help or something cuz it doesn't seem like it would from what I've read about it.

zizo79

I just got these tonight:

humjaba

3235 / 357 in Clemson, SC using Atlanta, GA server

My home internet is 1.5mbit so I'm completely happy with this. Also, my friends on Verizon struggle to get 800kbit in this area. I will have to try it on my gf's iPhone 4 soon, for comparison.

Last edited by humjaba; March 8th, 2011 at 04:52 PM.

John Jason

I'm in a 4G area and the menu always shows H+, although usually only two bars. I can't get internet radio stations to play without constantly stopping for buffering, so I suspect there is something wrong. I never have problems with voice calls, however. Using speedtest.net and a local server (35 miles) for three tests I get:

0.59 Mbps down, 0.06 Mbps up
1.28 Mbps down, 0.07 Mbps up
0.39 Mbps down, 0.09 Mbps up

Using the next closest city (266 miles) I get:

0.99 Mbps down, 0.08 Mbps up
1.30 Mbps down, 0.13 Mbps up
0.95 Mbps down, 0.09 Mbps up

Are those decent for an Atrix in a 4G area? Or should I take it back and throw it at the people behind the counter?

syntrix

Everyone is forgetting to post latency. Honestly, you can't compare speeds without this important piece of information.

John Jason

OK, I just ran the tests again at 5:30 pm. The first set of three are at a local server 35 miles:

0.53 Mbps down, 0.87 Mbps up, ping 296 ms.
0.38 Mbps down, 0.92 Mbps up, ping 356 ms.
0.92 Mbps down, 0.10 Mbps up, ping 309 ms.

And from the next closest city, 266 miles away:

0.00 Mbps down, 0.10 Mbps up, ping 347 ms.
0.30 Mbps down, 0.13 Mbps up, ping 97 ms.
0.51 Mbps down, 0.12 Mbps up, ping 222 ms.

I should add that the first time I ran the tests this time speedtest.net (the app from the marketplace) said it couldn't even find the network. After several additional tries, waiting five minutes or so in between, I was finally able to get the above results.

And I still can't get a streaming radio station, even a local station with server right here in town, to stay connected for more than about five minutes without going into buffering.

The above is pathetic, but it is 5:30 pm. I'll try again late tonight and post if I get better results.

prpz

My Atrix On Rogers (closer to att than any other us networ) Ontario Kitchener
3 Bars 3550 ad 478
My Galaxy Tab on the same network same place same plan reception
5888 and 2200
My Samsung Vibrant was doing
4135 and 558 same place
Most interesting......

John Jason

OK, I posted above the results at 5:30 pm. Here are later results.

Local server, 35 miles, 8:15 pm:
1.41 Mbps down, 0.07 Mbps up, ping 262 ms
1.08 Mbps down, 0.07 Mbps up, ping 308 ms
1.18 Mbps down, 0.07 Mbps up, ping 309 ms
Another city, 266 miles, 8:15 pm:
0.44 Mbps down, 0.08 Mbps up, ping 176 ms
0.47 Mbps down, 0.07 Mbps up, ping 298 ms
0.55 Mbps down, 0.06 Mbps up, ping 7 ms

Local server, 35 miles, midnight:
1.30 Mbps down, 0.13 Mbps up, ping 447 ms
1.13 Mbps down, 0.15 Mbps up, ping 8 ms
0.82 Mbps down, 0.13 Mbps up, ping 302 ms
Another city, 266 miles, midnight:
0.69 Mbps down, 0.10 Mbps up, ping 393 ms
0.51 Mbps down, 0.10 Mbps up, ping 275 ms
0.40 Mbps down, 0.07 Mbps up, ping 416 ms

These still seem pathetic to me.

humjaba

I just ran the speakeasy.net speedtest via flash and got 3.64/.31 and 4.25/.34
The downloads are about the same as my girlfriend's iPhone 4, but the uploads are much slower.

jimbush3

"2011-03-11 00:22","Cell",138353,38287,143,"Hammond, LA"
"2011-03-11 00:20","Cell",399768,41618,439,"Hammond, LA"
"2011-03-11 00:19","Wifi",174545,49410,149,"Hammond, LA"
"2011-03-07 19:27","Wifi",168077,48687,275,"Hammond, LA"

Interesting results

syntrix

I'm curious as to the latency (ping time)?

Revs9k01

The speeds we see on the SpeedTest app are defently off. It could just be that the app itself is glitchy because when i ran the SpeakEasy.Net test my results were more on average of above 3+ Down and .30 Up.

John Jason

Speakeasy.net works on my laptop, but on my Atrix 4G I get the error that it requires Flash. That is with either the standard browser or with Opera Mini. I thought Flash was installed by default.

Edit: OK, Flash was not installed, so I installed it. But speakeasy.net still says I need to update my browser, both with the default browser and Opera Mini.

Edit: OK, had to enable Flash in the browser settings. Here are the results from Speakeasy.net at 9 am:

0.53 Mbps down, 0.11 Mbps up
0.79 Mbps down, 0.10 Mbps up
0.26 Mbps down, 0.11 Mbps up

Speakeasy.net does not give me a ping time. Also, I had to use Seattle, which is the closest city listed at speakeasy.net, which is the same city as I used as the second city in my tests above (266 miles).

I don't see any appreciable difference in my results from speedtest.net and speakeasy.net. My speed still sucks.

Last edited by John Jason; March 11th, 2011 at 11:07 AM.

b1aze

Server is 31miles away according to speedtest app.

3.02Mbps down .31Mbps up with a 513ms ping. Live within 3miles from a major highway in NewEngland.

humjaba

Speakeasy site doesn't do latency, but I typically get 250 or so ms from the Speedtest.net app.

John Jason

Well, the long and annoying chapter of my travails with the Atrix 4G are over. This afternoon I returned it.