Hi,
Tested the 9500 speed at text.dslreports.com/mspeed, and it is about half the speed of my Treo 650 GSM?
Treo has EDGE class 10, and 9500 is class 8?
I also see that 9300 has Edge class 10? Does it mean that 9300 is faster than 9500 in terms of GPRS/EDGE connection?
Does the above has anything to do with the connection speed (GPRS/EGPRS) or I am totally off here?
Excuse me if the questions seems dumb.
Thanks.
Bandwidth speedtests often use certain size image downloads to test speed, so it may not entirely be down to the connection and more to do with the way the 9500 renders the image.
Try doing the same test again though www.skweezer.net (Think that's the URL) from the web browser and see if that effects it at all.
We're not lucky enough to have EDGE GPRS in the UK so i'm not upto speed with different classes of it. But I suspect the phone/browser may have something to do with it.
wilee wrote:
I also see that 9300 has Edge class 10? Does it mean that 9300 is faster than 9500 in terms of GPRS/EDGE connection?Does the above has anything to do with the connection speed (GPRS/EGPRS) or I am totally off here?
Hey there ..
Yep .. your spot on .. the EDGE class has everything to do with the speed of the connection. Its all to do with how many time slots on the cell phone network the device can use for a data connection. The more slots it can use the faster it can connect. Also the number of time slots available for EDGE/GPRS is detemined by the carrier, they only have so many time slots on one cell and these have to be split between voice and data. The more data the less voice calls and vice versa.
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Hey there ..
In the PDF is says "In addition, because not all eight time slots are available for GPRS data, the maximum data rate which the user can expect from a service operator today is 53.6 Kbps (4 time slots x 13.4 Kbps), using a phone that supports Type 4+1 service."
Do you know if the Nokia supports a 4+1 service?
Phil
Hello
Thanks for all your help and reply. The intel article is an interesting read.
I can't seem to find more detail specs on the 9500 communicator.
In any case, it seems the Treo650 is constantly faster than the 9500 in accessing our company's intranet. We are planning to roll out the access to all the field personnel, so we'll most probably going with the Treo.
Though I really prefer the communicator myself.
Thanks again.
Nokia 9300/9500 Communicator supports EGPRS class 10: up to 236.8 kbit/s.