I have some issues with my Wireless LAN speeds. So I wanted to check what kind of speeds other people are achieving.
I have a webserver running on a separate PC, which is connected to my wireless router (802.11b). If I use my laptop to download a large file wirelessly I get speeds up to 500 kBps (5mbps). However when using my N80 I only get 50kBps (0.5 mbps). (By looking at Connections / Connection Manager / Active connections). I have a strong signal (100%), so it doesn't seem to be the connection itself.
My N80 firmware is the latest : v3.0617.0.6
I can imagine that it would not be as fast as my laptop because the laptop would have a better antenna and more power, but I would expect at least speeds up to 200-250kBps.
Does anyone have any data which shows better speeds, or explanation on why it is so slow ?
Thanks,
Richard
I get around 400kbps (50KBps) when using my home wifi, signal strength does affect the speed. Also encryption on the WiFi will slow things down. Have you tested the speed with several web servers? It might be worth pointing your phone at an online bandwidth test to get a better figure.
also 500kbps = 0.5mbps (approx)
The thing is that there is a big difference between my laptop and the N80.
To give you a bit of background. I have a webserver with video files of approx 115Mb. On my laptop it takes a little bit more than 4 minutes to download. However on my N80 it takes more than an hour to download. Same WLAN, same location, same file.
BTW I think we are talking the same numbers here. 400kbps = 0.4Mbps = 50KBps.
While my laptop is achieving 4000 kbps = 4Mbps =500KBps
With that I think both our phones are running approximately at the same speed.
I actually just ran a test on www.dslreports.com/mspeed, and both my laptop and my phone came around the same figure of around 182 kbit/s. So now am I really stumped. If I go to an internal webserver, it clocks at around 1/10th the speed of my laptop, but externally it is on par.......
Will try to do another real download test from an external site to see what speeds are coming up for both laptop and phone
Richard
With big files you will notice a difference because the phone has to write them to memory and it will be slower at doing this than on a PC.
korffr wrote:I actually just ran a test on www.dslreports.com/mspeed, and both my laptop and my phone came around the same figure of around 182 kbit/s. So now am I really stumped. If I go to an internal webserver, it clocks at around 1/10th the speed of my laptop, but externally it is on par.......
Good test.
But, just tried it at home, and when trying the 1MB version, my mobile browser shuts down just before the test is complete. Any ideas why?
Tried the 200K version, and that was too small, the 600K worked fine and gave me a result of 355kbps, 0.295 latency.
Don't know why it would shut down just before the end. Do you have Java/ECMA enabled in the browser settings ? At the end of the test it is supposed to redirect to the results page. How much free memory do you have ?
I did not have any problems with it. This morning I ran another test on this, and got a whopping 1013 kbits/s.
BTW the original problem has been fixed, I upgraded my webserver from Apache 1.3 to Apache 2.0 and apparently this gives a big improvement.
The funny thing now is that if I use the new Nokia podcasting application to download the video files, it is pretty slow, but the web-browser is reasonably fast (compared to the previous speeds I could achieve anyway).
Anyone know if the podcasting application is purposely 'capping' the download speed (since it is supposed to do it in the background) ? And is there a way around that ?