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This is the first of what I can probably guarantee you will be several posts about the Apple iPhone 3G, now that I am lucky enough to have what is easily the best cell phone currently on the market.
3G service has been touted as fast (at least by cell phone standards) for a long time now, but I’ve always been curious as to exactly how fast it is and haven’t really taken the time to actually look it up or test it – until I installed Speedtest from Xtreme Labs. To be honest, I was surprised. I figured it was a few times faster than 56k, but I didn’t think it would actually qualify as broadband. Here are my results:
I decided that I needed to geek out a bit this weekend and called Time Warner Cable to upgrade our standard 7 Mbps (512 Mbps upload) cable Internet access to Road Runner Turbo, which is instead capped at 15 Mbps down and 1 Mbps up. Sure, there’s plenty of stuff that this will have absolutely no impact on, but I noticed an immediate difference in online gaming as well as certain mainstream websites which I frequent. Uploading to the ftp servers for the websites I run has also doubled in speed, which is great. On top of those reasons there is, of course, always the geek bragging rights associated with having the fastest available Internet access available in Wisconsin and among the fastest in the country.
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