[subego]

I'm wondering what kind of speeds people are getting.

If you go to speedtest.net, it will take you to their (free) app in the App Store.


I'm getting 27/13Mbps down/up on my wired connection, which is translating to 12/10Mbps on the hi-band 802.11n with WPA2.

I'm asking because that seems poky, but I may be having unrealistic expectations.

[ibook_steve]

You think that's pokey? What exactly are you expecting? Assuming you have cable, those are great speeds.

Steve

[-Q-]

I'm going to have to go with unrealistic expectations. It's certainly better than most cable connections in my area.

[zacharace]

Originally Posted by -Q- 

I'm going to have to go with unrealistic expectations. It's certainly better than most cable connections in my area.

Way better than Time Warner can muster, for sure. I'd count myself very lucky if I ever got those speeds

[subego]

To be fair here, I'm not complaining about my wired speeds. That's nice and zippy. The idea is I think I'm safe assuming my wired connection isn't the bottleneck, and was wondering if anyone had squeezed more bandwidth than this out of their wifi.

Likewise, even if you have a slower wired connection, the difference between the wired and wireless is still somewhat useful for getting a basic idea of the network overhead one should be expecting.

[ccrider]

i think I have the same or similar setup as you (5GHz n only airport extreme) with verizon getting 35/30 wired and I get around 20/15 on the iPad.

I'm bridging my airport extreme through the verizon router which my cause some slowdown. I imagine if I were to get verizon to change me my setup so I could connect directly to the fios box it might speed things up, but for now works fine.

I imagine it's probably the integrated chip on the ipad slowing things down a bit.

bwt my iphone 4 gets around 14/12

[bluel]

I'm getting an average of 15/12 on my iPad and 12/10 on iPhone

[subego]

Thanks for the data! Just to be sure, are you using WPA2? Also, do either of you have a laptop using 5GHz 802.11n for further comparison?

I'm beginning to narrow this down to my old Time Capsule antenna/transmitter being relatively weak. I can get the same 12/10 from it that I get on an Airport Express, g-compatible, low-band n network, already loaded with bunch of g clients and in a nightmare interference situation.

[Wiskedjak]

Laptop (802.11N)
12.67/0.49 Mb/s

Laptop (wired)
12.87/0.49 Mb/s

iPhone 3G (802.11G)
4.84/0.46 Mb/s

iPod Touch 1st Gen (802.11G)
0.63/0.46 Mb/s

iPad (over 802.11N)
7.63/0.46 Mb/s


Clearly my ISP speeds aren't as good as what some of you are seeing (and the iPod Touch *really* sucks in the WiFi department!)

[subego]

Interesting. Thank you!

If I may ask, are you using any security on the laptop, and is there any reason your iPad isn't using n?

[Wiskedjak]

Originally Posted by subego 

Interesting. Thank you!

If I may ask, are you using any security on the laptop, and is there any reason your iPad isn't using n?

No security on the laptop, and the only reason the iPad wasn't using 'N' in my post was a typo on my part. iPad *is* using N.

[subego]

Copy that. The low speed on your iPad makes no sense then, right? Others can get at least 12, you can get 14 off a lappy. WTF?

It just occurred to me, did you test in different places? I can get mine to kiss 16 down every now and then in some areas, but in others it can drop to 4 or 5.

Separately, I was on a MacBook Air yesterday and was getting 22/10 with WPA2 on an Airport Express. I didn't have my iPad with me, but it's pretty clear the max speed of an 802.11n connection is significantly higher than what you can get from an iPad.

[Spheric Harlot]

I'm seeing up/down of

40/10 via 802.11n on the MacBook (late 2006 "pseudo-n" wi-fi model)

22/10 via 802.11n on the iPad I'd borrowed last night.

[subego]

There seems to be some indication that whatever your baseline wireless speed is, your iPad will be able to pull about half that.

Anyone willing to offer an engineering reason for this? Battery life perhaps?

It didn't make any sense at all at first, but I could see getting 20 down from a wifi network that provides 40 would use the same transmitter power getting 10 down from a wifi network that provides 20. The design priority was to provide similar battery performance across different networks.

OTOH, a lappy I would imagine is devoting most of it's battery to cooking eggs running the processor, so transmitter power is is a much less significant portion of overall battery life.

Just throwing that out there, I really have no idea.

[Lotus Esprit]

I am getting 8.37 Mbps down and 2.88 Mbps up on my iPad using old Linksys G Router.

Wired connection gets 9.00 Mbps down and 3.77 Mbps up.

[subego]

So much for that theory.

[turtle777]

Using Speedtest. My Router is the latest Airport Extreme (with WPA2).
I ran about 5 tests each, and took the average result.

iPad (iOS 3.2.1): 10.6/4.3
iPhone 4:.......... 10.6/4.2
iPhone 3G:......... 7.5/4.4
iPod Touch:........ 8.5-10.9/4.4 (DL speeds vary greatly)
iMac Ethernet:... 20.9/3.3
iMac Wifi:.......... 19.0/3.2

The DL on the wired iMac is really odd
Also, the iPhone 3g and iPod Touch have the best upload speeds.

-t

[Lotus Esprit]

Why are we measuring Internet throughput instead of network throughput?

[Spheric Harlot]

Because there's no sensible way to measure network throughput on an iPad?