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How fast is the wifi on an iPhone
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HazMacFan
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Sep 14, 2007, 07:48 PM
 
I am using the iPhone speed test and using the same wifi AP as my ibook I seem to max at 900 K while my ibook gets 1392 K. Is this normal?
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Sep 14, 2007, 09:54 PM
 
I ran the test at CNET Bandwidth Meter Speed Test - Bandwidth Test and got 1610 on my iPhone via Wi-Fi, and about 3000 on my MacBook.
     
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Sep 14, 2007, 10:07 PM
 
Yeah it seems the transfer speeds are slower on the phone but I think the rendering of the the pages is the biggest bottleneck. Not saying the phone renders pages slowly just not as fast as computers, which is completely understandable.

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Sep 14, 2007, 11:06 PM
 
Fastest I have seen on my phone is around 5800K, I can pull up to 16000K on my computer.

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Sep 15, 2007, 11:54 AM
 
Seeing around 2300 using the above test. The macbook pro sees almost 4 times that. Still, much more usable when I think of how 'fast' edge is.
     
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Sep 15, 2007, 02:09 PM
 
Tried dslreports and got 3608kbps. Slower than a G4 iBook but not that bad.
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Sep 15, 2007, 09:07 PM
 
I got 3463kbps. iMac is certaintly much faster, but not bad still.
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Sep 15, 2007, 09:40 PM
 
I just ran a couple tests and I got around 5mbps on a 20mbps internet connection.

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Oct 30, 2007, 12:19 AM
 
I wonder if those page loading speeds will increase when Apple puts the intel chips in it as opposed to the current ARM processors that are in it now. The slow rendering speed is holding me back!
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Oct 31, 2007, 10:43 AM
 
oooo when are they putting those in??


I have tried out the iphone's wifi, and yea it is slower... but for all practical purposes it doesn't seem that horrible. I can definitely deal with it. Seems well worth it to me anyway to have it all in the palm of my hand

Random question: can iphone's and the itouch play flash games on the browser?

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Oct 31, 2007, 11:29 AM
 
No Flash (yet)
     
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Oct 31, 2007, 12:21 PM
 
NOOOOO! Does any portable browser have flash? Like PSP or Nintendo DS?

P.S. Sorry for changing the topic... i'll change it back... now.
     
   
 
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