AT&T's average speed in Colorado was less than 1.5 megabits download.
HSDPA supports nearly 10 times that speed. AT&T is mismanaging the Frequencies they lease from the Public via the FCC.
Welcome to the forum, but you can’t throw out a communications protocol and expect a network to automatically run at some speed you’ve associated with it. There are many factors involved. Besides theoretical limits to the protocol, per category, there are HW constraints on both the carrier and device to consider.
You claim that AT&T’s HSDPA in Colorado is 10x faster than the 1.5Mbps average speed you state. Rounding down, that would give it at least a Category 10 with 15 High-Speed Downlink Shared Channels for 14Mbps. But remember that’s a theoretical max speed and doesn't account for actual throughout, so for your claim to be true AT&T would have to be running Category 14 in Colorado and that bandwidth per HSDPA tower would have to be available to each and every HSDPA-capable device, and every step of the way from the Internet server, to AT&T’s banckbone, to the local tower your device is connected to, to your device cellular chips, it’s CPU and RAM, OS, and apps that you are using to measure this average speed would all have to be fast enough to allow for this "nearly 10 times that speed” after routing and processing latency along the way. That simply isn’t going to happen.
PS: HSDPA currently has a max theoretical speed of 84.4Mbps, but I don’t think there is any commercial HW capable of supporting that. The iPhone has the fastest 3G chips for a phone that I know of and it’s only 7.2Mbps down (theorectical) because it only has 10 High-Speed Downlink Shared Channels.
I just can't tell if that was simply incompetance on their part or are intionally pushing customers to that more restricted plan.
Intentionally pushing customers to a more restrictive plan requires intelligence. Incompetence does not. Which of those two characteristics would you attribute to AT&T?
Intentionally pushing customers to a more restrictive plan requires intelligence. Incompetence does not. Which of those two characteristics would you attribute to AT&T?
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AT&T's average speed in Colorado was less than 1.5 megabits download.
HSDPA supports nearly 10 times that speed. AT&T is mismanaging the Frequencies they lease from the Public via the FCC.
Welcome to the forum, but you can’t throw out a communications protocol and expect a network to automatically run at some speed you’ve associated with it. There are many factors involved. Besides theoretical limits to the protocol, per category, there are HW constraints on both the carrier and device to consider.
You claim that AT&T’s HSDPA in Colorado is 10x faster than the 1.5Mbps average speed you state. Rounding down, that would give it at least a Category 10 with 15 High-Speed Downlink Shared Channels for 14Mbps. But remember that’s a theoretical max speed and doesn't account for actual throughout, so for your claim to be true AT&T would have to be running Category 14 in Colorado and that bandwidth per HSDPA tower would have to be available to each and every HSDPA-capable device, and every step of the way from the Internet server, to AT&T’s banckbone, to the local tower your device is connected to, to your device cellular chips, it’s CPU and RAM, OS, and apps that you are using to measure this average speed would all have to be fast enough to allow for this "nearly 10 times that speed” after routing and processing latency along the way. That simply isn’t going to happen.
PS: HSDPA currently has a max theoretical speed of 84.4Mbps, but I don’t think there is any commercial HW capable of supporting that. The iPhone has the fastest 3G chips for a phone that I know of and it’s only 7.2Mbps down (theorectical) because it only has 10 High-Speed Downlink Shared Channels.
"Apple delivered AT&T another strong quarter,
Fixed it for him.
I just can't tell if that was simply incompetance on their part or are intionally pushing customers to that more restricted plan.
Intentionally pushing customers to a more restrictive plan requires intelligence. Incompetence does not. Which of those two characteristics would you attribute to AT&T?
Fixed it for him.
Intentionally pushing customers to a more restrictive plan requires intelligence. Incompetence does not. Which of those two characteristics would you attribute to AT&T?
Good point.