Treo 700w Broadband Speed, Please Share yours!

[paulchiu]

On my third day using Treo 700w under Verizon Wireless here in NYC.

I use the following site to test the broadband speed of the 700w with Verizon Wireless. Bear in mind that Verizon claims a 400 to 700 kbs average speed.

http://www.dslreports.com/mspeed?jisok=1

On Saturday, 1/21/06 at Peter Lugers Restaurant in Long Island on Northern Blvd, I ran a few test and got:

Low of 136kbs
High of 198kbs

On Sunday, 1/22/06 in Flushing, Queens near the Home Depot next to Shea, I first upgrade the 700w using the *228 and ran both #2 and #1 options. Then I ran the above link and got:

Low of 384kbs
High of 453kbs

Today's figures were acceptable.

In real use, ESPN, Yahoo, and Google worked well, although never as snappy as my office road runner, which ran:

Low of 1600kbs
High of 2236kbs


Paul

BTW, any of you figure a way to program the side buttons to switch to speakerphone? Also, are your audio with speakersphone free of distortion?

[paulchiu]

On my third day using Treo 700w under Verizon Wireless here in NYC.

I use the following site to test the broadband speed of the 700w with Verizon Wireless. Bear in mind that Verizon claims a 400 to 700 kbs average speed.

http://www.dslreports.com/mspeed?jisok=1

On Saturday, 1/21/06 at Peter Lugers Restaurant in Long Island on Northern Blvd, I ran a few test and got:

Low of 136kbs
High of 198kbs

On Sunday, 1/22/06 in Flushing, Queens near the Home Depot next to Shea, I first upgrade the 700w using the *228 and ran both #2 and #1 options. Then I ran the above link and got:

Low of 384kbs
High of 453kbs

Today's figures were acceptable.

In real use, ESPN, Yahoo, and Google worked well, although never as snappy as my office road runner, which ran:

Low of 1600kbs
High of 2236kbs


Paul

BTW, any of you figure a way to program the side buttons to switch to speakerphone? Also, are your audio with speakersphone free of distortion?

[paulchiu]

Today 1/23/06 with 1/4 to 1/5 battery left, got near JFK airport, 76kbs to 132kbs

Then got 365kbs at a Queens Starbucks.

Back in my office, got a steady 190 to 215kbs.

Yahoo quotes loads almost instantly.


Paul

[paulchiu]

Tuesday 8AM 1/24/2006

On a fully charged 700W battery
At midtown Manhattan near 57th & 6th AVE

415kbs to 456kbs after a soft reset

Was 200kbs before reset.

Still no 500 to 700kbs speeds after 4 days use.


Paul

[merlin]

Miami, FL (Coconut Grove)
386 kbit/sec

[paulchiu]

finally in the 600's in NYC.....

Had a few 600s including one at 693, so I am now happy as a pig in s**t.

Paul

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[Joseph Moon]

I noticed that you surfed to EPSN's site for this speed test...

Is there any chance that you have also tried to access MLB.com with the treo?

I am very interested in seeing if I can listen to the games with the Audio Subscription through the treo...

I have not had any success trying it at the VZW store. This is the biggie that would determine if I purchase the data plan or not...

Thanks!
Joseph...