i600 (WM2003) Connection Speed

[Bugwart]

I was noticing that my speed test results seemed slow. Whether I ran the DSL Reports Mobile Speed Test http://www.dslreports.com/mspeed or http://www.texan.net/speed.htm, I was getting numbers that looked like Q2N.

I changed the connection settings: start - Settings - 9. More... - 1. Data Connections and changed Internet Connection from "Automatic" to "Express Network:. After this change, my speeds went up to above 85 kbps. [/url]

[ChrisWalker]

Oh yeah, you're right. I was getting 11kbps before, and now I'm getting 93kbps. That's a 9x increase.

How odd. Why in the world wasn't the phone choosing the Express Network before? Now surfing the web is _way_ faster. I thought the processor was slowing down the web browser, but with WM2003 things are screaming now. At least they should be :)

Great tip! Everyone -- check out the option.

Chris

[aristoBrat]

Why in the world wasn't the phone choosing the Express Network before?
If it was using the older, slower Quick 2 Net setting (instead of Express Network), if you didn't have a data plan, did that count as voice minutes like it does if you use Express Network?

[Bugwart]

It does not make sense why it would connect via Q2N rather than EN from "automatic". I have had the unlimited data plan since I got the i600.

The only explanation that I came up with was that perhaps in "automatic" it will only select EN when there is a strong signal. I say this because there have been times when it seemed that the i600 was using EN. If this is true it must require better than -65 dB, since this is what I get at my house.

[Mike Temporale]

Just so everyone knows... Kris has posted this to the front page. It's a great tip, and we want to make sure all of our readers can take advantage of this!

[Kris Kumar]

Just so everyone knows... Kris has posted this to the front page. It's a great tip, and we want to make sure all of our readers can take advantage of this!

Thanks for the tip Bugwart and thanks Mike for covering for me :-)

This tip may be good for all VZ i600 users, but for us folks on GSM/GPRS networks, it is agonizing ;-)

[aristoBrat]

This tip may be good for all VZ i600 users, but for us folks on GSM/GPRS networks, it is agonizing ;-)
For GSM, it'd be the difference between connecting via CSD and GPRS .. I guess. :D

[Bugwart]

Just so everyone knows... Kris has posted this to the front page. It's a great tip, and we want to make sure all of our readers can take advantage of this!

Thanks for the tip Bugwart and thanks Mike for covering for me :-)

This tip may be good for all VZ i600 users, but for us folks on GSM/GPRS networks, it is agonizing ;-) You are welcome!