2011/3/17 Rony gnulinuxist@gmail.com:
Guys, please do a speed test to get actual figures. Youtube is not a
I was looking for a site that works reasonably well on my N900 (speedtest.net's flash thingy breaks on my phone). This is what I got from inside my home:
https://picasaweb.google.com/112929706764240025005/Other#5584964411058302146
My home has pretty poor coverage. I will be going out to Versova area later in the afternoon, will re-run the speed test then.
The site is www.bandwidthplace.com.
Some phones have software that download these videos at low resolutions fit for mobile screens. While we expreience a relatively faster speed in 3G, it is far from the many Mbps that they claim.
That is fine. I am not comparing Youtube speeds between GPRS and 3G - not Youtube between DSL and 3G. With 3G, the frequent buffering of the videos doesn't happen, and the performance is barely discernible from my DSL connection's performance. My phone doesn't optimize Youtube in any way.
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