Howdy folks – iPhone 3g, and I’m getting horrific slow data speed.  I don’t think it’s the network this time though.  Operational speed is not an issue here, I’m actually not all that disappointed with device performance, particularly when it’s 2 revisions back.

 

 

Granted, this screen capture is at 3 bars, but I see the same speed regardless of signal strength.  I had my father-in-law do a bandwidth test on his iPhone 4 (I know, different hardware, but still the same network) – he was getting 1.4mb.  My latency has always been obscene.

 

Hard reset does not have any effect on the data speed

Wifi speed is very good, which leads me to suspect a possible issue with the 3g radio.

 

I’m currently running firmware 4.1 (8B117), modem firmware is 05.14.02.  I can’t say with any certainty whether the 3g speed issue started when I installed 4.1.

 

Should I perhaps make the jump to 4.2 to see if I’m looking at an issue that could be solved by that?

 

I have to make the device last until at least March ’11, which is when I’m up for discounted upgrade, so I’m looking at possible troubleshooting routes.

 

Any thoughts?

by flyzor

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