Thread: NextG data speed

If you want to connect to the internet using your iPhone you will have to pay an additional fee usually. This connection is called "Tethering". With Optus I think it costs an additional $10.00 per month.

Originally Posted by warren9981

If you want to connect to the internet using your iPhone you will have to pay an additional fee usually. This connection is called "Tethering". With Optus I think it costs an additional $10.00 per month.

Hmmm... I'm with Telstra and they don't charge me for tethering.

While away recently I used the tethering function to provide our internet. It wasn't cable speed, but it was very adequate. No hassle to set up on a mac.

Linked article says tethering is okay.



Nope, no way can I make this work for me.

Even with the premium for out of metro adsl2+ it'd still cost too much.

Damn.

Nowhere near as fast...

And works the phone (any phone) harder and hotter... Will eventually reduce life of unit.

I'm with vodafone and no extra for tethering. I have iPad on telstra and speed is ok but I wouldn't like either to be my main connection. Slower and flakier. Also remember that they count the data in both directions on 3G and only downloads on copper. Tethering is not that reliable but better than no connection at all in my opinion. Mike

as i move around a lot and most of my connections are out of town away from a tower the speeds vary from 37 kbs to 180 kbs thats nextg

Originally Posted by miky

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Oh, and to you.

I spent half the night trying to work out if it was doable.

Hi Mike,

I happen to work for Telstra in the wireless group so here's my recommendation:

Yes, the iPhone 4 device is capable of being used as a tethered modem and deliver download throughput in excess of 3.6 Mbps. The average throughput for file transfers in a test environment is slighlty less than this in a test lab. Peak transfer speeds are well above 3.6 Mpbs.

Out in the real world of course actual transfer speeds depend on your distance from surrounding base stations and the number of other users sharing those base stations using wireless data at the time.

So before you ditch your ADSL and commite to an iPhone, see if you can get a friend to test the actual NextG data speeds in the areas where you want to use the iPhone (at home, down the coffee shop, work etc) during a few different times of the day. This doesn't neccessarily have to be with an iPhone (but would be better). Any recent NextG device connected to a laptop doing a file download will give you a very good indication on how it will perform. For the test, do a file transfer from a known fast site which you normally use on your ADSL service, or used Speedtest.net (there's also an iPhone app of the same).

Hope this helps.