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Re: New carrier in Canada (Mobilicity)

It's not new, they just changed their name. Btw, there is also windmobile.

Re: New carrier in Canada (Mobilicity)

It's relatively new (they opened for business this year if I'm not mistaken).

Re: New carrier in Canada (Mobilicity)

Quote:

Originally Posted by stas123 (Post 882555)

In Toronto, I'm getting speeds about 1.0-2.0 Mbit down and ~1.0 Mbit up.

All ports are open, but certain types of traffic get major shaping. For example, I couldn't get GTalk video to connect from the N900, even though the latency is low (~100ms) and there's plenty of available bandwidth.

I decided to test out some things, and here's clear evidence that YouTube, among other things, is being throttled on Mobilicity.

Measurements taken using DU Meter. The horizontal line on the graph is set at 2.0 Mbps, vertical grid lines are spaced every 30 seconds.

Test 1
TV Show (Usenet)
Video length: 21:27

I was able to stream this video after approximately one minute (the time to download the first 20,000KB segment).

Code:

Start time       11/24/2010 20:42:14

Stop time        11/24/2010 20:56:01

Elapsed time     13 min 47.0 sec

                                             Incoming         Outgoing

------------------------------------ ---------------- ----------------

Total of data transferred                    186.4 MB           3.7 MB

Maximum transfer rate                      308.9 KB/s         6.1 KB/s

Average transfer rate                      230.8 KB/s         4.5 KB/s

http://img146.imageshack.us/img146/7212/dailyshow.png

Test 2
Music Video (YouTube)
Video length: 5:08

This video was unwatchable, as it would stop to buffer every 10 seconds or so. To watch it uninterrupted, you'd have to pause it and let it load for about 6 minutes before you hit play.

Code:

Start time       11/24/2010 21:38:41

Stop time        11/24/2010 21:49:49

Elapsed time     11 min 7.6 sec

                                             Incoming         Outgoing

------------------------------------ ---------------- ----------------

Total of data transferred                     35.1 MB         694.2 KB

Maximum transfer rate                      137.9 KB/s         9.0 KB/s

Average transfer rate                       53.9 KB/s         1.0 KB/s

http://img338.imageshack.us/img338/269/youtube0.png

Re: New carrier in Canada (Mobilicity)

That doesnt look good, well what about Wind? do they block or shape traffic? I wonder if someone could do these tests on thier network. My contract with Rogers is almost over (thank god) I wanna switch to either Wind or Mobilicty .....

Re: New carrier in Canada (Mobilicity)

Quote:

Originally Posted by stas123 (Post 882625)

can you verify the APN you used is wap.davewireless.com
can you specify if you had their proxy 10.100.3.4:8080 enabled or disabled? i found it got the settings automatically, but it left the proxy disabled. works fine but i didn't check for throttling like you did.

Re: New carrier in Canada (Mobilicity)

hi there, can one of you guys please confirm...

1. whether the sms text time stamp is not off by 4 or 5 hours? This is a problem on the f-ing stupid Rogers network with N900. I've been trying to hack the phone to resolve this for my wife.

2. whether you can send and receive MMS messages OK. Rogers is able to get N900 to receive MMS but not send using fMMS. I know it's not the phone because I can use a T-mobile sim card and send/receive MMS just fine.

Re: New carrier in Canada (Mobilicity)

does anybody have experience using mobilocity in vancouver?

Re: New carrier in Canada (Mobilicity)

n900fan75,

1. SMS was also off for me when I was with Rogers, when I moved to Mobilicity you will be happy to know that the time is correct.

2. Sorry, Unfortunately I do use MMS

Re: New carrier in Canada (Mobilicity)

excelar8,

I am in Vancouver and using the N900, and the service has been good so far the call quality is great, there are a few dead zones but otherwise a good network.

You can definitely notice that this is a new network (dead zones) but that is expected and hopefully they will be able to work out the kinks in the coming future.

Re: New carrier in Canada (Mobilicity)

Quote:

Originally Posted by adosanjh (Post 883389)

n900fan75,

1. SMS was also off for me when I was with Rogers, when I moved to Mobilicity you will be happy to know that the time is correct.

2. Sorry, Unfortunately I do use MMS

Thanks for that.

Does anyone have experience with MMS messaging using fMMS on N900 with Mobilicity? thanks.