Bay Area T-Mobile 5MB/s and battery
 

Today I found that T-Mobile in Bay Area dramatically increased 3G bandwidth - measurements with speeakeasy and speedtest show now from 3MBits/sec upto 5MBits/sec download and 1MBits/sec upload. Previous values were around 1.1MB/sec and 0.5MB/sec.

And in the same time I forgot yesterday to put my N900 on charger at night. But today morning it had almost FULL charge - pretty same as yesterday at night. Usually it is around 1/2 or 1/3 battery in the best case (standby for 24h).

So, it seems a conclusion - the REAL 3G (or frequencies) consumes much less power.

Re: Bay Area T-Mobile 5MB/s and battery
 

I don't know about battery cause I don't live in an area with signal but I checked out mobilespeedtest.com with a 7MB file yesterday while out and about and was astonished to have gotten something like 5276K, this was on the east coast in upstate NY area.

Re: Bay Area T-Mobile 5MB/s and battery
 

It seems T-Mobile starts roll-out a high speed 3G finally.

My son's Nexus1 has also big boost.

PS. but it is not anywhere, in business district near NASA center it is even lower than before.

Re: Bay Area T-Mobile 5MB/s and battery
 

OK holy smokes!!!! Just did another and got 10090Kbps

EDIT: ok I quit.......for fun 16000K.....this was even using a laptop connected through the N900 via Mobile Hot Spot....sweet!!

EDIT: hmmmm.....makes me wonder if this is why connectivity has been very unstable the past week in this specific area