@shadowjk
good point. maybe i didnt state my thought well enough: what i meant to say was that the 3.5G symbol is always displayed when actually transferring data (active connection) and never displayed when not actively transferring data (not connected, or connected but idle) - regardless of obsevable throughput.

basically, i wanted to know how @mattutsko gets ~6Mbps but doesn't observe the 3.5G symbol. i'm thinking he's looking at the status symbol only while the connection is idle (or disconnected) and he would in fact see 3.5G almost always when actually transferring data.