View Full Version : O2 HSDPA Speed
PeteMc
01-01-2008, 01:16 PM
Hi,
What speed is O2 HSDPA running at? As far as I know the others are running at:
3 - 3.6Mbps
T-Mobile - 1.8Mbps
Vodafone - 1.8 Mbps (starting to upgrade to 7.2Mbps and HSUPA)
Orange - 1.8Mbps (upgrades to 3.6Mbps in places)
O2 - ?Mbps
gonzokev
01-01-2008, 09:49 PM
As far as I'm aware, O2 don't actually have HSDPA yet. I asked a bloke in the local O2 store about it fairly recently (November I think) and he did say that O2 didn't have HSDPA yet.
n80user
01-01-2008, 10:43 PM
I have had 3.5G on O2 here when trying a SIM about 2 weeks ago
gonzokev
02-01-2008, 12:04 AM
I have had 3.5G on O2 here when trying a SIM about 2 weeks ago
Disregard my post then, because I'm obviously wrong!!
It may be worth checking out with O2 directly as to what speeds their offering. They certainly aren't shouting too loudly about it, which seems strange!
Orange are currently very quiet about their HSDPA coverage and any speed you might get, i have tried various retail stores and rang data team but nobody has any idead where the coverage is and all they know is that it exists,I even tried the Orange business website for data cards and dongles but that had no information
ManInBlack
02-01-2008, 07:38 AM
Can confirm that O2 definitely HAVE HSDPA. I live in an HSDPA (Wigan) which unfortunately doesn't penetrate my house! Not sure what the speed is, though!
PeteMc
02-01-2008, 09:28 AM
The O2 website shows their HSDPA coverage:
http://www.webmap.o2.co.uk/ (http://www.webmap.o2.co.uk/)
Which is brave of them, considering it is not very widespread. It gives no indication of speed though.
danma7_200
03-01-2008, 09:47 AM
I just checked my coverage for CB9 area, expecting it not to be covered as my place of work in Cambridge doesn't have HSDPA, but my town of 25000 does! Result. Is O2 HSPDA standard in that you don't have to pay a premium to use the service when browsing from your phone?
Thanks
Dan
ManInBlack
03-01-2008, 09:49 AM
Nope, same cost as regular O2 data transfer (GPRS/3G etc.) I have the £7.50 bolt on which more than meets my needs at the mo.
Planner
04-01-2008, 11:35 AM
they are running at 1.8Mbps
old bill
04-01-2008, 06:56 PM
I just checked my coverage for CB9 area, expecting it not to be covered as my place of work in Cambridge doesn't have HSDPA, but my town of 25000 does! Result. Is O2 HSPDA standard in that you don't have to pay a premium to use the service when browsing from your phone?
Thanks
Dan
If only it reached my part of town. O2s coverage is still poor. One cell site is not enough for the size of the town.
themakh
06-01-2008, 02:50 PM
Not sure where the 1.8mbps figure came from.
Yes the HSDPA icon has been appearing in many places but when using my xda to search the net the speeds still feel like edge not 3g or 3.5g.
i used one of those speed checking wap sites and the figure was around 290kbps. not sure how accurate the speed check was though.
old bill
06-01-2008, 02:58 PM
Which site did you use to check your speed on ?
Planner
07-01-2008, 10:29 AM
the 1.8Mbps is the maximum throughput that can be gained from O2's present configuration. thats where it came from.
realistically, 1.2Mbps will be achieved depending on distance from cell, losses, interference and backhaul capacity.
O2's standard 3G network has a throughput of over 300Kbps.. so if your getting less than that on HSDPA, theres something very ver ywrong somewhere...
themakh
07-01-2008, 04:41 PM
http://twilightwap.com/elite/wap_sites_info.asp?site=748
is the site i used to check the speed. just checked again and it is saying
121 kbit/sec even though the hsdpa icon is present.
danma7_200
08-01-2008, 12:24 AM
Hi Themakh,
If you are connecting your phone to your computer via bluetooth this is where the problem lies. You will need to go into the properties of the bluetooth link and select the maximum connection speed possible.
If, however, you aren't, try to troubleshoot to see what is causing the problem. (Try different phone, different computer, bluetooth, USB cable, test speed at different time, test using a different cell mast)
Regards
Dan
danma7_200
08-01-2008, 02:46 PM
If only it reached my part of town. O2s coverage is still poor. One cell site is not enough for the size of the town.
From using O2 (a year ago) I have found I can get signal in all areas, apart from inside the Snooker Club. I think it's a combination of the roofing materal, and many factories/building in the way.
O2 does have its antannaes at a very high height on the water tower, and using 900Mhz, will not need as many masts as Orange and Tmobile. The water tower has at least two O2 Cell masts on it. There is a second site in town, at the police station, where the TETRA transmitter is located. This cell is UTMS only, so 2100Mhz, will not cover all of the town. I can get a 3G signal at my house (east town park area) but oddly can't receive a 3G signal when I was with Three even though the cell are very close together.
In my experience, I rank the coverage in Haverhill as Orange, O2, Tmobile, Vodafone, Three. (If you are counting their 3G coveragealone rather than including its roaming partner Orange )
themakh
10-01-2008, 04:46 PM
can i ask what other peoples download speads appear to be using the websites posted above?
I am using xda trion and pocket internet explorer and the speeds dont go above 120 kbits/second even if i have a 3g or hsdpa data link open.
evil Homer
10-01-2008, 09:35 PM
I had the same thing on my N95 when it picked it up for the first time.
The only thing I can think it is that O2 have activated the protocol for HSDPA, but are keeping the speed down to standard 3G speeds (or lower) till they have ironed out the bugs and then maybe turn the throttle up. Obviously T-Mobile and Voda have managed to get decent speeds out of their networks, so we can only hope that O2 are testing their network and will eventually roll out the full power of HSDPA.
Thats what I reckon anyway.