Whilst at JB HiFi today, I took the time to check out the new HTC Velocity 4g. I was particularly interested in checking out just how fast the 4g from Telstra is.
The friendly sales guy suggested I do a speedtest via, you guessed it, the Speedtest app and so I ran that on the Velocity and also on my 3g HTC Desire.
The result was pretty impressive:
4g (Velocity) - ping 81ms 24.3 mbps
3g (Desire) - ping 120ms 2.758 mbps
Wow. I expected a bit of difference but that is quite impressive!
Of course, I don't know the number, but there can't be too many people on 4g yet, so the network certainly wouldn't be getting overloaded. This is in contrast to the 3g network I was using (lunchtime in the Sydney CBD so pretty much peak time) but still!
Apparently at present the 4g network covers "5 kms from the GPO" according to the sales rep. The rest of the time you're still stuck on the (what now seems like) slow 3g network.
In a way, 4g is TOO fast at the moment. What I mean by that is I couldn't imagine getting blistering speeds and then the network dropping out and having to go back to just average. It would be like using cable bopradband and every now and again someone coming in, unplugging the cable and hooking up your old 56kbps modem.
In the future though, once the network expands, I'll be 4g'ing it all the way.
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