HTC EVO 4G :: Accuracy Of Speedtest.net App Vs Speakeasy
Jul 5, 2010
I made a quick video to demonstrate the vast difference in reported 4G speed between the Android speedtest.net app and the browser version of the speakeasy test. My results show great differences btw the two (2-3 Mbps). I don't know which one is correct; but I think the Speedtest app cannot correctly determine WiMax and WiFi speeds. In addition to what the video shows, when the EVO is connected to home Wifi the greatest speed Ive seen is 11 Mbps (even though the app dial stops at 10) when a laptop test done at the same time correctly shows 15+. Is anyone else seeing similar? I just think its flawed that many are using the app as the standard for network speeds on mobile devices.
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Jun 10, 2010
Ok I was getting really weird results from speedtest.net's app... like very erratic between -0 (yes negative 0) and about 400 yesterday and today. so I look and I'm on the Albuquerque, NM server... i go to the server list and linkline in Los Angeles isn't listed.. Albuquerque, NM is 900 miles away, no wonder I'm getting bad speeds.. prior to that I was on Los Angeles and getting 2+ mb/s 3G .every other server in the list is more than 1000 miles away from mearea)...When I go to speedtest.net's website Its showing me somewhere in the middle of the country (i'm assuming because of my IP address, which happens to me when I tether including getting the spanish google sometimes). Unfortunately there's no other way to specify a location in the speedtest.net app so I can't accurately test my speed.
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Jul 16, 2010
I keep getting redirected to the Adobe site and it says I need Droid 2.2 to install version 10.1 of mobile flash. I just need version 8 for speedtest and it won't let me download that.what's going on?
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Jun 16, 2010
I tried going to speedtest.net with my evo and when I got into the web page it states that I needed the lastest version of Adobe Flash.
Anyone else getting this when trying to access the site speedtest.net
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May 30, 2010
So I wanted to test the EVO vs the Hero on my wifi
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Jun 10, 2010
I did a speedtest with 3g a few times today, with tethering and without. every time i do it, i get download speeds of 80-300 kbps, and upload from 400-700! is there some strange explanation for this?
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Nov 10, 2009
So what is your speed test on this new DROID? Coming from Motorola Q -> Samsung Omnia -> Blackberry Storm -> Motorola Droid, I never got anywhere close to the what DROID DOES for me! Man, DROID really DOES SPEED!
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Mar 19, 2010
using the market program speedtest what are your results.
mine are 104 kB/s down, 76kB/s up
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Jun 6, 2010
Walked around downtown Seattle this afternoon testing 4g speeds. The bad news is it averaged a little over 2 mbs download, less than 1 up. The good news is good 3g only produced about .5 down, and about the same up, so 4g tested a lot better. By comparison, by home WiFi gives me >8 down, and about 2.5 up. 4g varied between 1-3 bars. Any suggestions how things might be speeded up? Did not have on GPS, WiFi when testing 4g. There are a lot of tall building where I was walking, but had more consistent results up on the 37th floor of one of the office buildings; still never more than 2.6 download.
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Sep 7, 2010
What results should I be seeing when using Speedtest over 3G? Over WiFi, I'm getting 9Mbps down and .55Mbps up which is fine. But over 3G, I'm getting .22Mbps down and .12Mbps up. A bit low isn't it?
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Jul 17, 2010
Can you guys/gals post your verizon 3g speedtests for me here please, and the city you ran the test. To do a speedtest you can download an app from market place called speedtest... it is provide by speedtest.net. or you can use your phones browser and go to www.speakeasy.net/speedtest/ this second option might not work if your phone doesn't support flash maybe.
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May 4, 2010
During past few day ran three speed tests (speedtest.net) using home WIFI connection. Couldn't believe the download speeds:
(1) 9,885 kbps
(2) 12,181 kbps
(3) 13,372 kbps
My Eris was maybe a tenth of this. Definitely worth the switch. Wonder how it compares to the competition?
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Feb 3, 2013
I'm trying out both the Galaxy S3 and the LG Nexus 4 on AT&T.
When I was using the S3, I just inserted my SIM card and I was good to go. I like to use the Speedtest app when I'm out and about to see what speeds I'm getting, and the app worked just fine on the S3.
Last week, I got the LG Nexus 4 and inserted the SIM card and was also up and running. However, the Speedtest app does not work out in the field. It works just fine on my WiFi network but, when I try it outside, it just gives a large ping number and then does nothing. I tried uninstalling/reinstalling the Speedtest app, but still nothing.
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Mar 19, 2010
using the market program speedtest what are your results. mine are 104 kB/s down, 76kB/s upgl
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Sep 4, 2010
Epic users are all reporting slow speeds on 3G.Our upload speeds seem to be capped at 200KBPS. Can you Galaxy owners check your speeds with speedtest.net app ?
I'm curious if this is just a Sprint issue. Evo on Sprint is much faster ,so its not a network issue.
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Jul 17, 2010
I am in a verizon store. There is a droidx and droid incredible right next to each other. I installed speedtest.net app on both. Used advanced task killer to kill background apps on both..then ran speedtest.net app.Ran the test ten times on each phone to get a good average. Droidx gets 0.50 mbps max...incredible gets 2.0 mbps nearly on every one of the ten runs I did. Why? Is this a known issue? I wanna get the phone..its in stock..but this speedtest issue is bugging me. Any explanations?Also the droid x is getting only 2 bars..the inc has full signal. Been here about an hour, and no change in signal or speedtest.live update.. I am going to drive to another verizon store right now and repeat the tests on new phones..I will run with and withouth task killer. Ill update once I get to the new verizon store.
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Jun 5, 2010
Just wondering what people think of the accuracy of the screen. Coming from a WM phone and a resistive touch screen, I find it a lot harder to hit small places on the EVO. Little check boxes are hard to get. Also, I just feel like it doesn't always hit where I think it should.....
What are others thoughts on this? I have read in the past that resistive screens are more accurate but really just blew it off as people who were just defending their WM phone's but that statement really does seem to be true....
Still love the thing though and it finally feels like I got a totally new device! My last 4 WM phones just felt like the same thing over and over again with a little enhancement on each one....
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Mar 25, 2010
I have been using my N1 for a few days now and the GPS accuracy is really wrong, about 500m out of the right position. I know GPS is not really precise, but 500m is far too much.
I am seeing this behaviour when on WI-FI, haven't test through 3G/edge yet though.
I haven't installed any ROM.
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Aug 16, 2009
How much accurate are the coordinates received by the GPS antenna in the reality?I'm using the emulator but it doesn't work well with coordinates too much close is there nobody that have tested an application based on the package "Location" in a real device(I don't have a real one yet..) and knows how to answer me?
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Aug 14, 2009
With my location listener i get accuracy values about 30-100 m (being on an open field without annoying houses around me disturbing the gps signal). Why is that so bad? I thought you could get an accuracy about 3m with gps. And the Google maps applet for example has a much better accuracy. How can i improve the accuracy? I'm using the default gps provider. I saw you can create a Criteria object to get the best provider, but there are only the gps and the mobile phone net providers anyway - so it's some kind of senseless to get the location provider that way. is there no way to define the needed accuracy?
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Jul 9, 2010
My app has an issue where many players get bounced all over kingdom come when using GPS to get a signal. I had this issue with my G1 on occasion but not on my Nexus One. I am talking hundreds of miles from their real location. I changed the code to throw out anything that was not at least 500 meters accurate. My question is, if the location placement is hundreds of miles off, how reliable will the accuracy reporting be? Does it realize that it could be hundreds of miles off?
I am asking the community because I cannot reproduce the scenario with what I currently have so I can't test if my fix is meaningful. Does GPS know when its readings are that far off?
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Feb 15, 2010
wanted to know that the accuracy value returned by the getAccuracy() is of which type radial accuracy or horizontal accuracy.
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Nov 6, 2009
If I do Location.getAccuracy() I get a number of meters. Is that number a radius or a diameter? I thought it would be a radius, but Google's MyLocationOverlay uses that value as a diameter.
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Feb 11, 2009
I'm writing a mapping application. In simple terms, it sends some info about the user's current location to a server when the user clicks on a button. I need the location to be absolutely correct, and when I first started to implement LocationListener, I found that it often wasn't. So I've used location.getAccuracy() to check the GPS accuracy, and warn the user - without submitting the data - if the location isn't accurate enough. Code...
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Oct 10, 2010
Your "best" (lowest value) GPS Accuracy you have seen on your Captivate. This is to compile data to send to Samsung's technical support, hopefully to aid in trouble-shooting the issue. After voting in the poll, please post indicating which firmware you are running (pre or post update, or which custom ROM or leak). This poll is not concerned with time to lock, holding a lock, or any other GPS issue than accuracy, and is just to compile a data set to test one part of a hypothesis of mine. It seems my Captivate has a "best" (lowest) accuracy of ~16.2 ft (5m), much higher than say, an N1 or G1 (which max out around 6.6 ft).
If you are unsure how to check for accuracy to get a specific number, use either GPS Test or GPS Status (free, in the market) as they both will display accuracy of the lock in real-time. GEnerally the accuracy improves with the longer the lock holds, so for maximum effectiveness, let's set the official accuracy time at 5 minutes (leave the app open for 5 minutes, then record the accuracy) or the best value you have noticed. Also, if your value is not exactly one that is up here, please select the closest number to your value...
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Aug 5, 2010
Im working on an app that use gps My testing devices are Nexus One and Htc Mytouch 3g Slide
So does anyone know how to improve the gps accuracy?
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Nov 2, 2010
I am developing a website which used W3C GeoLocation API to obtain users' position. I try to run the website in Android Emulator and use DDMS / geo fix to send the coordinate to the device. However the coordinate received is inaccurate.
For example, (22.377127, 114.095535) will become (22.370335, 114.08523353). I try to run some Android GPS example from Internet, and the results is just the same. I can certainly say that this is not my program bug. From my observation, it seems like some rounding problem.
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Jul 16, 2009
I'm having a weird problem with GPS accuracy. Basically, I check the GPS accuracy in a background thread after the user clicks a report button, and show the accuracy in a progress dialog, changing second by second. (Code is below.) The following strange thing happens:
1. If the user clicks more or less immediately on the button after taking the phone out, accuracy is unsurprisingly pretty poor to start off with, say more than 100m. But the accuracy never really improves very much while the user is running the background thread. There is some improvement, but it's slow and it never gets very accurate. 2. However, if the user gets the phone out and then waits for several seconds *without* clicking on the button and running the background thread, and *then* clicks on the button, the accuracy quickly improves and becomes very good. When they click on the button, the accuracy shows up as fine - within the same length of time............
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Nov 29, 2009
I am curious about the accuracy of the motorola droid GPS, before installing a golf app. Can these units pinpoint to within a few yards or is the area fairly wide.
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Jul 30, 2010
I had a question come up here at the office about the accuracy of the GPS on my EVO. I loaded the "GPS Status" app and went outside and found that I am getting 3 Meter accuracy which is as good as my Magellan GPS that I use while hiking. My question is this, while using Google maps I believe that location can also be derived via signal strength triangulation from cell towers. If this is so has anyone seen a position accuracy that is derived from both the GPS and the Towers.
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