Sprint EDVO/Data Transmission Speeds vs. AT&T
 

I have both the AT&T 8800 and the Sprint 8830 - am doing a side by side trial here in Los Angeles. As of now I do not see any significant speed differential between the two and sometimes AT&T is a tad faster with web pages. I have tried downloading files up to 800KB (the 1MB+ ones that come into e-mail do not come with the attachment) and Sprint is maybe one half second faster.

I have not tried a tethering test just yet and perhaps that is where there will be a difference?

From a general email perspective I have set up both my Yahoo and Mac accounts. There is up to a 10 minute differential in delivery times - sometimes Sprint ahead and sometimes AT&T.

Perhaps all of the speed success is dependent upon the area one lives or works.

Look forward to any comments and/or help.

Thanks

Which technology are you using on the AT&T side? It can't be EDGE because that's way slower than EVDO.

I think Sprint is coming out with an updated version of EVDO which is supposed to be even faster.

Believe it or not, it is EDGE. That is why I am so surprised at what I am experiencing. Any idea when Sprint is coming out with that faster EDVO?

According to a friend, they are already rolling it out. He says his phone is firmware upgradeable to use it and keeps making fun of me because I'm stuck on T-Mobile with EDGE. :x

It may be a function of how fast the 8800/8830 browser is able to render the pages. You should see a significant advantage to EVDO when you test tethering.

well certain paarts of att net ar eqiped with hsdpa 3.5g sprint is curently equiping their net with wimax wich is 4 g

Go to 2wire.com on both the phones and do a speed test. I get about 2mbps on the BB 8830 Sprint EVDO, my treo would get about 600-900kbps same location and I know its because the treos browser sucked and couldnt handle the EVDO speed.

treos suck donkey ballz, I just convinced m boss to dump them and get blackberries in OCT.

There was a thread quite some time ago comparing the EVDO to EDGE blackberries and the conclusion was when using a BB it doesn't make a difference, as you have seen. The browser and processor didn't allow the BB to get a perfomance boost with EVDO. However, tethering made a big difference with the EVDO BB providing a high speed connection for a laptop.

Regards-Michael G.

mgerbasio is correct, you wont see much difference on the device itself, the difference is when tethering. Also at&t charges extra for tethering and Sprint does not.

People keep overlooking that when they complain about the lack of 3G on current BB's. Unless you're tethering, odds are that you probably won't see much of a difference. The bottleneck in rendering pages needs to be overcome before it's really a useful feature.

Helpful, great information!(y)

I tried tethering my laptop to my Pearl a while back. It's painfully slow, much like dial-up, but in some cases worse because of the latency and the unreliable connection. I've used a laptop tethered to EVDO as well and it actually feels like broadband.

On the device - web browsing will be very similar between and EDGE 8800 and an EVDO 8830. Tethering is a whole other story. The EVDO 8830 will pwn the 8800 on EDGE.

They have come out with...it is EVDO REV A.