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Originally Posted by Trevor Barnes
EDGE in Lansing is clocking at around 175-200 kb/s right now. Yes, that's slow, but it's much faster than modem surfing on a 56k modem for instance. With the amount of WiFi hot spots these days though, the vast majority of iPhone users aren't going to be regularly surfing with EDGE. They'll be on WiFi....which is much faster than 3G cell network speeds usually.
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Ok, that's the other thing. About a dozen people at my company bought the iPhone. One of their main rationales was the claim that the iPhone would automatically connect to WiFi when available instead of EDGE. And since the city of LA is pretty much competely covered in WiFi they thought they would always be connected at high speed. So far this claim appears to be BS. They all had trouble connecting to the WiFi network at work, and walking down the street the iPhone had trouble locating and/or connecting to hardly any WiFi networks. We tested this on about a dozen iPhones for most of the day. The majority of the time download speeds hovered around 64-100kbits/sec. We hung out in a Cafe that advertised free WiFi and none of the iPhones could locate it. I know this is anecdotal, but the sample size is significant.