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iPhone 3G's Download Speed Woes Get Surveyed by Wired [IPhone]
Gizmodo — ... has been coming under fire recently, and Wired has decided to investigate with a global iPhone 3G network speed study. Head on over and add your data to their interactive map. [ ...

Wired.com needs your help testing the iPhone's network speeds
The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) — ... Instructions are over on their website, and they're testing both Edge and 3G upload and download speeds, so you'll have to run three tests total. You'll also have to sign up for a ZeeMap account. ...

"Fix Is On The Way" Targeting iPhone 3G Chips
iPhone Savior — ... Wired is conducting their own "make shift' Global iPhone 3G study (if you can call it that), encouraging iPhone 3G owners to test their iPhone 3G/EDGE download and upload speeds through TestMyiPhone.com. Wired is then asking participants to log their data onto a global map. People from Brisbane, Australia to Helsinki, Finland have chimed in with varied results. ...

iPhone 3G Connectivity Failure: Roundup
iPhone Atlas — ... website to perform the testing required. Note that prior to testing EDGE vs. 3G you must have the 3G setting off for EDGE testing and on for 3G testing. In both cases you want to have WI-FI off. Complete instructions for the testing can be found here . Once you have gathered up the data you can add it to the map provided which is located ...

Making sense of 3G speeds
Macworld — ... whether this problem is widespread or limiting to people unhappy enough to post on Apple, Macworld , and other forums. Unless this fine publication were to commission a study to get 1,000 iPhone 3G users selected at random to report their satisfaction with 3G speeds, and, more difficult, to provide statistics of their usage, I don’t see how anyone knows how widespread or severe iPhone 3G throughput issues really are. They could be terrible. They could be mostly terrific. Wired is making an attempt to gather data , but it’s self-reported. Self-reported data is entirely ...

Wired Survey: iPhone 3G Issues Might Be the Network After all [IPhone 3G]
Gizmodo — The results from Wired's worldwide—and yes, unscientific—survey of iPhone 3G download speeds are in (though the map seems to be down): It's the network. Well, at least, the iPhone's 3G issues aren't simply a hardware problem, as a bunch of mad scientist Swedes vetted this morning. Germany and the Netherlands, which have a solid, mature 3G infrastructure, report the fastest 3G speeds—2Mbps on average. In the US the picture is not so pretty, confirming the steady flood of irate yupsters yapping over the last few weeks. In ...