The day before yesterday I started to notice that my iPhone is able to download while connected only through 3G (not WiFi) much faster than it typically does. I figured it was a momentary blip, but that my 3G connection would go back to its respectable-but-not-particularly-amazing speeds.
But, it hasn’t.
In fact, last night I decided to turn off my WiFi antenna because I’m getting virtually the same speed over 3G. This has the twofold advantage of saving battery life, and reducing the lag time in those moments when I’m coming into or going out of WiFi range and the phone has to switch internet providers.
Obviously I’m going to monitor this and if my 3G speeds start to suffer again, I’ll start using WiFi again, but for the moment it seems to me that Rogers has done something to increase the bandwidth available to 3G subscriber devices. Either that, or I’m just in the middle of a particularly good run of wireless internet luck. (How geeky is that?)
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