Not too long ago I picked up a HTC Dash from T-Mobile as a replacement for my Motorola Q. I loved the phone (except for the touch bar on the side which I hit repeatedly while on the phone). I think it's one of the better phones out there but I could not deal with EDGE's data network speed, or lack there of. After rocking for a while with EVDO I could not go back to a slower network technology like EDGE.
St. Louis has been one the lucky cities to pickup Cingular's new 3G network so I decided to pickup a new Samsung Blackjack (my favorite Windows Mobile Device). After initial tests I was very pleased with Cingular's 3G data network speed. It is actually a little faster than EVDO in my area. I am also getting 4 full bars of coverage in most areas, not so with Verizon and Sprint.
After a few weeks of playing with the phone and Cingular's 3G network I started to notice an annoying issue. A major problem that I experience daily is that on occasion while opening a web page my browser will show "locating" in the status bar and hangs there for sometimes up to 45-60 seconds. Thinking the blame may be the carrier's DNS servers (most ISP and carrier's DNS servers are overworked) I change my DNS settings to OpenDNS. This did nothing to solve the problem. Network speeds are fine because once the page starts to load it is pretty quick. On EVDO I never experinced this problem, web page viewing seems to be pretty effortless. I am also seeing this issue with my e-mail using Microsoft's ActiveSync Push technology. It seems that Cingular's 3G has this annoying "latency" that is not present on EVDO.
After doing a little reading on a few forums it looks like I am not the only one. So I wonder if this problem is because of the technology behind Cingular's network or the network itself?
Monday, January 22, 2007
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