Very Slow Tether Download Speeds - Sprint Blackberry Curve

try a speed test here http://speakeasy.net/speedtest/ and report back. I have Sprint in the MPLS, MN area and get .12 UL, .25-.45 DL. Sprint network is the slowest provider in my area.

FIXED -- BLACKBERRY CURVE 8330

OK -- had the same problem, speeds were awful, coming in around 10k up and down.

Problem isn't with sprint, problem is with the blackberry. If you have lots of apps currently running (I did, soduku, brickbreaker, vnc, memo, calender, etc.) it will be slow.

Kill as many of the apps as you can, or try complete shutdown (remove the battery and restart) and then check your speeds.

I went from 10k to 800k by shutting down apps.

Hope this helps -- if you're still slow, I've got no idea!

Signal strength: -96dBm

I have also finally caught up with a non-browser based speedtest for the bb that appears to show I have lots of G3 type connectivity speed.

I also found a free version of bb memory optimizer that indicates I am running 72% empty in memory.

This mornings experiments have pushed the speed as high 32KBps which is nice but not even close to the expected laptop performance.

Tom

Could you try moving your BlackBerry to around -75 to -85 dBm and try again?

Also when Tether is running and you are not browsing the internet do the packets increase?

I'm experiencing the same problems - way too slow.