It’s been somewhat of a bummer to have an iPhone 3G with no 3G service since July. I’m happy to say that AT&T has recently installed some 3G towers nearby, giving me nice 3G coverage pretty much everywhere of significance around town.
So I just went through the easy process of jailbreaking my iPhone to tether it to my macbook pro via pdaNet to test the speed of the local network. It works like a charm.
Almost 2mb downspeed and 285 kb/s up speed. Pretty nice indeed! I’m sure sprint users are still waiting for evdo towers to be installed up here and I’m glad I’m no longer one of them. Thanks AT&T.
I might post instructions for setting up tethering on a mac later on. If you can use google, you should be able to find instructions yourself.
January 2nd, 2009 at 7:50 pm
I’m trying to get a sense if this 3G coverage might include the Cave Spring area. Have you, by chance, been able to determine if you are getting a 3G connection in my neck of the woods? Thanks
January 3rd, 2009 at 12:13 am
As far as I can tell 3g service works from Armuchee to the other side of town, but drops off somewhere around Lindale.
If you’re thinking of buying a 3g phone, and worried about having to be on 2g, 2g isn’t all that bad and with any provider they are required by law to give you a 30 day grace period on returns and contracts. I made it from July on 2g service
Also, at&t is working on getting their “femtocell” out the door currently. I know someone at Scientific Atlanta that’s working on it. http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20070717-att-may-be-moving-closer-to-deploying-femtocells.html