Broadband Speed Checker

You may have seen that last year I carried out a speed test for internet connections via a Nokia E51 and a Huawei 530 dongle from T Mobile.  I've just carried out another speed test between a Nokia E75 and a Huawei E160 dongle also from T Mobile.  The tests were carried out within 10 minutes of each other around midday today (Sunday).

This time upon connecting the Nokia to the laptop a different option appears on the phones screen, previously Nokia's would ask you if you wanted to connect in "PC Suite Mode", "Mass Storage Mode" etc etc, this time "Connect PC to Internet" appeared.  I selected that and a little screen popped up on the laptop asking to install a small piece of software to control the connection. As you can see below its a pretty unobtrusive piece of software and tells you how much data has passed through your connection. It automatically detects your service provider and sets its self up for use.

So to the tests...
With the dongle the following speeds were achieved

with the Nokia E75 the following speeds were achieved

the dongle still wins although the E75 performs a lot better than the E51 did.