Thx again sooo much… see my speed result on wifi here: http://www.speedtest.net/iphone/15797384.png

its amazing how fast a phone can become :)

Beacon: 100
RTS: 2305
Fragmentation: 2304
Dtim: 1
Protocol: b+g (didn’ try b only)

I didn’t have to change the channel number though (channel 2 works fine). I didn’t even have to restart the router (NB9WMAXX).

The suggestions of switching from 802.11-N or G to B is unfortunately ridiculous for people not resiging in development nations.

I’ve got a 100MBit symmetric connection to the internet and naturally don’t want to cap my network to 1/10th of that speed. Even if I was living in an undeveloped country, I’d still not want to have my entire network capped to a lousy megabyte per second, especially not when transferring files between computers (a typical HD video at 1.5 GB would take 19 minutes to transfer. Assuming it’s 40 minutes in length, it would not even be possible to watch it by streaming either.

On The iPhone 3G overall as a product..
I forked out ~ $900 for an iPhone 3G 16GB and I’ll definitely be returning it first thing monday, since it’s a real shitty piece of hardware and software offering. Some of the reasons include:

- Unacceptable Battery capacity / power management which means the device can’t even be used for a day (like phones in the mid -80ies)
- piss-poor connectivity (slow, horrible latency)
- useless GPS (no offline storage for maps == unusable in many parts where cell coverage is not available)
- No way to sync calendars using standardized calendar formats (e.g. sync with lotus notes calendar not possible).
- Copy-Paste not implemented which means I can’t copy text from an app / web page / mail / SMS etc. and use it in another, or even within the same app to avoid having to re-type the entire thing by hand.
- Shitty camera, useless for capturing white board drawings.
- Can’t play standard video formats without jail-breaking (AVI, Matroska containers with H264, DIVX or XVID video or Microsoft video) and no way to add extensions for formats not provided by Apple.

I won’t put the dependency on ITunes as a con since most phone manufacturers are idiots, requiring proprietary programs instead of open standards to move data to and fro the device.

Next I’ll have to see what Nokia or SonyEricsson has to offer. At least on their products I can add TomTom or similar off-line GPS mapping software, which makes the GPS feature more than just a marketing gimmick.

PS. Yes, I’m obviously very disappointed by the iPhone 3G product, especially since it was the most expensive phone I ever bought. It doesn’t incorporate *a single standard phone feature* (as of 2007) correctly, except for the browser which works surprisingly well on such as small device. It is beautiful though, at least until you you’ve used it for 5 minutes (hint: finger prints), but for me a Phone my second most important tool for work (after laptop) and it *must* survive for more than a day, be quick and reliable for calling with and have a calendar synchronized with standard corporate calendar infrastructure. All else is just gravy for fun or “nice to have”.

I am getting terrible speeds on my brand new iphone over my home network (not tried 3g yet as no connection at home) despite all my other devices being fine.

Unfortunately there is no where to change any of the settings you said on my router page - just mac control, password settting, etc. I am using a crappy cheap Sweex LC70UK tho :/

What router do you recommend to get a nice speed on iphone, or to be able to change the settings you said?