864kbit down, only 20kbit up consistently. Any ideas why?

intense321 · EVDO Fledgling Joined: 09 Nov 2005 Posts: 12

I'm in Colorado Springs, CO. Merlin 620 card. I consistenly have very poor upstream speeds. I'm averaging about 21kbit up. My downstream is 864kbit right now at -72 signal. I have an Intelligain amplifier and the speed goes up only slightly (to 26kbit) when using the amplifier. All speed tests were performed using dslreports.

My friend who has a laptop right next to me using Sprint service has consistently over 125kbit upstream using dslreports.

Any ideas why this might be?

bzboy · EVDO Fledgling Joined: 15 Nov 2005 Posts: 16

Your stream might be poor because you have an enlarged prostate. You need to see your urologist to correct that. Laughing

intense321 · EVDO Fledgling Joined: 09 Nov 2005 Posts: 12

It was the stupid Bytemobile client that comes with the Sprint connection manager. Once I removed the Bytemobile client from the Windows registry my upstream speed shot up to 130.

Thanks for your help, bzboy.

wankel7 · Posted: Mon Nov 21, 2005 11:07 pm Post subject:

bzboy....at first I was like WTF are you saying....then I got it...very funny:)

Anywho, what is this program in the reg...why is it there?

James

intense321 · EVDO Fledgling Joined: 09 Nov 2005 Posts: 12

Bytemobile installs itself in conjunction with Sprint Connection manager and it compresses JPEG images real time so they download faster. My experience was that it severely slows down upstream bandwidth. I confirmed this by doing 4 independent speedtests from different servers. My speed was attenuated to 27kbps when it should have been over 130kbps upstream.

I first tried to disable the Bytemobile client through the software option but for some stupid reason it kept loading itself up everytime Windows booted. I had to remove all references to the client in the registry and now it doesn't load anymore.

If the Bytemobile client icon doesn't exist in your tray you're probably ok.

2piece · EVDO Fledgling Joined: 17 Nov 2005 Posts: 22