AT&T Will Speed Up Your Uploads... Slowly

[Paul Daniel Ash]

AT&T announced today that they would start rolling out a patch for the upload speed problems that have been plaguing numerous iPhone 4 users throughout the US. AT&T identified the issue as a software bug in equipment used in certain areas of their network, and released a workaround to improve speeds while the patch to fix the bug was being developed. A spokesman for the carrier said today that the patch would be phased in over the next two to three weeks.

Around the July 4th holiday, new iPhone 4 owners noticed that their uploads - which had in some cases increased by as much as 10 times over iPhone 3G/S speeds - suddenly crashed. Reports of upload throughput below 100 kb/s were common, and some users suspected AT&T was capping their uploads to save its network. However, the carrier insisted that it was not doing traffic limiting, and said that Alcatel-Lucent equipment had a bug that crippled devices running the High-Speed Uplink Packet Access (HSUPA) protocol. On AT&T's network, the only HSUPA devices are the iPhone 4 and some of the cards used with the carrier's LaptopConnect service.

AT&T released a workaround to the Alcatel-Lucent bug that allowed 3G uploads up to 384 kb/s, better than the 100 kb/s some were experiencing but still much less the 1.5 to 2 Mb/s many users had gotten before the bug. "The patch will be deployed on a phased basis over the next two to three weeks," according to AT&T spokesman Mark Siegel. The Reuters article on the AT&T announcement promises "a potential maximum of 5.67 gigabits per second" after the patch is applied; we're pretty sure they meant "megabits."

Source: Engadget

[Carter454]

Awesome. What other network just crashes like this?

[Mrinfame]

At & t mo money mo problems that's why I go with t mobile

[delusion950]

i like tmobile hopefully they roll out that HSPA or whatever the name internet they got that was tested in NY nd had speed faster than 3G

[iphone925]

I am getting about 3 mb download and 1.2 mb upload SO i guess my area has been fixed already But I hope it works out for others

[PWNsyst3m]

Awesome. What other network just crashes like this?

Verizon lol

And I'd love to see tmobile even attempt to take on at&ts iPhone users. They couldn't handle it.

[jds1469]

been good here from the start of the iPhone 4 3.2 or so DOWN and 2 mbps UP

[rawhog]

Is this HSUPA 3.5G?

[thevmax]

IPHONE 3GS with wifi on download 227kbs upload 188kbs
IPHONE 3GS with wifi off download 1522kbs upload 144kbs

[tudtran]

Thank you. Finally. Hopefully AT&T won't take longer than 3 weeks.

[badass1469]

once another carrier has a contract with the iPhone it will crash harder than at&t(lol there will always be a basher)

[santacruzlocal]

Awesome. What other network just crashes like this?

Verizon, Sprint, T-Mobile, Rogers, Boost, All-Tel ... pretty much everyone at one time or another.

[jordbrett]

Ironically I noticed and tested two days ago much faster upload speeds in NYC.

[wolverinemarky]

good job AT&T

[Cer0]

Lol remember the T-Mobile crash that took them down nationwide for a few hours last year? Happened to be the same day that Geohot released the unlock.

[punjabi212]

Sounds good!

[kuhndsn]

I'm around 3.3 Mbps download and 1.8 upload. In Texas 50 or so miles from Austin server. Dallas is a bit slower and H-Town seems to crawl. Must be the distance?!? The upload is much faster now.

Also since my i4 is unlocked I tested tmobile and I'm at 120kbps upload and a whole .85mbps download with 4 bars to the same server.

[Carter454]

Okay okay good point. Sorry for the dumb post

[XFaega]

Will some of you guys are lucky. The tower near me has been down since yesterday. I have no service what so ever.

[macsoldier]

research my friend t-mobile can handle att network of Iphones.