"Danger hiptop 2.0" burns rubber in speed tests

by Chris Ziegler, posted Apr 18th 2007 at 6:40PM

Call it wild speculation -- because that's exactly what it is -- but when you see a bunch of "Danger hiptop 2.0"-class browsers hauling butt at speeds approaching 2.0Mbps (according to dslreports.com's speed test, anyway), it's bound to raise a few eyebrows. Said browsers are coming from the dngr.net domain; we suspect it's possible that the speeds are actually indicative of what's being seen between the dslreports.com server and Danger's proxy, but instead we'd like to dream of a WCDMA-enabled Sidekick being prepped for T-Mobile's 3G launch later this year. Seems plausible enough, right?

[Thanks, teeratt]

Filed under: T-Mobile, Danger, HSDPA, UMTS

Tags: 3g, broadbandreports, danger, dslreports, hiptop, sidekick, speed, speed test, SpeedTest

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Crazymilk @ Apr 18th 2007 7:04PM

It's either that Danger is crazy fast or the Tmobile proxy is awfully slow... big server to big server should talk at least as fast as my 10 megs comcast connection, no?
Lets have a collective dream about fast wireless broadband, and throw the 6800 release date in there too will ya? where on earth is it?!)

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Richard Sportwood @ Apr 18th 2007 8:22PM

"big server to big server should talk at least as fast as my 10 megs comcast connection, no?"
Indeed, but remember that the hiptop accounts likely have an individual bandwidth cap. that probably explains this.

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aaron @ Apr 22nd 2007 12:17PM

Um, it's because Danger's services use a proxy. Those speeds have nothing to do with the speed between the device and Danger's servers. You can tell nothing about the speed of the device's connectivity from this.

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