At first I thought I was going crazy. That was until I started receiving numerous tweets from you guys about the recent slowdowns to 3G speeds on the Rogers network. The 3G speeds on my iPhone 4 are usually blazing fast. However, the past couple days everything has slowed down to a snail’s pace.
We recently posted about the update to the Speedtest.net application. Even though people posted their results that seem ‘normal’, there is definitely something ‘not right’ with the Rogers 3G network as of 4pm PST.
I’ve contacted a member of the Rogers Social Media team and will relay any information I receive.
@iPhoneinCanada yeah I notched a HUGE drop in 3G speed in the last few days. Something is wrong.
@iPhoneinCanada: same here in Quebec area !!http://bit.ly/dkozYF
@iPhoneinCanada 3G has been ridiculously slow in Ottawa all day today.
@iPhoneinCanada @seanbaker it has been weirdly slow in montreal too today.
@iPhoneinCanada I’ve had slow Service on 3G most of the day in Calgary. Little faster now.
Where are you located? Are you experiencing slow Rogers 3G network speeds?
Update 1: Looks like Fido users are experiencing slowdowns as well.
Update 2, 11:20pm PST: 3G speeds seem to have resumed to ‘normal’ in Vancouver. MUCH faster than before. My Speedtest.net results: 4.74 Mbps download, 3.05 Mbps upload.
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I’m in Saskatoon, Sk and I’ve been noticing lower than usual speeds lately, but I could be imagining things, of course. I’ll run the speedtest app and perhaps we can all compare hard data.
Very slow here in laval, quebec… !
Yes I agree. Pathetic even with 5 bars. Latency is through the roof!
Massive lag in Richmond, Vancouver. Good to know it’s not my newly activated i4 yesterday and it’s rober’s fault.
Something is definitely wrong in MILTON, MISSISSAUGA, AND GREATER TORONTO AREA in general..
Slow in Quebec city too today
Same in Niagara. Rogers has been very ‘iffy’. Not impressed I’ve got the new iPhone 4, On occasion I lose 3G all together. Speedtest gives me good numbers but that’s when the thing is working
It’s not just 3G. I’m in Calgary, and my phone service has been going on and off. And when it’s on, 3G (and thus text messaging) is not working.
I’ve actually been experiencing these slow speeds on fido’s network here in Toronto. I was worried. Maybe over time, it’ll pass?
Telus 3g working like a charm (Victoria)
Same here, took forever to load CBC’s iphone website… (Richmond)
m.youtube.com will barely load on my iPhone 4.
oh i need to add this to my comment.
last night I had terrible connection with my carrier, Rogers. Incoming calls disconnected whenever I receieved. Also, sometime I lose the signal and gets “NO SERVICE” message.
Here in Kingston has been slow the last 2-3 days, to the extent where it wont even load webpages sometimes.
I’m really glad I’m not hallucinating. Got 1MB download when doing testing today… I usually get 3 to 5.
Surrey area. Around my back streets very slow .5 – 1.5 mbps. Once I get on the main streets I go to 3-4 Mbps. I have noticed over time that location (not always bars) determine my connection speed. When I was over at UBC last month I was getting 7.5X Mbps over 3G. I couldn’t believe it so I even double check to make sure my wifi was off.
Waterloo, Ontario on Fido. Insanely slow today. Speedtest shows .5 Mbps or slower all afternoon. I’ve recorded as high as 4.32 Mbps this past weekend
same here in Ottawa…very very sloooow. WTF??
Yep, same here in KW. Websites have been deathly slow the last couple of days, and youtube video quality’s dropped drastically due to sensing less bandwidth. Thought I might be getting penalized or something. Glad I’m not alone! Also sad I’m not alone… what’s up with this?
Always slow in Victoria. http://dl.dropbox.com/u/7516107/Speedtest_iPhone4.jpg
really slow in Winnipeg to
Could be an iPhone issue. I’ve been doing some speed comparisons with my iPhone 4 and my wifes Blackberry Bold both on Rogers IPhone is brutally slow loading pages. The blackberry is loading pages much faster. Now that’s just wrong!!
Could this be an iPhone issue??
Could be an iPhone issue. I’ve been doing some speed comparisons with my iPhone 4 and my wifes Blackberry Bold both on Rogers IPhone is brutally slow loading pages. The blackberry is loading pages much faster. Now that’s just wrong!!
Could this be an iPhone issue??
Slow in toronto as well. sometimes you’ll get really fast speeds and sometimes it’ll take minutes for minescule site/emails to load and will time out.
…so it WASN’T just me? I used to hit as high as 5Mb/s easy but now I was lucky to get 1.5Mb/s… Thought it was just some dead zone or something.
Thanks for this article haha
…and on Fido (uses Rogers’ network so same thing). Sorry for the triple post!
Extremely slow for me today in Montreal. I thought it was my Iphone 4. I am glad to here its not only me.
It’s slow for me too. I’m with Rogers and I live in QC City.
It’s not just the 3G speeds, their network has had major issues too. I’ve had my phone say “sim not provisioned” twice and 3 days in a row their voicemail system was on and off. I used to get the “number you have called is not assigned” error. If you ask me Rogers is doing some upgrades of maybe coming out with something better because if not, not only are they not the fastest, soon they’ll be in reliable too
i thought it was just me
VANCOUVEER
It has been slow for me as well in Toronto. However today I had it and what I did was disable 3G. Let the phone reconnect to the 2G network. Enabled 3G and I can now browse better but the upload and download speeds are stupidly slow!
I just did 5 tests and I never touched 3MB Down, it averaged about 1.7mb Down and 1.8mb Up
I use to reach 5mb for both up and down but that lasted only a week after the iPhone 4 came out then it slowly started dropping down to an average of 3MB…. But today and the last couple of days have been terrible.
I’m in Edmonton, completely lost service (Rogers) twice in the last two days on iPhone 4. First time this has ever happened (to me anyway). Thought it might be the phone, restarted it and service was restored. Maybe it’s the network, not the phone?
Same thing for me … I am in Montreal and have been experiencing terrible lags since a few days … Speed tests are sometimes good but it is impossible to browse a complete page or gather my emails without noticeable delay.
I know Videotron has launched their mobile services and that Rogers is their backup for “outside” areas but that would mean they got a few hundreds more users appended to their network…
EXTREEEMMMLLLYYYY SLOW today in Edmonton.
I’m in Toronto, and Speed Test is giving me roughly 3.0/2.0 at the moment, so no complaints here.
Been having rough mobile Internet for around 48 hours now here in Winnipeg. It’s not just 3G but Edge as well.
It’s not that it’s ‘slow download speeds’ but rather an intermittent connection altogether. Try to load a web page and it just sits there…waiting…nothing happening…then eventually a portion of the page loads up really quickly, but then it stalls out again. Wait more…eventually the download resumes and the rest of the page starts popping up. Click on a link on the page and the next page loads up super fast. Click another link and it stalls out again.
Frankly, if it were just a slow connection it would be much more tolerable. This completely intermittent connection is far more annoying.
Victoria here… Just plain slow…. Wassup?
I cant even access hotmail :S fido iphone 4 downtown ottawa full signals!
Btw? Thanks guys for writing about this… I frequent a ton of sites and you guys are the only ones talking about this!
Hopefully Rogers listens (yes I said that)
Speeds ranging from 0/0 to 1.5/1.5 today.
We should all call and complain. At least I will. This is ridiculous. I was actually worried that I broke my phone since I’ve installed my3G and MyWi recently.
In West Island and downtown Montreal.
Really slow in Gatineau today. Took foreever to load a page
My iPhone has barely been usable for data or calling today. In London On.
Super slow in Ottawa too.
Cisco speed test says I have 2Mbits, but Ookla won’t complete a ping test, and even the Cisco app is having trouble loading the map tiles to show me other results in my area. Sounds like a backhaul problem to me.
Really slow on PEI as well….. Half the speed of the old edge. Sounds like it’s Canada wide 🙁
Blackberry uses their own servers to get data to their phones. So it is not surprising that Blackberry is not effected.
This slowness is different and should be experienced on pretty much all other non-BB smartphones such as iPhone, Android, Windows, etc… And even Netbooks and USB Data sticks.
In montreal, it’s been slow as f*ck for the past few days. And that’s everywhere in montreal, from downtown to the suburbs.
I was going to post the same. I’m also in Kingston, ON and the network has sucked the last new days. Sometimes I’ll lose service altogether when I normally have 4-5 bars all the time. I hope it’s fixed so I don’t have to wait forever for things to load.
I was going to post the same. I’m also in Kingston, ON and the network has sucked the last new days. Sometimes I’ll lose service altogether when I normally have 4-5 bars all the time. I hope it’s fixed so I don’t have to wait forever for things to load.
I am in Montreal and have not noticed anything wrong with the Rogers 3G.