just how much faster is gprs wap than gsm wap?

Posted by marknicholls
I am using gprs for wap....but im still waiting 3 or 4 seconds for a wap page....is something wrong or was i wrongly expecting it to be instant?

Posted by Thief
3 secs is fine.. it is not instant!

Posted by marknicholls
god, thats no faster than gsm wap!

Posted by moua
I do somes test on a prototype of sagem GPRS modem during 3 month,
YES wap pages are light (about 500 bytes without pictures),
and when i was downloading BIG files (more than 100Kbytes),
the average speed was about ~4,8Kbytes/s
but GPRS latency is very hight, between 700 and 900ms when all is good.

So, GPRS don't really increase speed by ~4.
Tha's one of the reasons, that you should (if you are webmaster) use cards in WML pages, to limmit numbers of elements.

[moua]

Posted by gomichaelkgo
gsm and gprs seem comparable on my handset in terms of page loading speeds. I do think that the browser scrolls faster when using gprs, but it could be because i have R1B firmware.

Posted by lor
I see no difference, takes about the same time. I could be blind though.