HSDPA on AT&T Tilt (Kaiser) causing data drop outs

[radioouman]

This is more just an informational post than anything. I bought a Tilt in the fall of 2008. I used KaiserTweak to enable HSDPA and it has been working perfectly until this month. I'm not sure if AT&T has done something to their network in my area (Columbus, OH) but my data connection has been horribly unreliable for the past four months. I thought that something was wrong with my phone. Web pages wouldn't load, email wouldn't download, etc.

I benchmarked my download speed this morning and even though I was connected with 4 bars of service to HSDPA (or 3G) my speed was about 100 kbps download. It seemed like EDGE, but it was not nearly as reliable as EDGE. This afternoon I stumbled upon disabling HSDPA and after a reboot my download speed is back to 1.7 mbps (max). Connections are once again reliable.

 

[yh125d]

I broke my kaiser about 6 mos ago and it was working fine then. But my ins replacement touch diamond doesn't like to load pictures. facebok pictures, google pictures, anything, it's very hit or miss whether it will load or not, usually not. Happens on 3g and edge

 

[sjwaste]

I had a Tilt for work and the data connection was always flaky. I just lived with it and disconnected/reconnected all the time.

 

[GeekDrew]

I used to have a Tilt... never had data issues, but the phone was laggy as hell. Replaced it with a Palm Pro for a very short time, and now have a Tilt 2 (Touch Pro 2), which is much better than either of the last two. It's still not anything to write home about, but I can't find anything that's better.

I do occasionally have issues with browsing the internet -- but that's when I have a data connection already up and running for something else (such as tethering).