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Stories from the desert

Odd Thing On The Way to a Testing Location...

From Steve Crews:

"Just up the road from location 2022 was the strangest thing I've come across so far this round, the Rice Shoe Tree, which apparently used to be a real tree that people did this to, until it was burned down by vandals:

Change! Data Card Testing --> Tablet Testing next Spring

Mobile field testing is staying current by transitioning from netbooks/data cards to tablets. The change will happen next Spring (2015), when we retire the trusty netbooks.

Other changes being considered are adding trace route to the field test software and CalSPEED in order to gather more data on backhaul networks.

Finally, we have re-started development for CalSPEED on the iPhone!

More on this later...

Round 6 Testing 25% Complete

We finished our second full week of Round 6 mobile field testing today. We are 1/4 of the way there. We did discover a problem wth UDP tests failing consistently on T-Mobile phones upgraded to Android 4.4. We tried rolling back to an earlier version of Android, but the phones don't allow us to do that. We are exploring a fix through our developers at CSU Monterey Bay and will be contacting T-Mobile as well.

photo by Steven Crews

CalSPEED update

We've been digging into analysis of the CalSPEED results, and to date, we've had over 6,000 tests performed. After removing tests not performed in California, we identified over 4,400 tests -- 44% of which were done on Verizon Wireless devices, 20% on Sprint, 16% on AT&T, and 15% on T-Mobile. The top devices used for testing were:

Samsung Galaxy S4 - 44% of tests

Samsung Galaxy S3 - 11%

Galaxy Tab 7.7 - 4%

DROID RAZR - 3%

Epic 4G - 3%