[Dragonx]

I Just bought a 1st Gen iPhone, unlocked it and jailbroke it with winpwn using 2.0.1 firmware. I am testing it with tmobile right now and basically I signed up for the flexpay program with tzones. I downloaded the hack with cydia. Works real well with a few exceptions.

First: I have conducted several speed test. I have been reading many people say they are getting about 100kbps. I only get around 50kbps with 5 bars. I have read many heated arguments that the tzones hack is slow. I must say for me it is slow and I live in an edge area. I have heard the argument that edge is edge but if this serves me correctly, you are using a proxy. Actually any proxy can slow you down. Not sure if the full internet plan is faster cause I haven't tried it. It may just be my coverage and the jury is still out weather I will try it out. I may plop the extra 14 bucks to test iy out and being a Starbucks kinda guy I may find the hotspots useful. But for now 50kbps gets me by since I have wifi in most of the important places that I use my data most.

Second: Exchange Push email works sometimes but not always. Seems like I have to wake the phone or surf the net before an email pushes. Also, if I have wifi and edge on at the same time it doesn't work at all. I use BossPrefs to turn one on and the other off. It seems that push is also effected with wifi. Sometimes it's instant and other times I have to wake up the net. Before I did anything push was working flawlessly with wifi. The jury is not out on this one yet cause I have not used it enough to see how it will effect me. Like I said before, I have no idea if the 19.95 plan will do any better.

Third: This happens very rarely and I mean rarely. Sometimes I get a network error when browsing edge or in my email. All I do is say ok and refresh and no problems. This is so rare that honestly it doesn't bother me at all.

Forth: It is true that youtube and im applications don't work, but I use wifi for these anyways cause 50kbps for youtube is not good and I hardly use IM.

So what can I say? Well, I'm using t-mobile to test it out and so far I am happy with the tzones hack since I have wifi in most of my important locations so speed is negligible and even at 50kbps I can at least pull up all my web pages. Also, I saved 15 bucks to test it out. I may plop the 15 bucks to see the difference but if the difference is a few kbps and im then I will stick with tzones. Now if the full internet plan fixes the push issue then 15 bucks for push is worth it for me, but that is just me.

Hope this helps and would love to hear if other people have the same experience and if I could get feedback of using the 19.95 vs the tzones.