Sitting at my desk which is about seven feet from my wireless router I ran the Speed Test on my MacBook Pro, iPhone 3GS and iPad. My cable internet provider is Time Warner. I ran the test five times on each device and averaged the times. Here are the results.
| Device | Download Speed | Upload Speed | Latency (Ping) |
|---|---|---|---|
| iPhone 3GS | 1.206 Mbps | 0.452 Mbps | 596.8 ms |
| iPad | 3.256 | 0.462 | 223.4 |
| MacBook Pro* | 9.532 | 0.49 | 53.8 |
** My MBP is the early 2008 model with a 2.4 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo, “Penryn” processor and 4GB or memory.*
Since the above info is pretty unexciting, be sure to check out Craig Hockenberry’s iPad benchmarks for native app and website javascript performance compared to the 3GS and original iPhone.