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Originally Posted by grvthang
He certainly implied it. You left out his prior paragraph:
For example, Amazon trumpets the Fire’s dual Wi-Fi antennas — a first in a tablet — which is supposed to give you a better, faster Internet signal.
Well, fine, but the Fire still lags the iPad in Web browsing.
He used that example to imply that the wifi was nothing to write home about.
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Amazon's claim is that the Wi-Fi is 40% faster for media streaming. An unscientific test of a few webpages, while somewhat useful, doesn't necessarily disprove that claim. For example, TechHive said the Fire HD logged the second fastest time they have seen on their custom-built Web page load test., ending in a statistical tie with Samsung's Galaxy Note 10.1.
The Chicago Sun Times used DSLreports.com’s tablet speed test which consistently shows the Fire HD is about 20 percent faster on the same two WiFi networks as the 2012 iPad. While this means Amazons own claim may be in question, it does suggest that over the course of streaming a video that a user may encounter less lag compared to other tablets.