For the technically curious

Latency probes: 2865ms2372ms 2991ms 3109ms 3226ms 2907ms 2667ms 3098ms 2877ms 2696ms
Speed: 99kbps

Statistics..
alltime today
GPRS 43 kbps / 1421 ms
94 samples 48 kbps / 1417 ms
23 samples
EDGE 141 kbps / 913 ms
4265 samples 143 kbps / 875 ms
666 samples
3G 746 kbps / 401 ms
24253 samples 843 kbps / 373 ms
2816 samples
Wifi 2318 kbps / 145 ms
865 samples 2619 kbps / 152 ms
174 samples

..... now if the phone would quit dorking itself forcing me to erase all the application data, then reloading my phone book, I would be reasonably ok with the speed, which is about 3 times what I used to get with dialup from here. It is amazing how spoiled one gets with high speed data.