Either AT&Tingular's network has improved or the Internet is just faster tonight.  I just got T1-ish speeds via HSDPA, on my laptop:

% wget -O /dev/null http://69.9.189.182/32MiB.bin
--2008-12-15 20:44:51--  http://69.9.189.182/32MiB.bin
Connecting to 69.9.189.182:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 33554432 (32M) [application/octet-stream]
Saving to: `/dev/null'

100%[======================================>] 33,554,432   162K/s   in 4m 2s   

2008-12-15 20:48:54 (135 KB/s) - `/dev/null' saved [33554432/33554432]

It routinely bursted up to 197 KB/sec (1,576 Kb/sec).  Not-a-bad.

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