EDGE being used in 3G area. How many other people see this??

I'm just trying to get a feel for how many other people see this.
In the last 6 weeks or so, twice my phone has switched from 3G to EDGE when i'm in a strong 3G area. Yesterday it did it just as I was leaving work and my iPhone stayed on EDGE all the way back home, when I know that the area in question is fully covered by 3G (and my iPhone normally says 3G). Later at home I went to use the phone and noticed it had finally switched back to 3G instead of EDGE.
Is this an area issue with AT&T getting overloaded? Is this a bug in the iPhone software? Anybody else experience this periodically?
Mark.

First off, it could either be an issue with AT&T's network being overloaded so it switched you to Edge, or it could be a bug in the iPhone software.
Second, are you measuring the signal strength by how many bars the iPhone shows or by the dbm numbers? The dbm numbers show the actual signal strength and the bars don't. The iPhone could have a horrible signal and still show you 3-5 bars. To see the actual dbm numbers, you have to go into the phone feature and type in "star12345#3001#star" and hit send (be sure to place the * in place of the word star). Once you do that you will enter test mode and you will notice that there are numbers in the top left instead of the bars. The numbers range from (this is not the exact range because I don't know) -55 to -117. The lower the number the stronger signal you have, once you start hitting -100 your signal is getting pretty weak. If you want to continually be able to see the dbm numbers you have to force quit out of the field test mode. If you are on 3.x firmware you have to hold the sleep button until the power off slider appears, let go of the sleep button and then hold down the home button. Once the app closes you can now tap on the top left and switch between bars and dbm numbers.

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