[Gllug] [OT] 3G speed / SIM issues on O2

[Caroline Ford]

On Thu, 2007-11-01 at 02:44 +0000, damion.yates at gmail.com wrote:

> 
> When in Dublin, I got a UTMS connection, a 3G symbol and much faster
> than GPRS connections on my really old SIM, before the newer 3G one.  I
> didn't check the data rate though sadly.
> 
I'm getting HSDPA from my vodafone data card.  They have 7.2Mb/s in some
places, but I'm not getting anything like that - more like 80kB/s. 

> I've been told that O2 have the ability to cap data throughput if you
> exceed your monthly unlimited^Wfair usage quota, yet they deny any way
> to shape traffic to the rate I'm seeing.

They will all have ways of enforcing their data limits - I'm not sure
how they all do it.

Caroline

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