[Gllug] experiences with mobile broadband devices?

[Caroline Ford]

Reception is horribly variable. I get no O2 reception at work - edge  
if I am lucky.

At home Vodafone gives me GPRS as much as HSDPA. Mobile broadband is  
good for checking your email on a bus but not close to being a  
replacement for actual broadband.

I blame mobile phone mast nimbies as that seems to be the cause of  
O2's problems in Bermondsey. No-one will allow a mast near them in  
case it gives their kids autism, or whatever.

Caroline



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On 29 Jun 2009, at 18:51, Jason Clifford <jason at ukfsn.org> wrote:

> On Mon, 2009-06-29 at 19:18 +0200, Christof Meerwald wrote:
>> What pings/latency do you get from your connection? A friend of mine
>> mentioned some time ago that pings over his mobile broadband  
>> connection were
>> just around 60-70 ms (which sounds acceptable to me) over HSDPA/ 
>> HSUPA (in
>> Austria via T-Mobile).
>
> Latency is hugely variable. At best it's about 60ms however it can  
> be at
> that level one second and then 2000ms the next without any change on  
> my
> part.
>
>> Isn't part of the problem that the UK networks don't widely support  
>> HSUPA
>> yet (and you just get HSDPA with higher latencies).
>
> The problem is not just the reliance of HSDPA as the "best available"
> service in the UK but rather that the network operators are still
> running their networks for voice and sms and have not really done  
> enough
> work to re-engineer the networks to facilitate decent mobile data
> services.
>
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