[Gllug] experiences with mobile broadband devices?

Christopher Hunter cehunter at gb-x.org
Mon Jun 29 17:24:06 UTC 2009


On Mon, 2009-06-29 at 10:57 +0100, Karanbir Singh wrote:

> The other issue about how broad a band this really is : I average around 
> 35 - 55KiB/sec on short / web traffic. Sometimes going upto 70 - 
> 90KiB/sec on larger transfers.

That's pretty slow.

>  Compare this with the 1.2MiB/sec that I 
> can easily sustain on the home adsl link for .iso downloads from 
> mirrors.eu.kernel.org or mirrorservice.org

That's NOT "broadband"!  I hope you don't pay too much for "service" as
slow as that!

C.

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