[Gllug] experiences with mobile broadband devices?

[Caroline Ford]

Unlimited is never actually unlimited, and mobile phone data rations  
are low.

Look at the fuss over the tethering 'bolt on' for the iPhone. That  
works out as an extra £14/ month as your unlimited data package  
doesn't cover the increase in data you'd get from normal browsing.

Caroline

Sent from a mobile device.

On 29 Jun 2009, at 10:57, Karanbir Singh <mail-lists at karan.org> wrote:

> On 06/26/2009 08:06 AM, Magnus Leuthner wrote:
>> I'm thinking about getting mobile broadband as a replacement of
>> "normal" wired broadband. Does anybody know whether these devices  
>> work
>> with GNU/Linux? E.g. does the device that comes with the T-Mobile  
>> plan
>> work with Linux, are there drivers? How stable are they?
>
> I have sort-of followed this conversation a bit. and it seems no one
> pointed out the one fact : most mobile phones work as modem's too - an
> do so either over bluetooth or USB.  Also, most telco's have  
> "unlimited"
> plan options for data/internet on the mobile phones. O2 for example,
> offer something like this for £7.50 a month.
>
> Just as a point of reference, I've regularly use 2.5 to 3gb of data
> traffic a month from my mobile phone and not had the 'unlimited'  
> police
> call me as yet. May was 3.7gb, June so far has been 3.1gb.
>
> 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. 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
>
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