Originally Posted by plymouthbloke1974:
“I used to regularly register 0.01Mbit down, 0.00Mbit up and a ping of over 800ms with 5 bars 3G.... I was let out of my contract...”
I can get GPRS like performance on Vodafone 3G here. I think it's a 900MHz site.
so 0.05Mbps down, 0.02Mbps up, 1000ms+ latency. I think they've found a really bad dialup line and are using that for backhaul.
Someone pointed out that perhaps it was done to keep Vodafone within any coverage obligations but without dramatically increasing rollout cost (presumably they can use the 900MHz antennas they have for GSM). Who cares what the performance is like as long as the 3G indicator shows up on the phone.
Even the nearby O2 site can do 10Mbps+ (might be a 2100Mhz one) and of course EE/3 win with 20+Mbps and 4G imminent