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Internet through phone speed?
Hello. Finally have this set up. Payasyougo sim on tmobile and £1 for 24hours. I know this isnt allowed by them but i could do with a payandgo mobile internet for every now and again (bout 2x a month) Whats the speed supposed to be normally? i thought it would be a ok' speed. a speed test on ZDNet came back as 33kbps.
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What was you expecting? Phones aren't that big.
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It depends on your phone (GPRS, 3G etc etc). For GPRS the theoretical maximum is well over 100kb/s in practice though you'll be lucky to get 56K speeds.
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I have a Vario 2 on tmobile and I get around 1.1mbps.
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Is that HSDPA?
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Im on T-Mobile and have a Samsung D900. I just use the pc studio and selected tmobile and it connected. Rang a number lke **99*909 (not exactly like that but in a way)
I have used this with o2 pm and get speeds of aroung 440kbps. When i ring 150 it mentions something like dont pay anything more than £1 for GPRS web&walk and something else. |
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Is that HSDPA?
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Haven't Vodafone and T-Mobile fully launched HSPDA at 1.8MB? I know 3 are in the final stages of rolling out 3.6MB to the city centres, but nowt concrete yet.
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I take it this has nothing to do with my problem. Sounds good though. I bet it is expensive.
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Haven't Vodafone and T-Mobile fully launched HSPDA at 1.8MB? I know 3 are in the final stages of rolling out 3.6MB to the city centres, but nowt concrete yet.
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yeah ive downloaded at over 200k a sec with the connection very nice. not adviseable with a normal contract at the moment however only a unlimited data tariff recommended
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Haven't Vodafone and T-Mobile fully launched HSPDA at 1.8MB? I know 3 are in the final stages of rolling out 3.6MB to the city centres, but nowt concrete yet.
Next year, T-Mobile intends to increase HSDPA speeds up to 3.6 megabits per second. It intends following this with further increases through 7.2 and then 10 megabytes per second, targetting speeds in excess of 20 megabits per second by the end of the decade. Here's the full release |
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I take it this has nothing to do with my problem. Sounds good though. I bet it is expensive.
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but i take it i wouldnt be able to get this with what i am doing and £1 for 24hrs.
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Haven't Vodafone and T-Mobile fully launched HSPDA at 1.8MB? I know 3 are in the final stages of rolling out 3.6MB to the city centres, but nowt concrete yet.
, only 50kbps when you fall back to GPRS though.On my K800i on the standard WnW handset tariff (only used to access my ISP's status page and gmail to get my ADSL Login details |
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Hello. Finally have this set up. Payasyougo sim on tmobile and £1 for 24hours. I know this isnt allowed by them but i could do with a payandgo mobile internet for every now and again (bout 2x a month) Whats the speed supposed to be normally? i thought it would be a ok' speed. a speed test on ZDNet came back as 33kbps.
Ya not gonna get any faster than GPRS cos ya need a data card to get proper 3G Broadband.
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I take advantage of Orange's £1 for a day of Internet access on the odd occasion, the best download speed I've ever got from them has been 5.5kbps on GPRS, which would put it in roughly the same league as landline dial-up.
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I used my N95 on my laptop yesterday and I got this speed and it was pretty reliable...
http://www.avbd33.dsl.pipex.com/n95speed.jpg
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I believe that the handset tariffs is speed throttled to stop people using it for laptops.
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Not true at all.
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I used my N95 on my laptop yesterday and I got this speed and it was pretty reliable...
http://www.avbd33.dsl.pipex.com/n95speed.jpg ![]() )
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Hmm, why can a Web'n'Walk Datacard SIM in my K800i connect and download faster than my Relax 200 + Web'n'Walk SIM then?
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, only 50kbps when you fall back to GPRS though.
Ya not gonna get any faster than GPRS cos ya need a data card to get proper 3G Broadband.