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[M16]

Now thats more like it.

[Marks DTM Calib]

Quick enough for me.

Blimey, whats that...   ...up looks like dial up, down looks like a poorly 256k line

Edit, just seen, 3G.  Still too slow, guessing its actually GPRS  :-/

HSDPA what ever that means....

Its quite misleading actually...apart from a couple of sites Betfair and Ebay it loads the content plenty quick enough,no lag or delay.

My home broadband is ofcourse quicker but not THAT much more noticable. :-?

High Speed Downlink Packet Access.

Its a method for packet distribution over 3G networks using HARQ and can support upto 42M using the newer plus version.

It can also be rolled out onto most existing 3G base staions without hardware upgrades and will be what finally does for the ill conceived wimax!

I understood very little of that....

All i know is im told it should be faster come end of the year...

lol, the limit in reality at the moment is the link from the base station to the network which is often only a few 2M streams!

The technology is quite simple, because they know there will be errors in the sent packets, they actually transmit each packet a minimum of three times but encoded using 3 different formats. At the far end (or your phone depending which direction the data is traveling in) the packet is decoded and then compared to the others in order to error correct.

[Marks DTM Calib]

[Martin_1962]

I find the broadband latency is worse than it was with ISDN

Generally not much in it, but ISDN is point to point straight to ISP, DSL can go round the houses to get to ISP, so you can be unlucky depending on the combination of where you live and what ISP you pick.

Rubbish at work at the moment

If its that bad, have a chat to your isp...

Used to be a lot quicker when we first went BB

[zirk]

Vodafone HSDPA Data Card, So much for there advertised 7.2 Mbs,

Where do all the previous tests come from?, theres loads and mine go back to 2007!!

[Kevin Wood]

Vodafone HSDPA Data Card, So much for there advertised 7.2 Mbs,

Where do all the previous tests come from?, theres loads and mine go back to 2007!!

Having tested a few data cards the performance of HSDPA devices varies greatly IME, and the advertised data rates assume a perfect RF signal path. Levels perfect, no multipath, etc. In other words, if you want a solid 7.2 Mb/s, ask Vodafone if you can run a bit of coax to the local node-b.  

Kevin

[Plomien]

not too bad considering time of day

[FRE07962128]

BT Total Broadband but at a bad time of the day in the South East!

[cem_devecioglu]

from home  

[jjleonard]

vodafone 3g card, hanging out of the window of a B&B in hull, on a 3m usb cable.  

I hate working away from home.

[TheBoy]

As I came in the office today, thought I'd run one from my desk...



Still not brave enough to run one from one of our unfettled internet feeds  :-/

just looking at this, seeing as ethernet performance plummets at 40% (or did in old days), thats pretty much max I'll get when connected to 100Mb switch?  Or is the fact its switched now going to improve how well it performs under heavy utilisation?

[Marks DTM Calib]

As I came in the office today, thought I'd run one from my desk...



Still not brave enough to run one from one of our unfettled internet feeds  :-/

just looking at this, seeing as ethernet performance plummets at 40% (or did in old days), thats pretty much max I'll get when connected to 100Mb switch?  Or is the fact its switched now going to improve how well it performs under heavy utilisation?

Again, its dependent on what is set up on the network with respect to links and ques!

A switch in threory should give you full output bandwidth if nobody else is using any of the other leaf ports.

[TheBoy]

As I came in the office today, thought I'd run one from my desk...



Still not brave enough to run one from one of our unfettled internet feeds  :-/

just looking at this, seeing as ethernet performance plummets at 40% (or did in old days), thats pretty much max I'll get when connected to 100Mb switch?  Or is the fact its switched now going to improve how well it performs under heavy utilisation?

Again, its dependent on what is set up on the network with respect to links and ques!

A switch in threory should give you full output bandwidth if nobody else is using any of the other leaf ports.

As I typed it, I seemed to remember I was going back to the hub days....

The office was fairly quiet at the time, I know we have 100Mbit link out to main corporate network, and about 15 hops to get to internet!

[Proz]

.... :-/

[rikki_essex]