mobile broadband (UK)

[Big G]

Originally Posted by Titch

Bit's are not to be confused with Bytes.. Bit's are much smaller.. 8x smaller infact. there are 8 bits in 1 byte - so that impressive sounding 3.6 mbits is not even half a megabyte. So yes, it is about 45 to 56 k - aka dial up

aren't you getting confused now?

56k was 8 kbytes (although in practice I never saw more than 4k back in the day)

I see 100k downloads on my orange dongle when I do download stuff, but with my 500mb limit I try and avoid that.

3.6mbit is pretty good considering we all had 512kbit ASDL lines at the start of the broadband journey. The upstream is a little poop though.

[i4n]

Originally Posted by welsh man

yeah i know that but he just pays monthly which in my opinion is pointless u should pay for what you usebecause this way it might work out cheaper if u dont go on the web and also the internet is really quick

Paying for it on contract or PAYG doesn't affect the speed of it *bangs head on wall*. Mobile broadband isn't like your house broadband in that respect - it's the same for everyone (but, as has been pointed out before, it is shared so the more of you on it - the slower it goes)

We're on Vodaphone for work (contract, big huge nationwide contract for several thousand users, if it matters) and the only place you can get a good 3G signal are the big towns and cities. If I try to use it at home it's 2G/56k and and age to do anything.

[Titch]

Originally Posted by Big G

aren't you getting confused now?

Got my Kilobytes and Kilobits mixed up..