On 02/03/2012 09:21 AM, Marghanita da Cruz wrote:
Thinking out loud, has anyone played with 4G(LTE) or dual/band
smartphones
- do such things exist?
I played with a HTC 4G device at a telstra shop yesterday in penrith,
speedtest gave me 20mbit down and 3mbit up.
ping was 82ms.
looking through the history of all the other times the phone had run
speed test (and it was ALOT, thing was front of store with a speed test
icon on the home screen)
worst result was 5mbit, most common was 15+ ping was always in the
80-100 range.
With regard to coverage - I have used Virgin/Optus Broadband (3G) for
a few
years (ever since the I-Burst Wireless Network was shut down) and
Vodaphone
(2G) mobile telephone since 1996 - their coverage has improved over
the years.
My missus's mother lives in Bega and uses virgin Internet via 3g dongle.
I was doing some manipulations of her mythtv box a few days ago and
virgin kills the connection after a few minutes with no data so I
started to ping it.
3938 packets transmitted, 3804 received, 3% packet loss, time 3940409ms
rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 116.925/2825.981/46904.876/6009.332 ms, pipe 47
That's right, max ping of 46 seconds, and an average of ~3.
These results are typical for her Internet connection.
I use virgin on my phone and it doesn't seem to suck that badly, though
if you try to run VoIP over it you generally have about a 30 second delay.
Telstra has better coverage eg west coast of Tasmania - actually most of
Tasmania except Launceston and Hobart and probably the highway between
the
two. I haven't done a pricing check recently, but Telstra was also more
expensive. So, it is a balance, whether you share the cost with more
customers or pay for more exclusive access.
I'm thinking of moving to telstra for my mobile (i want a galaxy note),
and their 3G internet plans have really come down in price, mother in
law can now get internet off telstra cheaper than the current plan she
is on with virgin.
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