"ray sa" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote > An EDGE terminal is a phone that has the capability of > connecting to the internet. > ...EDGE is just faster than a GPRS connection and 3G is > supposedly faster than GPRS and EDGE.
Thanks. I'm familiar with GPRS and 3G but never heard of EDGE. Looks like time I did some research... > I have written a script that connects to a ftp server within > my home country and downloads a file. OK, In that case you speed will be governed by many things: 1) The slowest link between you and the server 2) The queue size at the server 3) The speed of the server Using the Internet to guage the speed of your connection is not a very useful test unless you repeat it many times at different times of day etc and take an average. Even when I only had 512K broadband I rarely gor that speed on long internet connections because the links elsewhere or the destination were busy. Now I have 8M broadband I still often only get 300K or less on an internet connection to the U?S for example. In other words the increased bandwidth does not translate directly to faster speeds for long connections. Once a connection is established - like your ftp session - then downloads are faster so its ot a totally useless test, but it may not accurately reflect your connection speeds! Can you get access to a local server at your ISP? Download the same file from there? - You may have to upload it first! That would be a better test of your end of the link. And you wouldn't need to run both connections together, just time several download sessions to each ISP and average the times. > There must be away to tell the script and control > which connection to use. But this is the real question, and I confess I'm not sure how you do it. I will have a dig around though, because you have aroused my interest! > I hope this helps sorry for too much text couldn't > really find a simpler way to explain this. No its fine. Having the context uis always helpful. -- Alan Gauld Author of the Learn to Program web site http://www.freenetpages.co.uk/hp/alan.gauld _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
