mobile broadband when?

ive been testing a gprs card in a laptop today and speed certainly was
lacking ... not even upto speed of an ordinary modem line although to be
fair the reason we have it is because the sites that will use them have
no phone lines and the cost of putting a phone line into these sites is
way too high (over fields, etc) or the site isnt around long enough.

so, my question is in terms of mobile connectivity ... whats next,when
will it be available and will it be upto broadband speeds?


jas

jas wrote:
> ive been testing a gprs card in a laptop today and speed certainly was
> lacking ... not even upto speed of an ordinary modem line although to be
> fair the reason we have it is because the sites that will use them have
> no phone lines and the cost of putting a phone line into these sites is
> way too high (over fields, etc) or the site isnt around long enough.
>
> so, my question is in terms of mobile connectivity ... whats next,when
> will it be available and will it be upto broadband speeds?

I am using the Vodaphone 3G card and when it finds a network it is
pretty fast - ~ 380k download - but networks are not that widespread yet.

Tony

Tony Raven <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in
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> I am using the Vodaphone 3G card and when it finds a network it is
> pretty fast - ~ 380k download - but networks are not that widespread
> yet.

And it's rather expensive.

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> > so, my question is in terms of mobile connectivity ... whats next,when
> > will it be available and will it be upto broadband speeds?
>
> I am using the Vodaphone 3G card and when it finds a network it is
> pretty fast - ~ 380k download - but networks are not that widespread yet.
>
> Tony

seems promising ...

1mb decent broadband I tend to get about 120KB/s
56k modem approx 5KB/s

so in line with those ive mentioned are you saying approx 38KB/s
download? (how about upload?)

is there a current listing of areas covered by the faster network? the
sites i was goin to use gprs at are mainly located around oxfordshire at
the moment. to be able to get a decent connection for the odd email here
and there (some have cad drawings attached) would be ideal.

"jas" (E-Mail Removed) wrote in message
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>
> is there a current listing of areas covered by the faster network?

http://www.vodafone.co.uk/coverage.h...0&zl=4&x=3&y=2

The dark red bits have 3G coverage. The 3G cards will fallover to GPRS usage
when there's no 3G signal.

Orange do a 3G card as well. Coverage details at
http://coverage.orange.co.uk

O2 launched their 3G/GPRS/WiFi card yesterday. Should be in the shops before
the end of the year.

"jas" <(E-Mail Removed)> ????
news:(E-Mail Removed). ..
> ive been testing a gprs card in a laptop today and speed certainly was
> lacking ... not even upto speed of an ordinary modem line although to be
> fair the reason we have it is because the sites that will use them have
> no phone lines and the cost of putting a phone line into these sites is
> way too high (over fields, etc) or the site isnt around long enough.
>
> so, my question is in terms of mobile connectivity ... whats next,when
> will it be available and will it be upto broadband speeds?