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Cellular Phone Forum / Providers / Fido / December 2003GPRS Download Speed
I am trying to find out the speed of the connection with the $50 per month unlimited internet access and the Wireless Merlin PC card. The current practical connection speed is roughly 40 to 60 kbps (as opposed to theoretical speeds allowing for up to 150 kbps. <- this never happens). In other words, it's about the same speed as dial-up. CU > I am trying to find out the speed of the connection with the $50 per month > unlimited internet access and the Wireless Merlin PC card. Theoretically it's in the upper 40kbps range. However, I ahave pretty much never seen this sort of speed, I usually get in the low 20's, sometimes even the single digits. TTYL > I am trying to find out the speed of the connection with the $50 per month > unlimited internet access and the Wireless Merlin PC card. > I am trying to find out the speed of the connection with the $50 per month > unlimited internet access and the Wireless Merlin PC card. For files of any significant size, download speeds are close to 56K modem speeds; where I seem to consistantly get at about 4KB per second. (That is K _Bytes_ per second.) But as GPRS data seems to be *very* packet, with delays between request and responce, I find that serfing the Web is more like using an OLD 14.4K modem. You may wish to check the notes at the _very_bottom_ of the following 2 pages from my Website: http://www.allensmith.net/Internet/Wireless.htm http://www.allensmith.net/Internet/Access.htm Allen What's the deal with GPRS? Besides speed, what advantage is there over SMS if all you want to do is email and SMS? >What's the deal with GPRS? Besides speed, what advantage is there >over SMS if all you want to do is email and SMS? Connect Your laptop, Connect Your Palm / handheld /Marcus  SignatureMarcus AAkesson marcus.akesson@NO_SPAM_PLEASE_home.se Gothenburg Callsigns: SM6XFN & SB4779 Sweden >>>>>> Keep the world clean - no HTML in news or mail ! <<<<<< > What's the deal with GPRS? Besides speed, what advantage is there > over SMS if all you want to do is email and SMS? The 3 main advantages are - Speed, which can be much higher than plain CSD (circuit switched data) 'dial-up' type connection - The connection is 'always on', a bit like a cable modem which lets you use your phone while receiving data - You are billed with the data you are transferring, as opposed to the duration of the data call, with CSD. Hope this helps Dave0 > > What's the deal with GPRS? Besides speed, what advantage is there > > over SMS if all you want to do is email and SMS? [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > - Speed, which can be much higher than plain CSD (circuit switched > data) 'dial-up' type connection Theoretically, in practice I've rarely seen it higher then CSD. > - The connection is 'always on', a bit like a cable modem which lets > you use your phone while receiving data Which unfortunately increases latency by a large amount in practice. > - You are billed with the data you are transferring, as opposed to the > duration of the data call, with CSD. Which IMHO is a DISADVANTAGE, 1 minute of call on CSD gets you about 57kB, and that costs one minute of airtime (which ranges from $0.1 to $0.3 on Fido), 57KB on GPRS costs you $1.71!! (if you don't use a GPRS plan). GPRS is only good if all you do is check a stock quote on a WAP site, for any SERIOUS use (email, web browsing) it's FAR too expensive. TTYL "repatch" <repatch42@yahoo.com> wrote in message news: > > - Speed, which can be much higher than plain CSD (circuit switched > > data) 'dial-up' type connection > > Theoretically, in practice I've rarely seen it higher then CSD. You can clearly see that GPRS is always faster than CSD using a computer connection and a "data metering" software, in practice. > "repatch" <repatch42@yahoo.com> wrote in message news: > [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] > You can clearly see that GPRS is always faster than CSD using a > computer connection and a "data metering" software, in practice. Not where I live. Even small transfers are often slower then what I'd get with CSD. TTYL |
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