Snapper <snapper1@y7mail.com.invalid> wrote
> Will Kemp wrote

>> Compared to the 300bps used by some TTYs for the
>> blind, even 14.4kbps could be considered "blistering".

> When I first started using NextG I used my phone as a modem.
> The best that I could get was around 180kbps, which isn't even
> up to the min. DSL standard.

The minimum DSL is actually 128K

> That was 18 months ago. Maybe things have progressed
> since then. But even now, using the mobile for web browsing
> is slow. And I've tried it on 5 different 3G phones on 3
> different 3G networks. 3/Telstra 3G, Optus and NextG.

> When Telstra, for example, claims speeds of "up to" 3mbps or whatever,
> then when it's below half a megabit/sec then it can hardly be claimed as
> "blistering" no matter what frame of reference that you use.

Depends on how easily you blister.

> I would hope that things have improved since then. But if mobile browsing
> and how slow it sends and receives MMSes, which I'm told is via HSDPA/
> Internet/NextG, then I'd suggest that it's anything but "blistering".

Depends on how easily you blister.