not impressed with the o2 globesurfer III

Honda08

have been testing the o2 globesurfer III here, not that impressed, signal only 2 bars, getting

found the wireless to drop out randomly and pc's fail to connect..

slow to respond to menu clicks, on the web management page..

anyone else find this?

i bought it because i read , that it had some fancy aerial inside to pickup even the weakest signal.. not great, earlier this evening i was only getting slower than dial up speeds... everyone else is gone to bed now and signal has improved and so has speed...

think ill send it back and stick to eircom.

missyfirefly

Have you tried setting it to 3g only?

O2_Daryll

Those speeds aren't too bad?

Honda08

Talk2O2: Daryll wrote: »

Those speeds aren't too bad?

true but those speeds were at 2am!!
before that it was slower than dialup during peak times.

O2_Daryll

Can you give me an example so I can look into it?

ptdireland

Talk2O2: Daryll wrote: »

Those speeds aren't too bad?

Are you actually serious when you say that those speeds are not too bad???
Latency times of 151ms and less than 3 mb at non peak times is crap especially when O2 claim speeds of "up to" 7.6Mbps.
While the speeds are fair for 3G products, it is NOT broadband. It is slightly better than dial up at peak times and therefore should be called MIDBAND. For gods sake, stop pretending to customers and stop the false advertising.
3G IS NOT BROADBAND AND NEVER WILL BE

Honda08

Talk2O2: Daryll wrote: »

Can you give me an example so I can look into it?

sorry no can do, its gone back under the 7 day return.
ill stick with eircom thanks..

O2_Daryll

Honda08 wrote: »

sorry no can do, its gone back under the 7 day return.
ill stick with eircom thanks..

Fair enough. If you need anything else let me know.

ptdireland

As an O2 representative, please could you reply to the thread copied below?


Are you actually serious when you say that those speeds are not too bad???
Latency times of 151ms and less than 3 mb at non peak times is crap especially when O2 claim speeds of "up to" 7.6Mbps.
While the speeds are fair for 3G products, it is NOT broadband. It is slightly better than dial up at peak times and therefore should be called MIDBAND. For gods sake, stop pretending to customers and stop the false advertising.
3G IS NOT BROADBAND AND NEVER WILL BE

missyfirefly

ptdireland wrote: »

As an O2 representative, please could you reply to the thread copied below?


Are you actually serious when you say that those speeds are not too bad???
Latency times of 151ms and less than 3 mb at non peak times is crap especially when O2 claim speeds of "up to" 7.6Mbps.
While the speeds are fair for 3G products, it is NOT broadband. It is slightly better than dial up at peak times and therefore should be called MIDBAND. For gods sake, stop pretending to customers and stop the false advertising.
3G IS NOT BROADBAND AND NEVER WILL BE

Don't hold your breath! He's not going to reply. Can't say I'd blame him either.

Honda08

missyfirefly wrote: »

Don't hold your breath! He's not going to reply. Can't say I'd blame him either.

i found that it works best between 2am-6am! thats grand if you want to schedule your browsing for when you come home after a night out!

it was terribly slow during peak hours, 6pm -12am.

i read that the globesurfer III modem has a special antenna that is supposed to pick up the weakest signal.... what a crock.

i tested it with a sierra wireless modem at the same times i tested with the globesurfer III and the sierrawiress compass 888 modem got a faster speed and held the exact same signal as the router.

the router didnt in any way have any better signal quality than the sierra wireless 888 modem.

jor el

ptdireland wrote: »

As an O2 representative, please could you reply to the thread copied below?

Well, he doesn't have to if he doesn't want to, but I'll give some of it a shot.

ptdireland wrote: »

Are you actually serious when you say that those speeds are not too bad???

Yes, I'd say he is. At the time of the response, there was no context for the given speed test result. So yes, it was actually quite reasonable.

ptdireland wrote: »

Latency times of 151ms and less than 3 mb at non peak times is crap especially when O2 claim speeds of "up to" 7.6Mbps.

For 3G, 150ms is about as good as you'll get, perfectly acceptable for the service that is being offered. If you expect 20ms, then you're in the wrong place. Also, there is no mention of what the OP's modem is capable of, or whether they are in a 3G sector that supports 7.2Mbps. They could very well be in a 3.6Mbps area, in which case the speed achieved is what you would expect.

ptdireland wrote: »

While the speeds are fair for 3G products, it is NOT broadband.

You're right, 3G is not broadband, but then Daryll never said it was, you're the one bringing this up. All he said was the speed wasn't too bad, which was a fair and accurate statement.

ptdireland wrote: »

It is slightly better than dial up at peak times and therefore should be called MIDBAND.

For some, maybe, but for many it is quite usable. When I had O2 midband it worked perfectly well for me at all times, and only varied with location and signal strength.

ptdireland wrote: »

For gods sake, stop pretending to customers and stop the false advertising.
3G IS NOT BROADBAND AND NEVER WILL BE

I don't think Daryll pretended or advertised anything on this thread, so unless you have something to contribute to the topic at hand, I suggest you find a more appropriate place for those comments.

Maricarmen

Ive been trying it for online gaming.. works rather fine with latency of around 200, except after like an hour. It just increases to a few thousands =/

watty

3G latency is 80ms to 2000ms. Depending if one or twenty connections are simultaneously in use on the mast sector.

jay93

The globesurfer III isnt all that great to be honest have alot of people complaining about them ..ive gamed over 3G on o2 and 3 pings were always around 250ms max but most the time they are really low for 3G have never had ping spikes into the tousands except when i had vodafone 3G when it hit about 4pm pings went upto around 3000ms :eek::eek: so it mostly depends on you area if you get good pings speeds etc from a 3G mobile service ..
playing the wii online over 3G does be ok but xbox ps3 can disconnect the odd few times

Maricarmen

Im only using it for an pc online game, guess it should be the same anyways