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Running some speedtests with unlocked Huawei E585 on Vodafone with full 3G signal

  • 12-08-2010 09:00PM
    #1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 234 ✭✭


    in Bray tonite

    - not plugged in - full battery

    [IMG]http://www.speedtest.net][/img]912572700.png

    Set to OPEN WEP 128bit enc. to support my old desktop PCI wireless-b card
    SMC2402W- full 22Mbs signal

    Another..this time plugged into the charger

    912580939.png


    As I already has a pay monthly package with Vodafone, it made sense to get just a 1gb monthly addon for a tenner without having to re-sign an 18mth contract, this way I only use it when I want to 'work from home' ;)

    Any reason why my upload speed is much greater? (& pretty good) & downlink is poxy?

    and another
    http://www.speedtest.net/result/912584578.png


Comments

  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,461 ✭✭✭✭watty


    It's to do with amount of traffic. A 3G sector is very little capacity. One person watching YouTube uses up nearly half the download and almost no upload.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 138 ✭✭jaceq


    Your download is fairly low... I just did this a second ago:

    914390643.png


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