Broadband vs Wireless communication

petercena

Now days when we have great options like 3G and WI-FI, Broadband is still proffered worldwide why?

bealtine

petercena wrote: »

Now days when we have great options like 3G and WI-FI, Broadband is still proffered worldwide why?

Because 3G isn't anything like broadband, it's a system that depends on luck as to whether you get a connection or not and then the paltry data caps...

WIFI spreads access to broadband around your house and isn't used to deliver broadband, perhaps you meant FWA?

Paulw

petercena wrote: »

Now days when we have great options like 3G and WI-FI, Broadband is still proffered worldwide why?

Well, broadband would be "preferred" due to speed and capacity.

petercena

bealtine wrote: »

Because 3G isn't anything like broadband, it's a system that depends on luck as to whether you get a connection or not and then the paltry data caps...

WIFI spreads access to broadband around your house and isn't used to deliver broadband, perhaps you meant FWA?

What do mean by FWA?

petercena

Paulw wrote: »

Well, broadband would be "preferred" due to speed and capacity.

Not Agreed, In 3G we get more speed and regarding capacity many telecom companies are offering unlimited download in 3G also.

Paulw

petercena wrote: »

Not Agreed, In 3G we get more speed and regarding capacity many telecom companies are offering unlimited download in 3G also.

3G has more speed???

3G, UMTS or HSPA+ has a max speed of 56Mbit/s
More often than not, you won't even get 28Mbit/s. This will depend on many many factors.

With broadband, over cable or fibre, you can get 100Mbit/s, 200Mbit/s or even higher, at sustained speeds.

petercena

Paulw wrote: »

3G has more speed???

3G, UMTS or HSPA+ has a max speed of 56Mbit/s
More often than not, you won't even get 28Mbit/s. This will depend on many many factors.

With broadband, over cable or fibre, you can get 100Mbit/s, 200Mbit/s or even higher, at sustained speeds.

Dear, HSPA is providing speed of 337 Mbit/s.

bealtine

petercena wrote: »

Dear, HSPA is providing speed of 337 Mbit/s.

Only in your dreams...some people get 0k connections, that's just the way HSDPA works

Paulw

petercena wrote: »

Dear, HSPA is providing speed of 337 Mbit/s.

Where, in Ireland, can you get that speed or even half of that? (I already know the answer).

Broadband, for day to day connectivity, provides a much faster and reliable speed than any 3G or wifi in the Irish market.

who_me

petercena wrote: »

Not Agreed, In 3G we get more speed and regarding capacity many telecom companies are offering unlimited download in 3G also.

You'll only be offered unlimited downloads with 3G until people start using it more heavily. Once that happens, the networks will realise they'll have to either increase the price of the unlimited package or start introducing quotas.

bealtine

petercena wrote: »

telecom companies are offering unlimited download in 3G also.

Show us a link to one company offering unlimited downloads...

dub45

petercena wrote: »

Not Agreed, In 3G we get more speed and regarding capacity many telecom companies are offering unlimited download in 3G also.

Any company offering "unlimited download" is usually lying!

petercena

Paulw wrote: »

Where, in Ireland, can you get that speed or even half of that? (I already know the answer).

Broadband, for day to day connectivity, provides a much faster and reliable speed than any 3G or wifi in the Irish market.

Yes I accept that, on paper HSDPA speed was up to 337 Mbit/s but practice it was not even one forth of that, then what is the reason? Scientists are researching and many governments are spending billions on wireless communication researches. After researches and during technology launches they said that this will be the best and fastest but actually it was not correct. People still prefer broadband that is because they know that they will get better services.

petercena

who_me wrote: »

You'll only be offered unlimited downloads with 3G until people start using it more heavily. Once that happens, the networks will realise they'll have to either increase the price of the unlimited package or start introducing quotas.

Actually maximum companies offers unlimited plans with condition that user will get good speed up to few GB's and after that speed will be half. And if someone is paying for unlimited plan and not getting good speed then, he/she will feels cheated.

bealtine

petercena wrote: »

Actually maximum companies offers unlimited plans with condition that user will get good speed up to few GB's and after that speed will be half. And if someone is paying for unlimited plan and not getting good speed then, he/she will feels cheated.

There's no such thing as unlimited on mobile midband, that's the only way mobile operators have of controlling contention. Mostly you can be lucky and get a reasonable speed but in a few minutes you might have no connection whatsoever. Getting Gbps on mobile is a pipe dream and only available in the marketing departments of the operators...

-=al=-

As a person who has gone out of his mind to get some sort of reasonable sustainable 3g connection for the last year +

I need a fixed broadband service

who_me

The 4G speeds in the US (and elsewhere) sound fantastic. I wonder how much of that speed is due to 4G adoption still being quite low, and how much those speeds will come down as more and more 4G devices pop up.

bealtine

who_me wrote: »

The 4G speeds in the US (and elsewhere) sound fantastic.

Speed on 4G is mostly dependent on the bandwidth available for the service, the more bandwidth available the higher the speed. Comreg on the other hand don't think that is important and have limited the bandwidth so no fantastic speeds for Irish consumers, that and the fact that Comreg have mandated a 70% population coverage (which is mainly the east coast and a few selected towns/cities) means you probably won't get 4G coverage unless you are "lucky" enough to live in a large town