glenbuck1914

Not really, we've had 3/3.5g in Ireland for the past couple of years and my own personal experience of it is....
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Well to be kind, it's good for web browsing and that's about it.

I had a plan to stick a PC in my car with HSDPA broadband for net radio but it's just not stable enough.

headcracker

im in longford an use a HSDPA usb 3g modem, an i don't just web browse with it, i play cod4 online (ping 100 - 130) <--- perfectly fine, on a good day, upto 200 on a bad day, not so good bit laggy but playable.

granted it can be a major pain sometimes an feel like smashing the modem sometimes (i did that once too lol). but overall their good.

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glenbuck1914

That's a great ping for 3g. I'm in North Dublin and it's impossible to get a stable signal on it . My brother in law is constantly annoying me to "fix his internet". I keep telling him- The internets not broke, O2 is (Could just be in a bad area but the mast is only about 300ft away from his house with a clear line of sight) I've never seen a ping lower than 200ms on it

He sticks with it though as he doesn't want to pay line rental for a phone he won't use- He just wants broadband. Makes sense, but as you said the stability/ping is head wrecking at times.

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I set up some Dragonwave microwave point to point links and got 1.6 Gbps, when I worked for an isp.

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We have a microwave link here in the office, about 1.0 Gbps. It's only used as a backup now but used to be in production- It worked great until the birds started migrating in the winter lol.

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over the weekend i went and visited my sister in new jersey, and i hooked my blackberry storm up to my laptop, and used it as a 3g modem. i got ~ 150 KB/s down and about 50 KB/s up most of the way there. actually i think there was only 2 points in my trip where i didn't get a 1x EV signal, and that was only for about 5 minutes each. I played left 4 dead online for pretty much the whole 5 hour ride both ways, and only used about 300MB of bandwidth.

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