Hydraglass
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join:2002-05-08
Kingston, ON
 ·Bell Sympatico
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Re: LTE2
said by en102  :Same here - I'd personally take a +20GB cap with 500kbps-1.5Mbps before I'd take a 3Mbps with 5GB cap. Speak for yourself there - I'd rather 100Mbps with a 10GB cap over 1.5Mbps with a 300GB cap any day - ESPECIALLY on a wireless device. Having the typically small-ish size web content and apps as well as tethered e-mail operate at blazing speeds rather than crawl along uselessly. If I need huge amounts of data, there are places to get that -- it's why I have a server in a rack in a local co-lo datacenter with 2000GB/mo of bandwidth. If I need something huge (>5GB) I initiate the download there and stop by the DC and grab the removable spare drive with my files on it.
When it comes to wireless/mobile data access, it's all about the speed - not the throughput. If you're trying to find your way in an unfamiliar area using a google maps app on your wireless device, you want the pages and maps and street views to load ASAP. You want your emails to appear instant. You want fast - because 99% of the time you're extremely time-constrained when using a mobile internet device - be it a phone or a wireless data card in a laptop. E.g. you're walking down the street in the city with a group of friends and someone says "let's get ice cream" - you need to be able to find the nearest 3-4 ice-cream shoppes in 10-15 seconds and be able to tell the group which way to turn at the next light. You're not trying to download a linux distro, PS3 or X360 games, full length feature film, etc. If you are, maybe you need to re-evaluate how and where and why you are doing those things and what benefit you are getting from it. |
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en102
Canadian, eh?
join:2001-01-26
Valencia, CA
 ·RoadRunner Cable
·DSL EXTREME
| Most wireless devices would be consuming too much CPU to handle process high data rates to be currently useful.
Email at 1.5Mbps - active sync runs in seconds.
At 100Mbps... it runs in... second or 2 ?
At 1.5Mbps... emails appear in an instant. 100Mbps would give HDTV. I use Google maps, and it does appear in an instant.
Making full use of data over a months period (some YouTube, remote desktop, MS-patching (yeah - If I'm using a datacard... I want to be able to patch my own PC). I may not expect a +300 GB cap... but I do expect a reasonsable amount of use.
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JosephN
join:2009-05-12
| I agree 100%. I see the wireless carriers' need for _reasonable_ cap, but 5GB is a joke.
I'm happy with the speed of my EVDO connection, it's essentially as fast as the device will handle. OTOH, I bump into that 5GB cap, because I listen to a lot of internet radio. With Hulu, the cap would be a total joke.
I sure wouldn't want to be so limited that I had to stop by the datacenter whenever I needed to download a large file. I'd flat out go back to dial up before I'd put up with a carrier that wouldn't handle large files. |
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