EGPRS(EDGE) speed

I don't get it!

"clifto" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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> Porgy Tirebiter wrote:
>> "John Navas" <[email protected]> wrote in message
>> news:[email protected]...
>>> Sony Ericsson GC82 PC Card (Class 10) in ThinkPad T41.
>>> Test this morning in Walnut Creek, CA, of FTP download of compressed
>>> file, measured with Windows XP Performance Monitor of Network object:
>>> * Average: 24.6 Kbytes/sec, or 200 Kbps
>>> * Peak: 28.1 Kbytes/sec, or 225 Kbps
>>> Actual performance graph: http://i7.tinypic.com/34skksk.png
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>> This is a SNAIL'S Pace!!!!
>>
>> Verizon and Sprint blow this away.
>> Why would anyone want to **** thru a sock?
>
> Peanuts and corn.
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> they come out with a total exploit, your machine can be taken over
> totally.
> I dare anybody to do that once a month on the Windows machine."
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Ryan Sinn wrote:
> For EDGE/GPRS performance...
>
> In Minnesota (Minneapolis / Saint Paul... Metro area) -- the best
> speed I've seen with Cingular is 39 to 69 Kbps... 2-8Kb/sec...
>
> With my (old) AT&T SIM in the same phone I was getting 180-200Kbps
> consistantly...
>
> 3G isn't here yet, so I can't tell you of the quality difference...

HSDPA has got to be the slowest roll-out in the history of wireless.
Cingular is promising that 2007 is "the year of 3G," so be patient.

Sprint and Verizon both have had their 3G network up in the Twin Cities
for over a year. Cingular is losing a lot of high-value subscribers to
Sprint and Verizon, and once they're set up with wireless cards in their
notebooks, or tethered handsets, they're unlikely to change since the
price is the same.

Meanwhile, Minneapolis is deploying a city-wide 4G wireless network at a
cost of $20 per month, with no taxpayer money. Amusingly, the some are
attacking the plan, because they want a "free," publicly funded network.
Yet San Francisco's plan of "free" low speed, and paid high speed
wireless is also being attacked, as companies such as AT&T don't want
anything free, and some residents think that the high-speed should be
free. I think that $20 is a fair price for 3Mb/s wireless, it's about
the same cost as basic DSL, plus you no longer need a land line. The
free wireless network where I live, MetroFi, is worse than dial-up.