up to 400 kb downloads speed using my GPRS Cellphone

[ideas]

hi again, am using a Motorolla C333 to go on the net, but wat i've noticed is that when downloading some times its downloading up to 400kb a few seconds then drastically slows down to 2kb....... wat am interested in is how to maintain such a speed of 20kb up via using a software or anything u know of can do this?

thanks alot for ur replies

[chilifrei64]

The cell phone broadband connections are burstable connections meaning they can spike and spike high. There is no way to maintain these connection speeds. It also matters the content that you are downloading. If the type of information it is downloading is highly compressable, this can return false speeds over these types of networks. I have seen it using my sprint phone and a couple times at one of my clients verizon broadband card, but it is not maintainable.

If you want the fastest speeds consistently via wireless broadband... go verizon. I use cingular, sprint, and verizon.. verizon is faster.

[RogueSpear]

I'm on Cingular with an unlimited data plan. Using a Sony S710a (Class 10 EDGE) via Bluetooth. In my observations I have a satisfactory web browsing experience, but it comes with some caveats. The connection seems very sensitive to multiple connections. What I mean by this is if you go to a web page that has to download tons of images, it will slow down significantly. If the page is simpler, even if it has higher resolution images, so long as there aren't too many of them, it "feels" fast.

This seems to jive with what chilifrei64 was talking about with "burstable" connections. It seems analogous to doing a file copy. If you copy a subdirectory with 5,000 files totaling 1GB, it will take a lot longer than copying one single 1GB file.

I had some major issues at one point with my cable modem (and the cable company) where I was without my broadband connection for close to two weeks. During that time my cell phone was my link to the internet. I did everything on it too including VPNing in to work daily. I have to say that it wasn't bad at all. In fact I'm still considering dropping my $50/month cable modem completely and just relying on the $24/month I pay already to Cingular.