Real speed of internet access via 3g and bluetooth
 

Hi all!

My first post here! I would like to go for Nokia N810 but before I buy it, I would like to know from Nokia N770/800 users what is the real speed of internet browsing when you use
a mobile phone (3g or 3.5g, HSDPA or HSUPA) as a modem. I know that in this case a bluetooth link would be a bottleneck but tell me about real-life speed comparing to adsl speed on notebook...

Regards
Tomek
Brussels, Belgium

Re: Real speed of internet access via 3g and bluetooth
 

For me the real speed is totally limited by the real-life speed of 3G and EDGE, none of which seem to be useful in practice. I've had one single day so far when I could get 40KB a second, normally it's between 0 and 3-4000 bytes/s, with the occasional 2-second peak of slightly more. And don't get me started on the packet loss and duplicates.

Re: Real speed of internet access via 3g and bluetooth
 

I just downloaded a 1.3 Mb file in about 24 seconds, with speed averaging 50-60 K/s, peaking at 70 or 80 K/s here going through a Nokia 6120 classic. Latency is a bit worse than your average Wifi link, but still quite ok for browsing.

But actually I enjoy using Opera mini 4.0 so much on my Nokia 6120 that I always use that for occasional browsing when I'm outside.

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I've tested 200kbps up/down on 3g via bluetooth

Re: Real speed of internet access via 3g and bluetooth
 

I spent a few instructive minutes yesterday testing my new "all-i-can-eat" plan, and did a few speed tests. Averaged out at around 180kbps on 3g via bluetooth. Of course, those tests were run against servers in the US. If I could find a web-based connection-speed test in sweden, that'd be more relevant in some ways, and maybe I'd get a few more kbps, dunno.

Surfing, I find I get an experience similar to that which I get when I surf at home on my wifi connection (i.e. not great on advanced sites). The time it takes my poor tablet to render modern info-packed sites is more dependant on engine and processor than on actual connection it seems.

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300-400KB/sec on the phone gets me about 40-50KB/sec (both ways) on the N800. Perfectly acceptable for browsing (slightly slow for big downloads). This is with a Samsung 3.5g handset with AT&T.

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With my SE K610i (3g non-hsdpa) phone I can get up to 600kbps or 75KB/s download speed on the n800. It seems the nokia's DUN does not limit the bluetooth max throughput speed unlike some other devices out there.

It will be slower than a wifi access point connected to broadband. But it beats surfing over stray wifi with poor signal. Plus one big advantage of surfing over bluetooth is much better battery life.

Re: Real speed of internet access via 3g and bluetooth
 

my razr 2 will do 890kbps down, and like 300 up I believe. make sure the phone is 3.6mpbs or higher, and that the phone uses bluetooth 2.