<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 3:20 AM, <<a href="mailto:wim.delvaux@adaptiveplanet.com">wim.delvaux@adaptiveplanet.com</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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</div>Well entry level ADSL here in belgium are 250 Kbits.<br>
Also UMTS claimed 2Mbits are never acchieved except perhaps in densly<br>
populated area</blockquote><div><br>I don't think you really tested UMTS/HSDPA/HSUPA, or at least not with proper hardware or with the wrong carrier.<br>I'm pretty much a hardcore-user (at least if I'm at work, what fortunately is in that business) and did my own benchmarks.<br>
At least for the two big carriers in germany the datarates are just awsome (the other two carriers are widely disappointing in this area) and I get about 3000 kbps (net!) in phase2 (3.6 Mbit/s) covered areas and even more in the new phase3 (7.2 Mbit/s) areas.<br>
Note that I did this under real life conditions, no lab tests.<br>So don't damn the technology if you hardware or your provider can't/won't use it properly.<br></div></div>Also you really should use a dedicated HSPA/HSDPA-modem, no handy-built-in as that would explain that differences (and even more).<br>
<br>I don't think EDGE is really an alternative solution - it's good for compensating the coverage, and it's definately good enough for use on a cellphone. Browsing is really good with EDGE.<br>