hey
just looking into changing internet plans, and was looking at Vodafone broadband.
has anyone tryed it? i herd it was laggy is this true?
thanks for any feed back
I've got 3G data on my Vodafone mobile - it's pretty good, for browsing and so on on my phone - and if you tether it to a PC, you can pull some pretty good speeds if you have good coverage. The latency is probably a bit high, though - I haven't really checked for latency, but I probably wouldn't try anything latency-sensitive like gaming on it.
You'd do well to check Vodafone 3G coverage in whatever area(s) you intend to use it before you buy, though - a workmate got a Vodem on the cheap off Tardme and found that she gets next to no 3G reception at home (where she intended to primarily use it), so she gets pretty lousy speeds. Vodafone's response was that she's apparently right on the boundary between cells, so neither tower quite gives her full coverage - which sounds like poor network planning to me, as there should be sufficient overlap to give good signal in the boundary.
Id love to see someone do two things,
A tui billboard for the XT outages,
and a picture inside Telecoms head office or something with one of those "Days without outages" signs and someone changing it back to zero with the previous number facing the camera XD
The speed on XT is pretty good, it just depends on the modem you use, that standard cheap tstick is pretty slow @ 3mbps but you can buy models that do up to 21mbps.
I've got 3G data on my Vodafone mobile - it's pretty good, for browsing and so on on my phone - and if you tether it to a PC, you can pull some pretty good speeds if you have good coverage. The latency is probably a bit high, though - I haven't really checked for latency, but I probably wouldn't try anything latency-sensitive like gaming on it.
You'd do well to check Vodafone 3G coverage in whatever area(s) you intend to use it before you buy, though - a workmate got a Vodem on the cheap off Tardme and found that she gets next to no 3G reception at home (where she intended to primarily use it), so she gets pretty lousy speeds. Vodafone's response was that she's apparently right on the boundary between cells, so neither tower quite gives her full coverage - which sounds like poor network planning to me, as there should be sufficient overlap to give good signal in the boundary.
Coverage dies in rural areas practically immediately, XT is good if your planning being away from the cities...
Though if your in the city, all aboard the vodafone train, much much better,
Sadly I got my tstick for travelling so XT it is. :apoplectic:
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@Solid Snake, ha nah XT just has outages about once every two weeks :)
for about 2 weeks :biglaff:
well my comp would of been cool 2 years ago
Id love to see someone do two things,
A tui billboard for the XT outages,
and a picture inside Telecoms head office or something with one of those "Days without outages" signs and someone changing it back to zero with the previous number facing the camera XD
The speed on XT is pretty good, it just depends on the modem you use, that standard cheap tstick is pretty slow @ 3mbps but you can buy models that do up to 21mbps.
that said, I just bought a cheap one!
Those cheap ones are fine :gentleman:
I am teh Intanetz
What a Wibber!