It's really a big lie when they promise you the data rates. This is a snapshot of the data rates I'm getting from my 3 data modem. The numbers listed for the transfer rates are in kilobits per second, not kilobytes per second. There is a factor of 8 difference in the rates, and I've never seen the damned thing go much above 1000. I've tried, using the blacknight Irish ISP speed test, and have not seen it rate my line as much better than ISDN download and 56k modem upload.Then there's access to various web sites. I will regularly get cut off downloading - a lot of times I can never download the damned stuff I'm trying to get at. This is particularly annoying with google and youtube videos - they stall about a minute in and I can't see anything else from them.
Every time in the last three weeks I've tried to access del.icio.us, it's been a bust - it simply does not make the connection, I'm left with a stupid error message.
Every time I try to download my email from my pop provider (indigo.ie - i.e. pre-eircom), the connection times out. I can connect using any other provider. Waulgh! This is just not worth it for only having it for the weekends. I should get eircom into the house in Kerry, that way at least someone else can get some use from it.
Well this will make you sick - Tuesday my office network was off so I plugged my v630 I into my laptop, fired up the Sony mobile networking wizard and got 115,000 connection first time round using vodafone. Did it a couple of times during the day, checked mail, checked news, checked LJ, no probs. I'm not going to play warcraft on it, but it is functional for stuff I actually need. Sounds like the new 3g services ain't worth it yet.