2.4 Megabit Cellular Modem

lew writes: "Ars has a review of a cellular modem that provides 2.4 megabits / second downsteam and 153 kilobits / second upsteam... and it works! Check it out" How much for unmetered service on such a system? :)

Comments

What they didn't tell you......Don't always belive

[liquidzero4]

The article was very poor. The article was obviously written based on marketing information only. I did notice at the end of the article that they had looked at some techinial documents but I don' think they were completly digested. WHAT THEY DIDN'T TELL YOU. 1. The 2.4 Mega Bits per second they mentioned is raw channel throughput. That means raw data, not necesarily your data. Some of this throughput is consumed by the Radio Data Link Access Protocol, retires on the network, other control protocols. You get what's left over, then on top that you might have TCP retries. 2. The 2.4 Mega bits that are mentioned are the maximum per channell. In real life no one user will be given an entire channel. So if there are ten concurent users on the chanell which is very probable divide whatever your max throughput is and dividr it by ten. 3. On top of this most likly the carriers will carry both voice and data on their networks. Even though there is almost no distinction between voice and data anymore voice will be carried by either voIP or another propriatery method and will always be given priority over data. My point, it's fast but don't think your going to be getting 2.4 megs bits per-second. In the end your real throughput will be much much less that 2.4 Mega Bits per second.

april foolin

[winse]

I thought april 1 was over? I'm always so clueless...is there something I'm missing? Why the lies?

This is so cool

[ZaBu911]

Awwwweeesome.

Now I can surf the 'net for ascii porn 1 character at a time at insane speed.

Can you feel the sarcasm? Pffft, what a useless feature.