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19 megabits on 3G

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the step-in-the-right-direction dept.

haligan writes "Bell Labs research arm announced the development of two prototype chips that would allow mobile devices to receive more than 19 megabits of data per second on 3G networks." Power consumption is low enough for cel phone type applications.

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  1. This is shared by mountain_penguin · · Score: 5, Informative

    Acording to the lecture i attended last year by a very sensior vodaphone engineer this bandwidth is the maximum available. It isnt all used for data in fact they reserve a few channels for voice and a few for data (depending on the area past usage etc) also if you are the only user then things get faster still. However it wtill wont be that fast most 3g implementations relie on doing TCP/IP on top of TCP/IP on top of another protocol or 5 yes there are 2 tcp/ip stacks. This is so the phone network can keep you inside there network

  2. tcp/ip ack packets by papasui · · Score: 5, Informative

    People tend to forget that sending out ACK packets upstream greatly effects the download speed of a connection. Asychronous connections with low upstreams often become saturated and drag down the downstream to unbearable levels.