Re: hello 3G, goodbye 3G?

Jim Forster <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.org.telecom.india-gii
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> The funny thing is that the 3G speeds are pretty inpredictable.
> Yesterday for example, I was astonished to see download speeds of close to 11 Mbps on my 3G connection. Today it came back to the usual 4 Mbps.
> In densely populated ares where everybody carries a smartphone, it can drop so badly that it will even fail the ping test.

Indeed.

An interesting study which could inform policy would be to collect 2G/3G Internet speed data with a crowd sourced project.  I got thinking about this on a recent ~600km of road trip in India (Delhi - Dharamsala, then Dheradun to Garwal and then to Dhamasala)  I collected speed data in some places.  In cities it was frequently quite nice, but in between, and certainly in the mountains, the speed was very low or zero.

I used Speedtest by Ookla, which recorded Lat/Long along with speed.  But it doesn't do automatic (every 10 minutes or 10km) and doesn't record anything if it's totally unsuccessful.

  -- JIm

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