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From: Jon on 24 Mar 2010 19:09
In article <80hr18FvshU1(a)mid.individual.net>, jb(a)invalid.com says...
> Thanks - some useful stuff, but ........... can you do any web browsing or e
> mailing without a 3g signal? Or would it be tediously sloooow?

It would be slightly faster with a 3G signal as opposed to a 2G singal
but it would still work.

Sounds like you need to visit a shop and talk to a person.
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From: Steve Terry on 24 Mar 2010 19:27
"Jon" <spam(a)jonparker.plus.com> wrote in message
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> In article <80hr18FvshU1(a)mid.individual.net>, jb(a)invalid.com says...
>> Thanks - some useful stuff, but ........... can you do any web browsing
>> or e
>> mailing without a 3g signal? Or would it be tediously sloooow?
>
> It would be slightly faster with a 3G signal as opposed to a 2G singal
> but it would still work.
>
>
Slightly faster web browsing?!

In the past i've had Orange world 2g (around 40kbps)
Three 3g on a Nokia 6630 (around 400kbps
and now Three 3.5g on a Nokia 6120 or S2 (around 2mbps)

saying 3g (3.5g) is slightly faster, is like saying Concorde
was slightly faster than a Cessna.

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From: J B on 25 Mar 2010 04:30
"Jon" <spam(a)jonparker.plus.com> wrote in message
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> It would be slightly faster with a 3G signal as opposed to a 2G singal
> but it would still work.

Is that in the same way as dial up is slower than adsl, but it still works??

> Sounds like you need to visit a shop and talk to a person.

Yea, but the shops are all at least half an hours drive from here, whereas
usenet is right here with me ;-)


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From: Andrew Templeman on 26 Mar 2010 13:51
J B <jb(a)invalid.com> wrote:

> > It would be slightly faster with a 3G signal as opposed to a 2G singal
> > but it would still work.
>
> Is that in the same way as dial up is slower than adsl, but it still works??

Spot on. even the data rates are about the same sort of magnitude.

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From: alexd on 26 Mar 2010 16:37
On 24/03/10 23:27, Steve Terry wrote:

> "Jon"<spam(a)jonparker.plus.com> wrote in message
>
>> It would be slightly faster with a 3G signal as opposed to a 2G singal
>> but it would still work.

> Slightly faster web browsing?!
>
> In the past i've had Orange world 2g (around 40kbps)
> Three 3g on a Nokia 6630 (around 400kbps
> and now Three 3.5g on a Nokia 6120 or S2 (around 2mbps)
>
> saying 3g (3.5g) is slightly faster, is like saying Concorde
> was slightly faster than a Cessna.

I think you've misunderstood what Jon and I are saying: the headline
data rate [and throughput] may be many times faster, but the end user
experience [eg page load+render times, round trip time] has not improved
by the same amount.

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