[ubuntu-in] Tataphoton USB Dongle Mobile Broadband wireless service

Kingsly John member+ubuntu at kingsly.net
Sat Sep 17 02:45:30 UTC 2011


+++ Kaushal Shriyan [2011-09-15 07:12:58]:

> Is there a way to find out the actual max speed available on USB
> Dongle Mobile Broadband wireless service on Ubuntu Desktop Linux
> instead of the advertised speed mentioned on the Tata photon website.

There is no such thing as "actual max speed available". The speed they
advertise is the theoretical maximum possible at each tower. As the number of
users increase or the distance covered by the tower increases the speed
drops.

So you could get be getting 3mbps one minute and 3kbps the next.

Kingsly

-- 
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
     Kingsly At Users Dot SourceForge Dot Net  -- http://kingsly.org/
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: not available
Type: application/pgp-signature
Size: 189 bytes
Desc: not available
URL: <https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-in/attachments/20110917/2d6d61a1/attachment.pgp>


More information about the ubuntu-in mailing list