lol speedtest via poor 3G link on a hospital ward

riddlermarc · 7 Feb 2009 at 21:41

Sat surfing via my laptop and Vario II (yep I know it is against T-Mobile T&Cs) but that is quite a shocking speed!!

Phemo · 7 Feb 2009 at 22:04

Aye it is pretty poor. I haven't done a speedtest run on my iPhone when using it as a modem yet, but I did try downloading a file from MS just to get a rough idea. Was fairly surprised to see speeds of around 300KB/sec - didn't think this area would give decent speeds at all

teaboy5 · 7 Feb 2009 at 22:04

What do you want? I think thats rather good, at least it gets you on the web.

dbmzk1 · 8 Feb 2009 at 07:31

What's wrong with that? It's actually pretty damn good for a 3G connection which theoretically peaks at 384Kb/s, and it's still broadband, just about. It's not THAT bad even on a PC for general browsing, let alone a phone.

Can't you use 3.5G? I get around 1,300Kb/s on my phone, a Nokia N95 8GB on O2, and more when I use it as a modem on my PC.

sparkey196 · 8 Feb 2009 at 12:11

I thought you weren't meant to use phones in hospitals, although everyone blatantly does it. Best not to bragg though.

lukeharvest · 8 Feb 2009 at 12:15

Yeah, that kind of connection isn't bad at all!

GinG · 8 Feb 2009 at 17:48

better than entanet! should be happy!

LoadsaMoney · 8 Feb 2009 at 17:56

GinG said:
better than entanet! should be happy!

milkinc13 · 8 Feb 2009 at 18:22

fast enought for surfing, ok not the greatest of speed, but it does what it was designed to

PhillyDee · 8 Feb 2009 at 19:04

sparkey196 said:
I thought you weren't meant to use phones in hospitals, although everyone blatantly does it. Best not to bragg though.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/health/article5458433.ece

Nope. Ok to use them now.

Apart from intensive care type wards.

Rroff · 8 Feb 2009 at 19:14

Thats pretty decent for mobile internet... I get 48kbit/s most of the time on 2G on mine, and so far everywhere I've tried on "high speed" networks has been 500-1500kbit/s.

blastman · 8 Feb 2009 at 19:21

thats not bad. I remember the good old days of using my laptop with an IR connection to my Nokia 8210 and getting trsnfser speeds of 9.4kbps!!!

you've never had it sooo good!

iamTakeo · 8 Feb 2009 at 19:25

I have a pretty bleak impression of what I think being in hospital is like so please correct me. I imagine not being able to bring, laptops, psp etc, having to sit in bed all day, expensive optional TV cards, limited channels and the sense of being trapped like in prison. I hope not?

sosrandom · 8 Feb 2009 at 19:29

iamTakeo said:
I have a pretty bleak impression of what I think being in hospital is like so please correct me. I imagine not being able to bring, laptops, psp etc, having to sit in bed all day, expensive optional TV cards, limited channels and the sense of being trapped like in prison. I hope not?

Half of thats sounds right, although it depends where you go, although Im not sure Id bring a laptop.

sparkey196 · 8 Feb 2009 at 19:52

Hehe, I ended up in a hosptial in Thailand last year and it was amazing, like being in a 5 star hotel only with hot nurses in very short skirts and high heels.

I'm not joking; I had my own huge suite with designer bathroom fixtures, MINI-BAR??!, 32" Samsung LCD etc. I think you will be hard pressed to find a hospital in the UK with an empty bed, let alone one with imported Australian fillet steak on the dinner menu.

Next time I go to thailand, I'm hoping to break a leg.

blastman · 8 Feb 2009 at 20:22

sparkey196 said:
Hehe, I ended up in a hosptial in Thailand last year and it was amazing, like being in a 5 star hotel only with hot nurses in very short skirts and high heels.

I'm not joking; I had my own huge suite with designer bathroom fixtures, MINI-BAR??!, 32" Samsung LCD etc. I think you will be hard pressed to find a hospital in the UK with an empty bed, let alone one with imported Australian fillet steak on the dinner menu.

Next time I go to thailand, I'm hoping to break a leg.

Pictures or it didn't happen!!!!

/JOKE

Dave85 · 9 Feb 2009 at 05:20

When I was ill in vancouver in september as my insurance was paying I got the largest room they had and even then it wasnt fantastic.

Total bill for the room, $19,000 5 days. Doctors $5,000 Emergency room 700. Ambulance ride $550 And for that, I got a free phone international calls, a 14" TV and wifi at 200kbps. I still cant help but think what sort of hotel room 19k could have got.

Wicksta · 9 Feb 2009 at 10:28

iamTakeo said:
I have a pretty bleak impression of what I think being in hospital is like so please correct me. I imagine not being able to bring, laptops, psp etc, having to sit in bed all day, expensive optional TV cards, limited channels and the sense of being trapped like in prison. I hope not?

If it was like prison you'd have all the latest consoles and games, Sky TV, computers, fast broadband the lot.

mrgubby · 9 Feb 2009 at 16:27

I get over 1Mb on my Vario II with T-mobile when it's in a HSDPA area

PistolPete · 10 Feb 2009 at 11:00

sparkey196 said:
Hehe, I ended up in a hosptial in Thailand last year and it was amazing, like being in a 5 star hotel only with hot nurses in very short skirts and high heels.

I'm not joking; I had my own huge suite with designer bathroom fixtures, MINI-BAR??!, 32" Samsung LCD etc. I think you will be hard pressed to find a hospital in the UK with an empty bed, let alone one with imported Australian fillet steak on the dinner menu.

Next time I go to thailand, I'm hoping to break a leg.

Are you sure it wasn't a 5* hotel and you'd paid for the "nurse" optional extra