AT&T internet’s 3G wireless broadband coverage is about what you’d expect
neither as evanescent as the morning dew, nor as immutable and reliable
as the earth beneath your feet. No – it’s somewhere in between, with the
degree of “in between-ness” relating to the proximity of your mobile
device to a city.
It’s been said countless times by folk other than me, but I’m going to
weigh in my penny’s worth anyway: when can we people who don’t live in
cities have decent broadband speeds, please? Out here in the sticks, the best we can hope for from *any *mobile device is EDGE, the snail-slow
poor cousin of 3G. Come out to the country anytime, with your AT&T internet
wireless device, and you’ll see your reassuring blue 3G light change
inexorably to the depressing green of the EDGE system.
For a comparison: imagine that you’ve gone back in time to the late 1990s,
when using the internet meant turning on a modem that looked like a small
bomb, then going off and making a cup of coffee while it whirred and
wheezed into life. That’s what net use on the EDGE system is like. I’ve
enjoyed connection speeds as unimaginable to you city dwellers as a
caveman’s dinner. Try 15 Kb ps and see how you like it. That’s right: *K* b ps.wireless device, and you’ll see your reassuring blue 3G light change
inexorably to the depressing green of the EDGE system.
For a comparison: imagine that you’ve gone back in time to the late 1990s,
when using the internet meant turning on a modem that looked like a small
bomb, then going off and making a cup of coffee while it whirred and
wheezed into life. That’s what net use on the EDGE system is like. I’ve
enjoyed connection speeds as unimaginable to you city dwellers as a
To be fair, though, *AT&T
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The article is written by Donna Baxter for www.dailyhacks.in.