This arises because all users on a particular base station are sharing a pool of BW. With few users its great u can get speeds of up to around 192Kbps. When a lot of users log on however speeds drop.
CDMA requires one to dimension properly so that throughput per user is acceptable. The catch is when you buy your phone the service provider does not know where you are taking it. The end result is base stations are heavily loaded and the service provider has no way of predicting usage until they can get a growth trend over time. CDMA is primarily a mobile phone technology and its data usage was designed with mobiles in mind (very bursty data profile as opposed to desktop type of data usage profile which has longer periods of continuous usage e.g. downloads from you know which websites), for fixed wireless one has to dimension very carefully. The service providers will sort it out soon, same thing happened when GSM took off in Ug, it was difficult to call because of congestion. Difference is now customers are very demanding and what u promise is what u must deliver. If it's any consolation UTL users have the same problem. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of joachim Gwoke Sent: 22 April 2005 17:09 To: [email protected] Subject: [SPAM] [LUG] Re: Internet connection issues and baggage Hi,I'm a home user of the CDMA 2000 series phone set for a dial-up access to the internet provided by MTN. MTN & its manual says the internet speeds reach 150kbps but it feels like the 14.4kbps modems i read about.I connect to webpages at 8kbps and download files at 3kbps, what could be causing this unbelievabley slooooow connection? __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ LUG mailing list [email protected] http://kym.net/mailman/listinfo/lug %LUG is generously hosted by INFOCOM http://www.infocom.co.ug/ _______________________________________________ LUG mailing list [email protected] http://kym.net/mailman/listinfo/lug %LUG is generously hosted by INFOCOM http://www.infocom.co.ug/
