Just thinking out of the box here. If the limitation is on the tower, would going with two different carriers work? Hopefully if they are not trunking together, you should get better throughput.
Regards Rasika On 2 July 2013 14:56, Dave Hall <[email protected]> wrote: > On 02/07/2013, at 2:34 PM, Russell Coker <[email protected]> wrote: > > > A client has a problem with a device that generates data faster than > it's 3G > > modem can upload it. > > Will a queuing system help is or this sustained throughput? > > > > > Can you run two 3G modems next to each other and expect that each of > them will > > get full bandwidth? Or will they interfere with each other in some way? > > > Each tower has a fixed amount of spectrum and capacity that can be shared > between users. 4G, like 3G and even GPRS, allocates capacity using a slot > system, so each device on the network that wants to use the data service is > allocated a slot. > > When I was living in the bush I had 2 3G modems which meant a lot of the > time I was competing with myself. On the weekends when there were more > users on the network I noticed a throughput drop on each link, but I got > more bandwidth than I would have with 1. If there are 3 other users I > would have got at least 2/5s of the slots, if there were 6 other users I > would have got at least 1/4 of the slots. > > If your client is in a congested area, then there is a chance that 2 > modems will improve their throughput, but if the network is lightly used, > then they will see little benefit. If your client is serviced by multiple > cells with poor signal, throughput will be compromised as the device > continuously cell hops. > > Cheers > > Dave > _______________________________________________ > luv-main mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.luv.asn.au/listinfo/luv-main > -- ============================== || Rasika Amarasiri, PhD || [email protected] ==============================
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