On Monday, April 08, 2013 08:07:08 AM Mayuresh wrote: > It's alright that for higher bandwidths wired will remain a better medium. > > For personal use I am content with less than 1mbps (say 512-750kbps etc) > as long as it is consistent.
I think its a coverage issue. In some areas it is consistently good.. in some areas.. consistently bad.. If the ISPs would just collaborate on a backbone, things could improve a lot.. That goes for cellphone coverage as well.. > I think wireless should be capable of providing that much of speed > reliably. They advertise speeds "up to" 3.1mbps (CDMA) and 7.1mbps (3G), > though one doesn't even get 50kbps reliably - at least so with bsnl 3g. > (Haven't tried others.) > > I think it's due to indiscriminately adding customers without capacity > planning or any control on QoS on the ISP's part. I would say that applies to wired connection as well, albeit in some different aspects.. -- Regards Shridhar _______________________________________ Pune GNU/Linux Users Group Mailing List