From Optus (and its resellers), the 7.2mbps modems are definitely
faster than their 3.6meg cousins and do hold the network better.
These are supposedly using two frequency's. Most likely their more
advanced antennas and radios make them more robust as well.
Ive browsed the net (as a passenger) the length of the M4 (emu plains to
parramatta road) without any drop outs using the Huawei E1762 ($250),
this was during peak hour traffic and it was 300kb/s+
Youll also find that 3g is much slower (50-100kb/s) in the evenings
(peak net usage) than first thing in the morning (600kb/s).
Grabbing something big off mirror.optusnet.com.au is usually a good way
to see what you 'should' be getting, without border congestion etc
Dean
Mark Walkom wrote:
The Huawei were the easiest I tried too.
The Telstra was a bit of a hassle but not too bad.
Coverage wise 3 is the worst, then Vodafone, Optus and then Telstra at
the opposite end of the scale.
2010/1/21 Dean Hamstead <d...@fragfest.com.au <mailto:d...@fragfest.com.au>>
The Optus dongles 'just work', as the huawei modems are well
supported in more recent kernels and network-manager. They are also
trivial to get going using wvdial (which i use) or other ppp tools.
Virgin, Dodo, 3 and Voda dongles which are from Huawei are no doubt
just as trivial to configure.
Dean
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