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I'm still not sure why everyone desires 3G so badly. Even when you have a great signal it isn't particularly fast. WiMax service is finally available in several

I'm still not sure why everyone desires 3G so badly. Even when you have a great signal it isn't particularly fast. WiMax service is finally available in several areas. This is what I was hoping for.

rue 17y ago
Dunno about the U.S., but over here I was able to play a MMORPG over a 3G connection reasonably well while my regular cable connection was being fixed following an electrical fire. The latency was a bit high, but survivable, and in many uses latency is a negligible factor. It is certainly a viable option for browsing and various other things.
- smokey_the_bear 17y ago
  I've played warcraft over 3g in the US. It's alright. 3G is pretty fast, a lot of people think it's slow because the iphone is so slow at rendering pages in Safari, and there's a high latency on each image request.
dagw 17y ago
3G is plenty fast in many parts of the world. For surfing the web it generally feels as fast as using wifi to my adsl connection at home. For large downloads it's obviously slower, but seeing 1Mbit down isn't uncommon on good days. Also I can get a good 3G connection at my small cabin by the coast (where I don't even get warm water or indoor plumbing), I doubt I'll be seeing WiMax out there (and similar places) anytime soon.
- njharman 17y ago
  Watching a page download is slow. 3G is that slow. It's ok for apps but for full webpage browsing, horrible. Don't know how people can stand it?
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  - elai 17y ago
    Where I live, 3G has minorly more latency and 2MBit down. And the only reason it isn't 7Mbit down (as fast as my home connection) is because I have an iphone 3G vs a 3GS. Alot of the 3G browsing slowness is from the smartphone web browser being slow vs. the actual connection itself. It's alot more zippy for me to browse the web tethering to my laptop than it is on my phone.
    - electromagnetic 17y ago
      Here in Canada Rogers already rolled out 21MB/S on its network. I've seen speed test performed, and people are genuinely getting near this figure, and better than my 14MB/S home connection.
  - joeyo 17y ago
    In my experience the apparent speed of 3G is strongly device dependent. When I tether my phone to my laptop it feels much, much faster then when I browse the web directly on my phone. So you are actually watching the page render not download.
ErrantX 17y ago
the way I (and many of my friends) plan to use the iPad we just dont want or need 3G - to me it feels like something to flog a more expensive version.

I'm still not sure why everyone desires 3G so badly. Even when you have a great signal it isn't particularly fast. WiMax service is finally available in several areas. This is what I was hoping for.

rue 17y ago

Dunno about the U.S., but over here I was able to play a MMORPG over a 3G connection reasonably well while my regular cable connection was being fixed following an electrical fire. The latency was a bit high, but survivable, and in many uses latency is a negligible factor. It is certainly a viable option for browsing and various other things.

smokey_the_bear 17y ago
I've played warcraft over 3g in the US. It's alright. 3G is pretty fast, a lot of people think it's slow because the iphone is so slow at rendering pages in Safari, and there's a high latency on each image request.

dagw 17y ago

3G is plenty fast in many parts of the world. For surfing the web it generally feels as fast as using wifi to my adsl connection at home. For large downloads it's obviously slower, but seeing 1Mbit down isn't uncommon on good days. Also I can get a good 3G connection at my small cabin by the coast (where I don't even get warm water or indoor plumbing), I doubt I'll be seeing WiMax out there (and similar places) anytime soon.

njharman 17y ago
Watching a page download is slow. 3G is that slow. It's ok for apps but for full webpage browsing, horrible. Don't know how people can stand it?
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- elai 17y ago
  Where I live, 3G has minorly more latency and 2MBit down. And the only reason it isn't 7Mbit down (as fast as my home connection) is because I have an iphone 3G vs a 3GS. Alot of the 3G browsing slowness is from the smartphone web browser being slow vs. the actual connection itself. It's alot more zippy for me to browse the web tethering to my laptop than it is on my phone.
  - electromagnetic 17y ago
    Here in Canada Rogers already rolled out 21MB/S on its network. I've seen speed test performed, and people are genuinely getting near this figure, and better than my 14MB/S home connection.
- joeyo 17y ago
  In my experience the apparent speed of 3G is strongly device dependent. When I tether my phone to my laptop it feels much, much faster then when I browse the web directly on my phone. So you are actually watching the page render not download.

ErrantX 17y ago

the way I (and many of my friends) plan to use the iPad we just dont want or need 3G - to me it feels like something to flog a more expensive version.