Thread: Does the N900 have improved 3G technology for browsing?
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Alex Atkin UK is offline Alex Atkin UK
2009-11-01 , 01:40
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Originally Posted by twaelti View Post
No technical details, but very positive end user experience: Last week, I had a failure in my ADSL connection (5000/500). Using Nokia PC Suite, I attached my notebook to the N900 over USB and used that for surfing (3.5G connection). There was no noticeable speed difference :-)
I used my 3.5G dongle on my laptop recently (granted in the City Centre so probably a lot of contention) on both O2 UK and T-Mobile UK, both seemed to have good browsing speed but only clocked around 800Kbit doing outright downloads/speed tests.

In my experience browsing you cannot always tell the difference between 1Mbit and 5Mbit as a lot of the page load time is pure latency and dreadfully slow advert servers. Pages with a lot of FLASH particularly introduce a ton of lag waiting for the plugin to fire up.

The best I have ever experienced was approx 1.5Mbit. :-( I don't think the UK networks have opened up full speed. But then I do not expect to be doing huge downloads all the time, although I wish the N900 browser showed the current download speed in the download manager as I certainly will be testing it out at least initially.