Hi all!

My first post here! I would like to go for Nokia N810 but before I buy it, I would like to know from Nokia N770/800 users what is the real speed of internet browsing when you use
a mobile phone (3g or 3.5g, HSDPA or HSUPA) as a modem. I know that in this case a bluetooth link would be a bottleneck but tell me about real-life speed comparing to adsl speed on notebook...

Regards
Tomek
Brussels, Belgium

For me the real speed is totally limited by the real-life speed of 3G and EDGE, none of which seem to be useful in practice. I've had one single day so far when I could get 40KB a second, normally it's between 0 and 3-4000 bytes/s, with the occasional 2-second peak of slightly more. And don't get me started on the packet loss and duplicates.

I just downloaded a 1.3 Mb file in about 24 seconds, with speed averaging 50-60 K/s, peaking at 70 or 80 K/s here going through a Nokia 6120 classic. Latency is a bit worse than your average Wifi link, but still quite ok for browsing.

But actually I enjoy using Opera mini 4.0 so much on my Nokia 6120 that I always use that for occasional browsing when I'm outside.

I've tested 200kbps up/down on 3g via bluetooth

I spent a few instructive minutes yesterday testing my new "all-i-can-eat" plan, and did a few speed tests. Averaged out at around 180kbps on 3g via bluetooth. Of course, those tests were run against servers in the US. If I could find a web-based connection-speed test in sweden, that'd be more relevant in some ways, and maybe I'd get a few more kbps, dunno.

Surfing, I find I get an experience similar to that which I get when I surf at home on my wifi connection (i.e. not great on advanced sites). The time it takes my poor tablet to render modern info-packed sites is more dependant on engine and processor than on actual connection it seems.

300-400KB/sec on the phone gets me about 40-50KB/sec (both ways) on the N800. Perfectly acceptable for browsing (slightly slow for big downloads). This is with a Samsung 3.5g handset with AT&T.

With my SE K610i (3g non-hsdpa) phone I can get up to 600kbps or 75KB/s download speed on the n800. It seems the nokia's DUN does not limit the bluetooth max throughput speed unlike some other devices out there.

It will be slower than a wifi access point connected to broadband. But it beats surfing over stray wifi with poor signal. Plus one big advantage of surfing over bluetooth is much better battery life.

my razr 2 will do 890kbps down, and like 300 up I believe. make sure the phone is 3.6mpbs or higher, and that the phone uses bluetooth 2.