Meteor Announce Mobile Broadband Trial

feylya

Just got the unit this morning. Very nice little thing. Any idea what the MicroSD slot is for?

Rsaeire

feylya wrote: »

Just got the unit this morning. Very nice little thing. Any idea what the MicroSD slot is for?

So you can use the modem as a memory card reader.

Randi

yeah I taught it was going to be free atleast for more than a day, €5 a day with a 500mb cap, wont be doing much downloading, ill try it for awhile at least ill be getting €50 credit back and get to keep the modem, although she never mentioned that I would have to send it back if I didnt want to continue after the trial, what good is the modem anyways if you cant use it for bb

duffman85

My modem arrived at lunch today.Speedtest results:



Not too bad but nowhere near 3.6Mbps nevermind 7.2. it will be interesting to see if i can get 7.2Mbps anywhere.

Jonathan

duffman85 wrote: »

Not too bad but nowhere near 3.6Mbps nevermind 7.2. it will be interesting to see if i can get 7.2Mbps anywhere.

They are very good speeds. People don't realise that the 3.6Mbps is shared by everyone in the cell.

John_Mc

jmccrohan wrote: »

They are very good speeds. People don't realise that the 3.6Mbps is shared by everyone in the cell.

Very good speeds for now. Let's just see what happens when this isn't a trial anymore :rolleyes:

Jonathan

John_Mc wrote: »

Very good speeds for now. Let's just see what happens when this isn't a trial anymore :rolleyes:

Yup... I assume they will purchase more backhaul and increase cell capacity accordingly though.

dubber

duffman85 wrote: »

My modem arrived at lunch today.Speedtest results:



Not too bad but nowhere near 3.6Mbps nevermind 7.2. it will be interesting to see if i can get 7.2Mbps anywhere.

3.6Mbps is on the RF level, the speed speedtest sees will be less that this (due to headers/overhead etc.) - don't know for sure, but maybe 10-15% less. You really need a utility that can see what the modem is getting ...

duffman85

jmccrohan wrote: »

They are very good speeds. People don't realise that the 3.6Mbps is shared by everyone in the cell.

I never knew that,thanks for the info jmccrohan.:)

I thought it was like wi-fi;as in they quote the max theoretical speed under lab conditions.

mk6705

duffman85 wrote: »

My modem arrived at lunch today.Speedtest results:

Am I the only person that notices that that latency over 3G is INSANE:eek:?

ProjectC

Adro947 wrote: »

Am I the only person that notices that that latency over 3G is INSANE:eek:?

thats the naturew of 3g...unpredictable!!

also ur getting almsot 1mb uplaod..are meteor using high speed uplink??

Ron DMC

Bleaugh, went all the way out to dun laoghaire to pick up my modem only to discover that for bill pay customers it's considered a new bill and i need photo id and proof of address (which i obviously didn't have with me). Now i've to go in again tomorrow.

mk6705

RobertFoster wrote: »

Wowzer!



I think I might be too far away... I don't think I'll be spending €30 for a monthly connection. Might take a drive today and see if I can get a better speed elsewhere...

Do you know if this was over EDGE or GPRS or UMTS?

bennyx_o

RobertFoster wrote: »

Is it unlimited for bill pay? I'm on PAYG and I was told the cap was 10GB/month.

The one who called me said it was unlimited alright. Not sure if it was just for the trial or all the time

Jonathan

Ronny Mitchell wrote: »

Bleaugh, went all the way out to dun laoghaire to pick up my modem only to discover that for bill pay customers it's considered a new bill and i need photo id and proof of address (which i obviously didn't have with me). Now i've to go in again tomorrow.

Thats what you get for turning your back on payg :P

Jonathan

Adro947 wrote: »

Am I the only person that notices that that latency over 3G is INSANE:eek:?

A ping of 68ms to the dublin speedtest.net server over 3g is very good.

My 3Mbps fastpath dsl line at home has a ping to the same server of about 41ms.

The speedtest servers are not accurate for ping times anyways, but they are grand for like-for-like comparisons.
For a proper ping test ping ftp.heanet.ie or tcd.ie (my dsl line gets about 10-12ms)

RobertFoster

Adro947 wrote: »

Do you know if this was over EDGE or GPRS or UMTS?

The software said it was EDGE.

Random

RobertFoster wrote: »

The software said it was EDGE.

There's your explanation then although I suppose you should have got a little more even outta Edge.

Jonathan

Modem arrived.

And I extracted the drivers from the install files so I dont have to use that horrible software

Random

jmccrohan wrote: »

Modem arrived.

And I extracted the drivers from the install files so I dont have to use that horrible software

So how is it for you ?

mk6705

jmccrohan wrote: »

Modem arrived.

And I extracted the drivers from the install files so I dont have to use that horrible software

Nice. Post a speedtest if you can .

webels

Did a speedtest in Naas not too bad I suppose. (says 3g/HSPA as connection). Actually better than I got in Tallaght earlier today.

Jonathan

Random wrote: »

So how is it for you ?

Adro947 wrote: »

Nice. Post a speedtest if you can .

I'm waiting till after 12 to get the extra day out of it.

ninjaedit: wait it's 00:03 now.. better get cracking so

mk6705

jmccrohan wrote: »

I'm waiting till after 12 to get the extra day out of it.

Good thinking . It's after 12 now.

Edit: To acknowledge your edit!

Jonathan

All my pings from CMD are timing out tho.

Jonathan

The apn is broadband.mymeteor.ie for anyone that wants to use those price plans with their existing hsdpa handsets. (provided that meteor have enabled it at network level. im not sure)

mk6705

jmccrohan wrote: »

All my pings from CMD are timing out tho.

Sweet mother of jaysus!

And what address are you pinging from the command prompt?

Jonathan

Adro947 wrote: »

And what address are you pinging from the command prompt?

everything times out.

boards.ie
tcd.ie
ftp.heanet.ie
meteor.ie
even the meteor nameserver (ns1.meteor.ie or 212.129.64.1).

they must have them blocked.



Oh and that speedtest was done with 42% signal strength.

mk6705

jmccrohan wrote: »

everything times out.

boards.ie
tcd.ie
ftp.heanet.ie
meteor.ie
even the meteor nameserver (ns1.meteor.ie or 212.129.64.1).

they must have them blocked.

If a few more people try it out it'll make it easier to form an explanation.

Oh and that speedtest was done with 42% signal strength.

Not sure if it'd make much of a difference...Just have to wait and see I suppose.:D

long_b

jmccrohan wrote: »

All my pings from CMD are timing out tho.

Ah lads, that upload is faster than my home download !
Just when I was getting ok about not getting a call yet