GPRS capabilities

[kaspaas]

Hi,

is there somewhere a list of the GPRS capabilities of the cellphones Telkom marketed?

The reason I ask is that I get friends excited about the possibility of using GPRS and then having to say "humhum I don't know how fast it is going to be - it depends on your phone, and there is no fast way to find out what your phone's capabilities are..."

 

[alchamy]

Well if you check the specs for most phones it will give you a GPRS class. The classes can be seen here.

http://www.gsmworld.com/technology/gprs/class.shtml

 

[ajax]

It also depends on your signal quality and whether the tower has the new coding schemes installed. One can at least get an estimate of the minimum speed by looking at the GPRS class.

 

[alchamy]

It also depends on your signal quality and whether the tower has the new coding schemes installed. One can at least get an estimate of the minimum speed by looking at the GPRS class.

Signal Quality does play a huge factor, also tower congestion. Carrier Switched services get priority over Packet Switched Services.

IE, Voice/Video Calls are more important than GPRS/MMS etc

 

[BennieB]

This is what i get with gprs.

It connects with @ 57600Kbits/per sec
The last two days i get much faster transfers in linux, going to check the speed in windows.

Speed test from this site.
Your line speed is approximately 69.2 Kbps or 8.5 kBytes/sec
( Where kb = kilobits and kB = kiloBytes )

 

[Tazz_Tux]

Linux rocks