HSDPA vs ADSL

[krycor]

Yah so now with vodacom's tv ad claiming the fastest internet in SA @ 1.8Mbps i wonder how telkom is gonna respond to it, if any. I'm sure for people close to the exchange higher speeds a possible, but then with capping etc it will be over quite fast.

 

[Vio]

LOL they'll respond saying theirs is the cheapest lol.

 

[krycor]

haha, sad thing is, it might be true

 

[nGAGEd55]

haha, sad thing is, it might be true

It IS true, ADSL is far cheaper than HSDPA, but hopefully Vodacom and MTN will do something bout that some time soon

 

[feo]

Soon soon soon but soon never comes soon enough if ever....

 

[stoke]

HSPDA = High-Speed Downlink Packet Access or HSDPA is a mobile telephony protocol. Also called 3.5G (or "3½G"). High Speed Downlink Packet Access (HSDPA) is a packet-based data service in W-CDMA downlink with data transmission up to 8-10 Mbit/s (and 20 Mbit/s for MIMO systems) over a 5MHz bandwidth in WCDMA downlink ...
More : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HSDPA

I didn't know what it woz.

 

[kaspaas]

Yah so now with vodacom's tv ad claiming the fastest internet in SA @ 1.8Mbps i wonder how telkom is gonna respond to it, if any. I'm sure for people close to the exchange higher speeds a possible, but then with capping etc it will be over quite fast.

If I have it correct, ADSL is much faster for uploading

 

[telkomsuig]

just imagine what your cell account will be like if you replace your ADSL with vodacom's offering. I'll stay with adsl for now.

 

[Roman4604]

When looking at Internet access, local lead speed is one small part of a much larger equation that includes backhaul from tower/exchange, core backbone capacity, peering links & off-course international capacity.

Just because the local lead can do > 1Mbps does not guarentee the rest of the upstream infrastructure is engineered to do so also (under load) ... just ask any iBurst user. It will be interesting to see how Vodacom stack up against Telkom in this respect.

 

[krycor]

Reminds me of 3G service, my cousin was shocked when i told him i'd get tripple the usage for the same cost with 192k which is not much slower when it syncs nice and fast. But yeah wireless in SA incurs and extra cost somewhere

 

[sludge]

I'd rather stay with dsl. I've used one of my friend's i-burst a few times, it wasn't very good. HSPDA is supposed to be faster, but as roman4604 pointed out, you have to take the whole shebang into consideration.

Speed aside, I've read that our data prices from the cellphone operators compare favourably with their overseas counterparts, so, if that is true, they probably won't bring it down too much.