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Related to internet connection via cell phone, anyone expert here?
1] When I connect my pc to internet via cellphone, it shows connected with 460 kbps speed but when I download any file it's done at 10 to 12 kbps of speed thats almost 50 times less then what it shows while connected, WHY IS IT SO?
2] when I download one file that gets downloaded at 10 kbps but if at the same time I am opening other web pages download speed doesnt reduce, is that mean downloading dont have anything to do with browsing speed??
Thanks for your answers...
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- Anonymous1 decade agoFavorite Answer
Hi Any cellphone connection by nature of it's type is going to be very slow, as it is over a voice bandwidth when the local site is dealing with it's primary use as a mobile phone provider.
the cellphone system was never meant as a bulk data carrier system.
now as to a browser in real terms like E mail it requires very little bandwidth as it does not use tcp/ip it uses UDP which is not error correcting stream. as is the case with a torrent which could be quick but may contain loads of errors.
Source(s): network engineer who started with cellphone system till the internet became a headache for the business. before that i field trialled the pager system... - 1 decade ago
I am no expert but i know that when you see the 460 kbps it doesnt stand for "kilo bytes per second" it actually stands for "kilo BITS per second". A bit is 8 times the size of a byte, therefore when you devide 460 by 8 you get 57.5. In actual terms, you should get 57.5 kilobytes per second, but since your connected through cellphone, it will be alot slower.