Hi
Nokia 6610 is a type 3 gprs, where you have 3+1 channels. (check out www.gsmbox.com) you should get downloads of upto 28k only. In GPRS, nokia is considered bad, but the problem may actually be more with airtel network rather than the phone.
Next time you are in Mumbai, may be we can swap the card to my mobile and check the speed.
Regards Sawata
Navneet Karnani wrote:
I am using a Nokia 6610. Do you think that is a problem ? It's supposed to be an advanced phone.
- Navneet
Saswata said the following on 03/04/2004 4:29 PM:
Navneet Karnani wrote:
I have seem speeds of only 1KB ( 10 kbps ) on the airtel network (mumbai as well as Pune) and hence have discontinued my use of this service. If you are planning to use it only for wmail and low amounts of browsing, this is good. But nothing more than that.
- Navneet
Which phone do you have ? If it is a Nokia, then I am not suprised with the speed. Somehow Nokia on GPRS technology is really bad.
In additoon, it makes a difference as to which type of GPRS phone you have. Many of the older phones are Type 4, which means there is 1 channel for upload and one for download (each channel is 9.6kbps). Try with a type 10 gprs phone and you get much higher spped since you have 2 channels for upload and 4 channels for download. Seimens is reported to be the best, with sony erricson coming a close second.
Unfortunatley, most of the retailers here have not even heard of "types" in GPRS. you need to go to sites like www.gsmbox.com to find out which phone is good.
Regards Saswata
m kannan said the following on 01/04/2004 8:15 PM:
hi i have read in article that airtel is offering full time net connection using GPRS for 600 a month . is there anybody here who is using it under linux and how is the speed max
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