We got one of these a few weeks back at work... MY GOD SO FAST!

What kind of speeds are you getting in practice grog?

CANCEL THE NBN!!!!!!

but look at those ping times, that's just locally.
but yes, the NBN is looking like far worse value by the second - especially when the top speed is already being matched by cable

Hopefully all the labor wankers realise how much of a waste the NBN is going to be now too.

Yeah, to hell with relying on anything mobile over a fixed landline for serious Interneting.

(people could flood the air with internet killing waves, or something, I imagine)

Will this work on current models such as the Desire S?

There is two sides to this coin. You've got the awesome speeds at the moment for mobile networking, which is quite amazing, and then you've got what the realistic speeds will be when it becomes more common and used. Still quite a good move, and I welcome it with open arms. It is always handy to just flick on my mobile network on my Desire HD, and be able to check timetables, listen to videos etc.

There's no way you can rely on wireless, its a complementary technology.

Oh I do like seeing the number of sensible people in this thread.

WIRED 4 LYFE!

There's no way you can rely on wireless, its a complementary technology.

this plus.....er a metric arse load

Right now it is, but here's another solution:

You're a small-medium business, your only use of internet for your business is 50% email, 30% general browsing and 20% minor non-critical web-hosting.

Right now you can go cabled versions of internet for some large value of money which provide quality of service agreements in the contract.

However the alternative to that is becoming more and more possible that you can get a single wireless device which has greater upload/download peaks with quota's more aligning your business needs which allow you at the drop of a hat to buff them with instant purchase of a second wireless device if something goes down.

For example at the gold coast a busienss was on a RIM so they had a 512/512 as their business connection for their staff, of which 5 sales staff were offsite staff that needed to have remote access to the business, another 15 were in the office and another 15 shared 2 or 3 terminals in the warehouse with limited internet connectivity.

Telstra f***ed up and accidently moved the connection to another residence as the owners of the business moved house. So instead of moving the connection from their personal house to the new house (and adsl2+ connection mind you) they moved the ISDN account. Obviously something went amiss during the call.

The end result in reinstating the business with another ISDN would have taken 1-2 weeks as somoene had to come out to set it up from scratch (their words). In the mean time, the cost of business would have rose dramatically as offsite staff couldn't work efficently, sales orders from emails couldn't be processed and a lot of other issues.

Bought one of those starter 3g kits from woolies and set it up with 5gb of data, and they had faster internet than they'd ever had and that lasted them until they got the connection reinstated (which took about 5 business days).

During the 5 days of 3g, they only perceived from a user perspective, increased productivity thanks to faster speeds. If they went 3g connection from then on, they probably never would have complained. If something went wrong with a provider, transitioning to another provider would have been literally a half hour task to drive to a store and activate the new sim, plug it in and play again. Maybe a couple of router configs but nothing difficult.

I think it's only a matter of time before wireless networks will increase quality of service as infrastructure increases, then it's a question of when will the margin between a wireless quality of service rival a wired connection for generally most applications?

Edit:

Ssshhh, if we don't say anything those idiots can stick with wireless for fixed installation and we'll just laugh when the cells get saturated and all the bw disappears and latency goes through the roof.

That's what people used to say about cable.

http://exchange.telstra.com.au/2011/09/27/win-a-telstra-4g-mobile-broadband-experience-pack/

If you're creative, enter this.

but yes, the NBN is looking like far worse value by the second - especially when the top speed is already being matched by cable

yer, who cares about upload speeds anyway!!!!!!

doesn't make you un-angor when you're used to 110 though skyth

Just signed up a mate to Optus 100/2 Cable with apparently almost no-one in his suburb on it, so will be interested to see what kinda speeds he gets.

Tech is coming out Thursday too, I thought 2 days was surprisingly quick for a Cable install!

LTE = LTE
4G = 4G

while sorta close, it is like saying a jack russel is as good a sheep dog as a blue healer, in the long run, or for heavy use, the poor little dog just isn't up to it (but it would give it a red hot go)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/4G

4G technologies such as mobile WiMAX and first-release Long term evolution (LTE) have been on the market since 2006[2] and 2009[3][4][5] respectively. The ITU announced in December 2010 that WiMax, LTE, and HSPA+ are 4G technologies.[6]

http://www.phonearena.com/news/ITU-says-LTE-WiMax-and-HSPA--are-now-officially-4G_id15435

http://www.itu.int/net/pressoffice/press_releases/2010/48.aspx

Following a detailed evaluation against stringent technical and operational criteria, ITU has determined that “LTE-Advanced” and “WirelessMAN-Advanced” should be accorded the official designation of IMT-Advanced. As the most advanced technologies currently defined for global wireless mobile broadband communications, IMT-Advanced is considered as “4G”, although it is recognized that this term, while undefined, may also be applied to the forerunners of these technologies, LTE and WiMax, and to other evolved 3G technologies providing a substantial level of improvement in performance and capabilities with respect to the initial third generation systems now deployed. The detailed specifications of the IMT-Advanced technologies will be provided in a new ITU-R Recommendation expected in early 2012.

Thus, LTE = 4G.

TBH I am already impressed with Telstra's network

On the weekend I worked on a number of servers and computers using logmein, remote desktop, and vsphere for about 2 hours - all wirelessly tethered through my iphone 4 which was sitting in the glovebox plugged into the MDI playing music on the way to Byron (i.e. once you pass the NSW border, quite mountainous)

If 4G is the same but faster I will never need a desk, yay

Nice, and did you pay extra for that speed upgrade or whatever they call it ?

Nah 100/2 apparently, will post results as soon as I've tested it

i was in no hurry, and my torrents are free

reckon.

thats the only thing thats let me down about optus cable so far.

id be happier with 10mbit upload

id be happier with 10mbit upload

We are putting in a 10/10 connex at work with gcom piss off three/four of out dsl 2+ connections to 1 hopefully

One word

Pricey

http://ftp.jmrit.com.au/optus.png

Hit 6.7 over wireless, mental