Vodafone 900MHz UMTS live? Any Nokia 6121 users out there?

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#119128 27-Mar-2008 18:57

peejayw: Hmmm, not bad but only half Scottpalmer speed, wonder why?

Darn, cant post image. Anyway, speed was 1467/341 from Onerahi, Whangarei

few k's higher than gprs

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#119142 27-Mar-2008 19:59

Yes a lot higher. Was just wondering why not as fast as another post. Certainly getting full strength on the phone signal and am about 500m from where I think the site is .

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#119143 27-Mar-2008 20:03

peejayw: Yes a lot higher. Was just wondering why not as fast as another post. Certainly getting full strength on the phone signal and am about 500m from where I think the site is .

Chances are its just a lack of backhaul.

Whilst all VF 3G sites are HSDPA capable only some have enough back haul to perform at full HSDPA speeds (currently 3.6mbps from memory) Otherwise the maximum they can perform at is 1.8mbps which is fairly close to what you got. :)

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#119144 27-Mar-2008 20:07

Jeffthechef:
peejayw: Yes a lot higher. Was just wondering why not as fast as another post. Certainly getting full strength on the phone signal and am about 500m from where I think the site is .

Chances are its just a lack of backhaul.

Whilst all VF 3G sites are HSDPA capable only some have enough back haul to perform at full HSDPA speeds (currently 3.6mbps from memory) Otherwise the maximum they can perform at is 1.8mbps which is fairly close to what you got. :)

also dependant on how many other users are on the serving cell.

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#119146 27-Mar-2008 20:12

Ok, I cant imagine there are too many other users on it up here yet

so guess its the backhaul problem.

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#119199 27-Mar-2008 21:56

johnr: also dependant on how many other users are on the serving cell.

Yeah, that too. ;)

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#119428 28-Mar-2008 21:23

Its off again

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#119434 28-Mar-2008 21:51

peejayw: Its off again

It will come back!

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#119436 28-Mar-2008 22:00

Yeah it's been off around these parts for a few days but back on again now.

This just now from a more rural site (so I assume less backhaul) than my previous test

Still much more pleasing than GPRS :-)

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#120044 31-Mar-2008 20:52

Back on here (thanks again) and pretty steady at 1400. Now if only I could talk VF into upping the backhaul to give me 3.5

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#120046 31-Mar-2008 20:54

peejayw: Back on here (thanks again) and pretty steady at 1400. Now if only I could talk VF into upping the backhaul to give me 3.5

Backhaul is always a on going project!

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#120102 1-Apr-2008 08:46

peejayw: Back on here (thanks again) and pretty steady at 1400. Now if only I could talk VF into upping the backhaul to give me 3.5

Some phones will only work to 1.8Mbps, so that could be the issue too. I couldn't find the specs detailing the max speed for the 6121, so can't confirm if this is applicable here. Guess will have to wait and see what the performance will be like when the data cards are released.

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#120110 1-Apr-2008 09:05

coffeebaron:
peejayw: Back on here (thanks again) and pretty steady at 1400. Now if only I could talk VF into upping the backhaul to give me 3.5

Some phones will only work to 1.8Mbps, so that could be the issue too. I couldn't find the specs detailing the max speed for the 6121, so can't confirm if this is applicable here. Guess will have to wait and see what the performance will be like when the data cards are released.

posts done by scott palmer showing the speed reaching 2.7 mbps on the downlink are using the nokia 6121 phone as modem.

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#120139 1-Apr-2008 11:10

Maximum d/l speed on the 6121 is 3.6mbps.

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#120580 2-Apr-2008 19:34

Hmmm, today have made two voice calls on the 900 network, in each instance my phone dropped to the 2G network for the duration of the call, upshifting to 3G after the call was terminated. Anyone else?

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