Aircards

[jimmym40]

Hi,

I'm not at all up to speed about these things. But do have a few questions. With all the ISPs speed being so slow, has anyone given up and just started using aircards?

I have been looking at Pantip Plaza. The Vodaphone USB wireless aircard is going for 1990 baht. What kind of speed can I expect to get? What sim cards works best: AIS, DTAC, True Sim??? Any others? Should I get a 3G aircard for twice the cost?

Oh, and what is the approximate cost per minute of usage? I don't need much, just checking emails mainly. I'm signed on with TOT platinum for 690 bath a month, supposedly for 3MG, but never even comes close to that.

Any general info provided will help.

Thanks much.

[trd]

I did an international speedtest yesterday. These are download speeds only.

CAT CDMA 3G: 800 kbs

TT&T Premier Maxnet ADSL: 2.3 mpbs

I believe a USB Edge card with either AIS or DTAC will give about 200 kbs.

So wireless still can't beat fixed line ADSL.

[bailly]

I use the Vodaphone USB modem with the AIS unlimited package, It is ok for just surfing the web but downloading is obviously a joke, downloaded a 1.5GB game the other week took me just over a month, oh how i miss ADSL !

Average download speed is about 25kB/s

So if your just checking e-mails it's no problem, you'll notice at certain times it's a little bit slow due to voice calls having priority but where i am it's only for about 2 hours a day !

[nikster]

Depends on where you are:

Bangkok: Check out True 3G. Only works in BKK. Should be fast.

Provinces near BKK: EDGE only (slow). Hutch sucks.

Outside BKK and central provinces: CAT CDMA. Fast in most areas, though speeds seem to vary.

Chiang Mai: CAT CDMA or AIS 3G trial. AIS should be faster but don't know about international.

I have a TOT 3Mbit DSL and it's much faster than CDMA in the morning, and much slower than CDMA in the evening when the DSL slows to a crawl. For single file downloads without DL manager, CAT CDMA is the best, better than CAT DSL 4Mbit. I usually get 150KB/s international, but at least 70KB/s.

Business DSL packages will be a lot faster than CAT CDMA (as above wit MaxNet Premier).