Thread: 3g vs HSDPA

Originally Posted by mickey

No, HSDPA is better than 3G..

3G can ideally give you a dl speed of 384kbps, whilst HSPDA will provide with whopping 3.6 mbps..

MTNL has 3g aswell as HSDPA
and All 3g handsets MOSTLY have HSDPA

Dosent make any difference

by 3g do u mean to say wcdma?

Originally Posted by vinit

by 3g do u mean to say wcdma?

yeah whatever

Originally Posted by mihir94

All 3g handsets MOSTLY have HSDPA

I think you meant MOST 3g handsets have HSDPA. But sadly that's not true either, not even half of them have hsdpa/hspa (check URL in 1st post for reference).

Speed is good, I agree but for me if I ever download more than 2~3gB in a day, they kinda cut me off or something. I cannot be sure because over the helpline they never tell me it's a problem from their end and keep making me restart phone and pull out the SIM card - as if it'll solve the problem. Funny thing is I have 2 connections and it only happens to the connection from which I download constantly for a day or so, the other one works just fine. Could they be capping heavy downloads ? Not that I have any problem with that, but they should atleast be "transparent" as they claim.

Edit: I forgot to mention that the problem auto-magically goes away in 3-4 days.