2G speeds for browsing..good enough ???

[vinay_b]

Hi everyone..i have a airtel UL broadband connection at home.So i was thinking about going for tata docomo/bsnl 2G card and a Huawei 122/181. , simply to be able to browse the net while on the move. Now my primary use on it would be checking mails and web-surfing do you think the 2G speeds are sufficient for that ? Or do the pages take ages to load on 2G ???

 

[comp@ddict]

Or you can grab a 3G enabled BSNL EVDO or Photon or the likes and get a 499 plan on that. The surfing will be much more smoother and faster

2G speeds are horrible.

 

[iChaitanya]

2G is BS. Get BSNL 3G. Data plans are reasonably priced.

 

[rgsilent]

Airtel 2G used to give me 11-18KBps download speed when I used it for a while a few years back. In short - don't bother with 2g

 

[Hacker]

Took me 20 secs to open a webpage on airtel edge so I moved to bsnl 3g.

 

[rajan1311]

i got BSNL 3G, i get 2G speeds,i get 56kbps max,16kbps avg (thats 2KBps)....try out 2G for a month, if you dont like it, go on to 3G....

 

[d@rK nEmEsIs]

Its strange that no one asked him his location.

Guys 3G is not available all over India currently.

Where are you located?

 

[vinay_b]

yeah..even i forgot to tell that. am from pune. So 3g availability is no issue..just that i keep travelling so might not be in coverage all the time. Anyways.. will try 2g for a month and switch if its too bad. Thank you all for the replies.

 

[Dushie]

i am using 3g, getting fluctuating speeds, but min speed is around 512 - 1 Mbps

 

[rahul21]

2G is shit 5kbps to 10kbps at max, Only for this reason I changed my service provider to TRUMP (mtnl) , data rate same as 2G but speed I get i 1.6 Mbs to 3Mbs ,

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[vinay_b]

so i decided to go for 3g. One question though. Does the Huawei 1831 work with BSNL in pune region ? Can anyone confirm that ???