For anyone unclear about the aim of my experiment, it’s to decide whether or not mobile broadband is fit to be used mainstream. Yesterday was my first day and was a day to try the ins and outs of the product.

For a first day venturing into the land of the mobile went rather well, I could complete most tasks without fail and without really having to wait for pages to load. Speed tests indicated that I wasn’t really browsing too fast and said that my latency was quite high, but to be honest I didn’t really notice while I was browsing.

The first few connection attempts to the network lasted only a few minutes and sometimes didn’t even connect, after unplugging it and plugging it back in, it found a juicy 3G connection and remained connected for 5 hours – I was the one who ended the connection this time.

Mobile feels like 10Mb fiber at a busy time in the day

For anyone who is reading this and wants a flavour of what using mobile broadband feels like, imagine you’re on a 10Mb connection from Virgin Media and it’s 7PM, everyone has just got home from work and have gone online, while all the kids in your area have decided to play WoW. That’s honestly how it feels – just like a normal connection that is being strained a little.

If I’m honest, I did use a little bit more bandwidth hungry applications today than I usually would to see just how it would hold up. Here’s a nice little log of the things that I did:

• Internet Connection Sharing
• Streaming music from last.fm
• Watched an episode of Inu Yasha on Youtube
• Uploaded images and files to a website
• Began to download Fedora

Let’s go into each in a bit more detail, shall we?

Internet Connection Sharing
This is a really cool feature on my Mac, it lets you share a connection from one port, to another. It’s a bit like having a virtual router running on your computer. When I did this, I made my wireless card broadcast the Vodafone connection, so my iPod could use the mobile broadband internet – genius!

Streaming Music
Once I was online with my iPod, I used the last.fm app to stream some music. The app was very quick, only taking a few seconds to buffer tracks and playback was perfect. I couldn’t tell I was on mobile broadband.

Youtube Videos
This was when I really started to try and test the limits of it, while I was listening to music from last.fm I loaded up a Youtube video on my laptop. The video initially was a little bit jerky, but after pausing it for a few seconds, letting it load and playing it, they playback was perfect – no jitters.

Website Editing
Being a web consultant I have clients to attend to. One rang me up today and said he had a small problem on his website. I uploaded a few images and changed a few files directly on the server using Coda. This felt just like using normal broadband, there was hardly any waiting involved at all.

Large File Download
In need of a new home FTP server, I began to download the heavyweight 690MB file that is Fedora. Safari reckoned it was going to take 4 hours, but unfortunately I didn’t have that amount of time as I had to go and see a client. Consequently I cancelled the download 100MB in.

Something very strange happened today and it was something I was completely unaware of until I checked my usage logs. They indicate that I uploaded 1.2GB of data and downloaded 242MB. I can’t for the life of me understand where that 1.2GB has come from but I can assume that it was some background process as I had a lot of applications running at once. Any guesses anyone?

To conclude the first day was very tolerable, apart from a few slow downs at my clients house, speeds remained constant. Today is going to hold a few more wonders, such as browsing in a public place and some more heavyweight music streaming. I’ll post up the results tomorrow morning!

P.S. Unfortunately I didn’t get into the centre of Newcastle yesterday, but I’ll try to be tomorrow!

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