Day three in my experiment and things went a little bit down hill. It took me up to five minutes sometimes to find a signal, even though I knew there was one around and even once I’d connected I experienced problems.

I’m not sure whether it’s a network mechanism or not. What I mean by this is, because I’ve been a very heavy user (an hours worth of Skype calling and I’d uploaded 1GB of data) the network might have measures in place to make sure the weight of dragging me along didn’t affect other users. This could make a lot of sense, by cutting off and slowing down heavy users at peak times, you encourage them to use their home internet or not to use it at all.

Having said this, I did manage to get a few successful connections that stayed open until I myself closed them. I didn’t really perform any really heavy tasks yesterday, simply because the speed and availability wasn’t always there.

What was slightly annoying was the fact that as I was trying to translate Pokemon Platinum from Japanese to English, my connection kept dropping therefore I couldn’t access Google Translate to find out that it doesn’t know how to translate the text I was inputting. For anyone who didn’t get that, what I basically said was, “don’t use Google Translate to translate Japanese to English – especially if you’re using a slow connection, you’ll be sorely disappointed.”

On the whole, day three was a slight disappointment, both in trying to translate Pokemon and using my mobile broadband, maybe it was fate having a bit of a laugh at me for saying that it was going well a day earlier, or maybe it was just a bad day for mobile broadband, we’ll never know. Let’s hope that tomorrow gives me some better results.