{"id":1769,"date":"2010-06-23T17:23:04","date_gmt":"2010-06-23T16:23:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.branedy.net\/?p=1769"},"modified":"2010-06-23T17:23:04","modified_gmt":"2010-06-23T16:23:04","slug":"n900-3g-speed-test","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.branedy.net\/?p=1769","title":{"rendered":"N900 3G speed test"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have been in Stockholm this past week on a bit of a holiday, and while I was nursing my pay-as-you-go <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vodafone.ie\/\">Vodafone<\/a> account I tried out both the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Enhanced_Data_Rates_for_GSM_Evolution\">GSM Edge<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/3G\">3G<\/a> speeds while in the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Stockholm-Arlanda_Airport\"> Stockholm Arlanda Airport <\/a><br \/>\n<center><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/21709201@N00\/4727869242\/\" title=\"Stockholm Airport 3G by Branedy, on Flickr\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm2.static.flickr.com\/1194\/4727869242_f84b5842bf.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"300\" alt=\"Stockholm Airport 3G\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<\/center><br \/>\nDisregard that it says it&#8217;s testing a Vodafone.ie connection to Dublin, it&#8217;s from Stockholm to Dublin and what it indicates is that it&#8217;s more than 30% faster download speed than my Eircom DSL and more than 3X faster upload speed. So much for DSL. And compared to a test I ran from Vodafone 3G in Cork a while back, it&#8217;s was fully 3 Times the speed both up and down link.  Why do we put up with such third world performance from our broadband providers? We&#8217;re Sheep, has be be, ready to be shorn.  <\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have been in Stockholm this past week on a bit of a holiday, and while I was nursing my pay-as-you-go Vodafone account I tried out both the GSM Edge and 3G speeds while in the Stockholm Arlanda Airport Disregard<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.branedy.net\/?p=1769\">Read more <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">N900 3G speed test<\/span><span class=\"meta-nav\"> &#8250;<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54,7,13,281,80,62],"tags":[410,292,411],"class_list":["post-1769","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-broadband","category-internet","category-ireland","category-n900","category-nokia","category-telecommunications","tag-3g","tag-nokia-n900","tag-sweden"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.branedy.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1769","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.branedy.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.branedy.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.branedy.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.branedy.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1769"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.branedy.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1769\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1774,"href":"https:\/\/www.branedy.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1769\/revisions\/1774"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.branedy.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1769"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.branedy.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1769"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.branedy.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1769"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}