BSNL 3G: Maximum Speed capped?

[pradatta]

As you are getting 5 bars, you should be within -87dBm. That's quite enough.. the max speed depends the number of concurrent users and the the equipments used by BSNL. Please check at the BSNL exchange about the 3G bandwidth they are providing. Eariler, it was 3.6Mbps but they are in process of upgrading it to 7.2Mbps. This bandwidth will be shared by a specified number of users as decided by BSNL. This is common for most of the internet providers. So even if you are connected with the top speed of 3.6Mbps or 7.2Mbps, attaining the full bandwidth is very difficult. Please see if there is any improvement in speed during off-peak hours.

Lol i have also 5 bars but some place i get 95 dBm with 5 bars and other place i get 87 dBm with 5 bars so i suggest him ok ? and 7.2 is not updated every where its only in Bangalore he should get atleast 350 kbps .

 

[mac302i]

Lol i have also 5 bars but some place i get 95 dBm with 5 bars and other place i get 87 dBm with 5 bars so i suggest him ok ? and 7.2 is not updated every where its only in Bangalore he should get atleast 350 kbps .

In my observation, Huawei Mobile Connect shows 5 bars when you have at least -87dBm.

As I said earlier, the bandwidth (3.6 or 7.2) is shared by a number of people. That's what is called as Contention Ratio.
For BSNL Broadband, they have mentioned it on their website. It's 1:25. This means that the same bandwidth would be shared by max 25 customers. But it's not disclosed for BSNL 3G on their website. If the number of users are less, you'll get good speed. If the number of users are more, the speed will be less. Attaining the full bandwidth is possible only if you are the only active user when online.

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Read this guideline by TRAI (Telecom Regulatory Authority of India): http://www.trai.gov.in/WriteReadData/trai/upload/ConsultationPapers/167/bsnl.pdf

 

[sathishn28]

i think bsnl started to play tricks. I have been getting 300 kbps on torrents and 100-150kbps on downloads but for the past 3 days,, it remains 70kbps on toreent and 40kbps on downloads. the signal strength is 93% on a Huawei 1550 modem. I feel terrible.

 

[chaztin]

i think bsnl started to play tricks. I have been getting 300 kbps on torrents and 100-150kbps on downloads but for the past 3 days,, it remains 70kbps on toreent and 40kbps on downloads. the signal strength is 93% on a Huawei 1550 modem. I feel terrible.

I guess mac302i is correct in this matter, the speed is distributed among various people.

 

[Dp Rahut]

I often found that when somebody refer to speed mention perticular torrent speed. Torrent speed is not at all a measure of internet speed. Torrents are relied on Peer-To-Peer technology. That means it downloads from different computers under that torrent. Different users config to limit their upload speed. And many other issues reduce the speed.

Moreover if you download directly from any server, download speed heavily depends on the load of the server at that instant. Further how this site is configed (servers have different price tag for different plan and accordingly allow slots for different site).

If you really interested to test your internet speed do it from a clean safe Intel site.

 

[ganesh177]

Where did that come from? hehe.

I have reliance broadband 2mbps ultd connection and I get 265 kbps download speed, so I guess with this 3.6 mbps connection I should get atleast 450 kbps download speed now that I get 5 full bars.

3.6 mbps is your datacard speed which it supports.
I doubt you get speed more than 2.8 even with full range.

 

[newuser]

Yup, on speed test although I get between 2.1 to 3.1 mbps ( 2.1 mbps 90% of the time ), my average download speed never goes above 245-250 kbps.

https://www.speedtest.net

http://img600.imageshack.us/i/66676456.png/

in speedtest, you get speeds in mb(bits)ps ..in downloads you see in kB(bytes)ps
1 byte = 8 bits. rest maths you can do.
downloads are surfing speeds are different also. Ofcourse the max. speeds are defined.

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As a precautionary measure, do mask your torrent names in Screenshots. ITs not something you should mention on public forums.

 

[rak007]

Is there any way i can measure the dBm of signal strength when i connect my 3G enabled mobile phone to my laptop ?Can the same application mentioned somewhere above be used ?

 

[vmsanandh]

Is there any way i can measure the dBm of signal strength when i connect my 3G enabled mobile phone to my laptop ?
Can the same application mentioned somewhere above be used ?


You can check tht by using this Mobile Data Monitoring Application (MDMA) software :

http://www.nerve.org.za/mdma/mdma10030a.zip


More details : MDMA - a Mobile Data Monitoring Application

 

[dragon5677]

first of all you guys will never get the full speed you pay for, as some one mentioned above about contention ratios, and the load on towers, yes vell tower loads matter, eg: in my house, my room on tata indicom i get like barely 512 kbps but when i am in my hall i get like 1.5 mbps, in both rooms the signal is 90% +, but still the difference. if more users share bandwidth on the same line, then too u wont get good speeds.