[Ben]

Just an update on current Vodafone 3G Broadband performance for me. Poor signal (relatively), using VPN.

--- bbc.co.uk ping statistics ---
50387 packets transmitted, 50387 packets received, 0% packet loss
round-trip min/avg/max/stddev = 109.499/172.327/1024.092/30.609 ms

Massive ping test there. I'm actually shocked there isn't a single packet lost - that's really very good. Latency, as always, should be better.

Speed tests were a little varied - both over 1mbps, so not bad, but I'd still like to be seeing better speeds by now. General browsing is excellent, though again I'm on the VPN.

[Hands0n]

It is a great testament to Vodafone that they managed to handle without loss every single packet over the period of time you rant the tests.

Latency is always a bit of an issue with mobile network operators, the ping times remind me of the days when I managed international leased lines for a Bank. Those going to Hong Kong didn't take quite as long as you're seeing on Vodafone :D So there has to be some real funkydoodle routing and packet handling going on in the Vodafone network.

[Hands0n]

Why? Because I wanted to see how a tethered LG Viewty connection would work with Vodafone. The Viewty is supposed to be an HSDPA handset and so I would expect reasonable results ...

Using Speedtest.net gave the following - not very good but then again Speedtest.net does not work very well to mobile connections.
http://www.speedtest.net/result/455166145.png (http://www.speedtest.net)

And so it was off to another favourite of mine ... mobilespeedtest.com
This gave an altogether much more realistic result of 3Mbps using a 1MB block of data:
http://www.mobilespeedtest.com/results/1121083732.jpg (http://www.mobilespeedtest.com)

Pretty much what to expect outside of London or other major towns and cities where Vodafone have up to 7.2Mbps services on the go.