Hands on with T-Mobile's 21 Mbps webConnect Rocket USB Laptop Stick

[hieparse]

hehe

[wilsdomain]

The T-Mobile's webConnect Rocket USB Laptop Stick is not too shabby, Kevin. I love the video. LOL

[TheKillermonkey3]

is this a 2.0

[TheAngryAmericanwon]

I like my wireless connection, its my own and its runs 300 MBPS down and up! haha

[ISAAC800]

oh! and he's in the dark! lol

[ISAAC800]

i get the idea its "not too shabby" ;)

[TheBetaFox]

Slow. 150Mbps DL/100Mbps UL for $17.5/month. -From Bucharest, Romania

[hor122213]

@TheBetaFox  the 100 or 150 mbps which you r saying is a mobile broadband ?????

[TheBetaFox]

Nope. DOCSIS 3.0, but I also have a 54Mbps mobile broadband USB stick (prepaid - $5/month, plus 50 GB of data) - and 54Mbps wireless, which comes for free with my 150Mbps DL/100Mbps UL cable package. ^_^

[hor122213]

@TheBetaFox nice man!!! its my dreammmmm

[windowsvista113]

Whats faster? Original webconnect rocket or the webconnect rocket 2.0?

[DellNGibbs]

this thing is a piece of shit. Went through the 5gb cap in one day and now my download speed is 8 kb/s and i can hardly hold a connection to anything.

Being returned tomorrow.

[south02m]

i think its that fast because there not many people using it....... once everyone has a phone capable of 21mbps, the speeds will suffer.... like they always say... CAPABLE of 21mpbs, not real world numbers

[cmikecs]

I've getting a consistent 800kbps-1000kbps in Cleveland right now. The T-Mobile 3G network has been down intermittently for about a month up until just a few days ago. I've asked my T-Mobile people and some of them said that it's due to the HSPA+ upgrade.

Will I see faster speeds when HSPA+ does get turned on in Cleveland on my non HSPA+ 3G devices such as my Nexus One? How does this upgrade happen? Do all the towers get bandwidth increases? All turned on at once?

[bkpadilla]

7 mbps is fast. I don't know why everyone keeps saying 21 mbps though. HSPA+ is pretty much 4G at least for mobile phones. WiMax and LTE are going to replace cable internet and DSL internet though in just a few years. Supposively LTE will be more efficient for phones so we'll see what happens.

[LivingInDa978]

@bkpadilla yes 7mbps is for the HSPA upgrade and the reason you hear people claiming t mobile has 21mbps is cause t mobile is upgrading their network again which is called HSPA+ and this one is on its final stages t mobile announced it would be launched sometime this year.

HSPA+ is currently the fastest 3G data network speed currently possible, at a whopping 21Mbps. It was tested in Philadelphia earlier this year, and according to T-Mobile, HSPA+ will be launched sometime this year.

[TheGogetassj]

bahaha....

ur nexus one is faster than My running my wifi....n urs on a mobile network...lmao

[rhoa23]

Wow dude you just made my day. I'm anticipating the upgrade supposedly coming this sunday. I live in Miami, and my nexus one right now averages 500Kpbs... so for it to get a 500% increase is huge to me. What I don't get though is why if the N1 is 7.2 HSPA enabled, cant we hit those speeds if the network is running at 21megs?

[LivingInDa978]

@rhoa23 yes you can, but it probably wont happen since t mobile still caps their per-cell speeds at 3.6Mb/s for single-cell towers and 7.2Mb/s for dual-cell towers (the fastest HSPA and HSPA+ installations use two parallel cells, over a total of 20MHz bandwidth.. this is called carrier aggregation).

[zsmorr92]

That's faster than my Uverse...