What is mobilnet good for?

As usual, we are now trying to look back a bit in time, as we could provide a better basis for getting to know and understanding the current conditions and assessing the conditions than getting to know the not too distant past. Fortunately, we didn’t start dealing with computers today, so we’re equipped with quite a few years of experience.

Where do we start? Perhaps at the beginning of this decade, when we first met the mobile net on its own, in fact. Sometime at the height of 2001-2002, a client got into my workplace at the time with his cell phone in his hand. The company was a contracted partner of one of the mobile service providers at the time, and we set up a mobile fax service, among other things. This fact itself is characteristic of the age, as at that time it was still vital for a company manager to receive faxes on his mobile phone. And nowadays, faxing is starting to take a back seat behind other solutions.

But let’s get back to the mobile client. The gentleman proudly showed his phone on which Duna TV was just broadcasting. We cashless jurors happily rushed around the company with the phone and showed everyone where science is going, the cell phone can be watched. It was a big miracle back then, and it still seems to look back on bandwidths at the time. Because it’s certainly good to know that mobile broadband - which is really wide, and not just in its name - hasn’t even been anywhere. The speed at the time was good when you reached the speed of an analog modem. Web browsing, visiting websites was a real torment, not only because of the bandwidth, but also because of the tiny and low-resolution display on the phones.

Then the years passed and EDGE appeared, which was already capable of even ISDN speed connections, more precisely, it promised three times the GPRS connection as a theoretical maximum. It looked like a real Canaan after GPRS, though, we didn’t know yet that 3G would come, and later 3,5G, which our phones labeled 3G +. We're here now. Let's see numerically exactly what theoretical bandwidths we are talking about! Let's start with the slowest, known even before GPRS. This is called CSD, which is essentially the same dial-up solution as traditional modems. The nominal baud rate could reach up to 9,6 kbit / s. GPRS was already a degree better, as 53 kbit / s was theoretically available. EDGE has already seen a quality leap with its 236 kbit / s speed, and 3G offers even more with the available transfer rate of 384 kbit / s. This can even be called broadband, but what is really wide is HSDPA, which is capable of speeds of up to 14,4 Mbit / s.

So with that, we came back to the present. As you can see, mobile internet has really changed a lot in terms of bandwidth, so anyone who wants to network on a mobile network today can do so at speeds with adequate coverage), which is a disgrace to many landline services. However, the Internet is not without its limits, but the limit is no longer technology, but our wallet. Of course, we also need to be able to take advantage of the joys of the mobile net, and for that we need hardware. Unsurprisingly, we use Edimax devices again to try out the joys of mobile networking! So let's see the accessories of the mobile net now, and then let's test what the network is capable of!