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3 Mobile Broadband download speed slower than upload speed

Kernel_Sanders
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edited 25 October 2011 at 7:17AM in Techie Stuff
I bought an Huawei HSPA+ Mobile Broadband dongle from 3 because I thought it would treble the slow speed I was getting with my existing 7.2Mb/sec (max) dongle. It has made little difference, and this test shows I am downloading just 1.22Mb/sec out of a theoretically possible 21.6Mb/sec, even at nearly midnight on a Monday. But the upload speed is showing as 1.53Mb/sec; I thought the download speed was always the faster?

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