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Article #808Re: Telstra Mobile Internet Speed Tests
From: Mike Rofone
Date: Sat, 30 Apr 2011 04:43
Date: Sat, 30 Apr 2011 04:43
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Rod Speed wrote... > Pity about the pathetic result it gets compared with doing the test the right way. Short of timing the file download and then calculating the speed result against a Speednet test you can't be sure that the Speedtest result is or isn't valid. > > Decided that I wouldn't use that feature so I stuck with the cheaper one. > > So why did you ask about the wifi hotspot capability above ? Because, at the time I hadn't made up my mind. I pretty well did that in the shop. The thing is working fine for what I need it for. And pretty soon, when grandchild #3 arrives, daughter #1 will be using it (and my netbook) for her stay in hospital.
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