Vodafone Mobile Broadband is fast enough to handle all the usual activities you may use the internet for, such as emailing, video streaming and file or music downloading.
When you are working within 3G broadband coverage, you will on average experience much faster access and download speeds than dial up access speeds. This will depend on different factors such as your location, your hardware, general network and internet traffic.
The speeds currently experienced, according to the type of network coverage, are shown in the following table.
| 3G Broadband devices (Vodems + HSDPA mobiles) Avg download speed * |
3G Mobiles Avg download speed * |
2G Mobiles Avg download speed * |
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|---|---|---|---|
| Average speed ^ | 800kbps - 1.4mbps | 200 - 300kbps | 20 - 40kbps |
| View plain text email | Less than 1 second | Less than 3 seconds | Less than 2 seconds |
| Viewing full web page (eg Facebook) | Less than 1 second | Less than 3 seconds | Less than 20 seconds |
| Time to download a music track or email attachment (4MB) | 31 seconds | 1 min 23 seconds | 9 minutes 37 seconds |
| Download an album (134MB) | Under 20 minutes | Under 1 hour | 5 hours 40 minutes |
* Data capacity and speed experienced may be slower than advertised speeds and can vary due to coverage, location, hardware and software configuration, capability and load of sites visited and general network and internet traffic.
^ speeds calculated on existing user data on the Vodafone network
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