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I have a netbook that I use when I travel.

I bought a decent netbook but it is still slower in general thN my
cheapest laptop.

I use a USB data in my laptp and netbook.

doing like for like searches. the netbook is slower.

my opinion. netbook is slower period. that could be the issue. not
the Att speed.

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bill

Sent from my AT&T wireless device!

On Mar 3, 2010, at 9:21 AM, William <bill.gossage@sbcglobal.net> wrote:

> Vic,
>
> I'm a network technician and some of the responses you received are
> incorrect.
>
> dialup was 56K
> Edge connection should average 100K (double that of dialup)
> 3G connection should average 500K (10 times that of dialup)
> WiFi connection (via DSL) can be anwhere between 1M - 6M depending
> on your service
>
> Her netbook should average the same on 3G as my iPhone. Use one of
> the free speed test sites and run the test. There could be
> something wrong with her netbook.
>
> Bill
>
> --- In apple-iphone@yahoogroups.com, "vsperlman" <vsperlman@...>
> wrote:
>>
>> I recently bought my wife an Acer Aspire netbook. After much
>> agonizing between Verizon and AT&T, I decided to go with AT&T
>> because, in our house (high rise condo), my iPhone works better as
>> a phone than her Verizon cell phone, and my iPhone seems to work
>> reasonably fast on AT&T's 3G network. As it turns out, the 3G
>> connection on her netbook is so slow as to make the computer
>> useless. It is literally slower than an old-fashioned dial-up
>> telephone modem.
>>
>> Is the software for the iPhone designed so much better for 3G
>> connections as to account for the difference, or is something else
>> going on? Put another way, is there any way, short of switching to
>> a DSL connection or moving, to make the netbook work even remotely
>> as well as the iPhone?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Vic Perlman
>>
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