Yesterday I bought Claro’s 3G Wireless Data Service in Brazil. I’m not going to tortue you with the excrutiating details of the 5 hour ordeal to order the service that included everything short of a rectal exam. Instead, I’ll focus on the QoS:
So far my top rate in 8.7 kb/s upstream and 91.6 kb/s Downstream. Normally it’s MUCH slower and it disconnects about 3 times per hour. At the store, they pitched “1 Mb/s” Transfer rate and up to 10 Gigs of transfer per month before it slows down. What a load of horse shit. Hands down, Dial-Up in the US outperforms this shitty “3G” service from Claro
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That’s why I’m waiting to buy my 3G in Brazil. It’s too soon, yet.
But at least are you enjoying the other features?
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Be happy that something like 3G even exists in the third world. It’s a miracle actually.