Cellular company as ISP

[Guy Corem]

Miki,

In the last few months I've used Cellcom unlimited deal with Option
GlobeSurfer III router, in a reasonable manner ( ~1GB of traffic per month).
All was well, until today. In the last month, on purpose, I've downloaded
about ~100 GB through Cellcom.
I've received the invoice yesterday, and starting from today, the bandwidth
is about ~150 kbps (before it was ~2000 kbps).
When changing to other Cellcom SIM (belonging to a different number), I
receive the expected 2000 kbps. When changing to the "blacklisted" number
other SIM, I receive the throttled ~150 kbps.
It's consistent, and doesn't depend on my location.

In the contract I've signed with them, they're stating that if I'll use P2P
or more than triple of the network average bandwidth per subscriber, they
reserve the right to throttle me.

It's seem that they're doing exactly that. Tomorrow I'll check with Cellcom.

Also, I believe that In the past they've killed DNS queries after starting
torrent.

Bottom line: if you're planning to consume a lot of bandwidth, use ADSL /
cables.

Guy


2009/9/23 Michael Ben-Nes <michael at epoch.co.il>

> Hi,
> What is the quality of a cellular ISP connection compared to an ADSL line.
>
> Like:
> Latency factor that effect SSH like protocols.
> The ability to consume the full speed capacity.
>
>
> Cheers,
> Miki
>
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