Hi Russell On Tue, Jul 2, 2013 at 5:59 AM, Russell Coker <russell@coker.com.au> wrote:
On Tue, 2 Jul 2013, Rasika Amarasiri <rasika.amarasiri@gmail.com> wrote:
Just thinking out of the box here. If the limitation is on the tower, would going with two different carriers work? Hopefully if they are not trunking together, you should get better throughput.
That's an interesting idea, but not viable in this case. Some of the devices I'm deploying will be in areas where only Telstra gives good reception. My general impression of the state of 3G in Australia is that Telstra will outperform all other options in most situations.
I you are deploying in regional areas (my assumption from you mentioning that only Telstra coverage is available) then you will find that LTE is only in metro and some major regional areas so LTE may not even be an option. One way to increase throughput in a marginal area is to use a 3G modem with the facility for an external antenna and then use a directional Yagi/beam over an omni directional antenna and aim it at the closest tower. -- Mark "Pockets" Clohesy Mob Phone: (+61) 406 417 877 Email: hiddensoul@twistedsouls.com G-Talk: mark.clohesy@gmail.com GNU/Linux..Linux Counter #457297 - "I would love to change the world, but they won't give me the source code" "Linux is user friendly...its just selective about who its friends are"