Using Meteor's broadband around town: no "minimum 2Mbs speed"

Am in Starbucks (Dame Street) waiting to interview someone. As usual, wi-fi isn't working here. So I've reverted to Meteor's broadband stick.

To be honest, the speed here is a bit disappointing (0.5Mbs) for a service that is supposed to have a top speed of 7.2Mbs, and which is supposed to have a minimum speed of 2Mbs (according to Meteor CEO, Larry Smith).

In my office in Harcourt Street, it's as low as 0.3Mbs (although it has reached 2.5Mbs at times). In fact the only place in the city centre where I've seen it higher than 3Mbs was on St Stephens Green, where it hit 5Mbs consistently.

Am a bit disappointed, so far.

Comments

[Eamonn]

This is one of the "great misconceptions" of mobile broadband. The headline speed may indeed be 7.2, however that is for one user on the cellsite as long as that one user is the only one on the site. They aren't guaranteeing you 7.2, so what you are seeing is correct and normal for mobile data...