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So in the ever on-going wars of my kids circumventing internet safety fences (another story entirely), I have discovered I can use my cellphone as an internet access device. Yes, I know, late to the party. But what surprised me is the performance. My wired provider gives me 20Mbs down / 1.5 Mbps up.
On my cell phone (using it now), I'm getting 15Mbps down / 3+ Mbps up. 
That's stunning. Maybe it's 5am and it has no users, I'll have to continue to test. But, that's certainly fast enough for work.
Anyone else care to post their performance #s? I used speedtest.net (I'm on the east coast of USA).
Charlie Gilley
<italic>You're going to tell me what I want to know, or I'm going to beat you to death in your own house.
"Where liberty dwells, there is my country." B. Franklin, 1783
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
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My traffic Limit of 500MB per month prevents me from using my Smartphone as Internet access
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Mine is 2GB, but for unlimited the cost is not that much more (for me).
What surprised me was the performance. And cost-wise, it's competitive with what I buy from AT&T.
Charlie Gilley
<italic>You're going to tell me what I want to know, or I'm going to beat you to death in your own house.
"Where liberty dwells, there is my country." B. Franklin, 1783
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
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Well yeah that's truely impressive but not uncommon if you have 4G LTE.
The theoretical transferrate for dl is 100MBit as far as i know
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What also would be interesting is: How is the latency?
For small packages a high latency is still not very desirable...
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well, the latency was interesting. It was 5am, but I could play any of my favorite online games, no stuttering at all.
Charlie Gilley
<italic>You're going to tell me what I want to know, or I'm going to beat you to death in your own house.
"Where liberty dwells, there is my country." B. Franklin, 1783
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
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I don't have that kind of phone, never mind use it. But I've heard that the connections from these phones provide decent bandwidth but moderate and variable latency. So they're fine for uploading and downloading large files, browsing the internet, and generally doing work, but they don't work well for things like gaming, video conferences, even VOIP (because the packet latency jumps around so you get skipping).
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"Scorch port with injured back points to Old Frank."(11)
This is Very Hard, so you need your Thinking Caps turbocharged.
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Obscurum per obscurius.
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Scorch CHAR
port L
with injured back EMAG ?
points NE
to Old Frank.
CHARLEMAGNE
Veni, vidi, abiit domum
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It always amazes me the CCCs that DD thinks are Very Hardtm but are solved in nothing flat.
I knew I had no chance of an obtuse riposte to this one, as soon as someone had 'char l' the answer was obvious.
Sorry Dave, not hard at all 
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And yet one's I think are easy seem to cause the greatest trouble.
It is weird.
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Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum videtur .
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I'm reading CCC with hope that one day I will understand the question - as plain English... 
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It is plain English, it's just that the words are not in the order, or context, that you expect them to be. The clue is (usually) in two parts. One part consists of little clues that make up parts of the answer, for example the word "scorch" also means "char", in this case. The other part is the definition of the answer: in this case "Old Frank", Charlemagne was King of the Franks.
Veni, vidi, abiit domum
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That's what I'm talking about - scorch!!! Never heard of. I have to open dictionary to understand the words. Than to make the groups out of it should take week (port -> L... I've no idea why). Mostly I can't see it even after someone solved it... 
Maybe DD should do some CCC in other languages...
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On board ships, they don't use "left" and "right": they use "port" and "starboard" instead because they are always the same relative to the direction the ship is pointing rather than the sailor. If the sailor turns round 180 degrees, his personal "left" and "right" swap over, but "port" and "starboard" don't. So "Hard starboard" means the same thing regardless of the direction any sailor is pointing. (And actually means for the ship to go left, not right, as it's an instruction as to which way to move the rudder!)
Never underestimate the power of stupid things in large numbers
--- Serious Sam
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Thanks. I hope DD will use it again before I forget...
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'Hard-a-starboard' means sharp left (push the tiller right) to some people and sharp right (push the ship to the right) to others. I think the modern standard is that it means what it says, i.e. turn the ship right; it changed when ships became large enough to be steered by wheels instead of tillers, where there isn't the natural reversal, and now applies to smaller boats with tillers as well.
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why the hell are the English using "port" for left? A port is something like a parking lot for ships and boats, or a place where you can connect a cable with a device. Something where you can dock, if you like... Why reuse the same word for like 20 different meanings? 
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Because English is assembled from just about every other language it has ever met...
Wikipedia[^] to the rescue!
Never underestimate the power of stupid things in large numbers
--- Serious Sam
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I suck at these (I think I got 4 CCCs overall), but it took me 4 seconds to realize the answer was Charlemagne. And I got it off just Old Frank, didn't process (or couldn't have processed  ) the rest.
Or maybe I'm just intuitive at times....
Cheers,
विक्रम
"We have already been through this, I am not going to repeat myself." - fat_boy, in a global warming thread
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Injured = GAME back = EMAG
Game[^]
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I couldn't find the word "injured" anywhere in that page.
Veni, vidi, abiit domum
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Try under adj: Debilitated on the upper tabs
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Ha, simples! What a dunderhead I am.
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