Your Mobile Broadband Laptop - BT Mobile Broadband Laptop User Manual

Your Mobile Broadband Laptop

Wi-Fi, HSDPA, 3G and GPRS explained
The table below summarises the speed and availability of
the connection methods available.
Speed
Availability
1. Other factors include site's distance from exchange and contention sharing (the number of active users nearby).
2. Up to 7.2Mbps download speeds are subject to contention sharing, user's computer equipment and HSDPA
connection. Current HSDPA areas: London districts: E1, E1W, E14, EC1, EC2, EC3, EC4, NW1, SW1, W1, W2, W8,
W9, W10, W11, W14, WC1, WC2. Airports: Heathrow, Gatwick, Luton, Stansted, London City, Southampton, Bristol,
Birmingham, East Midlands, Liverpool, Manchester, Belfast City, Belfast Int., Cardiff, and Norwich.
BT Connection Manager network icons explained
Indicator is... this means...
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Wi-Fi
Fixed Broadband Speeds
(Up to 8 Mbps – dependent
on line and location )
1
Your BT Home Hub/router,
plus tens of thousands of BT FON
and BT Openzone hotspots
Connection unavailable
Connection initialising or finding connection
Connection available
HSDPA 3G
up to 7.2 up to 1.8
Mbps Mbps
2
Selected 80% UK
areas coverage
2
GPRS
up to
64Kbps
99.7% UK
coverage
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