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when 3G not available will Ipad use Edge?

quiltfanatic

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Was wondering if you live in an area where 3G is spotty, if edge will provide you with service on the Ipad 3G?
 

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Was wondering if you live in an area where 3G is spotty, if edge will provide you with service on the Ipad 3G?

Good question, I would assume that it will degrade gracefully to Edge similar to an iPhone, but I'm not positive.
 

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I'm curious since it's just a data plan if the signal will be better than telephony+data plans. I heard edge is like dial up for data.
 

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That's being gracious.

I consider 3G to be dial-up for data, Edge is very slow dial-up for data
 
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On a more direct answer to your question, all 3G hardware will drop back to Edge (2G) when there is no 3G available.

I use commercial modems for work and they are strictly Edge. At this point Edge is so slow that many applications time out before it can transmit the data.
 

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According to the AT&T signal map I'm in the strongest area but o guess I'll know the truth soon enough.
 

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You can get over 100kbps over Edge which isn't as bad as dialup (which maxxed out at 56kbps, but realistically couldn't go over 52kbps) -- There were a lot of Nexus One owners who could only use Edge since they used the Nexus One on AT&T. They got up to 300kbps sometimes.

So, it's not quite dialup more like ISDN on Steroids :)
 

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So, it's not quite dialup more like ISDN on Steroids :)

So now, 'I' stand corrected.

I guess the internet is just so media intensive now that having 100k feels like in the dial up days when you had a poor phone line and could only get a 14.4k connection.
 

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