LifeEngineer wroterolf wroteIs there any way of getting 3G-like latency on a DSL connection?
It seems that mobile broadband has better performance for small packets (ssh, loading pages...) but IDK it's expensive for watching movies.
Not sure what you mean.
I have a (relatively) horrible experience with browsing and SSH on DSL. Both my cousins mentioned that mobile broadband (3G, 4G, etc) are good. I tried 3G here and in the mountains, and in both cases SSH was very good, low latency 90% of the time, and of pages load faster, video need no buffering, however sometimes big downloads can be better on DSL.
I don't know if someone is over-using our connection(s), or what it is. I'm just tired of this junk.
My laptop has a place for a SIM card, so tomorrow I'm planning to go to alfa and get a "mobile broadband" card for $17, then I can get a good plan on my main number and use "u-share" to share data allowance with this secondary SIM which I will put on my laptop, so I can have a better connection. I need to work, can't have the connection randomly drop-out. And I would be able to have a connection anywhere, no need even to tether my phone, which is pretty cool.
However I'm not sure whether it's not a bit of a waste of money because "u-share" costs $2/month so the $17 will last me 8 months but I'm not sure that I will be in Lebanon for 8 months, not even 2 months actually! I guess maybe I can freeze the line if I leave, or sell it to someone else.