thank you for that information. This is new to me. But I don't know everything, at least not yet. LOL.
So a dial-up is needed to establish something and then that thing you call a flash drive is a wireless dongle that connects to the local cellular network. But unlike a cell phone connection, it does not tolerate lost data packets. The EV-OD protocol forces correction between the local cell tower and your wireless dongle.
It should be a lot better than dial up, especially for the download speed. Hopefully someday everybody in the world will have access to a 2 gigabit data connection. It just takes time.
Sounds like mobile broadband to me. If the "drive" you plug in only allows you to access the net and didn't appear as a separate drive in explorer, it's simply a mobile broadband dongle. by the same token I have a wireless mouse whose receiver could easily be mistaken for a flash drive, but it's simply a receiver, not a drive.
Re the original topic of connection speed:
Cable, so the download is (like ADSL) much higher then the upload (not because they "favour" download, but simply because the only thing that cable was originally designed to send upstream was a few control signals, or so I hear)
25~ mbps is about my average speed (bits, not bytes). the internet is part of a package with HD television and phone service, so the "package deal" price makes the connection effectively about 40$/month, whereas if I was to simply get just the internet (which would work fine too, I hardly watch TV and the only people that bother to phone me seem to be telemarketers) it would be 60$~. On the whole I am quite satisfied.
Well it sounds like I was using the wrong terminology, and what I was using was obviously a "Dongle". To be honest I never heard that terminology until hearing it in this thread. That contraption was handed to me as a flash drive, looked like a flash drive, so I called it a flash drive. Thanks guys, for the lesson.
