If anyone cannot tell that I am f1 fanatic (by looking at the domain name of this site), I am going to submit this right now.
This weekend is a first F1 race in Melbourne, Australia. I cannot really watch the race without watching qualifying session first. In fact, for me qualifying session has become more exciting than race itself, ever since they've moved to knock-out style. Anyway, I am on the road and do not have a good access to internet. I have my mobile broadband card from Sprint and Android G1 data plan. Both are completely unlimited in traffic.
I spent entire morning nursing my laptop downloading qualifying session. First I tried to Sprint mobile broadband card. But it was too slow for too long. Then, I've enabled my tethering app on Android and speed went up. I think averaged 100kbs, with peak of about 145kbs. So I left my laptop in the car with download in progress. USB cable was powering Android from laptop battery. I went to grab a coffee in Miami Lakes and briefly spoke with real estate agent. Must have been no more than 30 min. I returned back to the car to find Android completely dead, despite it being fed power from laptop. I guess it must have gone to infinite loop of sorts or something that the drainage was so high that USB power from laptop wasn't enough :)
So I went back to Sprint mobile broadband card and finally finished my qualifying session download. Overall it must have taken about 6 hours between the time I started this endeavor.
Too bad there isn't an app for Android yet that will just download torrent. I may try to install command line shell package for that. Tomorrow, I may have to go through the same to download the actual race... I need to find a better _mobile_ process for doing this. Now off to somewhere in Miami Beach, grab food or drink and watch qualifying!