Mobile Broadband - High speed or 1X

["elison niven gmail com" <elison niven gmail com>]

Hi list,

I had called my Mobile broadband provider Reliance to file a complaint
against the speed issues I am having with my internet connection. I am
having a 3.1 Mbps connection but end up getting about 0.1 Mbps at
times.

The first question the customer care guys ask is that in what mode is
your device currently connected - High speed or CDMA 1X?
Apparently, Folks at Reliance give away their own dialer to connect to
Internet in Windows and that software shows the current mode of the
connection.

So I tell the customer care guy that I am using Linux (Fedora 15,
Gnome 3) and I do not know what connection mode is being used. So they
tell me to please check in some other Windows based system. I know it
is insane but one can't argue with a non-tech customer care guy on
such issues. They talk to me as if the problem is in my Linux system -
It is selecting the low speed mode.

Is there any way to find out which mode is getting selected - 1X or
High speed? The device in use in Huawei EC1260.

Can I send some AT commands to ttyUSB0 to check? Could you please help
me with this?

Also I do not get a signal strength indication in the NetworkManager
icon. I get four bars but no color. Is this by design?

Thanks,
Elison