Impressive 3G Performance With Orange

I'm currently doing some late night crunching on my machine for work.  Since I have Windows Mobile 6 device with 3G capabilities, I make use of the "internet sharing" features often.  Here in London, I was particularly amazed with the performance I got with only one bar of 3G service!

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It later tapered off to around 25KBps but awesome regardless!

Forcing 3G

When indoors in London, my Orange 3100 (HTC Tytn) defaults to GSM because of better signal strength.  I actually prefer GSM because of improved battery life in almost all situations, however, when I am using my phone as a 3G modem, I go into the "settings" menu and select "phone," navigate to "network" and select "WCDMA" to force a 3G connection.  It should be easier than this but I'm not complaining cause I just saved £15 by not buying Hilton's lousy internet service.