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They were the best, and then Vodafone shat the bed and haemorrhaged customers, most of whom (inc. me) went to Telstra. Their network wasn't ready for an influx
by jen729w 10y ago
They were the best, and then Vodafone shat the bed and haemorrhaged customers, most of whom (inc. me) went to Telstra.
Their network wasn't ready for an influx of hundreds of thousands of people, and it went downhill fast. Now, that was a couple of years ago and I'd be happy to hear that they've improved. I'm no longer with Telstra - because of the reasons I've outlined above.
Edit: I realised I have work's Telstra 4G dongle in my bag. Totally unscientific test: Speedtest just reported 26ms/8.91Mbps down/5.95Mbps up. I got the iPhone 5(?) on the day of launch, which was pretty much the first 4G phone in Australia. Sitting in central Melbourne I got ~50Mbps up/down. :-/
Edit 2: My phone's native Optus 4G connection gets 23ms/7.23Mbps down/2.26Mbps up.
- ux-app 10y agoThose are quite poor speeds. I'm with Optus with a 4G connection and just did a speed test on my Galaxy S7 80Mbps down!! wow I was surprised to see this. I thought my home 30Mbps cable connection was good 20Mbps up, this was an even bigger shock. I'm only on about 2Mbps up on my home connection. 90ms latency from Adelaide to Sydney which seems pretty good too.
- jen729w 10y agoWow! Where are you? Local congestion is obviously a massive factor with 4G speeds. I'm at my office in Melbourne's south eastern suburbs, where connections - everyone's, irrespective of telco - seem to be poor.
- ux-app 10y agoyeah I was quite surprised too. I knew the internet felt speedy when I tethered to my phone, but never bothered doing a speedtest before. I'm in Adelaide and the test was done about 10km from the CBD