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it's actually LTE, just rate limited. With t-mobile one plus, you'll peg it at its max of 256kbps (or 32KB/s). While that's painfully slow for web browsing, i
by compsciphd 9y ago
it's actually LTE, just rate limited. With t-mobile one plus, you'll peg it at its max of 256kbps (or 32KB/s). While that's painfully slow for web browsing, it works perfectly fine for online taxis, directions with maps and even e-mail and chatting. i.e. anything that uses the internet passively.
- lobster_johnson 9y ago"Perfectly fine" has not been my experience anywhere. A months ago I arrived in Oslo from the airport, and tried both Uber and the local transit ticket app, and both were impossible — everything just timed out — so I ended up hailing a cab the old way. You'd think the connection would be slow but that it would eventually get you there, but that has not been my experience.
- compsciphd 9y agoi've used it in turkey and israel without a problem within the past few months, web browsing was mostly a no go, but passive things worked. One thing that I would add is that you have to really internalize what it means to have a severely rate limited connection. You have to control your sync settings. if you just landed and all your services are trying to sync, you'll be using all the bandwidth and everything wont work.
- tetromino_ 9y agoT-Mobile's free roaming worked great for me when visiting Russia earlier this year. WhatsApp text messages, email, Google and Yandex maps, taxis, schedules etc. were all completely usable. Particularly funny since I was getting good connectivity far in the countryside, in the woods, in the sort of area where in the USA one might expect no coverage from any provider. Uploading photos was a pain point though, and a major one: 2-5 minutes per image.