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It sounds like you're mostly frustrated with the fact that the bars on your phone are lying to you, which is true but sorta separate.
by jessriedel 8y ago
It sounds like you're mostly frustrated with the fact that the bars on your phone are lying to you, which is true but sorta separate.
- saidajigumi 8y agoNo, the bars are peripheral – it's that I want that phenomenal quality of service I experienced while traveling. Bars notwithstanding, I simply always had good service. I didn't have to care about the bars. I'd rather have that kind of ubiquitous and reliable 4G LTE than a few areas of hyper-fast yet finicky 5G.
- wyldfire 8y agoThe indicator "bars" usually show RSSI which doesn't necessarily map to throughput. Or rather, it's closer to a normalized metric for the (mobile+network infra)'s capability, but not an absolute metric like a speedometer.
- ngcc_hk 8y agoAny measurement tool for iOS? I guess we cannot use Speedtest day the day, just have an idea ... Also is signal strength important as some 4g router do report it but they are bigger
- kalleboo 8y agoAnd on some US carriers and devices the "bars" are often for a completely different technology than indicated https://forums.androidcentral.com/sprint/210510-bars-lie-lte-signal-strength-how-determine-your-actual-lte-signal-strength.html https://forums.androidcentral.com/sprint/210510-bars-lie-lte...