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India's mobile data may be cheap, but it's also pretty poor. It may be 4G technology, but speeds are far below what's common in the UK / Europe. Last week in De
by lozf 8y ago
India's mobile data may be cheap, but it's also pretty poor. It may be 4G technology, but speeds are far below what's common in the UK / Europe. Last week in Delhi I was getting anywhere between a few kbps and ~2-3Mbps on Vodafone 4G.
- kylehotchkiss 8y agoI spend a lot of time in Delhi myself. My Airtel sim often gets 10-15mbps down nearly anywhere in the city.
- lozf 8y agoThanks, I'll try Airtel next time.
- monksy 8y agoIn Delhi: JIO 4mbps symetric Vodafone: 8mbps down (but it was capped per month on a limit) I got 60mbps down on the CMHK in Hong Kong.
- inapis 8y agoThis is true. I'm crawling with 2 Mbps on Airtel for the past 3-4 months. Jio has always been at 0.8-0.9 Mbps. Vodafone has similar issues. Indian 4G rarely gives the 40-50 Mbps or more that you can see in other countries
- magduf 8y agoIsn't this just due to the sheer number of users in that area? India is an extremely densely populated country (in the cities at least), and as more and more people get access to cellphones it's just going to get worse. There's only so much bandwidth possible with the frequency bands being used.
- robocat 8y ago> There's only so much bandwidth possible with the frequency bands being used. Not really true. You can just have smaller cells - many more towers using lower power. It just costs more to have smaller cells.
- hinkley 8y agoI worked on a piece of software that was meant to communicate over wireless and the test bench folks were getting horrendously bad numbers compared to the rest of us. They were getting 50% packet loss and so the throughput was maybe a tenth of what we were hoping for. Streaming really hates high packet loss rates, unless you've built FEC into the protocol (and we hadn't)
- lozf 8y agoQuite... I'd often see between 30% to 70% (and occasionally worse) packet loss... sometimes pinging 8.8.8.8 would take over 6000ms for a response!