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When 4g/LTE was new, a coworker was an early adopter of whatever cellphone that was one of the first to support it. They were getting somewhere ~250 mbps on spe
by integer42 6y ago
When 4g/LTE was new, a coworker was an early adopter of whatever cellphone that was one of the first to support it. They were getting somewhere ~250 mbps on speed test.
Fast forward to everyone having 4g phones, now in practice I see like 1-2% of those speeds typically.
I have no idea the inner workings of starlink's protocol, but these aspects of wireless seem inevitable. once theres more simultaneous connections than in limited beta, each connection gets a smaller time slice or less frequency band, no?
I do not see how its solved either.
Currently I have rural DSL, approximately 3mbps down, 1 mbps up, but cheaper and reliable. The one person who has starlink beta is posting 200+ mbps screenshots but if everyone here connects I'm skeptical the result isn't slower, less reliable, more expensive than what's already here.
- kalleboo 6y agoI can see that just over a day. During off-peak hours, I've speedtested around 260 Mbit/s on LTE on my iPhone (it's 10:20 PM on a weekday and I just got 230 Mbit down[0]), but during peak hours (commute hours or lunch rush), it drops to like... 20 Mbit [0]https://www.speedtest.net/result/i/4226615772 https://www.speedtest.net/result/i/4226615772
- fomine3 6y agoIIRC initial LTE (UE category 3) only supports max 100Mbps (on spec) by 15MHz bandwidth. So I had measured max 50Mbps on 75Mbps (on spec, 10MHz) network.