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I don't understand where the "typical" speeds come from. For me, typical speed on 4G is 100 Mbit/s in Belgium while it is 30 Mbit/s on 4G+ in France. Same plan
by seszett 5y ago
I don't understand where the "typical" speeds come from. For me, typical speed on 4G is 100 Mbit/s in Belgium while it is 30 Mbit/s on 4G+ in France. Same plan and phone, just roaming in Belgium (where I live, but I mostly use my French SIM) and in a city centre both times.
So it seems to me to depend a lot on the operator and infrastructure, and I don't see how there is one typical speed to quote.
- ryanmcdonough 5y agoHe is based in the UK and his site almost exclusivly covers UK networks with a UK user base reading the posts - so the "typical" speeds would be for the UK.
- iagovar 5y agoYeah. Your ISP may connect the BTS by a fiber link, or radio link, or it may have X or Y simultaneous users, etc. There's a lot of elements in the chain. What would be interesting is that apparently a 5G BTS can deal with a lot more users simultaneously, so ISPs may connect them with 2.5G links and provide decent speed of all of them, alleviating saturation problems.
- slver 5y agoTypical speeds for "current G + 1" is always high and mysteriously gets significantly lower when "current G + 2" gets introduced. Rinse and repeat. I'm not sure how come everyone is so highly interested in this churn of networking equipment, it's especially bizarre that telecoms are interested in it (it's a major expense for them), but there you go. To me 5G is a bit like IPv6. Technically it's better, technically we need it, but in practice we're good enough already. And this is why still a lot of Internet is on IPv4. But thanks to this constant marketing, 5G doesn't have this issue. I'm neutral about it, but I can't care less if my next phone has 5G or not.