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> ”I could pull 100Mbit in the middle of the night but it would go down to 3Mbit in the middle of the day” Are you sure you’re on 5G? Or maybe you’re quite far

> ”I could pull 100Mbit in the middle of the night but it would go down to 3Mbit in the middle of the day” Are you sure you’re on 5G? Or maybe you’re quite far from a tower with a weak signal? I’ve used both Vodafone and Three 5G in London and never see speeds that low with a good 5G signal. Certainly never below 100 Mbps, and rarely below 200, even at peak times. Rarely below 400 on Three, and often as high as 800! On Vodafone even the 4G network is usually 30+ Mbps. But Three’s 4G is absolutely awful.

tomxor 5y ago
> Are you sure you’re on 5G? Or maybe you’re quite far from a tower with a weak signal? I'm not using 5G, I was commenting on LTE in general competing with fixed line, but i'm using a Gigabit Cat20 modem with 2 MIMO antennas so it's not exactly slow and I have excellent signal close to many towers. With this setup reception has never been an issue for me and UE throughput is good when there is capacity, as far as I can tell it's contention ratio, but I guess it's not necessarily that simple, admittedly I don't know how to tell if the contention is at the LTE part in spite of the signal and full carrier aggregation, or the backhaul (which I had previously assumed) and now you got me thinking. > On Vodafone even the 4G network is usually 30+ Mbps. But Three’s 4G is absolutely awful. Ya, this was my experience.