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4G is down: 23 customers affected.
by grp06 15y ago
4G is down: 23 customers affected.
- Karunamon 15y agoI know it's an overly snarky comment, but being from a state that has literally ZERO 4g coverage, I gotta share the frustration. You have to live in a huge city to even get the signal, and when you do get it, your battery consumption is greatly increased. 4G as it stands for me is a huge pile of care not.
- imbriaco 15y agoYou actually don't have to live in _that_ large of a city. The Raleigh/Durham MSAs combine for about 1.6M in total population spread over a pretty sprawling area and we have had LTE service for a few months. I frankly don't get the complaints or the folks who are going to downgrade to 3G. If you don't have LTE available, the device will fall back to 3G. When you do have LTE available, however, the performance can be unbelievable. I was co-working with a colleague and we were getting 20Mbps down and 10Mbps up over a little MiFi. I'll hang onto my LTE MiFi, thankyouverymuch. :)
- mrb 15y agoFor comparison, the best I have measured with a 3G technology (HSDPA) was 10 Mbps down, while downloading from kernel.org on my laptop, tethered to my phone over wifi, in a sparsely populated area covered by a strong HSDPA signal.
- dangrossman 15y agoI don't live in any large city. I'm 30 miles from the nearest one, Philadelphia, and have 4G service on Sprint. I've been on 4G since 6/2010.