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Let's not be silly. Existing LTE phones on Verizon get a real-world top performance in the 20Mbps range. Now, that's great and all, but no one will ever get eve
by guyzero 15y ago
Let's not be silly. Existing LTE phones on Verizon get a real-world top performance in the 20Mbps range. Now, that's great and all, but no one will ever get even 50% of what's basically the signaling rate of 73Mbps.
Also, your download patterns are unlikely to change a lot. It'll still be email, web surfing and some youtube. LTE makes netflix possible while not on wifi, but that's about the most data-hungry thing an average user is going to do. For the most part the only thing this changes is that things like installing apps when off wifi are much faster.
- lepht 15y agoSooo... 25 minutes of watching Netflix then?
- mirkules 15y agoNetflix doesn't let you connect over a data connection, IIRC. Well, unless you're tethering, but then you're killing your tethering device's data usage...
- dangrossman 15y agoIt definitely does. I watched Netflix on my phone for hours during a power outage.
- lukeschlather 15y agoAlso, 4G is too unreliable, at least on my Verizon Samsung Stratosphere. It works great in some locations, but when I'm in transit (the main times I could risk running up a tab) it drops out pretty regularly.
- msh 15y agoI am not in the US but with my MiFi cabled to a computer I get around 40-60 mbit (a bit less when using wifi to share the connection).