4G Internet

teaboy5 · 7 May 2013 at 22:51

So with BT and o2 teaming up to provide 4G internet into towns, cities including the countryside do you see it working?

I am carrying out a small project with my own money, bringing an 80Mbps connection 4 miles from town out to the house using some nano bridge M5s. But I do believe 4G will be coming in the next year to my area (the tower for it will be 2.5 miles away), but I can't help but think it will fall into high latency and low bandwidth category with a few people start to connect to it.

Anyone currently using 4G for their internet connection?

KIA · 8 May 2013 at 10:04

teaboy5 said:
So with BT and o2 teaming up to provide 4G internet into towns, cities including the countryside do you see it working?

Only for very light users when the price drops in a couple of years.

Morfik · 8 May 2013 at 10:22

Only experienced it on a phone but the latency and speed (especially upload) are like being permanently on fast wifi. At the moment the data caps are too tight for home use though.

Phal · 8 May 2013 at 11:30

Data limits are definitely the limitation but the speed is nice

fungus · 9 May 2013 at 10:31

I used EE's LTE service as my main internet connection for about a month or so.

Download speeds were around 20bps, uploads 10-18mbps and sun 50ms ping times.

The only downside was the cost of the data. Once data is available at a reasonable price I would make the switch....

Westyfield2 · 10 May 2013 at 10:31

Not as my main connection, but I tether from my EE 4G phone to my laptop when out and about.

HangTime · 11 May 2013 at 22:27

I don't see it working now, 5+ years ago it probably would have done due to lower data usage by 'normal' people.

The problem we have now is online video and digital distribution of media (games etc) is becoming mainstream and people wanting to transfer more than 8GB/month is becoming much more common, whereas in the past it used to just be the domain of geeks.

That said, I don't know enough about the commercials to say whether providers will be able to ramp up the data allowances. Where I live there is no Cable, Fibre, LLU or ADSL2+ available so 4G might appeal if it weren't for the cost of data.

teaboy5 · 13 May 2013 at 02:45

It will be interesting to see what areas are covered by this. At the minute I can't even get 3G at the house.

I am stuck on 2mb, so my plan is to carry a fibre connection from town to a high point and take it back to the house that way. I am using some wireless back haul gear at 5ghz for this, and in testing the lag is 2ms which isn't to bad. If I can get it up and running with the connection and get under 40ms I will be happy.