EE - 4G
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You must be joking. 3G maximum speed yeah. In reality rarely see more than 3mbps.
Average uk 3G speed is ~2
Looking forward to see what kind of speeds we get in Newcastle.
just picked up my lady a S3 LTE from Orange and her contract runs out start of next year so hoping to get her a SIM only 4g plan and by then the new NEXUS phones should be available for me to upgrade to also on a SIM only 4g contract.
just picked up my lady a S3 LTE from Orange and her contract runs out start of next year so hoping to get her a SIM only 4g plan and by then the new NEXUS phones should be available for me to upgrade to also on a SIM only 4g contract.
Never get that kind of ping on 3G.
I get this on my Three One Plan (unlimited data & tethering plan).. only around work though, can download around 1.1-2 mb/s
Yeh I'm also interested, we're going to be one of the first places to have 4G, we've had the masts up for ages now, way before the 4G was even announced. Looks like it'll probably only cover the city centre though, so no luck for me in Gateshead. I work on the Team Valley so I'm happy with the 3G speeds in and around there.
Yeh I'm also interested, we're going to be one of the first places to have 4G, we've had the masts up for ages now, way before the 4G was even announced. Looks like it'll probably only cover the city centre though, so no luck for me in Gateshead. I work on the Team Valley so I'm happy with the 3G speeds in and around there.
It depends really:
Either they use the fact that they have a monopoly on a desirable product to make a "land grab" and increase their market share, bringing in lots of new customers on long-term (24 month) contracts, or they charge a significant premium to partially recoup their investment in the short term.
There's any interesting article here that examines the two options in the context of what has happened in other countries. The author is of the opinion that charging little-to-no premium over 3G is the best way forward for EE.
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Damn, I got EE now but I need a compatible phone.
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I was testing Vodafone eNB's in Tilehurst (Reading) last year and we managed to get peaks of over 25Mbps stationary 100m from the towers, and 10-15Mbps average whilst driving around the city (using iPhones, SGS3's and various data dongles on laptops. This was using DC-HSDPA+ enables sites, but once the tests were done Voda throttled the cells back down again.
It's perfectly possible to get 25Mbps on a dual cell 3G site, but with congestion, network throttling and limited backhaul from the eNB back to the GGSN, you'd never really see it in other than ideal conditions.
All that's happened so far is that they've renamed it when it displays on your phone, you're still using the exact same O-UK/T-MO infrastructure as before at the moment.
The LTE part will be going live on 30/10, assuming you have an LTE phone and SIM, you see a different icon on the screen showing you have EE LTE rather than EE 3G or 2G.
So I got the "Now served by EE - reboot your phone" text late last night. I did a speed test before rebooting, and got the typical 280kb/s download speed (it's usually somewhere between 200 and 400kb/s).
As soon as I rebooted, I got over 3mb/s on speedtest!
A few more tests this morning, all the the 3-5mb/s range. Beautiful... I went into the .gif thread on general discussion, and all the .gifs loaded up "in real time" or near enough - I've never been able to do this before, it's always been a painful wait for each and every image to load. I tried a few youtube videos, and they played flawlessly (I usually have to pause it for a few minutes to let it buffer).
Of course, once all the students get transferred onto EE I'm sure it will become clogged and slow once again (they are all data whores!), but for now - mobile bliss
If 3G could remain like this indefinitely then I wouldn't even consider an LTE contract.
As soon as I rebooted, I got over 3mb/s on speedtest!
A few more tests this morning, all the the 3-5mb/s range. Beautiful... I went into the .gif thread on general discussion, and all the .gifs loaded up "in real time" or near enough - I've never been able to do this before, it's always been a painful wait for each and every image to load. I tried a few youtube videos, and they played flawlessly (I usually have to pause it for a few minutes to let it buffer).Of course, once all the students get transferred onto EE I'm sure it will become clogged and slow once again (they are all data whores!), but for now - mobile bliss
If 3G could remain like this indefinitely then I wouldn't even consider an LTE contract.We're talking about a figure obtained in the Docklands at an optimal time, not the 'average UK speed'. I just did a test in a congested area and I'm getting 6mbps download and 2.7 upload (so more than in that image).
I'll do a test out of peak hours at work next week, I get comparable speeds there.
So I got the "Now served by EE - reboot your phone" text late last night. I did a speed test before rebooting, and got the typical 280kb/s download speed (it's usually somewhere between 200 and 400kb/s).
As soon as I rebooted, I got over 3mb/s on speedtest!
Of course, once all the students get transferred onto EE I'm sure it will become clogged and slow once again (they are all data whores!), but for now - mobile bliss
All it did was change it so that instead of seeing T-Mobile / Orange it shows EE. You didn't change networks.
Well, then I am experiencing the "fluke of all flukes" in my tenfold increase in download speed. In dozens of speedtest runs I've never seen speeds even close to these around here (only ever elsewhere in the country).
I'm well aware that I'm being served by the same network, but it seems clear that something else has changed along with it (priorities? removal of bandwidth cap?).