Hi All,
I don't usually post here but wow I have to say that the data speed and latency I am getting on my new IPhone 5S through EE is sensational.
Bit of background, I have been with O2 for around 10 years and recently the service has been steadily getting worse in Central London and where I live in Bromley, South East London on the Kent borders.
I was willing to wait and see how O2 played out once their 4G network had bedded in but I also noticed that their top tier data package was 8Gb per month, no good for me on 4G so a replacement was needed.
We have a wide range of network users in the office, three for example offer un-limited 3G data (4G coming soon) but the opinion of the 3 users in the office was that they were lucky to see a single signal bar in the office due to network congestion in central london. Three know about this and are in the process of upgrading their network. Not an un-common story with 3 users it seems.
So, I switched over to EE as they were offering 36GB per month data allowance on a shared data plan. My trusty IPhone 4S 16GB needed to be replaced as no LTE support and was replaced with a 64GB IPhone 5S. I will be pairing it up with a 128GB IPad. Not cheap at around £90/pm for them both exc vat however, I was already paying £40/pm for mobile broadband and £30/pm for my O2 simplicity deal.
I did consider using the Nokia/Surface and their hardware is very strong indeed (it's actually a better proposition for business use due to MS Office) but lack of LTE support on the Surface killed the deal stone dead. I will review once the Surface 3 erm, 'Surfaces' in 2014.
In terms of the speeds, I cannot believe the quality of the signal I am getting on my commuter train service, I can actually watch HD TV. I benched the throughput at around 12/12 mbit/s up/down and latency at between 30-80ms. This is on a fast moving packed train surrounded steel and aluminium.
And in the office? about the same with two bars 4G signal.
The IPhone 5S is a big upgrade on the 4S and yeah the print scanner is no gimmick but the lack of AC wireless prevents it from being a perfect slam dunk.
I don't usually post here but wow I have to say that the data speed and latency I am getting on my new IPhone 5S through EE is sensational.
Bit of background, I have been with O2 for around 10 years and recently the service has been steadily getting worse in Central London and where I live in Bromley, South East London on the Kent borders.
I was willing to wait and see how O2 played out once their 4G network had bedded in but I also noticed that their top tier data package was 8Gb per month, no good for me on 4G so a replacement was needed.
We have a wide range of network users in the office, three for example offer un-limited 3G data (4G coming soon) but the opinion of the 3 users in the office was that they were lucky to see a single signal bar in the office due to network congestion in central london. Three know about this and are in the process of upgrading their network. Not an un-common story with 3 users it seems.
So, I switched over to EE as they were offering 36GB per month data allowance on a shared data plan. My trusty IPhone 4S 16GB needed to be replaced as no LTE support and was replaced with a 64GB IPhone 5S. I will be pairing it up with a 128GB IPad. Not cheap at around £90/pm for them both exc vat however, I was already paying £40/pm for mobile broadband and £30/pm for my O2 simplicity deal.
I did consider using the Nokia/Surface and their hardware is very strong indeed (it's actually a better proposition for business use due to MS Office) but lack of LTE support on the Surface killed the deal stone dead. I will review once the Surface 3 erm, 'Surfaces' in 2014.
In terms of the speeds, I cannot believe the quality of the signal I am getting on my commuter train service, I can actually watch HD TV. I benched the throughput at around 12/12 mbit/s up/down and latency at between 30-80ms. This is on a fast moving packed train surrounded steel and aluminium.
And in the office? about the same with two bars 4G signal.
The IPhone 5S is a big upgrade on the 4S and yeah the print scanner is no gimmick but the lack of AC wireless prevents it from being a perfect slam dunk.
