[duncanalisstmp]

Just tested on my Lumia 900 and Atrix HD... wow.



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[Wezfyowk]

on a phone?
f*cking hell thats impressive

[CIAFreeAgent]

Whoever kills you and loots that phone off of your corpse is going to be very happy.

[JMLot]

I guess a population with a large number of mobile contracts paid by the state is their target user.

[Kolokireo]

Whoever kills you and loots that phone off of your corpse is going to be very happy.

You're right, I am very happy.

[CIAFreeAgent]

Murderer.

[welihiedginly]

LOL, I'd be lucky to get 300k here on AT&T.

[AndyScouchek]

LTE is fantastic. I tether my laptop and iPad to my phone every day on the way into work. Even when I was in Baton Rouge, LA Verizon had LTE. I could count on one hand the number of times on one hand the number of times I haven't had 4G.

In the Bay Area I average 30 on the low end and around where I live and work I get 50-66Mbps.

[Kolokireo]

I like how my ISP advertises their blazing fast 10mbit speeds, and other ISPs their super awesome turbocharged insanely fast 30mbits with flames airbrushed onto the side of the modem. Then people whip out their cell phones and post a 66/17 speed test.

LTE really is an excellent solution for the home broadband market. Get a tower. Put up radios. Get fiber to the cell. Profit! No individual lines to customer premise, etc. There are drawbacks, but overall it's an amazing solution for the residential market and business on the go.

[AndyScouchek]

I like how my ISP advertises their blazing fast 10mbit speeds, and other ISPs their super awesome turbocharged insanely fast 30mbits with flames airbrushed onto the side of the modem. Then people whip out their cell phones and post a 66/17 speed test.

LTE really is an excellent solution for the home broadband market. Get a tower. Put up radios. Get fiber to the cell. Profit! No individual lines to customer premise, etc. There are drawbacks, but overall it's an amazing solution for the residential market and business on the go.

The main drawbacks are bandwidth caps. I have 10GB per month on my plan which is plenty for me even though I stream my music through Google Music, tether my laptop and iPad but if I did heavy Netflix streaming, I could chew through it.

Also, the lowest ping I have ever seen on it was 30ms when it tends to average 40-60ms. Also, if all that landline traffic flipped over to the cell networks, they would come to a halt.

[6M8PJigS]

That speed is crazy but wow those pings are just awesome.

Should make everything feel very responsive as well as fast.

I can't wait to get that here on a Lumia 920!

[ZX3URrBH]

Also, if all that landline traffic flipped over to the cell networks, they would come to a halt.

Isn't the 4G band used for data only ?

Or maybe you're talking about voip lines ?

[Blotassefesek]

Isn't the 4G band used for data only ?

Or maybe you're talking about voip lines ?

I think he was using "landline" in the context of a home who gets its internet connection through cable or fiberoptic.

[AndyScouchek]

Isn't the 4G band used for data only ?

Or maybe you're talking about voip lines ?

Currently yes but I am talking about data traffic. If everyone was using LTE in their homes instead of landlines (cable/DSL) for Netflix, Hulu, HBO Go, Steam, online gaming, etc. it would saturate the networks.

[Shinegayboyx]

How? Those speeds are about 3x faster than my current landline (DSL, wired) subscription!!

[ZX3URrBH]

Currently yes but I am talking about data traffic. If everyone was using LTE in their homes instead of landlines (cable/DSL) for Netflix, Hulu, HBO Go, Steam, online gaming, etc. it would saturate the networks.

Oh yes definitely.

The same way 3G is now, even worse probably considering that 4G will be used even for a lot of home connections.

[Kolokireo]

Currently yes but I am talking about data traffic. If everyone was using LTE in their homes instead of landlines (cable/DSL) for Netflix, Hulu, HBO Go, Steam, online gaming, etc. it would saturate the networks.

It's not hard to ugprade capacity. Fiber to the cell is a huge initiative among wireless companies. If the need arises, and they saw profit in it, they could satisfy demand. The big advantage is the wireless nature of it. You only need to maintain the cell site, where as with landlines you have tons of CO equipment and have to be concerned with everything all the way to the customer premise.

Your 2 biggest concerns are radio and backbone.

[AndyScouchek]

It's not hard to ugprade capacity. Fiber to the cell is a huge initiative among wireless companies. If the need arises, and they saw profit in it, they could satisfy demand. The big advantage is the wireless nature of it. You only need to maintain the cell site, where as with landlines you have tons of CO equipment and have to be concerned with everything all the way to the customer premise.

Your 2 biggest concerns are radio and backbone.

It is very expensive to upgrade capacity and the main bottleneck would be the wireless traffic going through the tower base station more than the wired backbone. In highly populated areas you run into capacity issue particularly if you were to have many users with their family all with cell phones and their home connected to the tower as well.

[r5YOPDyk]

It is very expensive to upgrade capacity and the main bottleneck would be the wireless traffic going through the tower base station more than the wired backbone. In highly populated areas you run into capacity issue particularly if you were to have many users with their family all with cell phones and their home connected to the tower as well.

What happened to this cube technology that produced was a mini base station

[AndyScouchek]

What happened to this cube technology that produced was a mini base station

Not sure, what did happen to it? Is it deployed? What about it?

Nonetheless, carriers have always had capacity issues in densely populated areas.