Guess its almost like a car, why get a £100k Ferrari when you are only driving around town with a 40MPH speed limit.

I end up staying in a lot of hotels, mainly when I visit London so tether a lot. Means if i need to download that large iOS update on my Mac i can do so, or if i want to download large files whilst streaming 1080p it has more than enough.

I am seeing Vodafone 4g+ on my Samsung Note 4 N910F model. Sometimes in Central London in Oxford Circuis however seeing it more at Norbury, Norwood, Selhurt, Thonton Heath and Croydon.

4g+ screen shot via the following weblink

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B3i...ew?usp=sharing

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B3i...ew?usp=sharing

Thanks. What speeds are you seeing, especially on Vodafone (I work sometimes in Croydon so am interested).

Well I was expecting to see it in and around Birmingham at the weekend but had nothing at which is very surprising considering Birmingham was meant to be a launch city live back in October

On a more serious note, why are you guys obsessed with data speed? What are you going to do on your phone with it's little screen which requires a zillion megatwats per second? Surely a more robust service with a decent but modest speed would be better? Unless the networks are allowing you to tether and offer a sensible data allowance (100GB a month for £20 or something), what is the point of face melting speed other than that it's a bit of willy waving?

What can you actually do on the latest smartphone with 80mb that you can't do with 5mb?

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I think quite possibly this is the most sensible thing I've ever seen you post. You feeling ok?

Have to agree on both counts here, get the basics sorted out 1st before upgrading the upgrades. Have been testing both EE & Vodafone this week as looking to move from three as I'm fed up of getting edge equivalent speeds. And firstly after day 1 I now realise how much three has fallen behind and how bad the service has got. EE have taken massive steps forward in speed and coverage. But as a good part of my commute is rural you soon find after you leave he dick waving 70+ Mbps your back with the old orange masts still waiting to be upgraded after years and having to deal with sub 0.5mbps speeds, Vodafone likewise but they seem to be be improving the fastest around here if from a very low base, still any masts to upgrade to even 3G but thanks to there 800mhz 4g and 900mhz 3G I was surprised to see I could easily maintain my radio stream in the car,. Something I've not managed on three for over a year now.

My apologies, I shall resume normal service shortly.

And dont forget what does Speed testing do.... oh yeah it slows the network down!! not rocket science i not against the odd test but people who do it continuously should be cut off !!!!

Latency certainly is key for browsing, but I think the actual latency for 4G vs 3G is only part of the picture. It's certainly less - perhaps as much as half, yet Three manage to provide very responsive web browsing whilst vodafone can't... so there's more to it in the provider's network infrastructure.

See latency and browsing at http://media.ofcom.org.uk/news/2014/3g-4g-bb-speeds/ ... though my experience from a comparison a few years back seemed much bigger than that report suggests... but consistent congestion at the time on voda 3G (even without the utter lack of 3G beyond towns) may have influenced my feelings.

The surprise to me was going from vodafone 3G to three. I can now drive and stream 320 kbps through the road network (well in the south,,, with a few minor exceptions). I couldnt do that on voda due to a constant shift to 2G

I was going to repost my 133.9 Mbps test again....
Perhaps this is not the best place then....
Oh bugger, they've cut me off!!!

To be honest, couldn't you stream radio on VF EDGE, just about? I recall that I could stream Spotify on the lowest quality on VF EDGE.

That's why they've binned your microwave link upgrade and keep dropping you back to 2g Devon... All this talk of fibre to the mast is just a smoke screen to stop you getting drunk and kicking the cabinets in 😆

i'm in a hotel where I can't see any visible masts from the car park, but Vodafone is full signal 2G EDGE outdoors, and EE and full signal 3G outdoors. Indoors only EE works, Vodafone is No Service. Annoying as I need my work phone, but 900mhz isn't working in this building where 2100mhz from EE is. Very backwards!

This speed is so fast it turns soft rock music into hardhouse.

Seriously with a 1GB or even 10GB limit, there is absolutely no point in this speed whatsoever lol

100% agreed. The only benefit I see is to ease congestion, as someone already mentioned earlier.

In the past I was able to stream BBC radio over GPRS!

In one of my local towns of Saffron Walden. EE has just enabled double speed 4G and yet Vodafone still only offers GPRS. Not even EDGE. All the other networks offer decent 3g coverage. Vodafone are so backwards it's unbelievable in this day and age.

Same as most of the west country. They just haven't bothered with 3G. They say they are going to fully roll out 4G but they don't have a good track record. Time will tell. According to the CEO they are concentrating on getting places fully covered before moving on whereas EE seem to have more of a scattergun approach and fill in later.

I honestly couldn't care about the speeds 4.5G or LTE Advanced brings its the benefits like CA and CoMP which I find useful. Just as I find WiFi Calling and VoLTE to be useful long as I have a nice reliable average speed the 4G coverage itself is far more important.

About 71 download speed on Vodafone 4G+ , at West Croydon area.

https://drive.google.com/folderview?...kE&usp=sharing

Looks good, what phone are you using? I'm in Croydon with a 6 Plus so I suppose I'm not getting those speeds because the phone can't handle the bands?

EE's normal 4G in a double speed area on an iPhone 6 managed 74mbps last weekend, so 4G+ should be able to go faster than that, I would have thought.

More likely in Croydon you have a lot of other users on the network.

4G+ uses carrier aggregation. iPhone 6/6+ can't do it.
However, as jc says, 71 is just an average speed for 4G+.
I regularly get 80+ on iPhone 6 just with double speed 4G.
Fastest was 134 Mbps!!

I love posting this
Standard 4G 20Mhz double speed. iPhone 6. EE mast on A38 just outside Ashburton.
https://www.dropbox.com/s/ltgu130e2c...34meg.png?dl=0