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LTE-A Network speeds?
Anyone in London and on EE or Vodafone getting LTE-A (might show as 4G+)
If so what network, location and speed are you getting? I headed to London about a month ago with a Note 4 on EE and got 99Mbps max near westminster, but heading back tomorrow and Monday with a Mate 7 and Alpha and both EE and Vodafone SIM Would be interested to see other results from users |
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144 on the press launch. Samsung. One of the pics used in a few articles is actually mine
Think we managed 146 at one point but I doubt the speed tests are that accurate at these speeds though (too small a file on cellular!)
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What would you suggest the best way on mobile to get these speeds reported if the app is too small a file
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What would you suggest the best way on mobile to get these speeds reported if the app is too small a file
http://www.thinkbroadband.com/download.html |
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What would you suggest the best way on mobile to get these speeds reported if the app is too small a file
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Am going to be in Central London a week tomorrow so am hoping to see which parts of the City are LTE-A enabled on Vodafone..
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Very limited LTE-A from what I have seen
However at Victoria station I hit 149.74Mbps on an Alpha using Vodafone! https://twitter.com/coolsmartphone/s...022337/photo/1 |
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Whilst I haven't experienced it personally (wrong end of the country), a guy I know who works for EE saw screenshots of 280-something Mbps.
That was during testing prior to the public announcement though, I think. |
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speeds
Get 4G+ on my Alpha with EE Dan & Phil Sim
70-80-90mbit down with 30-40mbit up. This is during the daytime though so normal network load constraints in Central London apply. Obviously both bands used by EE can be being used by other handsets in single banded mode - taking away from speeds I would guess. Again have a funny feeling EE whitelist speedtest websites though. |
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Had to drive into central London early this morning and with a Cat 6 phone to try out I gave Vodafone's LTE-A a go. Not too shabby this GPRS is it?
![]() http://www.speedtest.net/my-result/a/1072970702 http://www.speedtest.net/my-result/a/1072969735 http://www.speedtest.net/my-result/a/1072964413 http://www.speedtest.net/my-result/a/1072962749 http://www.speedtest.net/my-result/a/1072962452 http://www.speedtest.net/my-result/a/1072961773 http://www.speedtest.net/my-result/a/1072961470 Various London servers except Vodafone's own (which always seems to be capped and never goes above 100 which is a problem as most of the Vodafone tests default to it). All tests used ~200-300MB. |
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Perhaps the networks should limit the number of speed tests per month?
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Perhaps the networks should limit the number of speed tests per month?
Anyway that's probably my quota of Voda speed tests for the next year. I'm really only interested in running them to test extremes where there is something new to try out which pushes the tech along or sometimes if I think there's a problem. Need to run a few to make the results valid. |
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Had to drive into central London early this morning and with a Cat 6 phone to try out I gave Vodafone's LTE-A a go. Not too shabby this GPRS is it?
![]() Wonder if by 2020 Vodafone will get LTE out of the M25
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What were the speeds like after 9am..
![]() Looks good but it seems EE & Voda could improve latency a little in London over LTE-A. Should be less in London.. |
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Looks good but it seems EE & Voda could improve latency a little in London over LTE-A.
Should be less in London.. |
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I got 95mb down on Vodafone outside Victoria station on a non cat 6 Sony Xperia z2 but nowhere else was anything like as fast
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I find it ridiculous that Vodafone invest money to make their LTE network faster in London when a grand total of two devices can use it. They than have the arrogance to leave the rest of the country running like absolute shit.
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Does (for instance) SK Telecom's LTE-A service offer less latency in Seoul?
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I find it ridiculous that Vodafone invest money to make their LTE network faster in London when a grand total of two devices can use it
Also EE are investing in this as well. Not sure I see your point. Its a bit like saying O2 should have never bothered with DC-HSPA+... |
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More than 2 devices can use it.... way more.
Also EE are investing in this as well. Not sure I see your point. Its a bit like saying O2 should have never bothered with DC-HSPA+... |
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I find it ridiculous that Vodafone invest money to make their LTE network faster in London when a grand total of two devices can use it.
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I find it ridiculous that Vodafone invest money to make their LTE network faster in London when a grand total of two devices can use it. They than have the arrogance to leave the rest of the country running like absolute shit.
That I agree with 100%. As a corporate Vodafone customer (without 4G) the lack of 3G hampers business. I personally have to use my EE phone as a hotspot for my work phone in lots of locations. I think EE (and maybe 3) should be investing in LTE-A and Vodafone/O2 should be planning for it, as they ramp up capacity. I suspect Vodafone are panicking and want to show they are doing the "new stuff" to avoid losing customers in the city. |
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Name the more than two devices that support LTE-A.
Those that support LTE-A are listed here. http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_...h_LTE_Advanced |
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I know of two devices that support Cat6 LTE.
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I know of two devices that support Cat6 LTE.
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Think we managed 146 at one point but I doubt the speed tests are that accurate at these speeds though (too small a file on cellular!)
