LTE Speeds of iPhone 6 and iPhone 5s Compared in New Video

[nutmac]

With wifi calling and texting why do you still need perfect service at home? I'm never on a cell service at home or work, where I spend the majority of my time.

In theory, you are right. Wi-Fi calling should solve call drop issues at home and/or office with Wi-Fi access.

In reality, however, Wi-Fi signals themselves aren't entirely reliable as you walk around, step out, or step into the Wi-Fi zone. And Wi-Fi is still at the mercy of your ISP.

iPhone 6 and 6 Plus's VoLTE in theory is supposed to be a lot better at transition, but in my experience, it still ended up dropping calls or causing garbled audio, either because the signals between usable Wi-Fi and LTE may be weak or takes longer to lock in.

 

[AFDoc]

With all of the new features and improvements of the iPhone 6 and 6 Plus, I can't help but think that my pitiful 5C is a piece of junk compared to them. I can't freaking wait to get my iPhone 6S next year!

Does your phone do every thing it did before the 6/6+ released? If so you're just fine. I upgrade every year because I can..... that is to say I always have a line eligible. My wife typically doesn't upgrade yearly.

 

[tennisproha]

Got this in Regensburg, Germany with LTE Antenna in sight on Telekom (T-Mobile) network.

141.23 Mbps down
35.43 Mbps up

question for you: T-Mobile is a Deutsche Telekom subsidiary right so does it operate in Germany as T-Mobile or Deutsche Telekom or something else? don't quite understand this.

 

[kalafalas]

never seen speeds like these

I live in north oakland/south berkeley area (east san francisco bay area) and these are the speeds i get with Verizon. and the HD voice is night and day, and simultaneous voice and data is frosting to the cake (works even when calling land lines etc!) and i haven't seen my phone dip to 3G once in over a year and i travel around the state/west coast a lot. Verizon is the absolute best!

 

[SuperCachetes]

 

[mentaluproar]

See, I really wish I could make this my only internet connection and ditch cable. The tech is there, but with limited data and limits on tethering, it's pointless.

 

[RobertMartens]

You: I can't freaking wait to get my iPhone 6S next year!

Me: Oh, yes you can.
You: I guess you're right.

 

[Vodka]

this video looks like it was made by apple

 

[RobertMartens]

Does your phone do every thing it did before the 6/6+ released? If so you're just fine. I upgrade every year because I can..... that is to say I always have a line eligible. My wife typically doesn't upgrade yearly.

You should probably let someone who doesn't upgrade every year be the one to explain why it isn't necessary to upgrade every year.

 

[tomtendo]

my iPhone 5 and 6 produce pretty much the same numbers. No where NEAR as dramatic as the video...

 

[davie18]

I get similar speeds on wifi http://www.speedtest.net/my-result/i/988969356

I only seem to get about 10 on 4g though my upload is twice as fast as download on 4g which seems weird as well.

 

[techwhiz]

And all this matters why???

Most websites don't deliver data that fast and if they do, how fast to hit your cap on the tiered plans?

Anything above 20-30Mbs doesn't matter, latency does.

Oh, and I get about 51ms for ping; 58Mbs down and 9 Mbs up here in Palo Alto.

 

[wvgolf]

Wow. I can only manage 5Mbps here in the DC area on AT&T LTE. (5s).

I think the highest I've seen was maybe 8 or 9.

Was there last summer and got mid 50's down on my iPhone 5. Tower might have been under stress

 

[3282868]

Took a few tests to reach 5Mbps DL and 1.42 UL on Verizon in Upstate NY, enabled Voice and Data LTE.

Those speeds are impressive, but it seems they're definitely outliers.

Enabled Field Test Mode, my Verizon signal at home isn't great, -111 range. I'll test it with better signal strength tomorrow while away from home.

 

[Glassed Silver]

Interestingly, I get slightly lower latency on LTE than I do on my home Wi-Fi.

I'm talking about ping on throttled cellular.
I know I'll be throttled to 64Kbit/s (same throttle as 3 or 4 years ago... okay)
Speed is fine with me, but ping?
It takes way too long to even load basic text when it shouldn't. Just because of the increased latency.
My non-throttled ping is as low as 15-25ms.
After using up my soft data cap it's often as slow as 1000ms and probably more. (I didn't measure often)

Glassed Silver:mac

 

[2298754]

Whats to prevent a provider like AT&T or Verizon from detecting when you are connecting to one of these speed test servers and optimizing your traffic so their network looks as good as possible? Seems like the only indepdent and truly accurate way to verify network speed would be to test using a custom app that runs against random servers that the providers can't precache before hand.

That's EXACTLY what T-Mobile does to game the system. You can see this pretty easily. If you're on their throttled plans, go through your original data allotment and then run a speed test... it will show full speed, but when you are actually trying to use Youtube, etc, it will be dirt slow.

AT&T and VZW don't do that... yet.

 

[iLilana]

proof that data caps are unrealistic

if they expect us to use these devices to their potential then data caps and throttling need to vanish.

 

[TT D'arby]

stagnant on 3GB+ data plan...not 4G or LTE

 

[turtle777]

No song name in description

Thought the same thing, Shazam is failing miserably.

-t

 

[IndoX]

I second Verizon. In Miami AT&T speeds are atrocious. T-Mo bile wall penetration is bad.With Verizon launching XLTE and VoLTE there is simply no reason to move.

 

[JoshGlzBrk]

I live in north oakland/south berkeley area (east san francisco bay area) and these are the speeds i get with Verizon. and the HD voice is night and day, and simultaneous voice and data is frosting to the cake (works even when calling land lines etc!) and i haven't seen my phone dip to 3G once in over a year and i travel around the state/west coast a lot. Verizon is the absolute best!

Got to love that 20mhz+20mhz lte. I think they just recently deployed that much spectrum on band 4 (xlte) in the Bay Area.

In Tacoma, wa they only have enough to deploy 15+15 but I'm not complaining. It's many times better than Verizon's overloaded 700mhz (band 13) LTE network.

I will get a chance to test my iPhone 6 on 20+20 up in Seattle later this week. Hopefully I can hit 100mb


Verizon is well off for a while in terms of spectrum and bandwidth with their AWS block. At&t on the other hand doesn't really have anything major to deploy to offset their degrading network performance.

 

[Parasprite]

I don't know whether this would matter for me. My AT&T LTE is always much slower than the maximum theoretical anyway.

Check your privilege.

-Sprint customer

 

[ssl0408]

Well, I'll never see those speeds on AT&T. I'm seeing 12 Mbps download at best. It's really starting to bother me. I could see those speeds on prepaid yet I'm paying a premium for what?

 

[\-V-/]

Yet another reason to keep my unlimited data. -no upgrades for life (until I'm forced out of my contract)-

Well, I'll never see those speeds on AT&T. I'm seeing 12 Mbps download at best. It's really starting to bother me. I could see those speeds on prepaid yet I'm paying a premium for what?

Yikes. That sucks. I'm still on my 5S and getting between 45-55 Mbps.

 

[ssl0408]

Which carrier?