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LTE Speeds of iPhone 6 and iPhone 5s Compared in New Video
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While in Orlando I got 60 Mbps down and 25 Mbps up on Verizon LTE. I've never seen anything like that. I've got what I would consider fast wifi at home and work, but it isn't close to as fast.
Ping was a mediocre 70 though. But I didn't focus on where it was connecting to the test server. And Orlando is pretty spread out.
Anyway, it does not seem to have dramatic benefit in how the phone surfs the web. So I'm suspecting that we have some seriously diminishing returns here with this greater speed.
While in Orlando I got 60 Mbps down and 25 Mbps up on Verizon LTE. I've never seen anything like that. I've got what I would consider fast wifi at home and work, but it isn't close to as fast.
Ping was a mediocre 70 though. But I didn't focus on where it was connecting to the test server. And Orlando is pretty spread out.
Anyway, it does not seem to have dramatic benefit in how the phone surfs the web. So I'm suspecting that we have some seriously diminishing returns here with this greater speed.
Really because the fact I do upgrade every year makes me an idiot that can't discuss other options? Ok.
Good point.
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Exactly!!
This is the new telecom cash cow.
Can everybody bend over and say Mooooo!
That was a bug affecting the six and six plus. It was fixed in the most recent update. The status bar also not seen was another bug.
it pulls up a .png file. are they uploading that picture as an attachment?
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how do you get this graphic? thanks!
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exactly my thought!. home Internet prices are outrageous. TBH I think home ISPs should adopt the wireless data model. instead of paying for speed, pay for usage accordingly. paying for speed is such a scam IMO.
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wifi calling works great but it's too limiting to one locale. it essentially makes your wireless phone a landline, which is ridiculous. I don't just need better coverage IN my home. I need better coverage in my neck of the woods (I live in the burbs, so not that deep in)
I've done comparative tests on LTE speed on my iPhone 5S and iPhone 6 Plus on my blog. This was done in Korea with SK Telecom as the carrier.
http://tool-box.info/blog/archives/1535-iPhone-6-Plus-LTE-Compatibility-Speed.html
The difference that I witnesses is nowhere near as dramatic as this article purportly showed. In a nutshell, my 5S is hitting around 75Mbps while 6 Plus is doing 100Mbps.
I have a hunch as to why this the case.
iPhones up to 5S can support multiple frequency bands in a single carrier, although they can't be used all at once. 6 series can also do carrier aggregation, which solves that problem.
In Korea, the carriers can do 150Mbps on a single LTE band, and 225Mbps over multiple bands. So both 5S and 6 Plus can get the maximum bandwidth (100Mbps and 150Mbps, respectively) from the carriers.
It might be the Canadian carrier did not provide the full bandwidth to 5S on a single frequency band. This would result in a far slower speed for 5S than 6 or 6 Plus.
http://tool-box.info/blog/archives/1535-iPhone-6-Plus-LTE-Compatibility-Speed.html
The difference that I witnesses is nowhere near as dramatic as this article purportly showed. In a nutshell, my 5S is hitting around 75Mbps while 6 Plus is doing 100Mbps.
I have a hunch as to why this the case.
iPhones up to 5S can support multiple frequency bands in a single carrier, although they can't be used all at once. 6 series can also do carrier aggregation, which solves that problem.
In Korea, the carriers can do 150Mbps on a single LTE band, and 225Mbps over multiple bands. So both 5S and 6 Plus can get the maximum bandwidth (100Mbps and 150Mbps, respectively) from the carriers.
It might be the Canadian carrier did not provide the full bandwidth to 5S on a single frequency band. This would result in a far slower speed for 5S than 6 or 6 Plus.
neat speed test combo although i don't really care. To me, as long as its faster than my DSL connection, i'm happy.
Those really concerned with "how fast" is only because they wanna do video, or face time etc... and get a huge bill as a result.
Those speeds are impressive, but they'll break my piggy bank in seconds.
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I don't think anyone understands this. Until 2010 or so it was called t-mobile in Germany too. Now it's just Telekom for mobile, phone and Internet.
In the app go to results, select your result and then share. It'll give you a link you can copy and open in Safari. The png file is there.
Actually, this would work somewhat in our favour since we are mostly interested in the maximum speeds of the LTE hardware, not the telco's.
They do something like it
The speedtest servers are close to a scam since they are everywhere and optimized more than real production servers
This is all moot point. I rather prefer my 5 mbps dl UNLIMITED for 1/4 the price of AT&T then 100 mbps capped at 4 gb a month. Granted I live in a country where LTE use is still not widespread so the carrier doesn't feel like a need to cap data.
Last month used over a nice solid 100 gb.
Last month used over a nice solid 100 gb.
