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LTE Speeds of iPhone 6 and iPhone 5s Compared in New Video
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How did you do that? Did you buy your phone outright? Rogers is not backing down on my 6GB plan I currently have and making me switch to the data sharing plan which is $50 more.
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It's fast not because of LTE-A (at least, not yet available in Canada at this moment) but because of the 20x20MHz wide available bandwidth in the LTE Band 7 (2600). Rogers, the parent of Fido, once marketed it as "LTE Max" with downlink up to 150Mbps LTE Category 4 performance.
That's a valid point. I've been noticing many more carrier speed servers popping up. They only show up if you're on mobile data.
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Over wifi maybe. It's theoretically impossible to get 300mbps over cellular data.
Everything is theoretically impossible until proven. Never, say never...
At once point we didn't believe these speeds were even possibly with cell phones, But now look...
I hope that i would get these speeds on my 5s
Now THAT's impossible.
It is impossible...
The 5S has a Cat 3 LTE chipset, which maxes out around 100mbps. This was one of the reasons why Cat 4 Android devices saw better speeds over wideband XLTE over the last few months, until the iPhone 6, where the phones finally got Cat 4.
I work underground and cannot get any T-Mobile signal (AT&T, Verizon, and Sprint all have repeaters in my building, although Sprint's coverage is pretty bad). I got an iPhone 6 in part because of the WiFi calling. This negates the lack of signal in the building.
Nope , with carrier aggregation its possible to reach these speeds on LTE.
Even on a 5s.
He was standing right beside the carriers antenna when he did the speedtest.
I could burn through my limit in 80 seconds at these speeds (I haven't yet upgraded to their 2.5 GB per month promo). Thankfully T-Mobile doesn't charge overages. They just throttle after the cap.
LTE Speeds of iPhone 6 and iPhone 5s Compared in New Video
Cat 3 devices do not support CA. Never have. Never will. Especially the 5S.
You can keep trying to justify it all you want... But it's a glitch. Nothing more.
Cat 3 devices do not support CA. Never have. Never will. Especially the 5S.
You can keep trying to justify it all you want... But it's a glitch. Nothing more.
I just did a side by side with my iphone 6 and my sons 5s both on At&T and the 5s had faster download but the 6 had faster upload.
Or, if you are like me on Vodafone in the UK, being unable to try LTE-A because they still haven't rolled it out here in Derby!
TL;DR:
3) verify your local cable hardware is up to date and configured for 105 service
(DOCSIS 3.0/1 fully capable and aligned with your head end modem settings)
2) verify that old sub 105mpbs QoS settings from Comcast aren't in place.
1) verify the SpeedTest Server that is you are using isn't close geographically, but close net topology wise.
0) you realistically can't get more than 50mbps if your running wireless at 2.4ghz bgn mode (assuming you're not doing your comcast test hardwired with a PC), as one device that flips to b or g mode drives the speed down for all of them from 'n' to 'g' mode (54mbps). Run at 5Ghz 'a/n only' mode as your preferred wireless connection, if at all possible.
That last one is critical. 5ghz allows for less congestion/noise (sacrificing distance), and allows you to exploit n and ac bandwidth protocols more effectively. IF you are using a Apple wireless look at your connection quality in Airport Configuration and see what your getting for your devices. I set up a separate 5g (A/N only) network to isolate my remote apple TV, iPad, and MBA to get better speeds for a 35' radius of my AirportExpress/Extreme pair (hard cabled together so I'm not doing wireless extending). I've got a couple 'b/g' devices, so I keep the 2.4ghz running, and it also drives about 150' into the yard.
Then, it's all about where your server is, the saturation of the links between you and it and the quality of your cable modem/router and the head end.
Not exactly the same, but I bought 25/5 service for my local FIOS, and I was getting spotty performance. Found out they mis configured my route (I was a static IP and therefore had a different outbound router because that eliminated
double NAT), and when they fixed that, I got 25/5.
Then they automatically upgraded me to 75/25 (was 100/50 for a month, then they eliminated that price point... and 100/100 was double 75/25, which was now lower than my original 25/5). All that said, my FIOS POP was circa 2004, and while designed for 100mbps in 'burst' mode, could only really handle 50mpbs in steady state, and actually degraded the more load I put on it. In fact, the person told me that the device I had was designed to connect apartment buildings 802.11b wireless systems that were capped at 11mbps (no one person expected more than 10mbps). The upgrade to a 2012 built device sped it right up.
Finally, my fiber provider has a local speed test server, and I still was getting weird results. I determined that my route to that was still QoSed at 25 D (I could get faster uploads than downloads). It appears they don't back up their configs or saved to Nvram, and the head end device rebooted back to 2013 settings. Once they fixed that, I'm running 68+D/22U to the local server, and 65/18 to the 2nd 'nearest' (by traceroute hops) servers.
So... if you have trace route and use something like RobTex.com to determine your AU and peer networks, you may want to see how many hops it is to your 'local' speed test server, (done by geolocation), and instead, look for one on the comcast backbone, which may be fewer hops.
the speedtest app on my iPhone 6 flickers too... it did really badly when I did a test and got 67.54Mbps down/17.97Mbps up (AT&T)
this is what I'm paying AT&T for
ok, this isn't normal but I typically get 15-25Mbps down
Yeah I tried that too. Might have to just download the video and convert to audio.
...... no need to waste anyones time if you can't help.