I'm aware 5g speeds can vary depending on location. Fortunately T Mobile has great 5g coverage in my city. I was extremely pleased to see what the Mini 6 was able to pull down from my living room. 5G is not all hype IMHO.
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iPad mini Mini 5g speed - 2 Thumbs up!
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Definitely not hype - I got 680Mbs down on my iPhone 12 Pro Max yesterday here in Seattle.
I wonder if the Mini 6 has the new Qualcomm modem or the one from the iPhone 12 line. I guess the latter. But I always get way higher speeds on my iPad mini 6 as to my iPhone 12 mini. Maybe it is the antennas.
I was in a city in my home country, we don't have that good 5G coverage yet. Mini 6 got 450-500 most of the time when my iPhone 12 Mini got 200-350 at the same time.
I need to put the Mini 6 through a test while traveling through countryside with annoyingly bad reception but from first impressions it has very good reception.
I was in a city in my home country, we don't have that good 5G coverage yet. Mini 6 got 450-500 most of the time when my iPhone 12 Mini got 200-350 at the same time.
I need to put the Mini 6 through a test while traveling through countryside with annoyingly bad reception but from first impressions it has very good reception.
Verizon is behind on sub 6GHz bands but they are starting to catch up. For whatever reason--probably bragging rights--Verizon focused on mmWave antennas instead the more practical sub6 bands. As most people know, mmWave isn't very practical for most users because of its short distance and low ability to penetrate walls and other obstructions.
Thx. Where do you have this information from?
That would be amazing, I would have expected the old X55 modem.
If you look at the modem firmware version, it’s the exact same as the iPhone 13. Also saw a teardown on Weibo.
Tried the 5G for the first time on my new Mini 6 with T-Mobile - 755Mbps down, 86Mbps up. Seattle.
Cautionary note: I used ookla's Speedtest app for this and it used 1GB of cellular data for it.
Edit: The Speedtest data was not charged against my T-Mobile usage - see posts below for details.
Cautionary note: I used ookla's Speedtest app for this and it used 1GB of cellular data for it.
Edit: The Speedtest data was not charged against my T-Mobile usage - see posts below for details.
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It looks like T-Mobile doesn’t count that test data against your limits if you connect to the T-Mobile test site. I’m not aware of all possible situations but I’ve run the Ookla app against the T-Mobile site a few times with the pre-paid 5 GB plan and while the Cellular settings page says I’ve used 3.2 GBs the actual account says I’ve only used 600 MBs.
Do you have a link? I thought that T-Mobile didn't count the data and they recommend downloading the Ookla app but they did count it with the app.
https://www.t-mobile.com/support/plans-features/data-speeds#speedtest
Yeah, it shows up as 1GB cell data used but when I open account settings and look, it clearly is not in the data usage applied to the current month. Bottom line - no charge for using the app. Thanks for the heads-up on this. (I edited my original post to note this.)
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