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The Verizon LTE 4G network is FAAAAASSSSSSSSTTTTTT!

The numbers are high, but when he refreshes the browser, the speed is not really that impressive.
 
The upload speed on his speedtest test was ridiculous.

Btw, these are just synthetic benchmarks. It's quite clear that real world speeds, although faster than 3g, weren't as great the benchmark.
 
Applejuiced said:
Nothing, he's prob just hoping for the next VZ iphone to be 4G cause their 3G speeds are a drag:D
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I never even gave the Verizon iPhone I thought because of all the post like this. Last week I was in a town that didn't have any AT&T 3G so I went to the Verizon store to play with the iPhone to kill time, kinda thinking bet my edge kills this thing on 3G! Well, it was fast!! Tested like .8-1.2 kpbs. Did web site loading test (AT&T on edge) and of course it killed my AT&T iPhone. So when I got back into town (where AT&T is 3G) I went into the Verizon store there to compare 3G speeds. Well AT&T killed Verizon. Almost 3 Kbps on AT&T and same for Verizon as the other town, .8-1.2. Then I did the web site loading test thinking I'm gonna smoke Verizon now, wrong!!!! 8 times out of 10 Verizon beat me! How?!?! This is going to sites like nytimes.com and just clicking on all the random links from there. I did get the Verizon iPhone and after I did that I thought they may have boosted speeds somehow in store so I did this same test next to my friends AT&T iPhone at my house, verizon loaded faster almost every time. I'm not sure how this works with lower bench marks but I do enjoy my huge 3G now:)
 
jredecop said:
I'm not sure how this works with lower bench marks but I do enjoy my huge 3G now:)
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I am just throwing out a guess, but I think the Verizon network may have lower latency than AT&T's network. So even if the page can download faster on AT&T, the page will start loading quicker and seem more responsive on Verizon. On my AT&T iPhone I get ping times of almost 300 ms. I don't have a Verizon phone to compare it to right now, but I believe the ping time is signigicantly faster.
 
This is from the Macalope. (if you don't read him, you should):

The Macalope contacted Macworld Senior Contributor Glenn Fleishman, who probably knows more about wireless technology than Arends and Verizon’s spokesperson combined. And Fleishman’s response was that if Verizon’s 4G network is 10 times faster than its own 3G network it’s only because its 3G network sucks so bad. In fact, its network is so bad, it could be more than 10 times faster! But it’s probably only 3 or 4 times faster than AT&T and T-Mobile’s 3G networks.

Still… faster! Yes, for the one-third of the people in the U.S. who have access to it. Verizon says it’ll cover two-thirds of country by “mid-2012.”
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The point Fleishman left the Macalope with, though, was one he hadn’t even considered:

In reality, of course, why do you need more than a few Mbps? For video. But video only needs a few hundred Kbps to maybe 1.5 to 2 Mbps for a tablet device. If that. And service plans are so data limited, you’re not going to be routinely streaming huge amounts of video anyway when you’re on a 3G or 4G network. You’ll only do that over Wi-Fi. Who cares if the network is faster if it’s fast enough?
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http://www.macworld.com/article/158505/2011/03/repeat_offender.html
 
jredecop said:
I never even gave the Verizon iPhone I thought because of all the post like this. Last week I was in a town that didn't have any AT&T 3G so I went to the Verizon store to play with the iPhone to kill time, kinda thinking bet my edge kills this thing on 3G! Well, it was fast!! Tested like .8-1.2 kpbs. Did web site loading test (AT&T on edge) and of course it killed my AT&T iPhone. So when I got back into town (where AT&T is 3G) I went into the Verizon store there to compare 3G speeds. Well AT&T killed Verizon. Almost 3 Kbps on AT&T and same for Verizon as the other town, .8-1.2. Then I did the web site loading test thinking I'm gonna smoke Verizon now, wrong!!!! 8 times out of 10 Verizon beat me! How?!?! This is going to sites like nytimes.com and just clicking on all the random links from there. I did get the Verizon iPhone and after I did that I thought they may have boosted speeds somehow in store so I did this same test next to my friends AT&T iPhone at my house, verizon loaded faster almost every time. I'm not sure how this works with lower bench marks but I do enjoy my huge 3G now:)
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VZW network has lower latency and more bandwidth................SO att speed are fast but due to the high latency att network and narrow spectrum bandwidth , you do not see the full speeds of att's network
 
Bonds79 said:
VZW network has lower latency and more bandwidth................SO att speed are fast but due to the high latency att network and narrow spectrum bandwidth , you do not see the full speeds of att's network
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Keep saying that; we're still getting faster speeds.
 
We have both phones at work and when it comes to loading web pages, updating Facebook, and even starting a Youtube video Verizon always blows AT&T out of the water here. AT&T of course would blow Verizon out of the phone when downloading songs, file attachments, or apps.

If all you care about is your speedtest app, AT&T wins. For the rest of the world who has no idea what a speedtest app result even means, Verizon may seem like a faster network than AT&T.
 
Lets not forget Verizon is planning on running voice over their LTE network also. So you'll be lucky to pull down 7-8mgs, which is good dont get me wrong, just not 19mgs like they are saying.
 
los318 said:
Lets not forget Verizon is planning on running voice over their LTE network also. So you'll be lucky to pull down 7-8mgs, which is good dont get me wrong, just not 19mgs like they are saying.
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What does speed matter when you are capped at 2GB or even 5?
 
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