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Originally Posted by 71T Targa
From my phone, wireless over cable is 97.6 down 11.9 up.
Turning off wireless and using Sprint/T-Mobile 5G and I drop to 38.8 down and 5.2 up.
It may be worth it since I currently pay @250 a month for cable internet and phone.
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You've got 2 things impacting you on cell, 1 is signal strength which will vary and impact your speeds, and the other is how much bandwidth T-mobile has to your tower/area. Here at my location in town with a strong signal from my cell phone, I see 140+Mb down and 65+Mb up. Since it's in Houston, it's setup for tons of folks and is probably very near a large network hub. Out in the sticks, I usually see 20-30Mb down and 1-4Mb up over the same device. We are also at the farthest reaches of the cell towers that we are closest too, and they probably haven't invested tons of money in super high speed connectivity in the sticks for a few folks or people passing through on the Interstate.
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Originally Posted by Sooner or later
I thought 5G was supposed to be a hell of a lot faster. Here is my LTE
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You may also get better speeds in different rooms or different locations around your house/yard. My connectivity varies from room to room in our rural property. I've been experimenting with locations in the house to get the best connectivity.
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Originally Posted by 71T Targa
I am out in the sticks, so that may play a part in my speeds.
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Yes, "out in the sticks" is probably a big part of the problem.
any wireless connection (satellite, wifi, cellular, etc...) is going to have the same issue, the strength of the signal/connection is going to impact your speeds. So, if you knew where your cell tower was, and you positioned yourself at the right spot, you'd likely maximize your speed. If you then drove to the farthest extent of a good connection from that tower, and there were no other towers, then your speed would be much slower even though you were connected to the same tower.
Most of us have probably had the same experience with wifi, works great in a certain part of the house, but some far away corner of the house or the back yard doesn't work nearly as well.
Satellite is very similar.
You'll usually connect at lower speeds or experience lower speeds due to having to replace missing traffic. Like trying to carry on a conversation with someone in a loud night club. If you constantly have to say "WHAT?" and have them repeat themselves, your exchange of information will proceed more slowly. There are levels of error correction in the modulation of the signals as well as at higher layers (TCP) or even higher layers.