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3G Service

gmd — Tue, 04 Jan 2022 19:22:44 GMT

Anyone tried the 2.5 Mbps service yet?

Will it only work on HSPA, or can you go onto LTE if the signal is better (or there is no HSPA)?

Re: 3G Service

canucks4life — Thu, 20 Jul 2017 00:56:56 GMT

@gmd wrote:
Anyone tried the 2.5 Mbps service yet?

Will it only work on HSPA, or can you go onto LTE if the signal is better (or there is no HSPA)?

The latency times I've seen on speedtests posted here appear to suggest data is going through LTE with 2.5Mbps downstream cap and a very low upstream.

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NDesai — Thu, 20 Jul 2017 01:18:26 GMT

If you are on LTE, it will be throttled at 2.5mbps. But if you prefer to use the actual 3G speed, you can use that as well.

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Luddite — Thu, 20 Jul 2017 01:34:29 GMT

I have tried it with an iPhone 5: 2.7 download; 0.5 upload; 61 ms latency. Slightly (40%) faster with LTE turned off.

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Mana — Thu, 20 Jul 2017 02:32:34 GMT

If someone is on LTE why would they wanna try 3G?

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Raven_Jet — Thu, 20 Jul 2017 04:50:34 GMT

Probably to save some data.

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Rockdaddy22 — Sun, 23 Jul 2017 04:53:56 GMT

LTE is throttled that's why they might want to use unthrottled 3G. I believe it's a bug, so not sure how long it'll last.

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0x1337 — Mon, 21 Aug 2017 12:19:12 GMT

I'm in the Toronto area (North York specifically) and get 2.72Mbps down and 2.47Mbps up quite consistently when commutting around the area.

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Rockdaddy22 — Mon, 21 Aug 2017 13:07:32 GMT

That's sounds about right, we've experienced much the same in our testing.