@luke11992 wrote:
PM uses throttled LTE speeds, so the data won’t be as fast as with other carriers. However, the speeds they throttle to are still very usable and shouldn’t give you any slowdowns for basic internet browsing and social media. Especially if you’re in the GTA. My best guess would be there’s something going on with your phone.
"Usable speed" is very subjective. Public Mobile's 3Mbps might be considered slower than slug in molasses by some people and considered faster than hyperspace insanity by other people.
PM (Telus) has arbitrarily set the cap at "equivalent to typical 3G performance" but that's still a meaningless metric in terms of how fast the user experience will be because individual users are never "typical".
@mjs2789
There are over a dozen LG G5 submodels and none of them appears to fully support all available Telus network bands. Admittedly hard to say because it's easy to find specs for the general device family but it's difficult to find specs for the specific device variants.
One thing that seems consistent is the commentary and reviews... most of these observe that the processor and GPU are decent performers (by 2016 standards) but they bottleneck webpages and ain't gonna win any races when it comes to displaying too many things simultaneously. So maybe network data speeds are fine but your hardware data speeds are slow. For comparison, you can test data performance on your PM SIM card in the same service time and location but in another device.
