@persaudrd wrote:
One thing to note is that if you do decide to drop your phone down to 3G by turning off LTE in your settings your speeds will actually increase beyond ~3.0 down as advertised, but your latency will also increase.
This means that you'll download information at a faster rate but generally you'll also experience more of a delay when doing things like browsing. The other side effect is that generally you'll experience a better battery life on your phone too.
Otherwise, as previously mentioned you're fine on LTE as Public Mobile puts a speed limit on the 3G plans, but otherwise they're on the LTE network.
I believe that the advertised speeds of LTE data networks are merely for bragging rights and because higher numbers sound impressive in the marketing materials.
If I knew absolutely for certain that 3g plans users would receive full HSPA+ speeds simply by turning off LTE, I would almsot certainly do it myself. It just that you never know if Public Mobile plans to patch this up.
There's a certain point when using cellular data that increased speeds over little (or even no benefit) to the customer. While this speed may be higher tha 3Mbps, all have a 300Mbps download speed is going to do for most users is make them use up the data amount much faster.
As for the difference in pings between 3g and LTE networks, I would say that the difference is minor. I'm checked some speed testing results on my phone and the network is usally around 35 ms for me, while the ping on LTE is around 20ms. To simply start loading a regular webpage, I am struggling to as to whether a person can even perceive a difference.
