iPhone 5 speed test results

Hot94Z28

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A little more boom?
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Angelo_Campher

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The "4G" is faster than their LTE. What the heck?


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This is not uncommon. I've actually turned off LTE. Here in South Africa I'm getting comparable download speeds on HSPA+.

I just miss out on the faster upload speeds.

Apparently the LTE download speeds are comparable to HSPA+ due to the lack of LTE spectrum.
 

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This is not uncommon. I've actually turned off LTE. Here in South Africa I'm getting comparable download speeds on HSPA+.

I just miss out on the faster upload speeds.

Apparently the LTE download speeds are comparable to HSPA+ due to the lack of LTE spectrum.

Sounds like they need to step up their LTE game. Dang AT&T.


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With AT&T still on Edge in many places still to this day, it's not surprising their LTE sucks in certain (many?) places... I was on AT&T for many years and in denial about how bad their network was... I was on their HSPA network but didn't need to go far to be on EDGE... I recently switched to VZW after learning LTE was available in my area... And quite fast too... About 30 Mbps down/12 Mbps up... AT&T can suck it
 

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Exxod, where are you located? You may be in an area where AT&T only owns a 5x5 block of spectrum for LTE.

In my sector of the country, AT&T LTE is in the 40-50 Mbps range. That's because they have 10x10 spectrum here.

Also, I can change speed test servers and usually get far different ranges of speed.
 
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Exxod, where are you located? You may be in an area where AT&T only owns a 5x5 block of spectrum for LTE.

In my sector of the country, AT&T LTE is in the 40-50 Mbps range. That's because they have 10x10 spectrum here.

Also, I can change speed test servers and usually get far different ranges of speed.

They've recently rolled out LTE here -- just last year, actually.


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They've recently rolled out LTE here -- just last year, actually.


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I kind of need a location to see if it's just a mis-deployed network or a spectrum issue. AT&T just bought a bunch of 700 MHz spectrum in Chicago, Los Angeles, and Oklahoma City, all places where LTE is significantly slower than their LTE network in the rest of the US.
 

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