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Six Major 3G and 4G Networks Tested Nationwide
adeelarshad82 writes "PCMag recently tested six 3G and 4G networks to determine which ones were the fastest (and slowest) in 18 different US cities. They focused on data, not calls, and used their own testing script and methodology, which combined various kinds of uploads and downloads. Using laptops, more than a dozen people ran more than 10,000 tests; they found AT&T is both the fastest national 3G network, and the least consistent. Sprint's 3G system was the slowest of the 'big four' carriers, but the most consistent. When the test results were broken down by regions, AT&T led on speed in the Southeast, Central, and West, but T-Mobile took the crown in the Northeast region. Sprint's 4G network was fast where it was available, but it was surprisingly slower than 3G in some cities. The fastest AT&T download seen, at 5.05 megabits/sec, was right behind Apple's headquarters at 1 Infinite Loop in Cupertino, CA. The fastest connection in any of the tests was a blazing 9.11 megabits down on Sprint 4G in the Midtown neighborhood of Atlanta, GA. The slowest city, on average, was Raleigh, with average 3G downloads of 880kbits/sec."
I think their focus is more on coverage than raw speed. Since these tests were all done in major cities, Verizon's major selling point is instantly made irrelevant.
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How about for a laptop "aircard" or such? Or a tablet.
Not a sentence!
Kind of reminds me of:
640K ought to be enough for anybody.
(Bill Gates, 1981)
If a man isn't willing to take some risk for his opinions, either his opinions are no good or he's no good
How is this "Insightful"?
3G means "3rd generation" and 4G means "4th generation". It's that simple.
Peter predicted that you would "deliberately forget" creation 2000 years ago...
Those nice little names also come with real minimum performance requirements, so if something claiming to be, say, 4G, and it actually isn't 4G (like Sprint's offerings - just WiMAX), then that's an issue.