Re: Fastest Mobile Networks 2021

Alan Browne wrote:

>On 2021-10-05 13:31, Joerg Lorenz wrote:
>>Am 05.10.21 um 17:41 schrieb badgolferman:
>>>The fastest speeds I’ve gotten so far are 641 down and 19.7 up.
>>
>>This is extremely bad. Mobile networks are symmetric. 19.7 up is
>>early-4G-style.
>
>They may be bandwidth symmetric, but they are not power symmetric.
>The base station (towers) can output "the right" amount of power to
>each receiver (phones) at full bandwidth, but the phones cannot
>output adequate power all of the time given their transmitter,
>antenna and non ideal location when transmitting.  Thus, with reduced
>power, the actual bandwidth is reduced.


I think the phone matters too.  My iPhone 12 seems to have better
signals in places which had poorer signal strength in the past.  Either
that or T-Mobile has expanded their cellular network around here.