Re: Fastest Mobile Networks 2021

On 2021-10-06 14:00, badgolferman wrote:
> 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.

Could be.  Or subjective.  Providers are always improving over time (in 
most places).  IAC, the phone will never be able to adapt to all 
situations very well, never mind output at the power levels that the 
cell towers are capable of, and pretty directionally as well...


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