Re: Fastest Mobile Networks 2021

On 2021-10-06 16:01, Joerg Lorenz wrote:
> Am 06.10.21 um 18:55 schrieb Alan Browne:
>> 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.
> 
> Sure and it reinforces my arguments. Lousy base-station-planning bad
> phone or both. All this is a marketing stunt.

Base stations are usually well optimized given the local constraints.

The only thing you could do to really improve the phones is to make them 
bigger (larger transmission power) and have an external antenna array. 
Not very practical.

How can it be a marketing stunt if it is comparing 3 companies?  It's 
clear you're just venting at PC Mag.  But their tests were done in a 
reasonable manner - controlled, data collected, reduced and presented.

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