Cor Blimey - 4G
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You lucky git.
I really want to use EE but it seems where I live doesn't like the network. Not the outside, just the house. Nothing on EE the moment I step on my drive. Stand on the neighbours drives either side and I'm fine, stand on my own and I get nothing. I wonder how EEs wi-fi calling functionality is now?
I currently use GiffGaff as that's all I can pick up. I'd be very surprised if I even get 5% of your speeds.
I really want to use EE but it seems where I live doesn't like the network. Not the outside, just the house. Nothing on EE the moment I step on my drive. Stand on the neighbours drives either side and I'm fine, stand on my own and I get nothing. I wonder how EEs wi-fi calling functionality is now?
I currently use GiffGaff as that's all I can pick up. I'd be very surprised if I even get 5% of your speeds.
weeboot said:
As long as you have an EE provided/sanctioned device. OnePlus3 is a no go.. 
Well. I have a 6P I bought through CPW which never used to do it since it was not an EE device... but since upgrading to Nougat it now does. At least, I think the Nougat upgrade was the driver, I'm not entirely sure.But you are right to say it's not available on all devices. They have a list on their website.
weeboot said:
Why?
You'd never actually saturate a connection that large with one user. The main reason Fibre Optic 40/10 is popular is because it accommodates well for multiple users at once. Even 4k streaming realistically uses around 20mb download. Most people are now limited by how fast the server can deliver them content rather than how fast they can download it, and the same for upload.Ping is far more noticeable, it's sort of like torque in a way that ping is how long it takes to send and receive a command, so a 100ms ping with a big download will still feel slow in the same way a high horsepower car with no torque would still feel slow.
20ms is around what your average home connection gets and is more than sufficient for most web use, but for things such as gaming the less the better.
weeboot said:
Never? Software/app updates, downloads, etc will quite merrily use the full bandwidth available, as I have witnessed.
Streaming, no, but just chunking large amounts of data, yes.
I've never seen a download from your usual places get close to saturating that much bandwidth, certainly not OS updates or software etc, I think Steam can do pretty well outside of their peak times. And certainly not the services I use for my job such as Dropbox, WeTransfer etc.Streaming, no, but just chunking large amounts of data, yes.
Some services such as Sony's PlayStation Network are actually notorious for being slow. And again with simple text sites such as forums it will be the ping that makes the internet feel quick not the download.
I imagine there are obviously services out there that can, more enterprise type stuff etc, but most consumer aimed things tend to be slower than a very fast connection these days.
Digitalize said:
I've never seen a download from your usual places get close to saturating that much bandwidth, certainly not OS updates or software etc, I think Steam can do pretty well outside of their peak times. And certainly not the services I use for my job such as Dropbox, WeTransfer etc.
Some services such as Sony's PlayStation Network are actually notorious for being slow. And again with simple text sites such as forums it will be the ping that makes the internet feel quick not the download.
I imagine there are obviously services out there that can, more enterprise type stuff etc, but most consumer aimed things tend to be slower than a very fast connection these days.
Google Play Store - 80Mb+, Imgur 65Mb+, Flud (torrent) downloading Ubuntu image - 112Mb (ish), PH Animated GIF thread, to multiple sources, peaked at 115Mb... Some services such as Sony's PlayStation Network are actually notorious for being slow. And again with simple text sites such as forums it will be the ping that makes the internet feel quick not the download.
I imagine there are obviously services out there that can, more enterprise type stuff etc, but most consumer aimed things tend to be slower than a very fast connection these days.
Torrents can due to their nature of downloading from multiple sources at once, but from experience I've never seen a download hit more than 10-15mb/s. I'm only talking about downloads though as I've never bothered to monitor actual in/out from a computer. I'm surprised to see a free service such as Imgur supplying a single user such good speeds. Less so Google because of their massive involvement in not only data centres but also in internet delivery itself.
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