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weeboot

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Thursday 23rd February 2017
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Rather liking the ee network from my desk right now.



How's your mobile signal? tongue out

weeboot

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Thursday 23rd February 2017
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hornetrider said:
Spot on.
As long as you have an EE provided/sanctioned device. OnePlus3 is a no go.. frown

weeboot

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Thursday 23rd February 2017
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I've just noticed that they've enabled VoLTE, but that doesn't help me at home in my study, where I've got wifi but no LTE!

weeboot

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Thursday 23rd February 2017
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Digitalize said:
The Download/Upload are largely meaningless
Why?

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Digitalize said:
You'd never actually saturate a connection that large with one user.
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.

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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...

weeboot

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Thursday 23rd February 2017
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I should add, that was all via 4G/LTE at my desk on a OnePlus 3.

weeboot

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Thursday 23rd February 2017
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Well your experience is different to mine,

weeboot

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Thursday 23rd February 2017
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Zoon said:
Why would you download an ubuntu image using your phone?
Don't you have a broadband connection?
To prove a point.

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Friday 24th February 2017
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RumbleOfThunder said:
The gif thread is the new "can it play Crysis on full?" equivalent.
Yup, I'm waiting for a YouTuber to use it for benchmarking.

weeboot

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Saturday 25th February 2017
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First world problems, you turn on wifi and your connection gets slower....