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pnjunction
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pnjunction

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No doubt

It will be blazing fast for a few months just like the Bell/Telus HSPA network was for a little over a year after it launched.

The Bellus HSPA network was still in decent shape when I got onto it 9 months after launch, 4-6 mbps all day every day. Then more and more people migrated from CDMA onto it...gradually it has gotten slower and slower now I am lucky to see 0.5 mbps during the day, it is usually 0.1-0.3. Just ran a speed test here around lunch time and got 87 kbps down and 65 kbps. Browsing is slow and streaming music barely works, it cuts out often and I have to hope it catches a brief hit of speed to buffer a song.

LTE might have more spetral efficiency to keep it from getting this bad (I have to look into it) but right now I'm seeing a 50x reduction since the network got crowded. As a guess a similarly crowded LTE network might deliver 2 mbps, better than 0.1 mbps but a far cry from the numbers they brag about.

elwoodblues
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elwoodblues

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I'm on "Canada's FASTEST 3G+ Network" and just did a test
4.15mb down .97 up, so much for "UP TO" 21mb.