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[General] Wow! 62 Mbps download today on LTE!

In Largo, FL today using the Speeedtest.net app I have used since LTE launched I clocked the fastest speed I have ever seen on a cell phone. Several tests at same location clocked high with two results over 60 down and 20 up!

I fanatically test speeds on my phone a lot and have at this same location (a restaurant) before and usually go in the 20's.

Anyone else seen any speed jumps lately?

thats impressive. Do you have unlimited data ?

If not, he'd probably have to up his plan after that speed test for the month.

When LTE first launched in my area, I was seeing 70Mbps / 40Mbps results. I haven't seen speeds that high in forever.

Speeds you get will always be dependent on the tower you're on and the backhaul they have provisioned for it. Lighter use towers, their not going to have a ton of bandwidth, probably 10mb down/up. More heavily used towers have higher rates provisioned for them. The good thing with LTE towers is their all fiber fed so it's very easy for verizon to upgrade the speeds on towers if usage goes up vs the old copper T1's they used to have.

I noticed they upgraded the verizon tower at Disney in Orlando the last time I was there. Speed test during middle of the tower clocked in at 60mb/s I was impressed.

That's wicked fast.

Just for fun I thought I would try an LTE speedtest in Oceanside, CA using my MiFi Jetpack:

Didn't happen unless you post a speed test to prove it! LOLOL

What phone are you using, and does it have a diagnostic fieldtest screen???

I was wondering if you have a way that you can check the channel bandwidth being used(5/10/15/20), or what band that is on.

I am not currently a Verizon customer, but I know they have towers in the Philadelphia, PA market, where they already started adding AWS4 1700/2100 band equipment to many of their existing sites.

Some of their phones can support it, and some can't, but that kind of extra spectrum should be good for 100/50 LTE and even LTE-A, when they put it all into use.
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Unless you are downloading a single large file the speedtest results are not relevant to real world browser use. A page consists of many frames and many individual files and each requires a separate initialization to occur. My real world download with Verizonwireless 4G LTE is at best 350 kps and on average is around 40 kbs. To download a 80 MB file takes me an hour if I am lucky as I seldom can maintain a connection to the local tower for that long.

I get a tower disconnect multiple times each hour with the Novatel 4620L mifi device and tech support has told me that the tower is overloaded and basically to live with it. DSL would provide higher performance except that AT&T will not provide it in my area and is pulling back from cable broadband expansion in favor of the much more lucrative wireless data service.

Verizonwireless towers are located so as to handle phone usage by motorists and not for supporting residential customers. If you happen to be near a tower that has light usage then you will get good speeds. If you live near a heavily used tower or in wooded terrain then the performance will be barely better than dial-up.

Part of the performance problems we are experiencing are due to a problem with how the Novatel 4620L performs DHCP. We continually have IP conflicts which in theory is impossible and yet the bad code in the 4620L mifi device does this continually. I wish we could use a static IP and not have to use the 4620L's defective DHCP implementation but there is no way to do this.

It explains in large part why people using USB modems have better throughput and fewer connection problems. The DHCP is being handled by the wireless router and not the Novatel 4620L mifi device.