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O2 4g bandwidth

Anonymous — Fri, 28 Mar 2014 21:25:55 GMT

Hi everyone, hope someone can help. I have sky go on my samsung tab2 10.1 and using o2 4g, however i get a really poor picture when watching any channel. I did a speed test on my tablet and found I had a download speed of 23 mbps which is almost 4 times faster than my home broadband with sky, yet I find some programs unwatchable especially fast moving programs like football. I connected to a friends mobile who was using THREE with a download speed of 4mbps and had a perfect picture!!!! When I connect to my home broadband with a dl of just over 4mbps i get no problems. I dont understand how this can be...... Is this a bandwidth issue,can anyone help

Thanks

Re: O2 4g bandwidth

MI5 — Fri, 28 Mar 2014 21:52:27 GMT

Sounds like heavy compression which we know o2 do unfortunately. Not seen it myself though.

Re: O2 4g bandwidth

Anonymous — Fri, 28 Mar 2014 23:05:09 GMT

I have been noticing same on YouTube lately

Re: O2 4g bandwidth

Anonymous — Sat, 29 Mar 2014 08:57:03 GMT

Not having 4g here I am unable to directly answer.

However in areas of strong 3g it is the same. I like to use SkyGo and I have found on home broadband the picture is "ok" but when im out and about it is usually hard to make much out especially if watching football for example.

Re: O2 4g bandwidth

Anonymous — Sat, 29 Mar 2014 09:49:14 GMT

Unless o2 have plans to improve this, it looks like ive made a mistake sticking with them and perhaps I should have gone to THREE!!!

Re: O2 4g bandwidth

MI5 — Sat, 29 Mar 2014 10:14:18 GMT

We need to see how it all works out once all the work on the network is complete but I agree in that no one wants this level of compression permanently.

Re: O2 4g bandwidth

Anonymous — Mon, 31 Mar 2014 08:39:50 GMT

Tried changing the APN settings as suggested on another post about 4g compression and so far working well