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Appalling 4G performance in Central London today

Reason077 — Thu, 19 Feb 2015 13:34:15 GMT

Very poor performance on O2's 4G network today in Central London along the A10 Bishopsgate, near Liverpool Street station. Internet keeps dropping out and is virtually unusable.

We're accustomed to regular poor data performance on O2's 3G network, but I usually get great performance on 4G. Is O2's state-of-the-art 4G network already getting saturated in this area?! Hope this is a one-off.

Re: Appalling 4G performance in Central London today

jonsie — Thu, 19 Feb 2015 13:42:37 GMT

That's terrible and it certainly seems to be congestion.

Re: Appalling 4G performance in Central London today

Anonymous — Thu, 19 Feb 2015 14:12:06 GMT

Everyone overloading the network doing speedtests haha 😛

Re: Appalling 4G performance in Central London today

MI5 — Thu, 19 Feb 2015 14:32:17 GMT

4G "shouldn't" suffer congestion in the same way as 3G does but I guess it all depends on the quality of the fibre backhaul system......

Re: Appalling 4G performance in Central London today

jonsie — Thu, 19 Feb 2015 15:21:13 GMT

Something sadly amiss with that speedtest though.....

Let's hope it's temporary.

Re: Appalling 4G performance in Central London today

Toby — Thu, 19 Feb 2015 15:25:32 GMT

Hi @Reason077 ,

Welcome back to the community.

Have you run any other speed test since you started this thread? Hopefully it was a very temporary issues, but do update us on how you get on. If its no different, I'll see if i can find any info out for you.

Re: Appalling 4G performance in Central London today

Anonymous — Thu, 19 Feb 2015 23:49:56 GMT

When fibre was launched it was meant to be virtually bomb proof in terms of the future.

But then mobile started going through as well as usual broadband. Then tv, film and music downloads. Then m2m and machines talking to each other.

Fibre backhaul is essential but not unlimited. Watch for BT, Virgin and Cable and Wireless (owned by Voda) looking at how to improve things.

In practice it isn't usually the fibre, it is the computers and servers that are struggling.