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Poor 4g speeds

DH3070 — Mon, 19 Dec 2022 15:40:46 GMT

I have been on O2 customer through the renewal of my Virgin account a year ago. I use my phone mainly when working from home and have wifi calling which works OK. If i use my phone away from the wifi although i have full signal and 4G i am getting download speeds of 1-2MB and upload speeds (when checked) just show as faulty as the signal speed is so low. Its getting to the point where i cant use my phone when i am away from home.

Today i did a speed check and got 0.8MB on 4G; my wife who is on EE in the same location got 4G and 15MB - literally side by side with our phones. This isn't a one-off it happens pretty much everywhere?

Re: Poor 4g speeds

pgn — Mon, 19 Dec 2022 15:58:58 GMT

Hi @DH3070 - a number of things could be playing into this, some fixes in here usually help: and

If your area has a high density of O2 Customers, you may be experiencing "oversubscription" - use the app from O2 called My Network and set it up to watch your commonly-visited places, it will keep you and O2 in the look on work or issues affecting service: https://www.o2.co.uk/apps/my-network

Do come back here if you find issue that you cannot address, @DH3070 - someone will be able to help. Good luck!

Re: Poor 4g speeds

MI5 — Mon, 19 Dec 2022 15:58:13 GMT

@DH3070

Standard for O2 unfortunately.

Drop down to 3g as it may be faster.