Speedtest app uses high amounts of data on 4g

[adamtemp64]

Today being the fiorst day I ventured into 4g coverage did a few speedtests 7 of them on the speedtest.net app was not expecting an average of 27.57mb to be used each test. 193mb in total (none done since I reset my counter last month).

Tests were done on the fringe of o2 4g coverage south od redhill on the a23 good sppde attained indoor and out and was better than o2 wifi (o2 wifi was 2.86 down 4g ranged from 10.24 indoor to 27.21 outside in a car)

[perksie]

I suspect they knew what they were doing increasing the data on the 4G tariffs.

That's a lot of data used.

[adamtemp64]

not much out of my 8gb allowance though and the first time I have had to play on 4g but it was almost 5 times faster than the o2 wifi at mcdonalds but loads were using the wifi.

Now back in slow 2g south somerset lol (on the cider so on wifi)

Data counter was reset on the day I setup the iphone 5s 20/11 so I know that is all 4g speedtest data usage from the stats page will screen grab and upload the image when back at the pc.

[MI5]

Last time I checked speedtest it was using 50Mb a pop....

[adamtemp64]

@mi5 i was lucky then.

But with 8gb still not a big issue

[MI5]

Indeed not mate.....
I only managed to use 2,5Gb last month and I was trying

[aldaweb]

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@adamtemp64 wrote:

Tests were done on the fringe of o2 4g coverage south od redhill on the a23 good sppde attained indoor and out and was better than o2 wifi (o2 wifi was 2.86 down 4g ranged from 10.24 indoor to 27.21 outside in a car)

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There must be a small 4G corridor there for the M23/M25 junction because I always drop to G or gsm just a few miles to the East in Tandridge.

[adamtemp64]

@aldaweb the coverage map shows that but has extended south almost to gatwick for outdoor on launch day it stopped in salford.

We do work for east surrey hospital that and the nearest mcdonalds on the a23is where I tested it yesterday