4g speeds being very poor?

[Anonymous]

Hi, 

Unsure if anyone can really help but i have recently taken a new contract on 4g services with the Nokia 1020 and i must admit i thought there would be a decent speed boost over 3g but in all honesty after testing the service i must admit i am disappointed. 

In all speedtests i never appear to go above 2.2Mb down and 900Mb up with a 65m ping time. 

However on one of my older contracts with Three on it's 3g service i appear to be seeing 14/20Mb down and 2.5Mb up with a 40ms ping in the same areas.

I am not currently finding o2 4g services anything to get excited over 😕

[Anonymous]

Completely aggree 02's 4g is rubbish I see very little difference I cannot walk to my local and stream ipayer without it cutting out.

Spoke with 02 techical support and they said that even if my phone showed a 4g connect it may well be the same speed as 3g the best speeds I've seen were 40mb not in my area but I'm lucky if I get 8mb most of the time.

http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/08/has-o2-bitten-off-more-than-it-can-chew-with-4g-in-the-uk/

[MI5]

Your link is dated 1 Aug 2013 so a little irrelevant perhaps....?
Regardless 8mbps is plenty fast enough for streaming so if you are buffering on those speeds something else is wrong somewhere?

[Anonymous]

8mb if I am luck mostly 4mb at least I only have 2 months left on my contract.

[MI5]

Ah, OK - Still 4mb OK for streaming too, in fact anything over 1mbps will work fine......

[Anonymous]

it's a 4g service I could 16mb on 3g 1mb on 4g is rubbish

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[MI5]

I agree, the speeds are rubbish for 4g, but I was just saying it shouldn't stop you streaming though.......