{"id":548,"date":"2012-08-24T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2012-08-24T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2012\/08\/4g-wireless-internet-speeds.html"},"modified":"2012-08-24T08:00:00","modified_gmt":"2012-08-24T12:00:00","slug":"4g-wireless-internet-speeds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2012\/08\/4g-wireless-internet-speeds.html","title":{"rendered":"4G wireless Internet speeds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\nHow fast is\n<a href=\"\/blog\/2012\/08\/verizon-or-att-4g-in-lowndes-county.html\">\n4G wireless Internet,<\/a> anyway?\nMark Sullivan wrote for PCWorld 7 May 2012,\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.pcworld.com\/article\/254888\/3g4g_performance_map_data_speeds_for_atandt_sprint_tmobile_and_verizon.html\">\n3G\/4G Performance Map: Data Speeds for AT&amp;T, Sprint, T-Mobile, and Verizon<\/a>,\n<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.pcworld.com\/article\/254888\/3g4g_performance_map_data_speeds_for_atandt_sprint_tmobile_and_verizon.html\">\n<img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:right;border:none;\" class=\"at-xid-6a0120a58214e4970b0177444c4d68970d\" src=\"\/blog\/images\/6a0120a58214e4970b0177444c4d68970d-pi.jpg\"    \/><\/a>\nWe saw three major patterns in our 4G test results. In five cities\n(Atlanta, Boston, Las Vegas, Los Angeles, and San Francisco), AT&amp;T\nswept the 4G upload and download competitions; in four (Denver, New\nOrleans, San Jose, and Seattle), Verizon swept both; and in the\nremaining four (Chicago, Dallas, New York, and Washington, D.C.),\nAT&amp;T won for downloads and Verizon prevailed for uploads. Notably,\nin two of the cities where Verizon ruled (Denver and Seattle), AT&amp;T\ndoesn&#8217;t offer 4G LTE service.\n<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\nAnd you&#8217;ll notice a pattern right away: they only tested big cities.\nSo your mileage may vary around here.\nHowever, PCWorld&#8217;s observed <em>average<\/em> 4G speeds for\nVerizon were 7.35 Mbps down and 5.86Mbps up,\nand for AT&amp;T 9.12Mbps down and 4.91Mpgs up.\nVerizon&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.att.com\/network\/?view=technology&amp;WT.srch=1&amp;wtPaidSearchTerm=4g\">\nHomeFusion Broadband<\/a>\nweb page claims:\n<\/p>\n<blockquote>\nHomeFusion Broadband* is a residential Internet solution that uses Verizon&#8217;s 4G LTE network to bring reliable, high-speed Internet service to customers with limited broadband options.\n<h3>\nFeatures\n<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>\nFast Internet access with average speeds of\n5-12 Mbps download and 2-5 Mbps upload\n<\/li>\n<li>\nWi-Fi connectivity for up to 20 devices\n<\/li>\n<li>\nWired (Ethernet) connectivity for up to 4 devices\n<\/li>\n<li>\nUp to 5 email accounts included\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\nThat&#8217;s faster than Mediacom and\nway faster than AT&amp;T&#8217;s alleged 3Mbps DSL I&#8217;m using at the moment,\nwhich shows 3.5Mbps down and 0.38Mbps up.\nPrices start at $60\/month,\nthe same as for Verizon&#8217;s Mobile Broadband 5G, which\n<a href=\"http:\/\/3gstore.com\/page\/78_what_is_evdo_mobile_broadband.html\">\nwith EVDO typically does\naround 1Mbps down and 0.7Mbps up<\/a>\nand\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.pcmag.com\/article2\/0,2817,2402900,00.asp\">\nwith 4G typically does 5Mbps down and 3Mbps up.<\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p>\nWhy do these speeds matter?\nWell, for video blogging, videos of a one hour meeting can take\n8 hours to upload at 0.38 Mbps.\nAt 5Mbps they should take less than an hour.\nThat makes it a lot easier for LAKE to get you coverage of local events.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nIf you&#8217;re not video blogging, you still might like to be able to see\nGeorge Rhynes&#8217; excellent video coverage of events in Lowndes, Brooks,\nLanier, and other counties.\nAnd nevermind video:\na lot of people around here have no Internet access at all.\nThis would be one way to get it.\nSome people around here already use Verizon&#8217;s mobile devices at home,\nbecause otherwise they&#8217;re stuck with dialup.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThen there&#8217;s reliability.\nI, for one, would like not to see ATM Cell Header Errors anymore,\nnor the &#8220;page not found, retry?&#8221; errors every few minutes.\nIf you don&#8217;t know what those are, you probably don&#8217;t have AT&amp;T DSL.\nIt&#8217;s sad that wireless might be more reliable than copper.\nBut I&#8217;m also glad about that because wireless doesn&#8217;t require running wires.\nAnd did I mention 4G wireless appears to be faster?\n<\/p>\n<p>\n-jsq\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"How fast is 4G wireless Internet, anyway? 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