Blown away by Three

Just took out a Galaxy S4 on contract with Three, on The One Plan which comes bundled with truly unlimited tethering.

Downloaded some torrents last night averaging over 2MB (Yes, Megabytes) a second.

http://www.speedtest.net/result/2747103821.png
http://www.pingtest.net/result/82039716.png

>>>WOW<<<

I'll be cancelling my landline when the contract is up!

Don't go cancelling that contract yet, that speed is going to get chopped down as more people move to 4g.

That isn't 4G ... Three don't have 4G yet. That would have been DC-HSDPA, which has a connection speed of 42Mbps.

Edited by deleted (Sun 02-Jun-13 10:21:03)

In reply to a post by 5km:

That isn't 4G ... Three don't have 4G yet. That would have been DC-HSDPA, which has a connection speed of 42Mbps.

Yes, the phone was connecting in HSDPA mode not LTE mode

Don't get to excited I've had no signal for a couple of weeks and it's been and an off like that for the past few years.

Back in Exeter... Full five bars of "H+" and only getting one meg lol

oh well

Try making phone calls on three even in the bigger cities whilst driving, on a train etc.
That call will keep dropping out as I found!

Their lack of a 2g fallback causes issues.

Their lack of a 2g fallback causes issues.

Still falls back to Orange 2G in Kent, just Orange 2G coverage is only a percentage point better than 3's 3G.

Hopefully things will get better with 4G on low frequencies ... but as 3 only got 2x 5Mhz blocks at ~800Mhz I doubt their 4G will be any faster than 3G is now. But finally might see some indoor coverage,

In reply to a post by 5km:

Their lack of a 2g fallback causes issues.

Still falls back to Orange 2G in Kent, just Orange 2G coverage is only a percentage point better than 3's 3G.

Most Orange 2G fallback has been turned off by Three now to save money. Orange in Kent is still better than Vodafone in London!!

In reply to a post by izools:

I'll be cancelling my landline when the contract is up!

Mobile speeds can peak very well but you'll find over a 30day period the average is generally a lot lower than a fixed line service.

Don't forget many cell sites will have to slow everyone down just to get the number of customers on the system at the same time.