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Graph of real world 4G performance/speeds

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  • 13-11-2013 11:35am
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    bealtine
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    oscarBravo
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    The X-axis is concurrent users?


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    bealtine
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    oscarBravo wrote: »
    The X-axis is concurrent users?

    yes


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    bealtine
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    Here's the original source, well where I picked it up from :


    http://nbnmyths.wordpress.com/

    Refers to Australia but applies equally here


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    watty
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    It's a generous graph, as you move it SLOWER according to key for signal quality.

    So for the number of users evenly spread over a full cell area, the median user speed is about 1/4 or less the suggested speed.

    It's also full duplex 20MHz + 20MHz. If you have 10MHz, it's 1/2, if you have 5MHz, it's 1/4.

    Very old news: 2009
    http://www.radioway.info/comparewireless/img10.html

    Here many users see under 0.5Mbps
    http://www.radioway.info/comparewireless/img11.html


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    watty
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    bealtine wrote: »
    Here's the original source, well where I picked it up from :


    http://nbnmyths.wordpress.com/

    Refers to Australia but applies equally here

    No, I think here is much worse :)

    I thought the headline speed is 1/2 to 1/4 here, only 10MHz and 5MHz spectrum per operator.

    You really need 3 channels of 20MHz Duplex to get a graph as good as that on a real network, 120+ 120 MHz. Who has as much as that here?


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    bealtine
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    These are the conclusions of the mobile industry, granted it's from 2009 just after the LTE standards were frozen . It is however FROM the mobile industry:

    http://www.atis.org/lte/documents/Does%20LTE%20Do%20What%20It%20Says%20on%20the%20Box.pdf

    Explains the effects of the shared nature of radio networks, in this case mobile.

    (old hat for the user of this group but worth re-stating now we have all the "sooperfast nonsense in the media)

    Includes key points like this:

    "At any given instant, the cell’s spectral resource is shared between all active users" also has an excellent graphic on page 16 which shows why LTE will never delivers 30Mb/s or indeed any guaranteed speed...


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    AlanS181824
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    Very interesting. Thanks OP


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    justforgroups
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    bealtine wrote: »
    yes
    You mean the scale is individual users? Or is the scale per hundred, thousand, million...?


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    bealtine
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    justforgroups wrote: »
    You mean the scale is individual users? Or is the scale per hundred, thousand, million...?

    individual users


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