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ajw

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#998158 3-Mar-2014 13:48

sbiddle: That Ookla data is complete and utter rubbish. It doesn't represent true real world results and is skewed as others have pointed out by LTE results.

Having said that NZ does have 2 of the best LTE networks in the world. Try getting over 100Mbps in the USA..

Of course population would have nothing to do with this equation.

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#998978 4-Mar-2014 18:21

ajw:
sbiddle: That Ookla data is complete and utter rubbish. It doesn't represent true real world results and is skewed as others have pointed out by LTE results.

Having said that NZ does have 2 of the best LTE networks in the world. Try getting over 100Mbps in the USA..

Of course population would have nothing to do with this equation.

How Ookla calculates no,

How it affects us.. Yes. It would cost 10 fold if not more per consumer for Vodafone's LTE network Vs america its a small proportion of that.

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#999059 4-Mar-2014 20:22

My 4G Mobile Speedtest - Could only afford to do one test lol I only get 500MB on my plan. It took like somewhere between 100 and 200MB to do that speedtest lol

My RBI ADSL2+ Home Broadband Speeds

Just for laughs AUT speedtest from WA4 computer room

Maybe we can expect that from 5G? Probably not lol

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#999060 4-Mar-2014 20:23

KiwiPower: My 4G Mobile Speedtest - Could only afford to do one test lol

My RBI ADSL2+ Home Broadband Speeds

You would think the faster medium would have more generous data caps -_-
I only get 500MB on my plan. It took like somewhere between 100 and 200MB to do that speedtest lol

"would have more generous data caps"

Please save us ALL and DONT go into that discussion.

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#999067 4-Mar-2014 20:49

why does a 4g speedtest cost 100MB?

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#999069 4-Mar-2014 20:51

joker97: why does a 4g speedtest cost 100MB?

How will you get your maximum throughput over a 5MB file, When it doesnt have time to ramp up? By the time it gets to finished it would have got maybe 15-30Mbp/s

5MB as an example, Its situation, Speedtest doesnt always just go BAM 100MB file. Go hard and download!! It may do a 65MB file, ETC..

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#999070 4-Mar-2014 20:52

joker97: why does a 4g speedtest cost 100MB?

to bait people into buying bigger datacaps of-course ;)

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#999165 4-Mar-2014 22:33

joker97: why does a 4g speedtest cost 100MB?

No matter what speed you have it usually tests for a similar amount of time. Therefore faster connections will rip through more data in that time. For example if you managed to get on speedtest.net with dialup and ran a test you'd only use a few KB.

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#999203 5-Mar-2014 01:14

TimA:

Uhmm, promoting Vodafone are you?! :D

Luckely that is not what I am seeing on 3G or 4G here on Vodafone :)

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#999204 5-Mar-2014 01:47

jarledb:
TimA:

Uhmm, promoting Vodafone are you?! :D

Luckely that is not what I am seeing on 3G or 4G here on Vodafone :)

idk... pretty fast for vodafone dont ya think eh?

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#999360 5-Mar-2014 11:51

I have 3.5GB of data on my $89 a month VF plan. Seems reasonable to me.

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#999385 5-Mar-2014 12:31

Kopkiwi: I have 3.5GB of data on my $89 a month VF plan. Seems reasonable to me.

I have 1Gb on my $125/month plan - plus 2500 texts I do not use.

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#999389 5-Mar-2014 12:37

Geektastic:
Kopkiwi: I have 3.5GB of data on my $89 a month VF plan. Seems reasonable to me.

I have 1Gb on my $125/month plan - plus 2500 texts I do not use.

Found the best thing to do was go on a cheap plan and throw lots of data add ons

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#999445 5-Mar-2014 13:46

Geektastic:
Kopkiwi: I have 3.5GB of data on my $89 a month VF plan. Seems reasonable to me.

I have 1Gb on my $125/month plan - plus 2500 texts I do not use.

I have prepay 4G on Vodafone. Costs me $19 a month for 500 MB and some text and call minutes + $10 if I need another 500 MB (Which would put me at your 1 GB). (Doubt you have 1 Gbit data a month, sounds a bit low). ;)

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