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Last night I ran speed tests for cellular data (not wifi) and got varying download results ranging from 3M to 8M. The tests were run a few minutes apart, at the same physical place. Would you expect that to happen?
Also, what does the Ping number tell you? (It's an Ookla speed test app.)
I had a problem last night (ATT wireless near L.A.) where most web pages were abnormally slow most of the time but occasionally would be normal. It switched between slow and normal every few minutes. What would cause that? The bars on my phone looked normal, like 3-5 bars like usual.
No mystery with the variation with speeds. Depends how many people are using the tower in question. When I live (vacation land) my local ATT tower runs at 10-12megs during the week. Come the weekend and vacationers the speed can drop as low as 1meg.
And your number of bars has no relation to data speed, but rather phone call signal strength. At home my bar strength is the same, regardless of data speed. I hope that helps.
Not sure what the ping thing means. Had fast ping and crap speeds and fast ping with good speed, however longer pings seem to always have slow data speed.
04-09-2016, 09:10 PM
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ping = how long it takes to contact a remote computer and get a reply back
You could have high transfer speeds accompanied with high ping, e.g. satellite internet routinely hits around half a second, making it unusable for things like online gaming, but that same connection might be just fine for downloading large files.
Detail: when my phone browser is slow, I can use the Gmail or Facebook apps and they're fast. But don't the apps work with data the same way as the browser?
I even loaded a second browser. Same slowness problem. I also asked the people in the ATT store and they don't know of any problems.
Wifi is also fast as usual.
I've been using cell data in the same place physically for years. Only now there is a slowdown.
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