I'm currently using Mobile Hotspot on my Thunderbolt to connect my laptop to the internet, and decided to see what the speeds were. This is the 4G speed I'm getting, and I'm not even supposed to be in a 4G area at the moment.

Decent?




And this is is my Comcast speed from my home router.

4G hasn't been defined, so no one is actually selling "4G". They're just selling you high speed 3G. But yes, that's a very good speed for a phone, especially since it's eclipsing your home computer's down speed.

The uplink is a bit slow, but I assume with phone apps you're downloading a lot more than you're uploading.

It's Verizon's 4G LTE network. I believe Verizon's is "REAL" 4G unlike WiMax "4G"?

Its still 3g, its just marketing term they're using
ITU Requirements and 4G wireless standards

Peak data rates of up to approximately 100 Mbit/s for high mobility such as mobile access and up to approximately 1 Gbit/s for low mobility such as nomadic/local wireless access, according to the ITU requirements.

No clues to what you just said, so I'll take your word for it

This post was edited by bigbody989 on Mar 23 2011 07:17pm

No, LTE is not yet "4G" and Clearwire/Sprint's 4G WiMax network could be 4G with an update to 802.16m.

I has slow interwebs at home