by starkmonster » Thu Jun 05, 2014 9:24 am
TristranandIsolde wrote:ken svay wrote:I have cellcard on the phone and metfone on the ipad. Metfone is always slower whether in the city or on the outskirts, often really slow.
Strange, I've had the opposite results. Near BKK1. Cellcard speedtest.net terrible like 0,4 Mbps and Metfone is so-so at around 1-2 Mbps.
For mobile internet speed the blockage used to be the bandwidth the company had going out of the country, now the blockage is the towers which are overloaded. This means you will usually get much lower speeds in high population areas as a single tower has too many people connected to it trying to use the internet at the same time.
Once 4G is rolled out the towers will be able to handle a far higher load. Don't expect internet speeds to go up much more than what you see now on a good day (e.g. 5-6Mbps) but expect the speed to be much more consistent regardless of your location. Once 4G is in place the limiting factor will likely be the international bandwidth again. At the end of the day you can stream HD on 7Mbps, anything above that is just for showing off.
It's cyclical just like the balance between computer hardware and software in the 90s/00s, you have periods where the hardware is ahead of the software followed by periods where the software becomes more demanding and hardware needs to be upgraded.
[quote="TristranandIsolde"][quote="ken svay"]I have cellcard on the phone and metfone on the ipad. Metfone is always slower whether in the city or on the outskirts, often really slow.[/quote]
Strange, I've had the opposite results. Near BKK1. Cellcard speedtest.net terrible like 0,4 Mbps and Metfone is so-so at around 1-2 Mbps.[/quote]
For mobile internet speed the blockage used to be the bandwidth the company had going out of the country, now the blockage is the towers which are overloaded. This means you will usually get much lower speeds in high population areas as a single tower has too many people connected to it trying to use the internet at the same time.
Once 4G is rolled out the towers will be able to handle a far higher load. Don't expect internet speeds to go up much more than what you see now on a good day (e.g. 5-6Mbps) but expect the speed to be much more consistent regardless of your location. Once 4G is in place the limiting factor will likely be the international bandwidth again. At the end of the day you can stream HD on 7Mbps, anything above that is just for showing off.
It's cyclical just like the balance between computer hardware and software in the 90s/00s, you have periods where the hardware is ahead of the software followed by periods where the software becomes more demanding and hardware needs to be upgraded.