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Re:iPhone 12 and iPhone 12 Pro by jeroen on Tuesday October 13, 2020 @02:43PM (#24768678)
A few days ago I downloaded a 4.8GB MacOS update over a 4G connection. That took 25 minutes, which is an average of 3.2 MB/s. My provider claims 30 Mbit/s, so that is pretty reasonable.
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Re:iPhone 12 and iPhone 12 Pro by llampx on Tuesday October 13, 2020 @02:49PM (#24768776)
That's great and all, but that would leave me with 0.2 GB of data for the rest of the month (Germany). Great now I just have to disable downloading of pictures and videos in Whatsapp.
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Re:iPhone 12 and iPhone 12 Pro by zfnmxt on Tuesday October 13, 2020 @05:53PM (#24770753)
I had unlimited data from O2 in Germany earlier this year. It was something like 55 euros/month without a contract.

In Denmark, I get unlimited data for 18 euros/month. I don't have a wired connection; I just use my phone as a hotspot.

(Both were really 1TB/month before throttling and not truly unlimited.)

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Re:iPhone 12 and iPhone 12 Pro by izacus on Wednesday October 14, 2020 @06:45AM (#24775156)
Top speed of LTE is about 300Mbps. Meaning you got about 10% of maximum bandwidth availble on LTE.

Which kinda tells how 5G is also a marketing gimmick - it's theory of 2Gbps will be hugely different from actual reality you'll get when using it.

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