Verizon 4G LTE is down, nationwide outage confirmed

Re:Verizon 4G LTE is down, nationwide outage confirmed by Karunamon on Wednesday December 07, 2011 @08:48PM (#3327153)

I know it's an overly snarky comment, but being from a state that has literally ZERO 4g coverage, I gotta share the frustration. You have to live in a huge city to even get the signal, and when you do get it, your battery consumption is greatly increased. 4G as it stands for me is a huge pile of care not.

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Re:Verizon 4G LTE is down, nationwide outage confirmed by imbriaco on Wednesday December 07, 2011 @09:58PM (#3327353)

You actually don't have to live in _that_ large of a city. The Raleigh/Durham MSAs combine for about 1.6M in total population spread over a pretty sprawling area and we have had LTE service for a few months.

I frankly don't get the complaints or the folks who are going to downgrade to 3G. If you don't have LTE available, the device will fall back to 3G. When you do have LTE available, however, the performance can be unbelievable. I was co-working with a colleague and we were getting 20Mbps down and 10Mbps up over a little MiFi.

I'll hang onto my LTE MiFi, thankyouverymuch. :)

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Re:Verizon 4G LTE is down, nationwide outage confirmed by mrb on Wednesday December 07, 2011 @10:30PM (#3327461)

For comparison, the best I have measured with a 3G technology (HSDPA) was 10 Mbps down, while downloading from kernel.org on my laptop, tethered to my phone over wifi, in a sparsely populated area covered by a strong HSDPA signal.

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Re:Verizon 4G LTE is down, nationwide outage confirmed by dangrossman on Wednesday December 07, 2011 @10:59PM (#3327569)

I don't live in any large city. I'm 30 miles from the nearest one, Philadelphia, and have 4G service on Sprint. I've been on 4G since 6/2010.

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