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Re:The State of LTE by b1tr0t on Tuesday February 12, 2013 @11:48AM (#5207897)
Your graphs are pretty -- and it's an interesting page, but your ping section makes me wonder about the rest of your data.

You don't qualify what you're pinging, but if we're talking ping to the internet gateway, ping over a strong 802.11n connection on my iPhone 5 is 2 - 5 milliseconds on my local network. The same is not true of LTE which has more typically a 100ms latency to the carrier internet gateway.

LTE definitely brought down latency from 3G! But it's nowhere near as low latency as a good 802.11n connection!

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Re:The State of LTE by pavelpadovan on Tuesday February 12, 2013 @12:09PM (#5208012)
True, we're pinging google.com (which resolves to its local sites) over the active data connection - whatever flavour of Wi-Fi or 3G. We could have also broken this down by 3G types e.g. UMTS vs HSPA etc. The idea is not to show the theoretical maximum of LTE or Wi-Fi, if we wanted to that we'd just use a dozen phones in lab conditions. Rather, we wanted to get a feel for the changes in user experience of the mobile web, so this data is drawn from a set of 9m speed tests run with the OpenSignal app.
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