Rotate image Save Cancel. Breaking news: See More. Next Last. Short story: actually more or less usable. Better than I expected after reading many of the comments here essentially implying an unusable device. Long story: SiriusXM app, normal music quality setting. Roughly a 10 to 20 second delay before streaming but then worked fine without pauses. There were a few "you aren't connected to the Internet" warnings but didn't seem to materially affect things. GMail app.
Refreshed inbox to show one new email from my Nest camera. This took maybe 3 seconds. Clicking on the email showed with embedded image in about 8 seconds. Spotify, with "data saver" turned on. Roughly a 10 to 15 second delay before streaming but then worked fine without pauses.
I'm no audiophile but I couldn't really detect a quality difference with "data saver" turned on through my AirPods.
Never fully loaded with all images for some reason likely relying on multiple servers and one or more timed out but text was readable in about 1. Clicked on an article and it was readable in about 10 seconds. Navigated back, clicked on another article which was readable in about 10 seconds again.
Any one post loaded in about 5 seconds. Sending a random image from my photo roll took 80 seconds. Facebook worked oddly really well. May 14, , pm EDT.
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The theoretical maximum performance of a 3G network is technically up to 3. T-Mobile , for example, caps the hotspot speeds of their Unlimited Essentials plan at 3G speeds, and many users claim to get around Kbps down and up. Xfinity Mobile and Spectrum Mobile similarly cap their hotspot speeds at Kbps. At the Kbps data speed cap, we started to notice a few of the tasks take a little bit longer.
Loading a picture email, for example, went from taking only 2. Still, despite taking longer to load, Kbps handled everything no problem. Picture messages sent and received, music streaming started just a few seconds after hitting play, and even when playing a YouTube video it only took It's fine for some light social media, web browsing, and even music streaming.
Text-based communication like emails and messages will work best. Loading pictures and video content will take longer. I'd say Kbps is probably on par with your "slow hotel Wi-Fi" kinda feel. It'll load your content just as you're thinking of quitting or refreshing the page. There were previously two different types of 2G technology. Now that most areas have solid LTE coverage, most 2G speeds are actually imposed by software on the network.
These 2G speeds range from Kbps, to Kbps, down to 64Kbps. The Kbps speed cap is where we start to notice things getting It took almost 2x as long to load the picture email, with the picture downloading after a full Now in some scenarios, 30 seconds may seem like a super short time, like a second rest during a workout routine, but when you're trying to use your phone it feels like an eternity.
Video playback similarly took much longer at Kbps, with the video starting after However, the video playback still worked. And what also worked surprisingly well was music playback.
Despite the slightly longer loading time, once the music had buffered the playback was smooth enough. This is probably the slowest speed you can get by on if you're just doing some light email, text-based chatting like Facebook Messenger, WhatsApp, or iMessage, or streaming music in the background.
Expect things to take longer, but if you're patient enough they will load. At Kbps and 64Kbps, we have things start to basically break down. Most notably, music streaming. Instead of getting a smooth playback, music streaming was choppy.
It was impossible to listen to even a single song without the music pausing to load and catch up with itself.
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