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To: Road Walker who wrote (11238)10/19/2011 6:03:56 PM
From: pyslent  Read Replies (2) of 32692
 
"If it takes me one second to load something and it takes you 1/10 of a second (I kinda doubt that) I'll take the trade off."

Here's a real life benchmark. On Sprint 3G, I get 552 Kbps download speeds on a mobile broadband test. To load the subjectmarks page of SI, it took 3.9 seconds. After switching on 4G WIMAX, my download speed clocked in at 2930 Kbps. Loading SI took 2.9 seconds. Incidentally, on wifi (6408 kbps), loading SI took 2.4 seconds. Clearly, diminishing returns for bandwidth.

4G is better when you can get it, no doubt. But it does suck down battery twice as quickly. It's not worth it to me unless I am doing some video streaming or need to download a large file. I keep it switched off 99% of the time. But it's a nice option, if you have it.
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