[Closed] How good is 4g really?

When I can get it it's good, coverage is patchy and unpredictable though.

Might work, might not I guess, any reading fans out there want to offer first hand info? I'm not taken with it for personal use. I don't need to watch videos when out and about. Email is currently fast enough. It's just the competition for band width during popular events that crushes the 3G service.

How good 4G is isn't relevant to your question really. What you really need to know is how good is the in-stadium coverage scheme, and does it include your network?

In a crowded stadium it's very difficult to provide enough capacity for 20K+ people all trying to FB, tweet, send pics and god forbid, call people. At the moment a really good small cell stadium scheme (as was put in for the Olympic Stadium 2012) can give OK capacity, but it's always going to be finite (unless we're talking LTE broadcast but that's for sending stuff to people rather than people sending stuff).

It's much better than 3G from an overall radio capacity but you might be limited by the backhaul.

Off the top of my head I can't remember if Reading's in-stadium coverage has been upgraded to 4G.

Your best chance will be to send during play - before and during half time the network is much busier. Afterwards isn't bad.

I found it was so good, that when I was on it I was able to stream youtube to my phone so quickly I didn't notice I wasn't on wifi. Same with Facebook instant videos. I had to disable all auto streaming and high quality video when not on wifi to stop 4g chewing through all my data.

Hum, afterwards is not an option. Print deadline cones minutes after final whistle if normal time and they just will not wait. I'm happy that 4 is better than 3. 3 is absent in most busy locations and nothing gets through when you need it. Fewer people have 4. I hope this would let me send to a less crowded network. Wifi is available, but it's not where close to the giant green thing they insist on playing on.

Jam was that at the stadium in question or generally? I'm sure it's as fast as a greased cat.

When I can find it, it's amazingly fast, I can upload a bunch of photos to Fb faster than on my fibre broadband at home, but it shows up in the oddest places around Chippenham; nowhere in the centre, but I can get it round a public park, (John Coles), and some way along the A420 Bristol Road, I can get it in a pub in Colerne, near Bath, but nowhere in Bath, and I've got it along the Herepath, a track running from Avebury up to the Ridgeway, but not in Avebury, in fact no O2 signal at all.
I've got an O2 mast about thirty meters from my house, but no 4G.
Bloody annoying that roll-out is so bizarrely patchy and inconsistent.

Sorry that's just generally. Also keep in mind that uploading speeds will always be much slower than dl.

Upload is about 50%+ of download with 4G - one of the big advantages over 3G is the upload.

At my desk I can regularly get 95Mbps down and 50Mbps up. I am about 3m away from an in-building 4G node.

Just tried a speedtest at my house. 32Mbps down, 20 up.

42Mbps download, 20Mpbs upload at my house with 4G, which is irronically about 10 times faster than I can get via BT / Sky.

It's effected by atmospherics and obviously if the service is over subscribed it won't work.

Holy crap!

Find 4G to be very fast (around 50mbps) I know in some big city EE are rolling out 100mbps.

I notice it when I can't get it and have to use 3G.

But say that at Old Trafford on match day its just as crap as 3G

I live in the middle of Bristol and on O2 get no 4G. However i can get it in Portishead, Keynsham, a random field next to Hicks Gate roundabout and other weird rural areas. Very annoying. EE is brilliant round yer though.

Sorry - totally irrelevant to the OP!

As good as home broadband in my experience and I get 76mbs at home

Great, but with a few thousand others sharing one mast really poor.

I am a season ticket holder at madejski. You will not get any data signal for about 2 hrs in the stadium. That's with o2 and voda.

Oh crap! Could be a long frustrating night. Thanks. I've asked for the wifi, might gave to run away from the match now and then.

I was at Reading last Tuesday to watch BHA (who decided not to turn up, in a playing sense) and found the 4G signal ok (on Three). Didn't do any speed tests but I had a long video chat with my lads before the game with absolutely no problems and sent a few photos ok.
Only 14000 there though so it may be worse if it's nearer capacity.

I've got 4g on EE with my work iPhone and is good when it's available which is not very often apart from random places in the valleys and cities of course. Streams videos etc as good as wifi if not better

I've just got a personal iPhone 6 with a giffgaff 4g sim (O2) but no 3G/4G coverage at home so bit crap so gonna down grade it to a 3G contract (monthly) next. Not enough 4G coverage where I live to justify having it at the moment

I have 4G from EE on my own phone and 4G from Voda on the work phone.

EE is excellent, always seem to have good signal be it 4G or 3G and speeds have been pretty good in some places. EE have not long tested a 4G speed of 400 Mbps at Wembley.

Voda on the other hand is dire, never get signal and when I do it's slow and rubbish.

Mostly, 4G is really good. O2's seemed to be falling over the other day near Liverpool Street Station though.