Why is it these days you only seem to be able to get a web page to load if you have H+ displayed?

I don’t have 4G yet – my phone displays G, E (Vodafone Edge I believe), 3G (very occasionally), H and H+. Sometimes – i.e. very rarely – I can get a page to load with one of the other symbols, but generally it’s only when H+ is displayed.

In the days before 3G, granted it was slow, but at least pages would load – why not now?

Your not the only one to notice that, sat with some colleagues at lunch the other day and all of us have noticed this.
Unless H+ was displayed on the signal strength everything would just time out.
We had a mix of Samsung, Sony, HTC & iPhone all on different networks too.

Also get this a lot on Vodafone. Full signal, with E showing, and data is unusable. However it still seems to manage to chew through a fair bit of my data allowance by trying to load stuff…

Edge is worthless so is G only H, 3g and 4G are decent for Internet.

I’ve moved recently so I’ve been trying a number of different networks to see whose coverage is best in the places I go to.

I’ve found with O2 the data connectivity is poor, even if showing H+ the connection often just doesn’t do anything.

EE 4G is temperamental

Vodafone was pretty reliable even when only showing 3G

For me

VF were shite pish poor 3G

EE 4G oarsome 24+ meg down 14 up

Day and night service

Way better than my home broadband max is 2.5 meg

EE is what I’m on right now, got a free limited edition SIM around Christmas with 100gb per month of free 4G data for 2 months. We only have 1.2meg ADSL here so the 20meg 4G connection afforded by tethering to the phone is awesome…

…when it works. Probably 80% of the time it’s fine but sometimes it just doesn’t want to know and I go back to the ADSL.

There is some suggestion that resources are being diverted away from lesser networks to make the better ones even better and therefore make them “worth it”.

Pretty much what Vodafone said when I left them for Three a few months ago. Given the mess they’d let their network get into why would I have confidence in them doing a half decent job with 4G! Three by comparison has been a joy.

molgrips – Member

There is some suggestion that resources are being diverted away from lesser networks to make the better ones even better and therefore make them “worth it”.
Sounds plausible as we have a 4G mast on top of our silos and those with 4G get super levels of speed yet those of us on non 4G plans all have the same issue