How fast is 4G?

בתאריך 25 ספטמבר, 2020

4G offers maximum real-world download speeds up to around 100Mbps, making it over 20 times faster than 3G.

How fast is 4G?

4G offers maximum real-world download speeds up to around 100Mbps, making it over 20 times faster than 3G.

Theoretical maximum 4G speeds are significantly higher at 300Mbps, although such speeds are only achievable in controlled laboratory environments.

Theoretical speeds by network technology

To understand just how fast 4G is, we need to put the technology into perspective against the older mobile network technologies, namely 3G and 3G HSPA+. To do so we'll look at the theoretical and real-world performance of 4G LTE, as well as looking at 4G speeds on the UK's mobile networks. We’ll also do the same for 5G, which is another jump up in speed.

When it comes to measuring mobile network speeds there are two situations which are of interest, theoretical and the real world.

Theoretical speeds are those which you can expect to obtain in a laboratory environment with perfect conditions, while real world speeds are those you can expect to get everyday using your phone on a real mobile network.

To benchmark network speeds, we are interested in download and upload speeds.Download speeds are the rate at which mobile data is transferred from the internet to your phone or mobile device e.g. downloading a video. While upload speeds are the rate that mobile data is transferred from your phone or mobile device to the internet e.g. uploading a photo to Facebook.

4G (4G LTE) offers typical download speeds of around 20Mbps and theoretical ones of 150Mbps. So for example, you could download a medium sized app in under 15 seconds or load a YouTube video in under 2 seconds. The same 500MB file should be downloadable in under 4 minutes.

4G boosts upload speeds to 8Mbps on average and 50Mbps at the very top end. The same 10MB file or image would take just 1.25 seconds to download.

4G LTE-Advanced is a faster version of 4G with typical real-world download speeds of 42Mbps and theoretical limits of 300Mbps.

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