4G?

I didnt really notice the difference, biggest speed i need is for youtube, which is never HD anyway



Mayne 1/10th of my time on the net 3g vs 4g might be a thing

 

Depends on too many things .... how it's implemented, what technology you use, who the provider is. There is not one single 4G standard.

And many times, as VG said, you won't really feel the difference. Also: the "perceived" speed of an internet connection can be affected by slow server response or even by a sub-standard or poorly maintained computer.

Depends on the cost in the end. If the difference is minimal then go for it. Maybe they'll kill off 3G next year just to force everybody to buy new hardware.

 

4G LTE definitely faster than 3G and the implementation is totally different.

 

If you're phone has 4g than no, you can just set up a hotspot. Otherwise, it depends what you do I suppose. If you're just checking you email every now and then, then no. Streaming video, absolutely.

In my case my 4g provider (t-mobile) tries to prevent me from doing this. But I'm running a custom mod on my droid. That's not essential either though. As long as you've rooted your phone you can set up a hotspot.

They actually try one more hoop, to catch people doing this. If you try to use the internet from anything other than a cell phone, they send you to a redirect page. But of course, they just look at your useragent, so one little change to about:config takes care of that. There's a chrome app that'll just let you pick an android user-agent too. The FCC actually ruled that telecoms couldn't restrict access in that fashion, but through some loopholes that only applies to certain bandwidths.

 

i dont like when companies try to be controlling like that, make the rebellious types just wanna work around it

i see things such as phones as something like an arm processor, some memory, a display, with a 4g modem and wifi radio .. that's what they sold me and i should be able to do whatever i want with those parts. and having to call the service provider to "flip the switch" to allow a certain function makes no sense to me, since they aren't even the manufacturer in the first place! .. just like ISP's wanting people to pay extra to have wifi .. they really have nothing at all to do with wifi and i really do hate ISPs, especially time warner cable cuz the more i fuck with that box they leased me the more i find out about it. and i generally prefer to know exactly what's going on, i dont like mysteries. I found an SSH port open which gives a login shell, but this isn't the same thing as the normal configuration page it takes a different set of credentials too.. i'm pretty sure this is there so they (or whoever) can run a script to reconfigure it or something. Stuff like this really should be in the fucking manual, but guess what its not cuz it didnt come with one! and the manual for it would do no good cuz im sure the boxes that are leased by them get custom firmware (crapware). reconfiguring that box is more difficult than it should be as well, and certain settings are impossible to change because they seem to be disabled by the firmware altogether .. it also seems impossible to just change ONE setting, u have to put everything to default, then make all the changes you need in one go. im sure theres other backdoors that i havent found, and im not really concerned with the MODEM .. technically the modem is part of their network, what concerns me is they package the router and wifi AP into the same box.

idk y shit like this pisses me off so much but it does, i guess i feel like they're attempting to control me, or control how i use something, or what i can do with it, or how i do a certain thing and i dont like that. i like to explore.

 

I've had both 3g and 4g devices on Sprint's network so I'll just tell you my experience.

3g has much better coverage and signal quality. 4g has higher speeds but you usually need good location to achieve them. Like I've used my phones as hotspots for years, and when I used 4g if I were in a basement or something I'd get no signal. I'd usually have to be 2nd floor or above. It can also be hit or miss as you drive around, and most people have 4g so on some towers you don't see anywhere near full speed. I downgraded to 3g because I get reliable signal pretty much anywhere and at 200 kb/s down it isn't bad, good enough for youtube and fast surfing. To me, 3g/4g's usefulness is in its portability, these days I have much faster internet at home so I sacrifice 4g speeds for 3g's better coverage. And oh yeah my 3g is pretty much always full speed because not many people use it anymore.