I have a question reguarding LTE speeds and webpage load times.
I just did 3 speed tests using the speedtest.net app, and got speeds of 11, 10, and 12mbps results, which is plenty fast enough speeds to load a web page instantly. So what my question is the reason webpages load fast, but not instantly is because of processing speed? The Samsung Droid Charge has a 1ghz processor, fast, but appearently not fast enough to support the blazing fast LTE speeds.
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Yes and no... You have to keep in mind the speed test app is asking for data from a server set up to give unlimited band width.
When you visit a website, say espn, their server is designed to give a limited amount of bandwidth per user (usually 1MBPS).
There are other bottlenecks as well, like quality of the code that renders the website, speed of the processor, etc.
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Thank you for the informative response!
So are you saying that the speedtest.net app gives a false representation of the awesomness that Vzn's LTE is? Cause I get speeds of 20+mbps quite a bit. I wouldnt say on avg though, but quite a bit.
Samsung Droid Charge
Las Vegas, Nv
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If you had unlimited bandwith from a website you would hit those speeds but how web servers are set up they place caps on speeds and its different for every website.
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No, the server that the app is running through doesn't have a cap on how much data it will transfer to each client requesting that data. Most websites have a cap on this, though.
So, the speedtest app is showing you how much bandwidth you truly have available from Verizon. But when you go to a website, you don't use all of that because that website only gives you 1MBPS available.
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So its the website that doesnt live up to the awesomeness that Verizon's LTE is then.
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I honestly think you were closer to correct with the processing power. I think that and memory on the phones are probably the biggest hiccup. If what the others said were the cause then people would have the same issues on their computers. I have Comcast and get around 20M on speedtests. Sites load pretty instantly on my computer. Even a 1M connection from a website should be enough to give you a pretty instant load of a page.
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A lot of speed test web sites use UDP data packets, unlike web sites that transfer mostly TCP packets. Throughput is higher with UDP than with TCP.
However, ANYTHING has to be better than the slow-as-molasses 3G network we have now. It takes several minutes to load a simple page on my TouchPro2.
Gregg
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Thank you for the informative & resourceful response. Perhaps there will be better web page load time with dual-core smartphones when they become more common.
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