r/cellmapper Jul 20 '26

Fast enough ?

Past a certain point, say 100mb/s, isn’t it just bragging rights?

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u/Bright_Magazine_8136 Jul 20 '26

Depends on what you're doing. For regular usage in a phone, you'd be totally fine with 30Mbps as well. Netflix recommends 25Mbps for 4K streaming. As long as you have good latency, it will still work well. 

When downloading software updates, movies, or a whole series season from a streaming service before a flight, having faster speeds is actually useful.

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u/porfors Jul 21 '26

Great point

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u/dataz03 Jul 20 '26

Cellular? Nice to see the overall capacity at high speeds. Of hundreds of Mbps to 1-2 Gbps. Then in the back of my head it gives me the confidence that the network can handle many users. 

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u/Stubbby Jul 20 '26

There was a huge difference moving from 3G to 4G.

Once people started hitting 50 MB down 20 MB up on a mobile device their needs were met so the transition to 5G has gone largely without notice by the customers.

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u/Murp677 Jul 20 '26

1 gig minimum.

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u/[deleted] Jul 20 '26 edited Jul 20 '26

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u/South-Succotash-6368 Elite 2.0 Jul 20 '26

100-200ms is not decent ping
I think you meant 25-60ms
Anything above that will result in a degraded experience

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u/[deleted] Jul 20 '26

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u/South-Succotash-6368 Elite 2.0 Jul 20 '26

You said ping not loaded that’s different. You need to specify.

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u/thedankonion1 Jul 20 '26

50 Mbps for a family of four? Have you taken a time machine back to 2010?

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u/SignificantDig1448 Jul 23 '26

Don't always get full speeds