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**AndyScouchek** · 09-19-2012, 10:49 PM

I like how my ISP advertises their blazing fast 10mbit speeds, and other ISPs their super awesome turbocharged insanely fast 30mbits with flames airbrushed onto the side of the modem. Then people whip out their cell phones and post a 66/17 speed test.

LTE really is an excellent solution for the home broadband market. Get a tower. Put up radios. Get fiber to the cell. Profit! No individual lines to customer premise, etc. There are drawbacks, but overall it's an amazing solution for the residential market and business on the go.

The main drawbacks are bandwidth caps. I have 10GB per month on my plan which is plenty for me even though I stream my music through Google Music, tether my laptop and iPad but if I did heavy Netflix streaming, I could chew through it.

Also, the lowest ping I have ever seen on it was 30ms when it tends to average 40-60ms. Also, if all that landline traffic flipped over to the cell networks, they would come to a halt.

09-19-2012, 10:49 PM	#10
AndyScouchek Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 439 Senior Member	I like how my ISP advertises their blazing fast 10mbit speeds, and other ISPs their super awesome turbocharged insanely fast 30mbits with flames airbrushed onto the side of the modem. Then people whip out their cell phones and post a 66/17 speed test. LTE really is an excellent solution for the home broadband market. Get a tower. Put up radios. Get fiber to the cell. Profit! No individual lines to customer premise, etc. There are drawbacks, but overall it's an amazing solution for the residential market and business on the go. The main drawbacks are bandwidth caps. I have 10GB per month on my plan which is plenty for me even though I stream my music through Google Music, tether my laptop and iPad but if I did heavy Netflix streaming, I could chew through it. Also, the lowest ping I have ever seen on it was 30ms when it tends to average 40-60ms. Also, if all that landline traffic flipped over to the cell networks, they would come to a halt.
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