Welcome to this month’s speedtest megathread. Yep, you heard that right, it’s time to shoff your speeds.
Format
Location (city, state), Downlink, Uplink, Device, Notes. An example would look like this: “Minneapolis, MN, 554 down, 31 up, Google Pixel 7a, taken in downtown”.
Rules
- No screenshots. They take up valuable server space, require more bandwidth, and are not accessible to screen reader users.
- If you live in a small town or rural area please fudge your location a little. As an example if i lived in Olive Hill, Ky (population 1580) I might use Grayson, Ky (population 3834) instead.
Want to give a testing service, or do we just find our own? Also we should give the variety of connection/connections, I’m currently at “5g UC” but have been known to drop to 4g from the exact same spot depending on conditions… As it totally just dropped me to 4g lte (I don’t the 5g, especially 5g UC, to be extremely unreliable, and it seemingly pauses my connection every time it changes, I wish I could select most stable rather than use whatever the phone feels like taking at the time, now I’m just in 5g again.). Also what browser are you using to run the test, or are you using an app?
Also one should post time of day the test was done, rush hour the connection is probably much more swamped than midnight.
Google speed test, Galaxy s22+ , fluctuating between 4g lte and 5g UC (currently 1 bar of 5g, was 3 bars 5guc at time of test) 17:42 from east Bay California (lol you’re masking a city of 1500 into a population of 5.2k, I’m not terribly comfortable letting you know my location from the 2 million of us here <3) Google Chrome browser using Google speed test 134.3 Mb/s down, 6.83 Mb/s up, 25 ms latency, San Francisco server.
I personally use one called speedof.me. Also, if you want, you could force your phone to remain on LTE. Pretty easily. On pretty much anything besides Samsung device, you can dial. *#*#4636#*#* > phone information and about halfway down the page is a little drop down box where you can choose to force the phone onto LTE or 2G or 3G or whatever. For example, if I was to choose NR only in that field, then if there was no 5G stand-alone connection, I would have a no signal message instead of dropping down to a lower technology. If you want reliability, you might choose LTE only. That would also turn off your 2G, which would prevent man in the middle attacks from occurring as easily. Beware if you choose NR only you may not be able to make calls unless your phone supports VoNR and its enabled in your area.
Unfortunate I’m on a Samsung device XD, thanks for the advice, I’ll keep it in my pocket (as long as you don’t delete it, otherwise I’ll have to Google and who knows if that’ll work) in case someone approaches me with a similar woe.
Oh, that’s unfortunate. I will leave it up for sure, but Samsung devices are different. I know it’s possible, but I don’t know how.