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Originally Posted by vxf
I am hating LTE on my ipad. I don't know what games Verizon is playing - but the same content on LTE using much larger bandwidth. I can understand a movie on netflix - you get better quality on 4g and less frame loss.
But I download an issue of National Geographic on Zinio - and it goes from 300 MB on 3g to 850 MB on LTE - not the size of the file, but the bandwidth used to download it. I send a 5MB attachment through mail and, on LTE, it sucks up 20 MB of traffic.
In short, where I usually never got to my 2GB limit on my previous iPad, I now hit the 5GB cap on LTE in 10 days, with the same behavior.
Ok, rant off. It's fast. That's true.
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That's interesting. Although I've never done any scientific tests other than speedtest, I have not had the same experience with my Xoom 4G. I suspect your data eating is due to larger packets. I use LTE heavily for email and exchange of small files, dropbox uploading/downloading, live news feeds and browsing. That said, I never use LTE on the Xoom to download my magazines and very large files. On my phone it's entirely different since I still have unlimited data.