09-08-2012, 11:39 AM | #1 |
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3g vs 4g
I understand that the new fire HDs have 4g in them, and some of the new kindles are 3g. I do understand that 3g refers to third generation, like my blackberry is 3g, and 4g refers to fourth generation. So what is the difference?
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09-08-2012, 11:55 AM | #2 |
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It's much, much, much, much faster. LTE just blows your socks off. YouTube videos DON'T buffer, pages load crazy fast, and you get like huge, huge download/upload speeds.
I could never go back to 3G, we pay hundreds for AT&T U-Verse and that isn't even as good as LTE. The 250MB would go in a day though. But your Kindle books would show up in like less than one second on that connection. |
09-08-2012, 12:09 PM | #3 |
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The Fire with 4G at 250mb/month = 8.3mb/day. That will be gone in moments! I wonder what kind of charges will kick in after you blast through 250mb on day one of the month? If people aren't careful they might get one heck of a big bill via the provider AT&T. (The Amazon FAQ on their support page states the provider will be AT&T.)
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09-08-2012, 12:17 PM | #4 | |
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4G should be used exclusively for LTE, which is the new standard and provides increased speeds over 3G. You can get speeds in excess of 100Mb/s on LTE, again, theoretically. |
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09-08-2012, 03:05 PM | #5 |
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Has anyone seen anything in print disclosing the carrier used? 4G LTE on Verizon is blazing fast but Amazon, thus far, has only used Sprint and AT&T on the eink Kindles.
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09-08-2012, 03:11 PM | #6 |
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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. |
09-08-2012, 03:21 PM | #7 |
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Packets are probably bigger. That will eat into your traffic. That is how operators with caps create revenue streams.
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09-08-2012, 03:28 PM | #8 | |
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09-08-2012, 03:28 PM | #9 |
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Like I stated in post #3 above, the Amazon FAQ on their support page states the provider will be AT&T.
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09-08-2012, 03:31 PM | #10 | |
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Personally I would never pay more for 4G over 3G - The latter suits most peoples needs just fine. Who cares if your website loads in 0,3 seconds instead of 0,5 seconds, and you don't need 1 hour of youtube film buffered anyway when you are watching it. Yes, file downloads are much faster, but meh, I can wait. |
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09-08-2012, 03:34 PM | #11 | |
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09-08-2012, 03:42 PM | #12 |
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09-08-2012, 04:03 PM | #14 |
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3g generally deals better with range from the mast, LTE quality drops extremely quickly when you're in a medium to low quality area. The 'larger packet' idea doesn't really come into play, it's more that the packets are being seen as corrupt or invalid and re-retransmitted. This can easily eat bandwidth allocations and will also give you your dropped frames and such in a video (set larger buffers if possible).
Over all, for a Kindle, who really cares? The 3g will be more reliable and far more broadly accessible. |
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