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Old Nov 30, 2014 | 1:03 pm
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Originally Posted by ckendall
On Tre (3ITA 3G) in Milan this week and there is clear preference for some data over others. Ob my iPhone 5, Email, Weather, Yahoo Sports and Facetime work wonderfully, while the New York Times and Washington Post, WSJ and Financial Times do not load (or take a long time and give slow internet access warnings with graphics or videos not loading). Google searches are fine but clicking on search results may take 30 seconds to load.
Seems TCP traffic vs UDP is a lot slower due to backhaul and latency to the US. This is indicative on intl roaming in general - throttling then just makes it a bit worse.

Also noticed the FT app takes AGES to refresh ; have this same issue when on in flight WiFi in the US with the FT app
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