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Old Feb 20, 2019, 12:02 pm
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deniah
 
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Originally Posted by deniah
I've used Fi sporadically, and it works. I'm using a flagship carrier for my main service, with Fi on second SIM slot as secondary/backup service.

Roaming in EU is virtually free with my carrier by regulation, so I don't turn on the 2nd SIM often. But sometimes I don't get good strength even in home country, such as 2G/EDGE (=virtually useless), and there Fi usually grabs 4G/LTE signal from TMobile.

Sustained bandwidth is usually decent at 5, 10, 20, 40mbps....but ping is ALWAYS at 200ms+ maybe do do extra switching and hopping and routing....
In another neighboring country and once again get better signal from Fi than roaming with my native, flagship carrier
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