Originally Posted by
Internaut
Oh, 5G is a game changer. The big difference I've noticed between 5G and LTE, living in a fairy densely populated urban area (so a lot more cells around with emphasis on service over wide geographic coverage): With double speed LTE, I can do a test at 6:30am and with double speed LTE get up to 200mbps upload and approaching 20 down. This goes down to around 70/20 towards peak hours. With 5G I can get this at any hour (my speed record is actually 390 down). Interestingly, it looks like EE have shaped the traffic depending on where you are. In a residential area? Upload rarely goes above 20mpbs. Walk into more of a business district and doing some speed tests, I found download speed approximately halved while upload speed approximately doubled.
Warning: Speed tests eat data (so careful if your plan isn't unlimited).
On T-Mobile, Speedtest by Ookla is whitelisted and will not consume data at least on my ONE plan. A few years back someone realized that if a URL contained the phrase "Speedtest" it didn't use data so it was all the rage to get free streaming that way. T-Mobile figured out how to put a stop to that and the Ookla app is data free again. I don't know about other carriers.
Imagine the bad press they would get from people reporting 5G speeds in the hundreds of Mbps and having that drain their data bucket?