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[โ€“] 9point6@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

I have 3 as my phone carrier with a high end modern phone (pixel 9 pro), so my experience shouldn't be limited by hardware.

I'd say in a city (Manchester, Liverpool & London mostly) I get 5g about 30% of the time, that'll get speeds around 50-80mbps. The rest of the time I get their oversubscribed 4g which struggles to do 1mbps. I used to get around 200-300mbps occasionally when 5G was relatively new, but I can't remember the last time I saw those speeds

The more rural you get the chances of 5G shrink to like 5% of the time, though the 4g speeds improve a bit closer to the 10mbps mark.

Of course YMMV, but it might be worth getting a 3 PAYG ESIM or something on your phone just to see what the signal is like by you

[โ€“] Korhaka@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 month ago

I get 30-50 mbit on 4G, don't have a 5G router currently to compare that