Reduced Data Speed When Mobile Hotspot Tethering

daThomas#AC

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How much reduction in data transfer speed should I see on my tethered laptop through Mobile Hotspot versus data speed on the phone?

For example: I do a speedtest on the phone and get 5 megs down, tether to my laptop and do a speedtest on it and the speed is one tenth. Is tethering throttled?
 

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Not sure what's up for you fellows. I'm tethering and reaching about 12 Mbps down and 7.5 up. That's faster than I see for the phone itself. Clearly the tether is not 3G for me.
 

daThomas#AC

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Ok, my original post was from my work location which is a bit more suburbia than my home location. Tested from home and get the following:

First, testing phone data throughput on phone alone:
6 megs down, 3 megs up with speedtest app
13+ down 5+ up with Speakeasy browser speedtest

On laptop with Mobile hotspot
4.9 megs down 4.5 megs up with speedtest.net web page
21 megs down :eek: , 6 megs up with Speakeasy browser speedtest

So I don't really know how to get a consistent measure of the data throughput of the mobile hotspot. :confused:
 

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