Noticed something very strange today

[Littleairjordan1]

I used 4g for the first time today in boston and the speeds were very very fast. So much faster than 3g. Web pages loaded almost instantly. So on my way home I decide to stream the uconn ketucky game. With 4g I expected it to run very smoothly. It didn't it was very choppy. Then as I get close to home my phone switches back to the normal 3g coverage that I have and almost instantaneously it ran much much smoother. Very high frame rate. But I was confused why would there be better streaming quality with 3g then 4g? And I even ran speed tests with 4g at this time and got a consistent 20000 to 25000 mbs down and with 3g I got got 1000 to 1500 mbs down. Any help?

 

[Littleairjordan1]

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[bthomp21]

I used 4g for the first time today in boston and the speeds were very very fast. So much faster than 3g. Web pages loaded almost instantly. So on my way home I decide to stream the uconn ketucky game. With 4g I expected it to run very smoothly. It didn't it was very choppy. Then as I get close to home my phone switches back to the normal 3g coverage that I have and almost instantaneously it ran much much smoother. Very high frame rate. But I was confused why would there be better streaming quality with 3g then 4g? And I even ran speed tests with 4g at this time and got a consistent 20000 to 25000 mbs down and with 3g I got got 1000 to 1500 mbs down. Any help?

wow thats pretty fast, almost light speed

 

[cordoni]

Might be the jitter of the signal. Video requires low jitter. The 3g may have had low to no jitter while the 4g signal could have had high jitter. Maybe. Then the speed alone would not have determined performance.

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[Littleairjordan1]

Lol

 

[rasfeld.4]

Yea, I don't know how it could have been so much better on 3g. I can watch episodes off of sites like FOX and have no choppiness/buffering issues with 4g. 3g on the other hand won't let me do that.

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[paulmike3]

What were you using to stream the game? WiFi hotspot or an app?

 

[potatolover1102]

I read an article awhile ago about how 4g tends to drop out at high speeds even in good areas and the speeds as you drove could have caused high ping due to the tower switching which is not an issue on 3g because it is a much more mature network. On speed test what was your ping?

 

[Littleairjordan1]

For 4g it was usually 80 ms and it went up to 116 ms twice . As for 3g my ping was was 129 ms and 133 ms.

 

[Littleairjordan1]

What were you using to stream the game? WiFi hotspot or an app?

What do you mean? I was streaming over the network directly from my thunderbolt. And I streamed it from The ncaa website.

 

[adamalter]

You can't judge it from one experience or example. It's also up to the server hosting and how hard it's being hit at the time on whether or not it will stream. That or something else similar could have been the problem.

 

[realitydigg]

Did the resolution change when you went to 3g?

 

[Littleairjordan1]

I'm not entirely sure if the resolution d
Dropped but I don't think it did

 

[KingChicago]

Might have also just been a buffering thing with Flash. Im assuming that on the NCAA the video is not optimized for mobile, but most of those videos tend to improve in quality after having a long time to buffer. The delay on the streaming is pretty bad too, but hey, whatever.

 

[Littleairjordan1]

Yeah it wasn'tt designed for mobile

 

[VCL]

Could have been a bunch of reasons, I watch live TV broadcasts all the time on 4G without any issues. The broadcasts never buffer or are they choppy, I also live in the Boston area.
Vinny

 

[Littleairjordan1]

What are you watching tv with.

 

[wes008]

It might be because it was trying to switch to 3G. I was in a 4G area the other day. (blazing fast, 17mbits down, 31 up) As I was riding in a car I was browsing some flash websites. At one point, a webpage would not load. I closed the browser and it swapped to 3G. Opened up the browser again and it loaded fine. (also, in your original post I think you mean kilobits, not megabits)