Straight Talk finally offers 10GB plan.

[anon(41073)]

Now I no longer have to consider switching to Cricket. From my understanding, they limit their download speeds to 8Mbps.

 

[Rukbat]

Since only servers really close to you (within a couple of hundred miles) will ever exceed that, it hardly seems a problem. (It's called the Porsche problem - how fast can a Porsche go ... in a solid traffic jam? If the internet is filled with data, and it often is, how fast can YOUR data go? Not very. 2+mbps is the usual "fast" data these days.)

 

[Channan]

Since only servers really close to you (within a couple of hundred miles) will ever exceed that, it hardly seems a problem. (It's called the Porsche problem - how fast can a Porsche go ... in a solid traffic jam? If the internet is filled with data, and it often is, how fast can YOUR data go? Not very. 2+mbps is the usual "fast" data these days.)

It doesn't matter how far the server is. That only affects latency.

But yeah, 8Mbps is plenty fast enough on a phone at this point in time.

 

[ChromeJob]

Really? I'm on a recently acquired Nexus 5, LTE, T-Mobile prepaid, just got 16.25 Mbps down, 21.21 Mbps up (21 ms ping to Charlotte, NC, from RTP). Get even better in my 2nd story BR at home.

I thought 8 Mbps was pretty fast, until I got an LTE phone.