PC Magazine July 2017
PC Magazine July 2017 issue, we feature PCMag's eighth annual Fastest Mobile Networks report. Testers drove within and between 30 cities, running speed tests and collecting more than 124,000 network-speed data points. Find out which carrier leads the pack—and where. The results may surprise you! PC Magazine is America's #1 technology magazine, delivering authoritative, lab-based comparative reviews of technology products and services to more than 6.6 million professionals every issue. PC Magazine is the only publication with in-depth reviews and accurate, repeatable testing from PC Magazine Labs placed in the unique context of today's business technology landscape.
PC Magazine July 2017 issue, we feature PCMag's eighth annual Fastest Mobile Networks report. Testers drove within and between 30 cities, running speed tests and collecting more than 124,000 network-speed data points. Find out which carrier leads the pack—and where. The results may surprise you!
PC Magazine is America's #1 technology magazine, delivering authoritative, lab-based comparative reviews of technology products and services to more than 6.6 million professionals every issue. PC Magazine is the only publication with in-depth reviews and accurate, repeatable testing from PC Magazine Labs placed in the unique context of today's business technology landscape.
You also want an ePaper? Increase the reach of your titles
YUMPU automatically turns print PDFs into web optimized ePapers that Google loves.
SAN FRANCISCO: AT&T<br />
Every year, we pick one city to go deep on, doing twice the number of test sites<br />
we normally hit. This year we decided to focus on the home of the U.S. tech<br />
industry—the San Francisco Bay Area. The Bay Area is a huge sprawl, but we<br />
tried to get to the cities of San Francisco and San Jose as well as key points in<br />
the East Bay and on the peninsula.<br />
The old Pacific Bell, San Francisco’s local phone company, AT&T did<br />
spectacularly well in our tests around the Bay Area. None of the carriers did<br />
very badly here—even Sprint had solid speeds. But AT&T distinguished itself on<br />
all of our measures.<br />
That being said, if you don’t have the best experience with AT&T in the Bay<br />
Area, try getting a new phone with a Qualcomm X16 modem, such as the<br />
Samsung Galaxy S8 or HTC U11. The terrific performance we saw, with peak<br />
speeds over 200Mbps, is probably in part thanks to new technologies in our<br />
Galaxy S8 test devices.<br />
Verizon was no slouch either, with an amazing 215Mbps peak speed at one<br />
point and consistent speeds around 173Mbps in south San Jose. The carriers are<br />
clearly pouring capacity into the nation’s tech center.<br />
T-Mobile and Sprint both suffered a little bit from lack of consistency. In<br />
T-Mobile’s case, we hit a soft spot in the Mission that weakened its score a bit.<br />
In Sprint’s case, the network’s choice to greatly privilege downloads over<br />
uploads hurt it.
Change language