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.
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RURAL/SUBURBAN NORTH CENTRAL: VERIZON<br />
This drive took us from Detroit down past Toledo, then on state highways<br />
through Ohio and Indiana to Indianapolis, up to Chicago, down to St. Louis on<br />
I-55, stopping in Springfield, across Missouri on I-70, and then down through<br />
Kansas on I-35, stopping in Emporia and Wichita.<br />
Verizon outpaced AT&T primarily because of the weight we give to uploads and<br />
reliability. On our whole trip, Verizon’s network dropped only once, briefly, in<br />
the middle of Missouri. AT&T didn’t do that much worse, but it hit weak spots<br />
on and off in Kansas.<br />
Sprint is based in Kansas City, and coverage varied sharply depending on which<br />
state we were in. In Illinois, Missouri, and eastern Kansas, it’s great, but the<br />
carrier really struggled in Indiana. Sprint’s score mostly got socked for having<br />
slow uploads, though.<br />
For those in this region, I’d like to throw in one more option out of left field:<br />
Google Fi. It combines Sprint, T-Mobile, and U.S. Cellular, a predominantly<br />
rural carrier we don’t test but which has very good coverage in rural Illinois,<br />
Wisconsin, Kansas, and Missouri. Combining the three less-expensive carriers<br />
will give you a better experience than running with just one of them.
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