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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TESTING METHODOLOGY<br />
For Fastest Mobile Networks <strong>2017</strong>, we used custom field-test software designed<br />
by Ookla, the creator of Speedtest.net. The software was loaded onto sets of four<br />
Samsung Galaxy S8 phones. We chose the S8 because it was, at the time we<br />
tested, the only device able to access new “gigabit LTE” networks at full speed.<br />
Three sets of phones were driven around the country in rental cars: one down<br />
the east coast, one down the center of the country, and one down the west coast.<br />
The software runs tests every 90 seconds. We measured uploads and downloads<br />
to a neutral, non-carrier server as well as pings to the nearest server in Ookla’s<br />
network. Over the course of driving, we tested downloads from 160 different<br />
servers and pings to 407 different servers.<br />
We stopped at between 12 and 15 locations, for at least 15 minutes each, in each<br />
of 30 cities. We averaged the data in each location, then averaged the locations<br />
together for an overall city result. The aggregated data from traveling between<br />
the test locations counted into the overall averages as two more locations. As we<br />
are testing LTE networks, we did not average in speeds on non-LTE networks.<br />
If a phone dropped off an LTE network, it was treated as though the test failed.
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