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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AT&T also did well in Houston, and that carrier might be the best choice for<br />
people who travel more widely around Texas. While T-Mobile’s coverage in<br />
Houston was excellent, we got the occasional dead spot around smaller towns<br />
including Columbus and La Grange. AT&T maintained coverage a bit better<br />
between Austin and Houston.<br />
INDIANAPOLIS: AT&T<br />
Indianapolis is one of AT&T’s 5G Evolution markets, and we saw the carrier’s<br />
speeds rocket upward this year—enough to easily take the crown. But our<br />
official results tell only half the story in Indy.<br />
Along with our own tests, we ran a set of backup tests to servers that were often<br />
within their carriers’ networks. We didn’t use those download speeds in the<br />
official results, because we think that most of the data you’re downloading is<br />
from outside your carrier’s network. But those results show that AT&T’s<br />
maximum speed shoots up to 196Mbps and its average download speed rockets<br />
to 59Mbps. That’s the biggest difference between on-carrier and off-carrier<br />
connections we saw nationwide.<br />
What’s happening is that AT&T’s gigabit LTE network is mid-build. It’s built out<br />
the radio connections but may not have linked it up fully to the rest of the<br />
internet yet. As AT&T finishes its buildout in Indianapolis this year, expect<br />
speed and performance to grow by leaps and bounds. AT&T will be an even<br />
stronger choice in the city as time goes on.
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