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That is why I've been successfully working from home for almost a decade starting on an LTE connection that was 5Mb up and 10Mb down(notice this is small b as in bits). No problem at all... Why because most of the time latency was good.

I'm still on the same LTE connection, but everyone kept telling me how my speeds are crap and how I should update to a new LTE cat 21 router. So I got one of more popular models ZTE MF289F. And the speed increased to 50Mb up 75Mb down on a speed test. But all my calls suddenly felt very choppy and the perceived Web browsing was unbearably slow... What happened? Well, the router would just decide every day or so to up it's latency to Google.com from 15ms to 150ms until it was restarted. But that is not all. Even when the ping latency was fine it still felt slower than my ancient tplink lte router... So the zte went into a drawer waiting for the times I'll have time to put Linux on it. And the tplink went back on top of my antenna mast.



In a lot of cases older is better.

See also https://github.com/lynxthecat/cake-autorate for an active measurement tool...




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