So this night MTN data stopped working for like an hour in my area. I tried everything it wasn't working until I switched back to 3g from 4g then it started working but slow. After like an hour I switched back to 4g and this is the speed I was getting.

Wait let everyone reconnect

Interesting.

Mine.....(owerri)

Mtn too

Onyenna:
Mine.....(owerri)

Mtn too

Wow

abatically:
So this night MTN data stopped working for like an hour in my area. I tried everything it wasn't working until I switched back to 3g from 4g then it started working but slow. After like an hour I switched back to 4g and this is the speed I was getting.

This is like 9 MB/s

Meh, kini big deal
On an average day, I get 4MBps

Don't let Mbps fool you

See this 1 dey happy ontop 79mb/sec, true true 9ja Sabi endure o, Chai. We don suffer

wolfenstein:
See this 1 dey happy ontop 79mb/sec, true true 9ja Sabi endure o, Chai. We don suffer

Bros, 79mbps on a wireless LTE is very very good. U can't get that speed on many networks in the world, and I mean in the world. Even Verizon 4g lte average speed is around 36 mbps.

And the fastest mobile LTE in the uk is around 27mbps. So yes I dey happy for 79 mbps. Too bad I can't get it like that all the time, but if I can average 15-20 mbps then it's good enough.

fr3do:
Meh, kini big deal
On an average day, I get 4MBps

Don't let Mbps fool you

I was actually expecting this kind of comment. All these I too know people. The unit of internet speed is mbps but u guys try to force the use of MBps lol. Like show me any website or any tech people or youtubers that measure internet speed in MBps. But whenever we talk about internet speed on nairaland u guys will bring in MBps which is the rate at which a file is downloaded from the internet. This is of course determined by some factors like the amount of bandwidth the website ur trying to download from has.

Technically a speed of 8mbps should be able to download a file at around 1MBps but that is not guaranteed because if the website has low bandwidth, a speed of 8mps can download at less than 500KBps. This is one of the reasons MBps is not used for measuring internet speed.

If u think 79mbs is not fast enough for mobile LTE, then show me the average speeds of the fastest LTE's in the world. Even verizon wireless LTE average speed is around 36mbps.

abatically:


Bros, 79mbps on a wireless LTE is very very good. U can't get that speed on many networks in the world, and I mean in the world. Even Verizon 4g lte average speed is around 36 mbps.

And the fastest mobile LTE in the uk is around 27mbps. So yes I dey happy for 79 mbps. Too bad I can't get it like that all the time, but if I can average 15-20 mbps then it's good enough.

this one Dey slow bah? I no sabi read speed but my internet slow fa

EasternActivist:
Wait let everyone reconnect

Everyone has conencted and still not bad for a mobile LTE

Mine is 500mb per sec

Truly mtn is doing well

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abatically:
So this night MTN data stopped working for like an hour in my area. I tried everything it wasn't working until I switched back to 3g from 4g then it started working but slow. After like an hour I switched back to 4g and this is the speed I was getting.

This measurement is scaled on megabits per second. = Mbps which is quite different from Megabytes per second so the overall speed is about 9mb per second.. Don't let ookla speed test app fool you

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constance500:


This measurement is scaled on megabits per second. = Mbps which is quite different from Megabytes per second so the overall speed is about 9mb per second.. Don't let ookla speed test app fool you

It's only on nairaland that people measure internet speed in megabytes per seconds. Show me any website or tech youtuber that measures speed in megabytes per seconds? Tired of repeating the same thing over and over.

MTN Nigeria has a lot of work to do in many of their base station

abatically:


It's only on nairaland that people measure internet speed in megabytes per seconds. Show me any website or tech youtuber that measures speed in megabytes per seconds? Tired of repeating the same thing over and over.

What are you saying

constance500:


What are you saying

What I'm saying is why do u guys like to emphasize on megabytes per second when the standard way or measuring internet speed is megabits per second?? I'll ask u a simple question, if u want to buy a broadband and u ask ur provider what's the speed of their network, do they tell u in megabytes per second or megabits per second? Did I tell u I don't know the difference between the 2? Allover the world internet speed is measured in megabits per second, only some ITK nairalanders will keep saying megabytes per second.

abatically:


What I'm saying is why do u guys like to emphasize on megabytes per second when the standard way or measuring internet speed is megabits per second?? I'll ask u a simple question, if u want to buy a broadband and u ask ur provider what's the speed of their network, do they tell u in megabytes per second or megabits per second? Did I tell u I don't know the difference between the 2? Allover the world internet speed is measured in megabits per second, only some ITK nairalanders will keep saying megabytes per second.

Okay

constance500:


Okay

Dude I know this and I think every tech person knows bytes is 8 times larger than bits. But internet speed is not measured in megabytes per seconds, it's always megabits per seconds. Speed of 25mbps is good enough internet speed for mobile LTE and good enough to stream 1080p seamlessly and can even stream 4k depending on the streaming source.

I think that's the link speed. I do get 4/5/6+ or higher Mbps but, download at 1mbps or less.

Stephenmoka4:
I think that's the link speed. I do get 4/5/6+ or higher Mbps but, download at 1mbps or less.

The speed at which u download stuff online is not ur network speed . If everything remains normal a speed of 8mbps should be able to download a file at 1 MB per second. But that is not always the case as the speed of download can be affected by factors like computer hardware, server and bandwidth. For example let's say u have internet speed of 16mbps and want to download a 100mb file. Ideally u should be downloading at 2MBps so should take around 50 seconds to download a 100mb file. But that is not always the case. Let' say ur trying to download the same file from 2 websites A and B. If website A has enough bandwidth and less people trying to download the same file while website B has a lot of users trying to download the same file at once, thereby sharing the available bandwidth, then u cannot expect the same speed from both websites. U might download at 2MBps from website A and as low as 100KBps from website B with the same connection speed. This is why internet speed is measured in mbps and not MBps. And this is also why some websites offer paid services if u want to download at faster rate with specialized servers.

Using megabytes per second to determine internet speed is like someone using time to calculate distance from point a to b. For example let's say the distance from lagos to onitsha is 450km, and someone else is saying distance from lagos to onitsha is 7 hours. It doesn't make sense because the time it would take to travel depends on factors like how fast the person is traveling and other factors like road condition, traffic and number of stops in between the journey. One person can do the journey in 7 hours while it might take another person 15 hours.

Bro, don't use American internet for comparison. American internet is slow compared to some Asian and European countries.
https://www.webfx.com/blog/internet/fastest-internet-connection-infographic/

abatically:


Bros, 79mbps on a wireless LTE is very very good. U can't get that speed on many networks in the world, and I mean in the world. Even Verizon 4g lte average speed is around 36 mbps.

And the fastest mobile LTE in the uk is around 27mbps. So yes I dey happy for 79 mbps. Too bad I can't get it like that all the time, but if I can average 15-20 mbps then it's good enough.

angelfallz:
Bro, don't use American internet for comparison. American internet is slow compared to some Asian and European countries.
https://www.webfx.com/blog/internet/fastest-internet-connection-infographic/

Good, now with all the speeds shown on that website, which of them is measured in megabytes per second as people here like to do. According to the link u provided, Taiwan is the fastest with 85 mbps, (megabits per second). I got 79mbps from MTN last night and some people still think its not fast enough

Guys Nigeria can have one of the fastest internet in the world.
Do you guys know that the internet capacity at Nigeria's and Africa's borders is incredible?

"According to data from Many Possibilities, the West and East African coasts each have cables with Internet capacity of at least 100 Tbps. By the end of 2021, the number could double."

Let that sink in. 100Tbps, not 100Gbps not 100Mbps....100Tbps!!

Facebook is even planning to build another subsea cable that would add 180Tbps to the already existing 100Tbps.

"Funke Opeke, CEO of MainOne cable company, reveals that ten years after its launch, the MainOne cable (10 terabits) only operates at 10% capacity."

But our speed is not up to 10Mbps. What does this mean?
It means that at our border, specifically Lagos border/coast where most of the cables land, we have about 100Tbps capacity. But out of an available 100 million Mbps (100 Tbps) at Lagos border, we(Nigeria) use just 10 Mbps on average.
You can do the calculation and you would see that we are underutilizing our capacity. Why? Well the problem is getting that 100Tbps from the Lagos border/coast into Nigeria.

Further reading below
https://techpoint.africa/2020/08/18/subsea-internet-cables-africa/
https://manypossibilities.net/african-undersea-cables/
https://techpoint.africa/2020/07/09/lagos-unified-internet-fibre/

Lol, its an innocent mistake majority of people make. We sometimes confuse bits and bytes, due to pronunciation. Your internet was super fast bro.

abatically:


Good, now with all the speeds shown on that website, which of them is measured in megabytes per second as people here like to do. According to the link u provided, Taiwan is the fastest with 85 mbps, (megabits per second). I got 79mbps from MTN last night and some people still think its not fast enough

angelfallz:
Guys Nigeria can have one of the fastest internet in the world.
Do you guys know that the internet capacity at Nigeria's and Africa's borders is incredible?

Let that sink in. 100Tbps, not 100Gbps not 100Mbps....100Tbps!!

Facebook is even planning to build another subsea cable that would add 180Tbps to the already existing 100Tbps.

"Funke Opeke, CEO of MainOne cable company, reveals that ten years after its launch, the MainOne cable (10 terabits) only operates at 10% capacity."

But our speed is not up to 10Mbps. What does this mean?
It means that at our border, specifically Lagos border/coast where most of the cables land, we have about 100Tbps capacity. But out of an available 100 million Mbps (100 Tbps) at Lagos border, we(Nigeria) use just 10 Mbps on average.
You can do the calculation and you would see that we are underutilizing our capacity. Why? Well the problem is getting that 100Tbps from the Lagos border/coast into Nigeria.

Further reading below
https://techpoint.africa/2020/08/18/subsea-internet-cables-africa/
https://manypossibilities.net/african-undersea-cables/
https://techpoint.africa/2020/07/09/lagos-unified-internet-fibre/

LOL, guy u funny sha, And u think boradband LTE can give u those speeds? The maximum speed of 4g is around 100mbs bro while LTE-A has a cap of around 300mbps. You and I know they are never going to get to their maximum capped speed. Which one be tbps wey u dey talk, on top wireless 4g networks lol. Even the highest plan on Xfinity is 1,000mbps which is not cheap and its wired fiber, not wireless like our mobile networks. If we are talking fiber that's a different thing entirely.

wolfenstein:
See this 1 dey happy ontop 79mb/sec, true true 9ja Sabi endure o, Chai. We don suffer

are u OK?