(edit title) Is Telenor 4g portable broadband good? Internet at home Options

[Hisingen]

If you are wanting 4G, then go to the Telenor website and check their coverage for your prospective area. You can zoom in on the actual address and see what coverage they offer. You can do the same for Telia, also. I have Telia in Torreby, outside Munkedal, here on the west coast, and a while back I was lucky to get above 4Mb, but they have made improvements to the transmission now, and I rarely fall below 40Mb down and 6 - 8Mb up. At times, about once a week, the signal drops, and a re-connect gets everything up and running again. Once frequent, now as said about once a week. The 'täckningskarta' will show you what to expect and hopefully achieve. Telenor also gives an indication of signal strength, but do not forget that it only applies outdoors. What you get indoors depends upon your house, windows, and access of the signal to your modem. An outdoor antenna will boost your signal, but at a cost. I see in the Kjell & Co catalogue that such will set you back round about 1000:-kr.
The 4G net is being extended all the time, and Sweden appears to be in the forefront, so what applies today can even be improved by tomorrow (well perhaps a little longer).

If that is any help - - -

[philios33]

The difference between 4MB and 40MB is not really going to be noticable unless you're doing some really heavy downloading. For general browsing, email & gaming, the main issue is going to be with signal strength, and connection stability.

Signal strength seems very good in our area.

I have had no problems with connection stability with Telenor. Have never had a connection drop. But what I have had is a connection take ages to connect. I'm talking about TCP here, not connecting to Telenor.

telnet google.se 80

can sometimes take 20 seconds to connect.

Had major problems with it yesterday. Speedtest says 30mbps download, but until you actually get the connection, you cannot download. But something has happened and today and it seems to be fixed. This problem happens about 1 in 20 days. I suspect it's a problem with their network, and then they notice it and flick a switch somewhere to fix it.

I wonder if anyone else on Telenor 4G in Gothenburg area has noticed the same thing?

[philios33]

DO NOT GET TELENOR 4G DONGLE

I just want to update my view of Telenor here since I posted last. I do use the internet every day, but I don't download much. Just do work, browsing and a bit of gaming. I have downloaded/uploaded a total of 8.14GB in the last 3 months. This is not much at all when you consider the normal cap being 30/50GB a month for broadband. And just incase anyone mentions it, these are the figures from my NIC software provided by Telenor Mobile Partner, so I know they are 100% accurate.

Since 6th Dec I have had the download capped at 0.25MB for absolutely no reason. It happened last month too with speeds going back to normal at midnight on 16th. So I assume I am hitting some sort of data limit cap.

The data limit cap must be rediculously low. I've used less than 2 GB in the last month. I can only assume it's set to a measly 1GB upload + download. I usually get 30Mbps which means you can use up this allowance in 4.55 minutes. Absolutely painful doing anything at 250K, and I really advise anyone even considering using Telenor 4G (or using 4G as a substitute for bb at all) to research what they are signing up to.

I am now tied to a 2 year contract which I really regret signing.

[nosturnal]

Normal Speed Test does not tell you exact latency, SNR margins, let alone the internet speed, because of inheritance back bone hoping issue. It only shows you the mb down and up of the radius pool. Meaning what is the max payload in one RBS runs down to what class of IP, you were assigned to, from ISP. If the configuration is V.IP4. Thus 4G or LTE.

You must check the IP behavior rather than speed test. ST is euphemism of "fill in the blanks of unknown"

Run the wireshark and check the throughput IP resources alocation with TCP or UDP expression. Because the router you mention its layer 3 Ethernet device not just a regular router. I would suggest, if you are running 10 device in given time, configure the Mac filtering. And if i were you and being little cynical , i might add 5 gb down and up per day only.