Originally Posted by
Brandysull
I'm unsure as to when this went up but Digicel replaced a few antennas at UWI campus (rooftop site at Student Admin) and FINALLY upgraded UWI to LTE... Did a speedtest on the unloaded network and got around 67 Mbit/s down and 22 Mbit/s up (with an RSSI of around -60 dBm), the competiton fared less favorably, RSSI averaged -106 dBm and speeds clocked around 31 Mbit/s down and 7 Mbit/s up.
My only gripe with Digicel LTE is its consistency... The speeds dropped off pretty quickly the further away from the site I went. After getting a blazing 67 Mbit/s a couple minutes earlier, while still reporting -81 dBm from the same site and a SINR (Signal to Noise Ratio) of about 23 (which is EXCELLENT in LTE networks), I clocked 14 Mbit/s down and 10 Mbit/s up whereas on the competiton, I was reporting -102 dBm (device didn't report SINR but we can deduce it had an excellent SINR) and I clocked 51 Mbit/s down and 12 Mbit/s (download actually peaked at 71 Mbit/s but FLOW has a Prepaid data speed cap at 50 Mbit/s down and 10 Mbit/s up). Much improvement needs to be made in terms of maintaining a consistent network experience on Digicel's part... Networks without the penetrative advantage that their spectrum avails them of don't fall ever below 25 Mbit/s (thanks to that wideband LTE channel they're sitting on). Quite frankly, they're squandering their advantage, to the point where I did a sample set where the competiton averaged 10x Digicel LTE in one location. Solutions are there but it'll cause the GP to moan and complain if I'm being honest...