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One plus 6 connects to LTE, One plus 8 pro connects to HSPA+

WKDRED

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Same sim.

Any idea what might be going on here, Suffice to say the speed is about 10% on the 8 pro because of the refusal to connect to LTE, I was aware by the missing volte icon.
 
An update with an app I can force it to LTE, and it reports 20mhz channel.

However speedtest is way below the one plus 6 which flatlines at 100mbps, whilst on the 8 pro I get about 20-30 down and about 80 up.

The app shows live channel status and it seems to show channel aggregation is failing to hold as I keep seeing a second channel drop off and coming back.

This is me speculating whats going on as I dont know anything about mobile networks.
 
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EE, I did post in the EE forums. Also its an essentials package so officially capped to 100mbps.

About 8 am this morning it went up to 115mbps.

Repeating the test this afternoon, it initially starts fast then slows down as if its being throttled. However the speed it settles at is inconsistent but always a flat line. (typically between 10mbps and 25mbps)

Moving sim back to one plus 6 it goes to 100mbps every time.

Also since I forced LTE using the app that activates the hidden menu, I always have the volte icon now and its always 4g.

On wifi phone is hitting 800-900mbps.

Also interestingly on coverage checker I now officially have outdoor and indoor 5g coverage, its better than it used to be but speeds are still worse than 4g, initially spikes to about 40mbps then flatlines at 5-10mbps.
 
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Ok an update on this, I continued the diagnosis elsewhere, but it turned into a bigger problem.

First I now can always get LTE on both phones (or 5G icon but not 5G itself on the newer phone aka fake 5G).
Second the older phone now has the slower speeds as well in late afternoon and evenings.

Now on the more interesting bits, I would think people are interested as is lots of mobile ISP discussion here.

In busy hours the EE mobile connection does two things.

1 - The download speeds drop of considerably but are still at reasonable enough levels I would expect to browse on the phone. (circa 5-20mbit). However they have a clear pattern of traffic shaping, where they initially spike, then flat line at a low speed.
2 - The upstream speed caps out below 1mbit, when its normally 50-70mbit.

So I did a couple of things.

I got a 1P mobile sim to compare the performance, the EE sim is on the essentials package which is supposed to be capped to 100mbit, but I cannot find any mention of additional limiting during peak hours in the package spec.

When testing the 1P sim, not only does it not slow down in the evenings, but also is consistently faster in the day as well (just to a much less extremity).

As an example

5.6 down, 0.74 up on EE, 141 down 74.2 up on 1P, carried out same time on same phone (dual sim phone).

These are repeated tests, repeated results. Off peak the EE gets close'ish on the upstream but fairly consistently seems to be about 50-60% of the 1P throughput on downstream.

I discovered my local cell mast only has band 3, and compared to all other cells in 5 mile radius is by far the smallest.

When I disabled band 3 on the phone, I was connected to one of the bigger cells further away, and outdoor performance during evenings sky rocketed on the EE sim, but I have to be outdoors due to weak signal.

The local cell is across my road, and I get max signal indoors, with no boost of speed outdoors at all.

So the current most likely outcome looks like there is congestion on my local EE cell, and they have decided to mitigate it by traffic management. I suspect the top EE packages, will perform the same as 1P. I only moved to essentials about 6-7 months ago.
 
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