Bell versus Rogers network performance under high demand
Today's rush of holiday shopping traffic certainly is bringing out the differences in mobile networks. I have one phone on Bell (PC Mobility) and a backup on Rogers (Fido). I have switched that in the last few days just out of interest.
Can you guess which one is having many moments of slow performance lately? Yes, Rogers. Sometimes it just slowly paints a web page, one image at a time. But then it's passable within a minute or two, too quickly for me to get a speed test showing the bit rate. I have not noticed any such uneven performance on Bell. I'm sure that Bell is slowing somewhat in a non-visible way, but not to a few kilobits per second. It's like the old days of Rogers 3G rush-hour flakiness never really left.
Can you guess which one is having many moments of slow performance lately? Yes, Rogers. Sometimes it just slowly paints a web page, one image at a time. But then it's passable within a minute or two, too quickly for me to get a speed test showing the bit rate. I have not noticed any such uneven performance on Bell. I'm sure that Bell is slowing somewhat in a non-visible way, but not to a few kilobits per second. It's like the old days of Rogers 3G rush-hour flakiness never really left.