Resilient Networking: Planning for Failure

1 · Ilya Grigorik · Jan. 26, 2015, 8 a.m.
A 4G user will experience a much better median experience both in terms of bandwidth and latency than a 3G user, but the same 4G user will also fall back to the 3G network for some of the time due to coverage, capacity, or other reasons. Case in point, OpenSignal data shows that an average "4G user" in the US gets LTE service only ~67% of the time. In fact, in some cases the same "4G user" will even find themselves on 2G, or worse, with no service at all. All connections are slow some of the ti...