Cellular strength and throughput - Xiaomi Mi 5s Plus Real Life Review

We know how much you like to stream, ahem, "videos", and so cellular data is mega-important. Rate this thread to express how you think the Xiaomi Mi 5s Plus's LTE performs. A higher rating indicates that it's fantastic: throughput is excellent and signal strength is top-notch.
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This is my personal best:
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Sydney Australia CDB using Telstra.

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2Mbps with wifi?

What the hell???? The 4G is 5x faster. I have a 30/4 connection. It shows up as 2500/150K when I do a speed test with wifi. I have a wireless-n router so it's not like there's a bandwidth issue with the wireless. Other wirelessly connected devices get about the full speed of the connection, so why is my Infuse so slow?
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To basically 1/10th that and 200ms ping. On the same test server. The hell?
Edit: I pressed the test button about 500 times in a row and it's up to 10Mbps and 3.5Mbps.. Is 10Mbps the limit on the phone or something? I see no reason for it to just go half way up and then stop again.

speed test question

has anyone noticed that speed test wont go pass 9mbs? im always at 9.7 or so it'll never hit above that.
tested in speakeasy.net/speedtest and the speed test app.
feel's like the phone is capped at 10mbs lol
weird i just tethered my phone to my PC and I got 34mbs down and 2.0up -_-
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On network i get around 7Mb (maybe up to 9Mb with a strong signal)
On wifi a little over 13Mb
Phone's theoretical max is 14.4Mb so not too bad.

LTE+ symbol

Anyone know what the LTE+ symbol is for? I only get the + sign occasionally but Speedtest indicates no speed difference between LTE and LTE+.
Is it indicating Carrier Aggregation or VoLTE?
On Rogers btw!
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I think it means you're connected via CAT 6 LTE, basically uses bonds to LTE frequencies to boost your LTE speeds. (According to Rogers coverage map that means up to 150Mbps)
EDIT: It'll be like this which we have in London over in the UK http://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/10/30/ee_launches_150mbps_ltea/

Sunlight visibility good?

I'm just about to order this phone for the sole purpuse in mind: use it as a flight computer on a paraglider, where sunlight visiblity is critical.
Notebookcheck has this photo of the 7.2 (which has the same panel):
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This looks amazing to me, especially compared to Xiaomi Redmi 9S:
Now, this might not be valid as the two settings are very different.
Could someone upload a photo in bright sunlight, with maximum brightness + brightness sensor enabled?

How to monitor internet bandwidth?

I have installed this firewall but it doesn't give me enough information on what app request access to internet, is there another way to figure that out? Thanks
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If I'm right then bandwidth is the maximum amount of data transmitted over an Internet connection in a given amount of time, it's how much information you receive every second. It's measured in Mbps.
To monitor bandwidth usage on a per app basis then you might use
https://apkpure.com/network-monitor-mini/info.kfsoft.android.TrafficIndicator

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