Slow Cell Service? Switch to 3G

High population density can result in a bottleneck for your cellular device signal, but making one minor adjustment to your settings can get you back up and connected..

Originally published on millennialmoderator.com

Whether it’s a massive conference, a stadium sports event or a music festival, your cellular network service will only work as fast as the signal allows. This means the more people sending tweets, the less bandwidth is available for you and me. I was working at EDC Las Vegas 2019 this past year and with over 160,000 people all recording stories on their Instagram, my LTE network wasn’t able to send or receive texts, let alone get onto social media. So how does this happen and what can we do to get back up and browsing?

What’s the difference between LTE and 3G?

LTE, 4G, 3G (and the controversial 5G) are all standard languages of communication for cellular devices. I won’t get too deep into the technical stuff- mostly because I don’t want to sound like an idiot. This isn’t school and I’m not your…