According to the latest Speedtest Global Index, Kuwait’s 5G speeds ranks 7th fastest in the world but behind neighbouring countries UAE, Qatar and Saudi Arabia. Norway had the fastest. According to the index, Kuwait’s 5G speeds average is 338.97 Mbps which sounds about right compared to how fast my 5G is.
When I first got 5G I was averaging 700 Mbps but over the years it’s slowed down to an average of around 200 Mbps for me. To check out the full article, click here.
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16 replies on “Kuwait has 7th Fastest 5G Speeds”
Mine is running the same in both my houses it’s 800mbps, got it during corona lockdown in may
What is the best internet provider in Kuwait. I have 4G from Ooredoo and can’t even do speed tests on some occasions because nothing loads. I live in block 10 Salmiya
If you can get fiber do it. Super reliable and speeds aren’t throttled
ZAIN is way better, i used to live in block 10 moved over to block 12 few years back, used Ooreedoo for about 2yrs but felt speeds were constantly inconsistent, switched to ZAIN and no complaints since then.
*Ooredoo
Very happy with my STC 5G but realized how low the router Wi-Fi range is in the house on ALL 5G routers irrespective of the provider compared to 4G or GPON/Fibre/LAN routers.
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Deploy wifi6 mesh to cover dead spots in your house.
The 5G router has a lot of work to do compared to a simple LAN or Fiber/GPON router.
It has to connect to 4G network for authentication, 5G network for data upload and download (using 2+ bands). And then a 5GHz WiFi broadcasting, 2.4GHz WiFi broadcasting and provide internet for the LAN ports.
That’s a lot of load and number crunching for one piece of equipment with one CPU and limited amount of RAM (Yeah it’s basically a tiny specialized computer). So don’t expect the same WiFi performance as a dedicated WiFi router.
If you are into min/maxing you can disable WiFi on the 5G router and link it to another WiFi router using Ethernet/LAN cable, so it can reserve 100% of it’s resources for 5G management.
Useless 5g for gaming. Very high ping
And it doesn’t work if you live above 7th flow in some areas
Obviously they didn’t do the test in mahboula, block3 using orredoo
Depends on your area, my 5G has better ping than landline (5-8ms to local servers).
What games have servers in Kuwait? Unless you’re talking about your own lan servers. 8ms is too good to be true.
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No hyperlink for “Click here”.
oops just fixed it
And yet 4G is still sometimes slow, watching 720p videos can be a nightmare especially during the evening…planned obsolescence to make me switch to 5G?
Also they usually throttle the bandwidth speed of my internet when my due date is near, the same goes for every ISP out there. Lol!