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Zucca:
--- Quote from: daqq on January 05, 2022, 07:54:16 am ---1. Faster connectivity.
2. See above.
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I am still laughing today... well done.
IanB:
--- Quote from: Rick Law on January 20, 2022, 11:30:33 pm ---Thing is, I think for most people, they will not see the advertised significant speed improvement. It has problem penetrating walls, windows and even mere tree leaf. So you are reduced to basically needing line-of-sight to the antenna.
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So except for the limited few, they will be seeing 3G/4G/LTE probably for much of the life of "5G" deployment. The improved efficiency is a good thing. It helps hold cost down for the carriers and some saving would be passed along to the customers - or at least price increase will be tempered somewhat.
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Sitting here at home, inside my four walls, behind my windows, I am getting 140 down, 28 up on 5G. I think that is pretty good. I never saw speeds like that with LTE.
tooki:
--- Quote from: IanB on January 21, 2022, 06:26:03 am ---
--- Quote from: Rick Law on January 20, 2022, 11:30:33 pm ---Thing is, I think for most people, they will not see the advertised significant speed improvement. It has problem penetrating walls, windows and even mere tree leaf. So you are reduced to basically needing line-of-sight to the antenna.
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So except for the limited few, they will be seeing 3G/4G/LTE probably for much of the life of "5G" deployment. The improved efficiency is a good thing. It helps hold cost down for the carriers and some saving would be passed along to the customers - or at least price increase will be tempered somewhat.
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Sitting here at home, inside my four walls, behind my windows, I am getting 140 down, 28 up on 5G. I think that is pretty good. I never saw speeds like that with LTE.
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Inside my apartment, with only 2 bars of signal on my iPhone SE (2020), which does not support 5G, I just tested my LTE at 87Mbps down, 47Mbps up. 140 down is eminently possible with a stronger signal.
The upshot is, LTE done right performs very, very well. Unfortunately in your case, the US is, on average, pretty bad at cellular. :/ (I’ve often described cellular in USA as being somewhat third-world, but the analogy breaks down when one realizes that many third world countries actually do cellular quite well, often relying on it exclusively, with areas having never gotten landline service to begin with!)
IanB:
--- Quote from: tooki on January 27, 2022, 11:35:53 am ---Inside my apartment, with only 2 bars of signal on my iPhone SE (2020), which does not support 5G, I just tested my LTE at 87Mbps down, 47Mbps up. 140 down is eminently possible with a stronger signal.
The upshot is, LTE done right performs very, very well. Unfortunately in your case, the US is, on average, pretty bad at cellular. :/ (I’ve often described cellular in USA as being somewhat third-world, but the analogy breaks down when one realizes that many third world countries actually do cellular quite well, often relying on it exclusively, with areas having never gotten landline service to begin with!)
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Interesting. On my other phone with a "5GE" plan I just measured 155 down, 12.6 up. So I guess the phone hardware plays a part, as well as the network.
I believe "5GE" is LTE, renamed.
Someone:
People love to post how their "next" gen wireless connection is so much faster, forgetting that when its new the users/contention/congestion is so low that they are seeing abnormal performance.
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