Real world 4G vs. 5G test shows 14x bandwidth increase

Re:Real world 4G vs. 5G test shows 14x bandwidth increase by kalleboo on Thursday February 15, 2018 @11:03AM (#16385048)

Because WiFi sucks.

If I'm riding a tram and leave WiFi on, the continuous connection and disconnection of networks (I pay for a WiFi service with a bunch of hotspots) makes my internet useless.

If it wasn't for iOS's restrictions on some types of data usage I would never turn on WiFi on my phone.

> we can assume in the future [...] that wifi will continue to improve

WiFi has gotten faster over the years but none of the fundamental problems have been solved. Heck, WiFi routers still hijack your DNS and HTTP connections just to show a ToS or let you log in! Why is this not an adopted part of the standard?

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Re:Real world 4G vs. 5G test shows 14x bandwidth increase by TomMarius on Thursday February 15, 2018 @11:11AM (#16385123)

Wasn't RADIUS supposed to allow this?

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Re:Real world 4G vs. 5G test shows 14x bandwidth increase by kalleboo on Thursday February 15, 2018 @11:13AM (#16385140)

There are lots of standards I'm sure, but one problem with WiFi is the implementations are usually complete crap. With 3G/4G stuff, at least the operators have some minimum QA standards that force the manufacturers to up their game, but for WiFi anything goes.

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