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Re:Real world 4G vs. 5G test shows 14x bandwidth increase by iknowstuff on Thursday February 15, 2018 @02:03PM (#16386563)
In cities, I routinely get pings of about 40-50ms on LTE. I think it's well past the point of matching fixed broadband in that regard.
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Re:Real world 4G vs. 5G test shows 14x bandwidth increase by jfindley on Thursday February 15, 2018 @02:17PM (#16386667)
Interesting. Here (UK) fixed broadband is much better than that for latency. I ususually see 8-11ms on fixed broadband (DSL-based), yet my ping on 4G is generally more like 40-150ms, with lots of spikes.
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Re:Real world 4G vs. 5G test shows 14x bandwidth increase by ilovecars2 on Thursday February 15, 2018 @06:49PM (#16388822)
Even rural broadband tends to average 30ms pings for idle connections. 4G, like you say, is massively variable.
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