5G Is Likely to Put Weather Forecasting at Risk

Re:5G Is Likely to Put Weather Forecasting at Risk by vel0city on Tuesday April 16, 2019 @05:48PM (#19677646)

In this instance its not all identical content though. In this example, each bike has three cameras, along with a dozen or so camera angles around the track. Users can pick and choose a lot of those different views and combine a hybrid view of their own personal choosing.

Of course, this could also be accomplished with DTV tuners, but there's a much higher probability of users having a 5G chipset on their phone than having a DTV tuner capable of tuning to multiple channels and an antenna.

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Re:5G Is Likely to Put Weather Forecasting at Risk by paulmd on Tuesday April 16, 2019 @05:53PM (#19677688)

So essentially you want you want an app that lets you pick a couple multicast groups to add yourself to, and then displays them in this "hybrid view of their choosing".

It's the same as what the app is currently doing, just with multicast groups instead of singlecast. And by doing so, you reduce the network load by N/M, where N is the number of users and M is the number of streams each user runs on average.

Don't get me wrong, I understand that this probably isn't currently implemented, but that's the kind of thing we should be looking at, before we decide to screw up weather forecasting and radioastronomy so that you can see your NAAAYYSSSCARR.

Even 5G is going to get eaten up under certain types of load, so it makes much more sense to look at ways to reduce traffic, the easiest of which is broadcasting rather than singlecast.

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Re:5G Is Likely to Put Weather Forecasting at Risk by cjsawyer on Tuesday April 16, 2019 @06:07PM (#19677785)

"...before we decide to screw up weather forecasting and radioastronomy so that you can see your NAAAYYSSSCARR."

This isn't the place for cheap comments like that.

Even if you have a point ideologically speaking we live in the real world where consumer money talks louder than forum comments. 5G is coming whether we like it or not because of people wanting to stream data for entertainment.

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Re:5G Is Likely to Put Weather Forecasting at Risk by mirimir on Tuesday April 16, 2019 @10:16PM (#19679138)

I guess that we can revisit that if weather forecasting does become substantially less reliable. And with global climate change, maybe we'll need reliable weather forecasting. But me, I'll be dead before it gets too bad, dog willing.

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