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Re:Cities Are Saying ‘No’ to 5G, Citing Health, Aesthetics, ... by renaudg on Saturday August 24, 2019 @12:36PM (#20788109)
It is definitely about the number before the G. With perfect infrastructure investment like what your carrier seems to have done with 4G in Denver, 5G could reach 1-2GBps. In other words, real world imperfect 5G is ten times better than 4G with all stars aligned.
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Re:Cities Are Saying ‘No’ to 5G, Citing Health, Aesthetics, ... by kevin_thibedeau on Saturday August 24, 2019 @12:47PM (#20788171)
It doesn't look like like your old "4G" was legitimate full performance LTE. Cell carriers lie and demur about what performance they actually provide. You can't trust the number to mean anything.
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Re:Cities Are Saying ‘No’ to 5G, Citing Health, Aesthetics, ... by soulofmischief on Saturday August 24, 2019 @12:56PM (#20788231)
I don't know much about the specifics behind 5G but if asciident's claim is true then towers on every block should perform very well under high load. What kind of performance are you referring to? Throughput? Latency? Availability? Reliability?
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Re:Cities Are Saying ‘No’ to 5G, Citing Health, Aesthetics, ... by renaudg on Saturday August 24, 2019 @12:57PM (#20788234)
It was definitely a busy area and dozens of Mbps are more typical on 4G. My point is that real world 5G is an order of magnitude faster than real world 4G, much like 4G was in comparison to 3G.
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Re:Cities Are Saying ‘No’ to 5G, Citing Health, Aesthetics, ... by inimino on Sunday August 25, 2019 @01:13PM (#20794090)
Your 5G, and your 4G. That doesn't mean it is the 5G that is the difference, unless you did an exhaustive root cause investigation of the poor performance of the 4G.
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Re:Cities Are Saying ‘No’ to 5G, Citing Health, Aesthetics, ... by Spooky23 on Saturday August 24, 2019 @11:50PM (#20791253)
Backhaul matters as well. If you do carrier comparisons at scale, it becomes obvious that the connectivity to the towers varies dramatically, as do network conditions, quality of proxies on the carrier network and other factors.

A fancy new 5G tower also has underutilized connectivity to it.

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