Ask HN: What about 5G are you excited about or working on?

Posted by juancampa on Monday January 27, 2020 @04:56PM
from the ask-hn dept.

This recent post [1] made me think that I've heard a lot about 5G in mainstream media but almost nothing on HN.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22163244

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Re:Ask HN: What about 5G are you excited about or working on? by JohnFen on Monday January 27, 2020 @06:49PM (#22165069)

Honestly, there's nothing about 5G that actually excites me. Almost all of the hype I've seen about the benefits of 5G is just that -- hype.

The Big Win of 5G is that it can increase load-carrying capacity of the cell system, so if you live in an area where the cell system is frequently overloaded, then you should see an increase in quality. Outside of that, though, I'm not feeling it.

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Re:Ask HN: What about 5G are you excited about or working on? by OtterGauze on Wednesday January 29, 2020 @11:09AM (#22182038)

5G to me sounds like the tipping point. Who needs gigabit connectivity on data? Seems a bit needless.

Not to mention the fact that the technology makes the coverage so spotty there's hardly any time you'll actually be able to utilise it.

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Re:Ask HN: What about 5G are you excited about or working on? by ForHackernews on Monday January 27, 2020 @05:10PM (#22164369)

Realistically, I'm excited to pay even less attention to page weight. Shipping 10 megs of garbage javascript, even to mobile browsers? Bring it on!

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