Britain knows it’s selling out its national security to Huawei

Re:Britain knows it’s selling out its national security to H... by oarsinsync on Saturday February 01, 2020 @01:14PM (#22212076)

That might be less to do with your carrier's cellular edge capacity (are you in a densely populated area with lots of people on the same cell station as you?) and more to do with your carrier's intenet edge capacity (3 has lots of customers using a lot of internet)

If it's the former, 5G helps you. If it's the latter, 5G makes zero difference to you.

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Re:Britain knows it’s selling out its national security to H... by Reason077 on Saturday February 01, 2020 @01:30PM (#22212210)

Yes, I can’t say for sure but I assume it’s the former. It’s certainly a dense area (Central London) and there are certainly many people around here with 3 unlimited data plans.

If I monitor my router’s status page I can see it start to bounce between several different Cell IDs when the congestion hits, and the SINR drops to low single digits (from 16-20dB when it’s fastest).

In any case, as I understand it, backhaul upgrades will be a part of 3’s 5G rollout anyway.

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