Ask HN: Is it just me or is 5G strictly worse than LTE?

Re:Ask HN: Is it just me or is 5G strictly worse than LTE? by ninjha on Saturday January 28, 2023 @11:05PM (#34564787)

In my day to day, 5G uses more battery, has similar speeds to LTE, and is less reliable than LTE... I just go into settings and turn off 5G.

Occasionally I'm at the airport (or someplace with the "real" wideband 5G) and I want to download a movie quickly. At that point I turn on 5G and get 2 Gbit down, which is convenient!

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Re:Ask HN: Is it just me or is 5G strictly worse than LTE? by mekster on Saturday January 28, 2023 @11:24PM (#34564906)

Is the only good usage of 5G to download movie on the way?

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Re:Ask HN: Is it just me or is 5G strictly worse than LTE? by idontwantthis on Saturday January 28, 2023 @11:25PM (#34564916)

I don’t know many other things that would need 2gbs on a phone.

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Re:Ask HN: Is it just me or is 5G strictly worse than LTE? by kapitanjakc on Sunday January 29, 2023 @03:06AM (#34565960)

A dirty movie on go

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Re:Ask HN: Is it just me or is 5G strictly worse than LTE? by Sakos on Sunday January 29, 2023 @04:28AM (#34566397)

I use my smartphone on 5g (with unlimited volume) as a modem for my laptop when I'm not home. It's fantastic. I'm glad nobody here is in a position to decide "nah, 4g is good enough". Nothing but luddites here.

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Re:Ask HN: Is it just me or is 5G strictly worse than LTE? by martinald on Sunday January 29, 2023 @08:38AM (#34567958)

The actual real benefit of 5G for me is beating very congested LTE towers at peak times. There are a lot of spots where the 4G mast (especially on LTE800) is completely congested, but 5G is much* better, though definitely starting to see 5G congestion in places now.

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Re:Ask HN: Is it just me or is 5G strictly worse than LTE? by 51Cards on Sunday January 29, 2023 @09:48AM (#34568581)

In time as people upgrade their phones the balance should shift then, with the 4G spectrum becoming less congested. Personally I don't find the speed increase of 5G to be a need as I never found 4G to be slow. I'll be quite content to lock to the 4G bands if they open up more.

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Re:Ask HN: Is it just me or is 5G strictly worse than LTE? by martinald on Sunday January 29, 2023 @12:24PM (#34570323)

No, because 5G at the moment combines both 4G+5G carriers together. This also seems to reduce performance of 5G on heavily loaded 4G cells (probably ACK packets getting delayed if it goes via the 4G upstream is my guess, but not sure).

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