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 rocqua on Sunday January 29, 2023 @03:16AM (#34565998)

Wireless is inherently easier to accidentally get disrupted. When wired internet fails, it is rarely the wire. More importantly, if it is the wire that is easy to check and fix.

With wireless internet, disruption can be caused by many things. That makes diagnosing a problem so much harder. Incidentally it also tends to be less reliable.

Besides that, the massive complexity of the technology stack makes wireless harder to manage, configure, figure out compatibility for, and more prone to software bugs.

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Re:Ask HN: Is it just me or is 5G strictly worse than LTE? by HPsquared on Sunday January 29, 2023 @04:32AM (#34566422)

Wireless does has an advantage in terms of redundancy. If the nearest tower fails, you can probably also use another one nearby. Not so with wired connections, where the whole signal chain needs to be intact. Even if the whole network fails, you can probably switch SIM and use a different network.

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Re:Ask HN: Is it just me or is 5G strictly worse than LTE? by headsoup on Sunday January 29, 2023 @07:00AM (#34567298)

I suppose you don't live rurally...

But they both have trade-offs. Wireless allows many connections at once rather easily at the cost of interference and (potentially) speed and reliability, cable is more expensive up front if infrastructure isn't already there.

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Re:Ask HN: Is it just me or is 5G strictly worse than LTE? by renonce on Sunday January 29, 2023 @07:05AM (#34567333)

You can have such redundancy for wire too. People simply figured out that it’s so reliable there is no need for extra redundancy.

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