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Re:Ask HN: Is it just me or is 5G strictly worse than LTE? by ip26 on Sunday January 29, 2023 @09:35AM (#34568474)
Trouble is, as far as I can tell, at 5G frequencies you need micro stations all over the place. If your suburban street has 10 houses and needs 5 stations (with fiber runs to each) to offer mmWave to everyone, it’s basically just the same thing as home broadband yet more expensive.
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Re:Ask HN: Is it just me or is 5G strictly worse than LTE? by garbagecoder on Sunday January 29, 2023 @01:21PM (#34570989)
Nope. There was a company about 20 years ago called WinStar that tried this. The reason it’s not “basically the same” is called “the last mile” problem. It’s vastly cheaper to install things on every block even than to every house especially when the utility poles and right of ways are already there.
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Re:Ask HN: Is it just me or is 5G strictly worse than LTE? by BenjiWiebe on Sunday January 29, 2023 @05:14PM (#34573349)
At mmWave 5G frequencies. 5G also runs on 4G frequencies with the same propagation as 4G.
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Re:Ask HN: Is it just me or is 5G strictly worse than LTE? by ip26 on Sunday January 29, 2023 @11:07PM (#34575674)
In something of a paradoxical curse, operating on 4G frequencies mean you share spectrum with a much larger land area, limiting possible bandwidth. You aren’t going to serve 1gbps of home internet to every house in reach.
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