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Re: What 5G Will Mean for You

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Post by sgt101 »

jasonkester wrote: post #9

Personally, I'm just hoping that 3G will eventually make it to England. That seems more realistic, though I don't doubt that the Bay Area will be happily basking in this 5G niceness by the time it happens. I just got back from 3 months in Southeast Asia, and it's just baffling to me how I could get fast data to my phone in virtually unlimited quantities, out in the sticks of rural Cambodia, for five dollars. But comi…

Curious - which town are you in? I have 4g and 200mbs-1 fttp and I live in a field in the middle of suffolk.

Re: What 5G Will Mean for You

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Post by jasonkester »

sgt101 wrote: post #11
jasonkester wrote: post #9

Personally, I'm just hoping that 3G will eventually make it to England. That seems more realistic, though I don't doubt that the Bay Area will be happily basking in this 5G niceness by the time it happens. I just got back from 3 months in Southeast Asia, and it's just baffling to me how I could get fast data to my phone in virtually unlimited quantities, out in the sticks of rural Cambodia, for five dollars. But comi…

Curious - which town are you in? I have 4g and 200mbs-1 fttp and I live in a field in the middle of suffolk.

The North. Kendal, specifically.

One day Virgin will route a cable our way, and life will be good. Until then we're stuck with BT and their 200 year old copper (and a few cell towers without enough power to drill through the stone buildings in town, let alone the little hills around it).

Re: What 5G Will Mean for You

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Post by joelrunyon »

creshal wrote: post #2

> What 5G Will Mean for You Absolutely nothing for the next 20 years, seeing how my carrier just started deploying LTE (50 MBit, that is, not 300 MBit) at eye-watering costs ($20 a month for 5 gigabytes!).

Switch to T-Mobile. Unlimited data + LTE.

Re: What 5G Will Mean for You

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Post by vpkaihla »

pmontra wrote: post #6

> With 5G, downloading feature-length movies could take less than five seconds. > With 4G, downloading feature-length movies could take as long as eight minutes. Am I wrong in thinking that an operator would prefer to keep their antenna busy for only 5 seconds instead of for 8 minutes? If this is the case, if they have enough bandwidth to the antenna, they should try to move people to 5G quickly. But you still need 9…

What's a monthly cap?

Re: What 5G Will Mean for You

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Post by jtmarmon »

> Driverless cars with extremely fast response times

Seems like relying on low network latency for critical safety features is designing a fundamentally flawed system.

Is this really how driverless cars are being made or is the author just pulling things from his ass

Re: What 5G Will Mean for You

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Post by ojii »

post_break wrote: post #3

It seems like it will just mean you can hit your data cap faster.

Agreed. I've got 4G at the moment and it's plenty fast, since I can only use it for moderate surfing/etc since I'd otherwise hit my monthly cap in a week. If I had super fast 5G, I could accidentally burn through my cap in a day.

Re: What 5G Will Mean for You

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Post by nextos »

sgt101 wrote: post #11
jasonkester wrote: post #9

Personally, I'm just hoping that 3G will eventually make it to England. That seems more realistic, though I don't doubt that the Bay Area will be happily basking in this 5G niceness by the time it happens. I just got back from 3 months in Southeast Asia, and it's just baffling to me how I could get fast data to my phone in virtually unlimited quantities, out in the sticks of rural Cambodia, for five dollars. But comi…

Curious - which town are you in? I have 4g and 200mbs-1 fttp and I live in a field in the middle of suffolk.

Even in some parts of Cambridge 3/4G leaves a lot to be desired. EE has sometimes downtimes that can be measured in days. Its very disappointing.

Its also absurd companies offering "unlimited" mobile traffic do deep packet inspection. Whenever I try to SSH to any of my servers I get banned immediately, despite having a ridiculously low data rate.

Re: What 5G Will Mean for You

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Post by navait »

joelrunyon wrote: post #13
creshal wrote: post #2

> What 5G Will Mean for You Absolutely nothing for the next 20 years, seeing how my carrier just started deploying LTE (50 MBit, that is, not 300 MBit) at eye-watering costs ($20 a month for 5 gigabytes!).

Switch to T-Mobile. Unlimited data + LTE.

As a happy T-mobile customer, I do understand that limited coverage makes it unfeasible for many. For example, I live in rural New England and cannot reliably get signal (even for SMS) in certain towns nearby. I've never gotten signal in Vermont.

Re: What 5G Will Mean for You

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Post by buro9 »

jasonkester wrote: post #12
sgt101 wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Curious - which town are you in? I have 4g and 200mbs-1 fttp and I live in a field in the middle of suffolk.

The North. Kendal, specifically. One day Virgin will route a cable our way, and life will be good. Until then we're stuck with BT and their 200 year old copper (and a few cell towers without enough power to drill through the stone buildings in town, let alone the little hills around it).

Maybe Kendal should come together and investigate building your own http://b4rn.org.uk/

Actually you're right on the edge of the coverage area, why not contact them and see what it would take to extend it.

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