Real world 4G vs. 5G test shows 14x bandwidth increase
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Re: Real world 4G vs. 5G test shows 14x bandwidth increase
#2I'm not disputing 5G is faster, but was congestion taken into account for this test? 4G for me is noticeably slower than when I first got a 4G phone, primarily because the network has become more congested as it became the mainstream.
Re: Real world 4G vs. 5G test shows 14x bandwidth increase
#3What standard is this now? Last time I tried to read up on 5G, it was described as a collection of ideas for a new standard rather than one specific technology. IS this still the case (i.e. different companies work on competing technologies) or does 5G by now mean the same for all companies?
Re: Real world 4G vs. 5G test shows 14x bandwidth increase
#4What standard is this now? Last time I tried to read up on 5G, it was described as a collection of ideas for a new standard rather than one specific technology. IS this still the case (i.e. different companies work on competing technologies) or does 5G by now mean the same for all companies?
No, all these deployments are considered "pre-standard" 5G.
Re: Real world 4G vs. 5G test shows 14x bandwidth increase
#5T-Mobile austria did the same a few days ago. They achieved 3ms latency to a drone which they were remote controlling and 2Gbit.
https://www.flickr.com/photos/t-mo-austria/sets/721576693479...
https://newsroom.t-mobile.at/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/1802...
Re: Real world 4G vs. 5G test shows 14x bandwidth increase
#6I'm not disputing 5G is faster, but was congestion taken into account for this test? 4G for me is noticeably slower than when I first got a 4G phone, primarily because the network has become more congested as it became the mainstream.
5G is less about just faster network anyways. The goal as far as I understand is to use something like gre bonding to achieve some support for transparent handoff between base station and home network. So in theory if you are in your own wifi the network should not need to talk to your phone.
Re: Real world 4G vs. 5G test shows 14x bandwidth increase
#7I'm not disputing 5G is faster, but was congestion taken into account for this test? 4G for me is noticeably slower than when I first got a 4G phone, primarily because the network has become more congested as it became the mainstream.
It doesn't look like they considered substantial congestion for either 4G LTE or 5G, which should mean that while the specific bandwidth numbers may not hold up, the speed ratio should be comparable in production.
You can see that they evaluate LTE at 50Mbps, which is around what Verizon phones were getting when they first started going to market but before congestion and backhaul limitations were hit due to the number of LTE devices on the network.
Currently on LTE with AT&T, I can usually hit 10-20Mbps, so applying the 14x ratio, I'd expect to be able to get 100-300Mbps with 5G once congestion takes hold, which is quite sufficient.
Re: Real world 4G vs. 5G test shows 14x bandwidth increase
#8I'm not disputing 5G is faster, but was congestion taken into account for this test? 4G for me is noticeably slower than when I first got a 4G phone, primarily because the network has become more congested as it became the mainstream.
5G is less about just faster network anyways. The goal as far as I understand is to use something like gre bonding to achieve some support for transparent handoff between base station and home network. So in theory if you are in your own wifi the network should not need to talk to your phone.
How is this different from WiFi Calling?
Re: Real world 4G vs. 5G test shows 14x bandwidth increase
#9What standard is this now? Last time I tried to read up on 5G, it was described as a collection of ideas for a new standard rather than one specific technology. IS this still the case (i.e. different companies work on competing technologies) or does 5G by now mean the same for all companies?
No, all these deployments are considered "pre-standard" 5G.
In that case it would be helpful if news articles described what the company actually did. Maybe they don't understand themselves but any speed claim is useless without knowledge about the underlying technology.
Re: Real world 4G vs. 5G test shows 14x bandwidth increase
#10I'm not disputing 5G is faster, but was congestion taken into account for this test? 4G for me is noticeably slower than when I first got a 4G phone, primarily because the network has become more congested as it became the mainstream.
And related to that, how many towers currently have the bandwidth capacity at their base to support this new throughput at scale? All this may do is shift the bottleneck from between handset & tower, to the tower's own infrastructure.
Mobile vendors won't mind because your phone will say "5G" in the status bar and they can charge more. But in reality your phone to web-site performance (particularly outside of artificial benchmarks) may not improve substantially.