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Australia’s 4G network is faster than 5G: study

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Re: Australia’s 4G network is faster than 5G: study

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Post by tpmx »

"The United States, meanwhile, enjoyed a 5G maximum speed of 1815Mbps – about three times as fast as 4G users’ maximum speed."

This report seems to be lacking a reality check. (Is it practically possible to get ~600 Mbps from LTE? Exotic bundles like LTE MIMO don't really count unless they're actually offered as part of regular plans.)

Re: Australia’s 4G network is faster than 5G: study

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Post by stagger87 »

tpmx wrote: post #2

"The United States, meanwhile, enjoyed a 5G maximum speed of 1815Mbps – about three times as fast as 4G users’ maximum speed." This report seems to be lacking a reality check. (Is it practically possible to get ~600 Mbps from LTE? Exotic bundles like LTE MIMO don't really count unless they're actually offered as part of regular plans.)

At the 30.72 MS/s rate, 2k FFT size, 1201 subcarriers occupied per FFT, QAM256 on each subcarrier, 4x4 MIMO, you get ~576Mbps max throughput (pure number of bits transferred per second). This ignores encoding, cyclic prefix, and all the other overheads associated with the LTE protocol.

Re: Australia’s 4G network is faster than 5G: study

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Post by tpmx »

stagger87 wrote: post #3
tpmx wrote: post #2

"The United States, meanwhile, enjoyed a 5G maximum speed of 1815Mbps – about three times as fast as 4G users’ maximum speed." This report seems to be lacking a reality check. (Is it practically possible to get ~600 Mbps from LTE? Exotic bundles like LTE MIMO don't really count unless they're actually offered as part of regular plans.)

At the 30.72 MS/s rate, 2k FFT size, 1201 subcarriers occupied per FFT, QAM256 on each subcarrier, 4x4 MIMO, you get ~576Mbps max throughput (pure number of bits transferred per second). This ignores encoding, cyclic prefix, and all the other overheads associated with the LTE protocol.

So I guess that's where the article author got the "LTE speed". It was probably from some aussie mobile operator's "theoretical maximum speed" number or similar.

Re: Australia’s 4G network is faster than 5G: study

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Post by reaperducer »

I've found that 3G in Beatty, Nevada is faster than 4G in Pasadena, California.

(The downside is that you have to live in Beatty, Nevada. ;))

I've noticed these kinds of discrepancies every time I leave a major city. I don't trust the G anymore. It's all either really good, or really terrible from mile to mile regardless of how it's branded.

Re: Australia’s 4G network is faster than 5G: study

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Post by mfer »

This is where marketing and confusion can come in. There is what the technology is capable of and then the network backing it. For example, where I live I get a fraction of what 4G can provide. The reason is the cell phone providers network. I could get far faster speeds out of 4G if the providers provided it.

5G has some positives and negatives over 4G. For example, 5G frequencies interfere with the detection of water vapor for weather forecasts, are hyper local so lower latency but need to have towers in every neighborhood, can handle more devices connected (so all the hardware reporting back to manufacturers and others can phone home), and has the potential for faster speeds.

In theory, 5G is faster than 4G. In practice, I'm not likely to see the faster and I don't need it for my day to day activity.

Re: Australia’s 4G network is faster than 5G: study

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Post by jmckib »

reaperducer wrote: post #6

I've found that 3G in Beatty, Nevada is faster than 4G in Pasadena, California. (The downside is that you have to live in Beatty, Nevada. ;)) I've noticed these kinds of discrepancies every time I leave a major city. I don't trust the G anymore. It's all either really good, or really terrible from mile to mile regardless of how it's branded.

I'm assuming this is a case of unusually slow 4G, and not fast 3G? I travel frequently and I've noticed that sometimes my 4G speeds are very slow even when I have good signal strength, always in rural areas. I'm not sure what explains that.
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