I’ve heard multiple issues with 5G, like range and stuff, effectively sacrificing range and reliability for even more speed just so that companies can market it better. Do you think 5G is a downgrade compared to 4G?

  • Avid Amoeba@lemmy.caEnglish
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    8 months ago

    That’s probably not going through mmWave signal but the sub-mmWave spectrum we’ve previously used for 4G. I’ve hit >400Mbps on good ol’ LTE back in 2018 on AWS.

    The most widely used form of 5G, sub-6 GHz 5G (mid-band), is capable of delivering data rates ranging from 10 to 1,000 megabits per second (Mbps) [1]

    According to this, 5G should be able to do 1Tb on sub-mmWave.

    [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/5G?wprov=sfla1