• Glitterkoe@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    Same when cellular drops to one level below the current top of the line for consumers. 5G plus? Decent. 4G and lower? Fat shit through a funnel.

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          1 day ago

          The biggest issue is that 5G is very easily blocked by objects, including humans. It’s unavoidably very hard to get a strong stable signal in crowded places. In my humble opinion, the extra speed just isn’t worth the trade-off 🤷🏼

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            1 day ago

            If that would be true I’d not be getting excellent zone in my concrete jungle. You’re thinking of short-wavelength (mmWave) 5G which is rarely used (mostly in dense population areas like event venues), but most utilized towers run on similar frequencies as 4G.

            EDIT: Just gotta flex abit and say when I upgraded my home network from 4G to 5G, I went from ~50 latency to ~30, speed went from 150 to 700. Same cost (26eur, unlimited) with no downtimes whatsoever. Happy 5G customer here.

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              21 hours ago

              Well maybe it’s not the blocking then. But my experience has been getting 5G signal for 3 seconds, my video deciding to up the streaming quality to 4K, then losing the signal and the video buffering for 5 seconds as my phone regrets its choices. Having set it to prefer 4G I no longer have any issues.