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Have a decent connection where there’s a large gathering of people.
by ronnier 8y ago
Have a decent connection where there’s a large gathering of people.
- KJKingJ 8y agoVery much so. Sure, the headline speeds of 5G are nice (and indeed currently with the right 4G deployments and equipment, you can certainly get some phenomenal speeds today), but like all major network upgrades the primary benefit for typical users is aggregate capacity. That seemingly pointless headline speed doesn't quite happen when you've got 100s or 1000s of people in an area, what it does result in though is a usable speed for all of those people instead of an unusable one.
- asdff 8y agoYou don't need 5G to get that, you can get usable speeds to over 100k people in a roughly 200m x 100m area with wifi and 4G, as OSU has done (1,2). 1 https://www.bizjournals.com/columbus/news/2013/08/27/ohio-stadium-cell-service-improved-in.html https://www.bizjournals.com/columbus/news/2013/08/27/ohio-st... 2 https://www.dispatch.com/news/20180405/ohio-state-to-spend-nearly-19-million-updating-wi-fi-across-campus-including-ohio-stadium https://www.dispatch.com/news/20180405/ohio-state-to-spend-n...
- toomuchtodo 8y ago802.11ax ("WiFI 6") supports this. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IEEE_802.11ax#Technical_improvements https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IEEE_802.11ax#Technical_improv...
- dx034 8y agoWith the same backbone infrastructure? Wouldn't you need more cell towers for this? From my experience, areas that constantly have large crowds often work well with 4G, just the occasional bursts don't work.