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It would blow through your allowance if you downloaded something at that speed, constantly. Maybe other people understand it differently but I’ve always underst
by mathieuh 8y ago
It would blow through your allowance if you downloaded something at that speed, constantly. Maybe other people understand it differently but I’ve always understood those ads as like ads for a top speed on a car. You’ll never go that fast normally, but you can if you need to.
People will continue downloading < 1 MB per request, it will just be much faster
- MrMember 8y agoThat's just it, though. If 99% of your mobile internet usage consists of <1MB requests it doesn't matter if you're on 3G,4G,or 5G.
- gsnedders 8y ago4G at least in general has lower latency than 3G, but I don't know if that's the protocol or just deployment.
- asdff 8y agoYou'd still get kicked for high ping even if you sat right under the 4G tower.
- BenjiWiebe 8y agoIn our rural area with poor 4g (Verizon) signal, the latency is still usually better than our CenturyLink adsl. Something like 40ms vs 60ms.
- metalliqaz 8y agoSpeak for yourself. With my grandfathered unlimited data play from Verizon, I basically stream YouTube all day long.
- programbreeding 8y agoExcept if you hit the top speed of your car you can continue driving around at the normal speed the whole rest of the time. You don't have to drive around at half the speed you want for a month.
- lozf 8y agoIt won't be long before companies are making extra-high bandwidth auto-playing ads to eat your allowance, not to mention the improved location tracking due to smaller cells.