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5G may hit 1 Gb/s peak, but I'm 100% sure that the major US carriers will throttle the crap out of it so that you don't get anywhere near that. I'm on Verizon i
by greedo 7y ago
5G may hit 1 Gb/s peak, but I'm 100% sure that the major US carriers will throttle the crap out of it so that you don't get anywhere near that. I'm on Verizon in a decent sized city, and any streaming is throttled heavily. Speedtests work fine because the carriers know how to game them. But actual throughput on cellular sucks.
- pkolaczk 7y agoThey throttle, because there is much more demand than available bandwidth. However in cellular networks, you can add more bandwidth relatively cheaply by adding more nodes in high demand areas, and the total bandwidth of a single node is already higher than the promised 600 Mbps of Starlink. Therefore Starlink is not a competitor to cellular networks, because it can't compete by throughout nor latency. It competes with coverage though, but I'm not sure of there are enough rich people in boats to cover the investment.