4 ms·

> 5G isn't really like 4G upgraded. It's more its own thing. This is my understanding as well, but I have no idea about any of the details. I know there's some

> 5G isn't really like 4G upgraded. It's more its own thing. This is my understanding as well, but I have no idea about any of the details. I know there's something cool about "beams". Do you (or anyone) have a good "entry-level" article/doc that outlines some of the major features that makes it so different than 4G?

ksec 5y ago
Search Massive MIMO, Beamforming ( Which isn't really new ), Small Cells, NR. That is about it really. You can ignore mmWave which is pure hype. Most of the other enhancements are on the carrier / operation side and not consumer. You can also ignore all the 5G Self Driving Vehicle crap.
- ineedasername 5y ago
  >5G Self Driving Vehicle crap. I live in a dense suburb of a large city and 5G coverage seems not that great. I'm not sure why self-driving requires or gains much benefit from 5g anyway, but I wouldn't want to rely on it. You can certainly do car-to-car communication & coordination without it, and you wouldn't want a minor network outage turning the system into chaos.
  - ksec 5y ago
    Because certain vendor from certain country have a huge patent portfolio on Autonomous vehicle (AV) and wanted it to rely on 5G so that everything is centralised and could easily be controlled in the name of traffic shaping (cough). And somehow (cough) EU was brought into the whole thing until a Saint appeared, after being banished to hell he finally came back and convinced enough people AV with 5G would need to total state surveillance. I think, if I remember correctly EU finally abandoned that idea. But as with everything it may come back someday. ( Hope not )
    - Talanes 5y ago
      Any reason for the obfuscation?
      - ksec 5y ago
        Those who knows it would instantly understand. Those who dont could fact check it themselves.
        Talanes 5y ago
        >Those who dont could fact check it themselves. That's me, and no they can't. At least not without searching the full breadth of possible players looking for a set of facts that matches. If I could figure out who you meant, I wouldn't have commented.

ksec 5y ago

Search Massive MIMO, Beamforming ( Which isn't really new ), Small Cells, NR. That is about it really. You can ignore mmWave which is pure hype. Most of the other enhancements are on the carrier / operation side and not consumer. You can also ignore all the 5G Self Driving Vehicle crap.

ineedasername 5y ago
>5G Self Driving Vehicle crap. I live in a dense suburb of a large city and 5G coverage seems not that great. I'm not sure why self-driving requires or gains much benefit from 5g anyway, but I wouldn't want to rely on it. You can certainly do car-to-car communication & coordination without it, and you wouldn't want a minor network outage turning the system into chaos.
- ksec 5y ago
  Because certain vendor from certain country have a huge patent portfolio on Autonomous vehicle (AV) and wanted it to rely on 5G so that everything is centralised and could easily be controlled in the name of traffic shaping (cough). And somehow (cough) EU was brought into the whole thing until a Saint appeared, after being banished to hell he finally came back and convinced enough people AV with 5G would need to total state surveillance. I think, if I remember correctly EU finally abandoned that idea. But as with everything it may come back someday. ( Hope not )
  - Talanes 5y ago
    Any reason for the obfuscation?
    - ksec 5y ago
      Those who knows it would instantly understand. Those who dont could fact check it themselves.
      - Talanes 5y ago
        >Those who dont could fact check it themselves. That's me, and no they can't. At least not without searching the full breadth of possible players looking for a set of facts that matches. If I could figure out who you meant, I wouldn't have commented.