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I moved house recently and in a reasonably large suburban area was forced to rely exclusively on tethering with 4g/5g on my iPhone until the fiber could get mov
by ipython 5y ago
I moved house recently and in a reasonably large suburban area was forced to rely exclusively on tethering with 4g/5g on my iPhone until the fiber could get moved to the new place.
It was a miserable experience. Video calls (wfh) were impossible- laggy and cut out all the time. Several software updates happened that week - at about 1gb average for almost a dozen devices - personal and work MacBooks, and phones for a full family with kids, I burned through my tethering allotment for the month within a week.
Latency with 5g is better than LTE but the best I’ve seen is in the neighborhood of 30ms. I can easily get sub 5ms on fiber. It does make a difference when doing rdp sessions for example.
I get that fixed wireless may work for some but for us it’s a non starter after being used to fast reliable fiber for almost 15 years now.