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So, when you’re 10+ miles outside Ely, NV how is 5G a material improvement over LTE? I’m not understanding your point.

• smaccona 4y ago
  Not the GP, but I think the point is that he can’t get LTE at all in the desert 10+ miles outside of Ely, NV, because there are no cell towers within range. He doesn’t get 5G speeds there, but he does get LTE speeds on the 5G bands because the range is so much better. Full disclosure: I am a 5G doubter, so this is interesting to me, and I am by no means a 5G expert, so I could be totally wrong about this.
  • gkop 4y ago
    Yea, I don’t get it. I have no problem streaming 1080p movies over LTE well over 10 miles from the tower in the desert…
    • AshleyGrant 4y ago
      On what carrier and with what device?
      • gkop 4y ago
        AT&T, original iPhone SE
• AshleyGrant 4y ago
  Because for a given amount of physical bandwidth & power, 5G is going to be faster. 5G utilizes the available spectrum much more efficiently to give greater speeds on a given signal. There's no way I would have been able to stream 1080p videos on TMobile's LTE 600 MHz band at that distance from the tower.
  • gkop 4y ago
    I think I read too much into the desert. I imagined line of sight, but you didn’t imply that.
    • AshleyGrant 4y ago
      Yeah, that's one of the things that's great about the 600 MHz spectrum. While it can't penetrate mountains, it can penetrate lots of other stuff. It's the old spectrum formerly used by UHF analog TV. Don't get me wrong, I really prefer being on their 2.5 GHz when I can get it. It's way faster, but I'll take "fast enough" over nothing.