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In my experience "bars" of 5G don't have much correlation with actual (tethered) megabits. In some places it's like broadband speeds, and in some places I've h
by 13of40 4y ago
In my experience "bars" of 5G don't have much correlation with actual (tethered) megabits. In some places it's like broadband speeds, and in some places I've had to explicitly switch back to LTE to get a decent connection even though my phone claimed it had a perfect 5G connection.
- chrisbolt 4y agoIn my experience this applies to "bars" of all Gs, I've been in many places with full bars and unable to load anything. Seems that bars don't indicate backhaul bandwidth or congestion.
- Ekaros 4y agoHaven't they always been signal strength? Which is only an issue when it is really low. And with 5G we are dealing with so many frequency bands, users and so on that the strength of signal really tells little.
- BuildTheRobots 4y agoIt's not even true signal strength. Certainly on 2G (I'd have to double check on later technologies) the radio can inform the UE to treat the recieved signal level as being an arbitrary amount better than actually measured. This applies to signal level as reported to the user as well as internal metrics, eg handover (is this other cell better, should I switch to it?).