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I've never understood why anybody cares about 5G, what do people do on their phones where bandwidth is a bottleneck? 4G is clearly fast enough for video stream

I've never understood why anybody cares about 5G, what do people do on their phones where bandwidth is a bottleneck? 4G is clearly fast enough for video streaming at resolutions and bitrates that matter for small screens. Online gaming tends to get bottlenecked on lately moreso than bandwidth and anybody who takes it seriously will be playing on consoles and PC. I don't think it's unreasonable to assume most filesharing happens on PC also. So what's the point?

Shish2k 3y ago
With sufficiently fast mobile internet, there is no more need to be digging and drilling to pull cables through roads and buildings (I’ve been using a 4G/5G dongle as my primary internet access for the past 4 years because the council is perpetually “3-6 months away” from bringing a fibre connection to my street. 4G was pretty painful, but 5G is actually just-about-tolerable by my gamer-nerd standards, and the less-technical friends and family who visit my house don’t even notice. Maybe the 20ms pings with occasional 100ms spikes is too much for professional-level FPS competitions, but I’m happy to chill out in the silver leagues so ¯\_(ツ)_/¯)