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> and yet another few million pieces of e-waste are generated That's money generated while the e-waste is not factored in. I know I'm stating the obvious. But

by Garvi 3y ago

> and yet another few million pieces of e-waste are generated That's money generated while the e-waste is not factored in. I know I'm stating the obvious. But it's a problem with being realistic, as you start seeing idiosyncrasies everywhere: I run my household on 4g as I can reach realistic speeds of 100Mb/s. Theoretically that goes up to 150Mb/s. A 4k stream (compressed without visual loss) requires 15Mb/s. So 10 people in a household could simultaneously watch 4k content. Did I fail at math? Why does anyone need 5g? What for?

hotpotamus 3y ago
I felt the same way during the 5G hype phase. There were all kinds of sales pitches about how it would enable new applications, but I never really got what more bandwidth was supposed to accomplish.
- bombcar 3y ago
  5G boils down to “cell phones will continue to work in dense cities” and not really anything consumers care about beyond that.
rcxdude 3y ago
Well, ironically, 5g is much better designed for such small devices to connect to the cell network: it can support lower-power devices and they take a lot less network resources. 5G is an infrastructure upgrade more than a consumer upgrade (consumer benefit is incidental: the network is less congested, especially in denser areas)
- bonton89 3y ago
  Basically it is so your smart TV can upload all your watch information without getting you to cough up your wifi password. Soon when you buy a toilet seat it will have a 5G modem in it and upload your bowel movement information to the cloud automatically. The possibilities are endless.
andmarios 3y ago
I run my household on 4G too. I live at the center of the town. My ”realistic” speeds with a CAT4 LTE router are 4-34mbps. My guess for this range, is that other people are using the network too, so I cannot get the max bandwidth all the time. I also own a CAT6 LTE router (serving currently another house), which doubles the bandwidth, so around 8-68mpbs, quite better. With a 5G router I expect quadruple speeds, so around 32-270mbps. Now we finally reach a usable area, where I can zoom or netflix anytime during the day. :)

by Garvi 3y ago

hotpotamus 3y ago

I felt the same way during the 5G hype phase. There were all kinds of sales pitches about how it would enable new applications, but I never really got what more bandwidth was supposed to accomplish.

bombcar 3y ago
5G boils down to “cell phones will continue to work in dense cities” and not really anything consumers care about beyond that.

rcxdude 3y ago

Well, ironically, 5g is much better designed for such small devices to connect to the cell network: it can support lower-power devices and they take a lot less network resources. 5G is an infrastructure upgrade more than a consumer upgrade (consumer benefit is incidental: the network is less congested, especially in denser areas)

bonton89 3y ago
Basically it is so your smart TV can upload all your watch information without getting you to cough up your wifi password. Soon when you buy a toilet seat it will have a 5G modem in it and upload your bowel movement information to the cloud automatically. The possibilities are endless.

andmarios 3y ago

I run my household on 4G too. I live at the center of the town. My ”realistic” speeds with a CAT4 LTE router are 4-34mbps. My guess for this range, is that other people are using the network too, so I cannot get the max bandwidth all the time. I also own a CAT6 LTE router (serving currently another house), which doubles the bandwidth, so around 8-68mpbs, quite better. With a 5G router I expect quadruple speeds, so around 32-270mbps. Now we finally reach a usable area, where I can zoom or netflix anytime during the day. :)