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My experience with 5G is that it's strictly worse than LTE. At this point, if I see the 5G symbol on my phone I'm conditioned to expect the internet to barely w
by apitman 3y ago
My experience with 5G is that it's strictly worse than LTE. At this point, if I see the 5G symbol on my phone I'm conditioned to expect the internet to barely work. Requests frequently seem to just hang.
- lxgr 3y agoThen something is definitely up with either your device or your local network base station(s). I used to have major problems with one network one particular street corner where data throughput would reliably drop to zero on 5G, but calls still went through somehow (even though they're also data on 5G, albeit with a different QoS). Signal strength was always shown as full. A phone restart would sometimes, but not always, fix it – without moving anywhere! Never happened again since switching away. 5G is a standard/protocol; it doesn't somehow inherently prevent bad network management.
- wreckdropibex 3y agoMy experience with 5G is that it's strictly better than LTE. At this point, if I see the 5G symbol, I'm conditioned to expect there to be 10-100x more bandwidth available than with LTE and latencies to be at levels at par with wired connections.
- r00fus 3y agoAre you possibly on a 2nd-tier plan (like mine, I have grandfathered T-Mobile "simple choice" @ $10/line)? MNVOs like Mint, etc are also typically 2nd-tier. Telcos typically downrate 2nd-tier data, so if it's there's congestion, we feel it most.