Remarkableriots Posted June 1, 2020 Share Posted June 1, 2020 https://www.cnet.com/news/5g-what-it-is-and-how-it-will-change-your-life/?ftag=CAD-03-10aaj8j Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bacon Posted June 1, 2020 Share Posted June 1, 2020 Anyways uhm… I bought a whole bunch of, uh, SHUNGITE….. rocks……. do you know what shungite is? Anybody know what shungite is? No, not Suge Knight, I think hes locked up in prison. I'm talking SHUNGITE. Anyways, it's a 2 billion year old…. like… rock….. stone that protects against frequencies and unwanted frequencies that may be traveling in the air. So that's my story. I bought a whole bunch of stuff, put them around the La Casa. Little pyramids. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TwinIon Posted June 1, 2020 Share Posted June 1, 2020 The 5G thing is so confused and so incredibly over-hyped. What gets touted as 5G is really a few different things that all have their own benefits and obstacles. Most 5G is just a modest speed boost over the same bands that we've been getting 3G and 4G. This is what most people will experience most of the time and it is in no way a game changing technology. It's a nice speed boost, but nothing transformative. 5G over ultrawide bands is what gives you that incredible, transformative speed and latency, but its deployment is so limited and the signal so finicky, that it's unlikely to define many people's actual usage anytime soon. If you don't live in a city, there's a good chance you never see 5G UWB signal near you. Even if you live downtown in a major city, it's unlikely you'll experience these speeds much of the time. Finally, there's the tech that is being deployed alongside 5G to meet the promises of super low latency. Primarily this involves edge computing. Basically, moving away from centralized cloud computing data centers and putting those servers closer to the signal you're connecting to. So even if you're lucky enough to be standing on the right street corner to get a 5G UWB signal, unless you're connecting to a service that has been specifically optimized for your location, those 1ms response times probably aren't going to happen. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jason Posted June 1, 2020 Share Posted June 1, 2020 19 minutes ago, TwinIon said: Most 5G is just a modest speed boost over the same bands that we've been getting 3G and 4G. This is what most people will experience most of the time and it is in no way a game changing technology. It's a nice speed boost, but nothing transformative. The big boost is that network capacity will increase. You're not going to get gigabit on the current wireless bands just because it's 5G, but you'll be less likely to find yourself dealing with connection issues due to tower overload. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dre801 Posted June 4, 2020 Share Posted June 4, 2020 LMAO 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Remarkableriots Posted June 6, 2020 Author Share Posted June 6, 2020 On 6/3/2020 at 5:00 PM, Dre801 said: LMAO Quote "I don't know if it is a placebo effect or not, but I have a growing feeling of well being that comes directly from my instinctual survival drive deep in my belly center," Jim wrote Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xbob42 Posted June 6, 2020 Share Posted June 6, 2020 I've had gigabit internet for quite a while now on devices I actually use and it hasn't changed jack shit, how's this gonna be any different? All I do with my dumbass phone is occasionally watch videos on the shitter and do some light web browsing. We're years and years away from the age where internet speeds were this big bottleneck. If you told me I was getting a 1,000x internet speed increase tomorrow (and the necessary hardware on my side to take advantage of it) I'd just shrug. Especially since no one seems to have servers capable of actually saturating a gigabit line. The low latency thing is the most interesting bit, but I also haven't had any latency concerns in years, either. Sounds like it could be a big deal for people out in the sticks with shitty internet, but it also sounds like they won't be getting it any time in the near or maybe even far future. Know what would really get me excited? Making data caps (and throttling of any kind) illegal and breaking up these monopolies to increase the quality of all internet and the burden on our wallets nationwide. Wow, I'm gonna get gigabit internet on my phone! I just used my monthly data cap in 2 seconds! The future's great! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cusideabelincoln Posted June 6, 2020 Share Posted June 6, 2020 ^Real ISP competition would be amazing. My town of 60,000 people, which is a retail shopping hub for a 60 mile radius, has one real residential option: Spectrum cable. Our other options are Frontier DSL (which is shit), and some wireless crap. Meanwhile, a rural town of 2,000 people 40 miles away has access to gigabit FIBER OPTIC Internet, with no data caps. This ISP services a lot of rural areas. My friend lives in the middle of nowhere, in a private wooded lakefront community 20 minutes away from the nearest small town grocery store, has access to this service. It's totally unacceptable this is not available in everyone's area. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maddux4163 Posted June 7, 2020 Share Posted June 7, 2020 Truly agree on the monopoly part. Luckily my provider doesn’t cap me (yet) Spectrum is my ISP. It’s that or 1mbps (you read that correctly) AT&T. I get 200mbps down and a paltry 10mbps upload. (Although I never truly upload much. So it’s fine) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ominous Posted December 15, 2022 Share Posted December 15, 2022 On 6/6/2020 at 8:37 PM, maddux4163 said: Truly agree on the monopoly part. Luckily my provider doesn’t cap me (yet) Spectrum is my ISP. It’s that or 1mbps (you read that correctly) AT&T. I get 200mbps down and a paltry 10mbps upload. (Although I never truly upload much. So it’s fine) Glad AT&T has better speeds here. 5G still hasn't changed anything though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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