• mellowheat@suppo.fi
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    8 months ago

    Telecoms are improving connections in areas with more demand before upgrading all connections in areas with less demand, news at eleven.

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      Cities inherently have better infrastructure due to their density. It’s the entire point of cities, and it’s why suburbs have such bad issues with potholes and power outages. It’s just not financially viable to build out the latest infrastructure for sprawling suburbia.

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      8 months ago

      Wait a second, are you trying to tell me that the Telecoms are doing the same thing they’ve done since 2.5G?

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    8 months ago

    They’ve done this with every new generation, I’m shocked that they aren’t already advertising 6G

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    8 months ago

    Well sure. They are always going to be upgrading their networks.

  • Cloudless ☼@feddit.uk
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    Let’s see 4G LTE releases over the years…

    • Release 8 (2008): Introduced base LTE capabilities, including high peak data rates (up to 300 Mbps downlink, 75 Mbps uplink), improved spectral efficiency, flexible bandwidth options, and lower latency compared to 3G.

    • Release 9 (2011): Enhanced aspects of Release 8, such as carrier aggregation (combining multiple frequency bands for increased bandwidth), improved handover (switching between cell towers), and support for multicast/broadcast services.

    • Release 10 (2011): Introduced LTE Advanced, marking a significant step forward. It brought features like wider bandwidth support, further carrier aggregation enhancements, and MIMO (Multiple-Input Multiple-Output) antenna technology for increased capacity and efficiency.

    • Release 11 (2013): Continued improvements on LTE Advanced, focusing on enhanced interoperability with Wi-Fi, power saving features, and self-organizing network (SON) functionalities for network optimization.

    • Release 12 (2014): Furthered LTE Advanced capabilities, including support for Voice over LTE (VoLTE) calls, machine-type communication (MTC) for low-power devices, and coordinated multi-point (CoMP) transmission for improved coverage and capacity.

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    They just put up 5g transponders on the tower that serves me at the beginning of this year. It’s worse than the 4g lte I was getting.

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    5G means Fifth Generation, so I would think that 5.5G is simply an improved version.

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      Yeah it would actually be kinda freaky if they finished rolling out an upgrade and just declared they were done.

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    8 months ago

    Anyone else notice that after 5G came out, 4G seems to have slowed to 3G or less? It will sometimes take almost two minutes for a page to load, if at all with 4G status.

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      Yep.

      And 5G is no better.

      It all just sucks now. All of it. All the time.

      3G was often better and more reliable when it was king than modern tech.

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        3G was often better and more reliable when it was king than modern tech

        Yeah, cause at that time there were very few people using it for anything bandwidth intensive. 3g is absolutely terrible at serving lots of bandwidth to a big crowd, even it can deliver acceptable speeds to a few people in more rural areas

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    Of course they are talking about it. The moment they finish defining (not deploying) one format, they talk about the next one. Did you expect 5G be the last format ever?

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    My foreign friends say this is an American problem and they have been past 5G for quite some time, even up to 8G speeds.