https://www.computerworld.com/article/3336119/mobile-wireless/5g-or-faux-g.html
> Forget all those stories of 20 Gbps speeds and 1 millisecond latency. 5G will > never deliver performance like that — and anyway its time is still years away > for most of us most of the time. ... > What we do know is that 600MHz 5G will cover limited areas. What you think of > as 5G, with all the speed and fancy trimmings, will have a range of a few > hundred yards — if we’re lucky. > > Oh, and when you’re inside, you’ll want to stay close to the windows. That’s > the only way you’re going to get a signal. > > That’s because the millimeter wave (mmWave) 5G that AT&T and Verizon are > bringing us has no range or penetration to speak of. 4G, in comparison, has a > practical range of about a dozen miles. > > There are a couple of problems with this. First, they will need to get > permission to put all those femtocells, which are about the size of microwave > ovens, in place. Then they must hook them up to fast fiber cable to deliver > 5G speeds — because, as always, a network is only as fast as its slowest > link. And, finally, they have to actually install the femtocells. -- Kim Holburn IT Network & Security Consultant T: +61 2 61402408 M: +61 404072753 mailto:[email protected] aim://kimholburn skype://kholburn - PGP Public Key on request _______________________________________________ Link mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.anu.edu.au/mailman/listinfo/link
