I’ll only send to this group, my other groups would scratch their head and ask what am I talking about.
Since I use a Mi-Fi with Verizon when I travel I called wanting to know when they were going to issue a security patch for the vulnerability of the “Krack” hack… I was connected to Level two tech support…the man didn’t have a clue what I was talking about, hadn’t heard a thing, I literally had to read to him the details of what had happened… He moved me up to the next level and now I had an Engineer that know what I was asking. Of course the Mi-Fi’s are low on the triage of importance…but eventually there will be a patch, I assume like all Router’s, one day they will be secured for most all manufactures. Then I ask him several questions about 5g, supposedly Verizon is about 18 months ahead of AT&T, they will begin implementing next year, the larger cities first so I’m guessing Louisville area may have it by 2025! Advantages are the sustained speed is attained with many more devices then under 4g before any degradation of speed, the advertised speed is 1 gig, WOW Cellular with the speed of a wired home or office. The problem for firms is the method of dispersing the network, it’s going to be a “Neighborhood" type of connectivity. Cell towers with 4g will also have the 5g attached, however as 4g was faster it also couldn’t extend as far and had more difficulty passing through structures…5g is taking that to a much higher level….to combat this the “neighborhood” will have small devices placed on top Stop signs, telephone poles, Church Crosses, some are even disguised as rocks…. Maybe I was generous in my 2025 date…. I’ve read many articles stating that 5g is going to be as important to the country as the Industrial or Technical revolution…… We hold our breath… John _______________________________________________ MacGroup mailing list Posting address: [email protected] Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/> Answers to questions: <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup/>
