On Thu, Oct 5, 2023 at 11:15 AM stan via users <users@lists.fedoraproject.org> wrote: > > I recently received an offer from T-mobile to use their 5G network as > my main internet access. It was contingent on a contract for phone > with them, but the price and speed for internet was competitive. Has > anyone done this using fedora, or I suppose, any other system? Horror > stories or kudos? The main drawback I could see was that it was a lot > like early cable, where the bandwidth depended on the number of users > on your branch. If it was just me, I have the whole pipe, and it would > be awesome. Ten others and me, and not so hot as we shared the bandwidth > among us.
I used T-Mobile and a hotspot for internet access while on-prem at a customer's site in New York City (Manhattan) back around 2011 to about 2012 or 2013. It was a 4G network back then. I used the hotspot to avoid using the customer's network, and its Data Loss Prevention (DLP) program. T-Mobile regularly dropped my data connections when the network got bogged down (presumably with voice calls). Your internet and data traffic on a 5G connection will likely be a second class citizen with no quality of service guarantees. In fact, it probably won't even meet 5G standards, which I believe is 20 GB/s burst and 1 GB/s download speed. If I recall correctly, there are loopholes built into the marketing so carriers can claim they provide the standard even though they don't meet the specification. Or that's what I found back in the 4G days. Jeff _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@lists.fedoraproject.org Do not reply to spam, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue
