I’m late to the party here, but wanted to chime in and say on t mobile, in the Midwest, I have a 5g phone and also t mobiles gateway for my house. The gateway is unlimited and I pay $30/month for it.
The thing works fantastic, actually. As of this moment I’m 72Mb down, 52Mb up and 30ms latency. Latency is usually around 40. My download is normally faster, but I ran the test while my kid is streaming Netflix in the living room.
There’s no real noticeable difference for the most part just using my phone on 5g compared to what 4g did. I mean I’m sure it’s faster, but outside of some big game downloads, having more than 15Mb on a phone isn’t really necessary.
RogueBanana@lemmy.zip 6 months ago
I mean it is more about the bandwidth I would say. Usually I get about 40 Mbps on 4g and 300 on 5g so it is a massive difference but once more people switch to it, it would drop down a lot just like 4g did. But at the end of the day its still an upgrade from 4g, can’t say too much on your surrounding myself but the tech itself is still impressive.
abhibeckert@lemmy.world 6 months ago
… yeah so I get 200Mbps on 4G.
RogueBanana@lemmy.zip 6 months ago
That’s obviously the point I made, you would never even get close to the max speeds when you are not the sole person using but as the max speed improves so does the average experience. It would be pretty naive to even expect anything close to max speed for a consumer, if that was your expectations then you will always be disappointed.
CmdrShepard@lemmy.one 6 months ago
They’re saying when you have 10000 people sharing the same tower, your speeds will be better on 5G than on 4G. I have definitely noticed an improvement here at events like concerts or conventions where an assload of people are all in one location using their phones. Previously you’d be lucky to check your email while now you can still stream a video for example.
grabyourmotherskeys@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Tech, yes. Lived experience, meh. :)