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Why the new 5G network will change your life
The London Metro's Tech Blog ^ | December 1, 2014 | Rob Waugh

Posted on 12/04/2014 8:24:14 AM PST by 2ndDivisionVet

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To: MUDDOG
So you’ve mastered your Sports Illustrated Football Phone?

LOL, to master it you just throw it away!

21 posted on 12/04/2014 8:55:02 AM PST by MeganC (It took Democrats four hours to deport Elian Gonzalez)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Good. Means it can transfer a lot of data in a short time. This may be the answer to being able to dump the cable internet company once and for all.


22 posted on 12/04/2014 8:56:56 AM PST by I want the USA back (Media: completely irresponsible. Complicit in the destruction of this country.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet; null and void

What in the world could my lightbulb have to tell me?

Now, a talking toaster, that’s a different idea.


23 posted on 12/04/2014 8:58:01 AM PST by SoothingDave
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
technologies such as fridges which connect to the internet and order shopping by themselves – using internal scanners to work out how many cartons of milk are in stock, then ordering when needed

Great, so every week after Thanksgiving the fridge is going to try ordering another turkey to replace the one that was in there the day before Thanksgiving.

And, when the beer runs out, some government software override will tell the fridge to order soy milk instead of more beer.

24 posted on 12/04/2014 8:58:48 AM PST by Cementjungle
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To: MeganC

LOL!


25 posted on 12/04/2014 8:58:57 AM PST by MUDDOG
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To: Nervous Tick

Tech reporting is always shoddy.

What’s happening is timing is getting better, receivers and transmitters are being made with faster rise times. Power levels are being managed better. Faster chips, faster processing, makes faster signals.

The trade-off is usually range. But stuff like this is why AT&T and others don’t want to lay down any more fiber. They’re confident in ten years wireless will be able to meet consumer expectations for service and make wired connections obsolete.

It’s a shame. Wired connections have a resilliant quality that wireless can never quite match.


26 posted on 12/04/2014 9:05:42 AM PST by Bogey78O (We had a good run. Coulda been great still.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

the annoying thought that the Gubment will likely feel the NEED to get involved in Taxing and otherwise controlling this network just came to mind.

a Speed Limit perhaps afteral we cant have anyone being hurt by intemperate “surfers”


27 posted on 12/04/2014 9:09:26 AM PST by MeshugeMikey ("Never, Never, Never, Give Up," Winston Churchill ><>)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

lol If I were to download a single HD movie on my 4G phone, my bill would probably be over $300.


28 posted on 12/04/2014 9:20:01 AM PST by KoRn (Department of Homeland Security, Certified - "Right Wing Extremist")
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I don’t need a fridge connected to the internet!!
I want my pc and telephone to connect and not pay high rate of $60 a month for 1gb of data like Verizon charges.

I pay $30 a month for T-Mobile for 5gb of data and that 1 or 5gb is an artificial barrier so they can charge you more when there is plenty of bandwidth around.

5G speed is 5 gigabits per second!
http://www.cnet.com/news/ericsson-tests-out-crazy-fast-5-gbps-wireless-speed/

You know the carriers will set a limit.


29 posted on 12/04/2014 9:27:19 AM PST by minnesota_bound
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
and the new technology could lead to a world where everything from your car to your lightbulbs ‘talk to you’ via apps

[eyeroll] I can't wait.

30 posted on 12/04/2014 9:44:06 AM PST by Still Thinking (Freedom is NOT a loophole!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

My first cable internet mid-level connection in late 2002 was 1 Mbps.

Every so often, the cable company would up the speed, usually in 1-3 Mpbs increments. Last year, it was up to 20 Mbps. but I was only getting about 15 Mbps. I was still using the DOCSIS 2.0. I updgraded to a DOCSIS 3.0 combined modem-router.

A couple of months ago, the cable companies upped the speed to 50 Mbps. I get close to that, when they aren’t working on the lines and system.

The cost has risen from about $35 in 2002 to $65 now.

Another advantage with cable is that my download for my preferred package is 250 GB per month. Even marathoning TV series via Netflix, I seldom use even 1/2 of that.

I could save about $15 a month with the next lower capacity package, but my speed would be cut to about 10 Mbps and download to 100 GB per month.


31 posted on 12/04/2014 9:52:31 AM PST by TomGuy
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Until G6 comes along in a few months and G7 a few months after that and G8 a few.... Sorry, can’t get all excited about any of it.


32 posted on 12/04/2014 9:55:30 AM PST by bgill (CDC site, "we still do not know exactly how people are infected with Ebola")
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To: 9422WMR

All I want is an on and off switch for any appliance. Bells and whistles are just one more thing to break.


33 posted on 12/04/2014 9:57:46 AM PST by bgill (CDC site, "we still do not know exactly how people are infected with Ebola")
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To: Nervous Tick
An HD film (140 minutes) is about 20 gigabytes.

Per Netflix, the quality for an average movie is:

Low (0.3 GB per hour)
Medium (SD: 0.7 GB per hour)
High (best video quality, up to 3 GB per hour for HD, 7 GB per hour for Ultra HD)


34 posted on 12/04/2014 9:59:02 AM PST by TomGuy
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To: KarlInOhio
" Even if everyone in the world had a half dozen such devices you wouldn't hit most"

I've been in this business for 35 years.

I remember when 10mbs Ethernet was infinity, if it's not watercooled it's a terminal, why disrupt everything over TCP/IP when SNA works just fine. etc.

And those were reasonings I held, not just something I heard.

Hell, everyone knows Netscape is better than Explorer, right? Novell's NDS outclassed Active Directory by many magnitudes.

I have a lot more respect for such predictions now days as I've been on the wrong, naysaying side of every major change in technology over the last 35years.

Haven't you?

35 posted on 12/04/2014 10:00:22 AM PST by Mariner (War Criminal #18)
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To: KarlInOhio

Are you accounting for every device behind a NAT connection? The idea behind IPv6 is that every device in the world could have a unique, individual IP address. Since IPv6 is a 128-bit addressing scheme, you could have up to 2^128 hosts or 340 undecillion (3.4 x 10^38) unique addresses.


36 posted on 12/04/2014 10:05:08 AM PST by rarestia (It's time to water the Tree of Liberty.)
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To: bgill

The only option I got on the Speed Queen dryer was the volume control on the end of cycle alert. It only sounds once.
Very durable appliance and only maker to offer standard three year warranty!


37 posted on 12/04/2014 10:05:14 AM PST by 9422WMR ("Ignorance can be cured by education, but stupidity is forever.")
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To: Mariner

I’ve been in IT for 20 years myself, and I agree with your assessment. I remember wiring my first fiber bundle between two office buildings and thinking, “My God, it’ll never get faster than this.” And then it did.

The speed things are going, I wouldn’t be surprised if every human being is granted an IPv6 address and a NAT device when their born for all of their electronic needs. Hell, in 25 years, they’ll be talking about how IPv6 is almost exhausted and we need to go to IPvX with a 512-bit addressing scheme (shudders).


38 posted on 12/04/2014 10:08:44 AM PST by rarestia (It's time to water the Tree of Liberty.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Technically, 4G hasn’t been achieved yet. They simply lowered the standard and gave it a new name like LTE.


39 posted on 12/04/2014 10:11:57 AM PST by Moonman62 (The US has become a government with a country, rather than a country with a government.)
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To: 9422WMR

I bought a Speed Queen dryer just to avoid uneccessary electronics on a friggin dryer. My wife loves it!!!
++++
LOL. It took me over 3 months without a washing machine to finally convince the wifey to buy the Speed Queen. It’s not nearly as pretty as her old non-funtctioning Maytag that could not be fixed because they no longer manufacture the circuit card that went bad.

But once we bought it she was thrilled. It actually gets clothes CLEAN. Really CLEAN. This is just an old fashioned no bells, no whistles washer. We love it. It’s the best by a mile.


40 posted on 12/04/2014 10:16:44 AM PST by InterceptPoint (Remember Mississippi)
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