Posted on 02/17/2017 10:54:13 AM PST by Red Badger
5G Ping!..................
I’m going to guess that it’s some advanced, ‘Big Brother Tracking Device.’
How close am I? ;)
Probably closer than you intended...............
Sounds like another marketing scam like 4G.
When are they going to roll out the true 4G?
It's a device you make calls with, but that's not important right now.
The paragraph on “latency” proves the author doesn’t understand the subject.
When everyone has bought a 5G device.................
Sure he does! He probably watch Cagney & Latency on TV when he was a child!.................
What you did there, I SEE it!.................
I expect this is a push toward eliminating wired Internet service entirely. Why spend the money installing/upgrading thousands of miles of old wire/fiber in an area, when a fast-swap cargo container + 100’ antenna can service the same area?
There’s a reason Google stopped rolling out its much-lauded gigabit fiber networks - likely that wireless is poised to overtake in speed and be profoundly cheaper to upgrade.
Kids will be able to blow through their monthly data limit before they leave home in the morning on the first of the month, rather than having it happen on the bus ride home from school.
This will be used in the next gen Vehicle-2-Vehicle or Vehicle-2-Infrastructure communications. This new standard allows for ad-hoc networking that doesn’t require infrastructure. ...and no, these standards don’t compromise anonymity and leak personal data. They *will* reduce deaths on the road and greatly improve traffic flow.
It will change everything.
Bkmk
What is it?
5G = 4G + G
As it happens, I’m a cellular engineer with the company that’s probably the closest to 5G.
It’s no more big-brothery than any other cellular technology, but it is a very different concept. Rather than relying on macro-cells (towers) exclusively, the 5G network will use many microcells on things like streetlights and telephone poles that allow for low power very short range communication at very high speeds.
The important thing to understand is that the 5G standard is still under heavy development, and it’s further than a year or two away before being realized. Once it’s ready to deploy, however, most users are looking at gigabit speeds with many possible options for connecting to the cellular network. It will probably also replace any cable or fiber internet most people have to their house as well.
“There’s a reason Google stopped rolling out its much-lauded gigabit fiber networks - likely that wireless is poised to overtake in speed and be profoundly cheaper to upgrade.”
Many years ago. My friend had bought a really cool large mountain house. He is a techie geek, so he installed Ethernet ports in all the rooms and he had an Ethernet patch panel in the utility room. Really nice. Just over one year later, Wi-Fi came out. Totally obsoleted all the work he had done throughout that beautiful large house.
Nice to know, but I was just razzin’ Red Badger, which I do once in a while. ;)
I still have a flip phone, and am LUCKY for days when I get more than one bar. I have a 2’ square area in my kitchen where I have to stand to make phone calls. We have no land line as the wiring is so old to, and in, the house it’s not worth the expense.
Country Livin’ at it’s finest!
(And please don’t fix THAT, Mr. Engineer.) :)
Does this mean that I will now have to have a 5G phone? Or does it matter.
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