On Wed, 19 Feb 2020 23:14:55 -0500, Paul wrote:
n/a wrote:
....and before someone doubts the ~10Gb/s rate.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/5G
"5G speeds will range from ~50Mbit/s to over 2 gigabit at the start, and
is expected to grow to even 100Gbit/s, 100x faster than 4g.[12] The
fastest 5g, known as mmWave, delivers speeds of up to and over 2Gbit/s. "
https://www.telekom.com/en/company/d...al-time-544498
"Deutsche Telekom tested a 5G network live at this year’s IFA. A speed
of three gigabits per second was measured. Under ideal conditions, the
5G speed should in future reach up to 10 Gbit/s, the equivalent of a
20-fold increase."
Plenty of other articles available showing 5G networks going way above
10Gb/s speeds.
Bob S
Here's a graphic, showing memory usage on a smartphone.
The first set are cached. The second set are running ones.
They're all relatively small, compared to what 12GB of available RAM
could offer to a user.
https://www.howtogeek.com/wp-content...-processes.png
https://www.howtogeek.com/wp-content...-processes.png
( https://www.howtogeek.com/166140/you...ps-on-android/.)
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Did you know it was "un-possible" for industry evangelism to appear
in a Wikipedia article ? :-) That never happens.
Try not to inhale too much of that mmWave gas.
Where will the money come from ?
Follow the money.
Does the math add up ?
No.
There's no reason for 5G to deploy any faster
than any other G.
The $200 per month subscriber fee is the limiting factor.
I haven't seen any pricing estimates, but I'd expect to see one half to one
quarter of that amount, and then falling from there. Remember that higher
speeds benefit the carrier/ISP even more than they benefit the customer.
There isn't enough bandwidth in the entire existing
Internet in North America, to support the kinds of
deployments they're talking about. Will the server
at my public library, be able to download the text
from the local newspaper at 10Gbit/sec ? Did the public
library get some donated Gbit/sec equipment ? No ?
That's a common misconception, but the days of 'one person using one
connection to one server' are long gone and won't be coming back. Even if a
person were a Luddite who tries to do a single task at a time, the
computer's OS has no such limitations. That's especially true with Windows
10, one of the groups to which this was crossposted.
A server I use, for Linux distro ISO files, downloads
at 600KB/sec (that's slower than my broadband). It's
going to download at 600KB/sec tomorrow as well.
Linux distros are generally available all over the place. I'm not sure why
a person with a fast(er) connection would choose to use a server with a
slow(er) connection, or why a person would limit themselves to a single
connection, and so on. It's fine to do all of that, but then you can't
complain about the low speed. If the download speed is slow enough to
qualify as an example, then it's probably slow enough to take obvious steps
to improve the situation.
I'm
pretty lucky to have such a connection. The aggregate
bandwidth that university site uses must cost them a
fortune. How would a 5G universe tie into that ? A wee
bit of a mismatch. How does Netflix today "meter out bandwidth" ?
Are they overly generous with it ? Or, stingy as hell ?
You decide. Then get back to me.
That's easy. Netflix has no bandwidth of its own, so there is nothing for
them to meter out and nothing for them to be stingy or generous with.
Even on a subscription
basis, there's no "generosity". There's got to be
reasons for these observations. All sorts of people
are independently making decisions like this.