▲ricardobeat12 hours ago
[-] The title here on HN is wrong, should be 938Gbps, not GB/s.
reply▲5000x faster than the “typical” connection on 5G, which, translated, means absolutely nothing. 5G is technically capable of 20gbit/s. So, maybe it’s theoretically 47x faster… in practice, in the real world, I assume it’ll be much much slower and only a marginal increase over 5G.
reply▲ricardobeat12 hours ago
[-] Even if the tech ends up 500x slower in real life, that might be enough to start displacing fiber. It’s really difficult to setup a home network capable of actually reaching 1Gbps without resorting to ethernet cabling. With this you won’t even need a router.
reply▲Density becomes an issue rapidly. It might be 500x slower with a few people using it, but that’ll rapidly get slower as it’s used.
reply▲That's fine, if people go over the bandwidth cap of 10G with their 10G/sec connection, they will be reduced to 2G speed for network congestion protection purposes. Also for and extra $20 you can buy another 10G of bandwidth!
reply▲Meanwhile my phone on 5G never breaks 100Mbps, the same as it always got on 4G.
reply▲Does this mean more cell towers in closer proximity to me, or an upgrade of the existing 5G infra?
reply▲This is only for direct line of sight in public spaces. Even 5GHz has severe trouble penetrating walls.
reply▲I assume this is a yes
reply▲Emphatically. Higher frequencies even get attenuated by _air_, and this stuff goes all the way up to 150GHz
reply▲Can anyone in the know explain to me how they are able to achieve such a massive jump in data transmission speed with each generation? Is there some theoretical limit here or will we get to the Petabyte range with 7G?
reply▲Basically higher frequencies meaning more radio bandwidth. Seems like they did this at 5-150 GHz. Infrared starting at 300 GHz means that well after you go to UV lasers pointed at phones you don't have much farther to go...
Ofc, you can make more cells and more signal paths, but there is limit some point from here on.
I sometimes think up naratives that might build on the grouped and nested viewpoints that I encounter in certain social situations....go full 4 chan.. "ya I heard that the 5 gee's gona beam the activation code for the ebolaids that they put into the vacines,strait into yer brain"
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