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iPhone 12 Pro 5G - How is this faster????? Pitiful.
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Would help to know your exact location, down to your home address, phone number, and first/last name. Oh and the carrier too.
Just like with 4G, and 3G before that, and 2G before that, the speed you get will be very dependent on many factors, such as signal strength, distance from the tower, how many people are using that tower, what’s around you, and the equipment and network connection speed and type at the tower. Just because your phone says 5G doesn’t mean that you’re magically going to have 1G transfer rates. There are going to be areas where it’s faster and areas where it’s slower.
And frankly it looks like 5G may be even more finicky than 4G, not penetrating as far into buildings and requiring you to be closer to the tower.
And frankly it looks like 5G may be even more finicky than 4G, not penetrating as far into buildings and requiring you to be closer to the tower.
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Did you then switch to lte and test? LTE might be worthless there while that is enough to do light tasks.
Augusta has low band 5g but depending on what phone you have if it was updated. Also low band 5g even with DSS might not be that much faster than lte.
My Verizon fold 2 hasn't received the update.for nationwide 5g but my area and one very close to.where I live has verizon's UWB and that is alot faster.
On T-Mobile in Portland, OR I’m getting speeds that are sometimes slightly better but often twice as good or more than LTE in the same spot. I’ve never gotten excellent speeds on T-Mo LTE out here, usable certainly but nothing amazing, so for 5G to show such a marked improvement right out of the gate is impressive.
😂 I have the same numbers on Verizon when I turned on 5G to test it. When I turned it back to LTE only I was getting close to 50mbp. That’s it. Just sticking with LTE, with the added benefit of better battery life.
My phone is the 12 Pro Max.
I tried without 5G and with LTE I was still only getting about 21 down.
Back home, in Athens, GA, I usually get aroudn 80 -120 down on LTE. No 5G there yet.
I tried without 5G and with LTE I was still only getting about 21 down.
Back home, in Athens, GA, I usually get aroudn 80 -120 down on LTE. No 5G there yet.
Go outside, stand on your roof and see if there is a 5G mm wave tower that you can link line of sight.
Remember to point the right side of the phone that has the mmWave antenna around 360 degrees, unobstructed to see if you get a 5G signal.
Remember to point the right side of the phone that has the mmWave antenna around 360 degrees, unobstructed to see if you get a 5G signal.
Not true. Only mmWave does not penetrate buildings easily because of the high frequencies but the LTE standard frequencies will perform the same.
That’s good to know, although it doesn’t quite line up with what I’m seeing. Inside my house I have a good LTE connection, but no 5G connection at all. As soon as I step out of my house onto my front porch or back porch I can get a good 5G connection. Of course I don’t know if the LTE signal and the 5G signal are coming from the same tower. It’s possible that there’s an LTE only tower closer to me or something. This is with ATT.
Everyone concerned about speed tests should try something:
Do a speed test in the middle of the night when there isn't the network congesting that you usually get during the daytime. You may be surprised.
On TMobile, I am getting (during the day) anywhere between about 40 and 80 or so MBPS download on 5G. If I do the same test at around 3am, I routinely see close to 200Mbps.
So, it's frankly unfair to blame the technology when the problem is network congestion.
Do a speed test in the middle of the night when there isn't the network congesting that you usually get during the daytime. You may be surprised.
On TMobile, I am getting (during the day) anywhere between about 40 and 80 or so MBPS download on 5G. If I do the same test at around 3am, I routinely see close to 200Mbps.
So, it's frankly unfair to blame the technology when the problem is network congestion.
I haven't tried 5G yet because I don't have the SIM but my LTE surged from ~50 Mbps on my iPhone X to ~100 Mbps on my 12 mini. It all boils down to your provider tho, I'm getting those speeds with giffgaff (O2) - while SMARTY (three) was 4x slower in my area.
Could be different tower and could be different frequency.
Even if a tower emits LTE and 5G, they might not do it at the same frequencies.
On T-Mobile in San Francisco, I’m getting around 1.75x the speeds I had before, and more importantly, it seems much more stable.
