iPhone 11 Pro Said to Offer 13% Faster 4G LTE Speeds Than iPhone XS

[mikayla82ca]

Why do people who can’t afford something always think no one else can? The fully loaded 11 is the price of a bottle at a night club. It’s not a big deal.

Why do you assume I can't afford it? Also, thanks for misquoting me and taking my entire quote out of context. I guess the other 3 sentences didn't fit your agenda. Either way, enjoy your stop-gap phone.

 

[rjjacobson]

I too was using my Airport Extreme, paired with a couple of Airport Expresses, but ended up pulling them and using the Xfinity modem/router which offered both better speed and coverage with a single device. In the past year, I switched to RCN's GB service and have an Eero mesh system (2 unit) in the house now. I can't see a reason why I would need more speed / throughput on my current wifi system, since I'm not experiencing any lag, even when I've got three computers, an iPad Pro, three iPhones and an xbox on the system at once. But times change and our needs may grow, or the needs of our devices will grow.

Unfortunately I am only able to get Comcast Xfinity and am on the lowest level at 60 mbps download. I sometimes get more like 70 to 90 on some of testing apps but not sure thats real given my plan says 60. I pay through the nose just for internet because i do not want TV so they charge me $20 more if I do not have the tv services $69. But with internet and basic tv plan i would pay more than $69 maybe 80-90.. No other options in my neighborhood so Wifi 6 and or better router i am screwed. We have a fiber optic competitor that came to town 4 years ago. They targeted business, the University of Illinois, and higher cost fancy neighborhoods. Ours is a low end economically — but my housing costs were much better for me as a retired state of Illinois worker. They got grants for many lower end neighborhoods to install but we got passed over and to get in our area I we need 50 percent signup, lots of folks have special deals with comcast for lower income that is much lower than my pension (meaning i do not qualify for the much cheaper rate) so why would they bother to switch.

I have no problems streaming so I live with it for now.

 

[macduke]

I wonder if Wifi 6 will end up being a competitor to 5G (in urban areas), given it (supposedly) increases both the speed and bandwidth that 802.11AC offers, while also improving efficiency. I heard that a certain cable / internet provider plans to shift away from the current pole to home coax system and go to wifi-based pole to home distribution system, which makes sense. It also then provides more options for wifi coverage within cities they serve, both for streaming services and phone / communications.

Rural areas are unfortunately always going to be the last to get up to date tech. I used to have a business in Northern Wisconsin where there were times that I didn't have any cell coverage, or just terrible 2G connectivity. But as soon as T-Mobile decided to add some towers in the region, ATT and Verizon joined in and all of a sudden there was great LTE service. In fact, cell service was faster than the service we had at the plant (cable), likely because so few people were on the cell towers at any given time. That and even the cable internet was SLOW up there. Of course, there were benefits, including being forced to slow down how you live and work.

Well, WiFi 6 isn't magic. I don't see that happening because of all the interference it might cause with people's routers, but maybe WiFi 6 is better in that regard. IDK a ton about it, but I still think inside the coverage won't be great. In some rural areas, they have something like this on towers where they send some kind of radio signal that is collected by an antenna mounted on a pole on a person's house and then ethernet comes out of that and into the house and you plug your router into that. But yeah, my point with rural areas and 5G is because of the way the tech inherently is, I just don't see it EVER coming to rural areas because of the huge investment required. Some houses are a mile apart or more and therefore each one would need a mini tower, lol.

 

[jmgregory1]

Well, WiFi 6 isn't magic. I don't see that happening because of all the interference it might cause with people's routers, but maybe WiFi 6 is better in that regard. IDK a ton about it, but I still think inside the coverage won't be great. In some rural areas, they have something like this on towers where they send some kind of radio signal that is collected by an antenna mounted on a pole on a person's house and then ethernet comes out of that and into the house and you plug your router into that. But yeah, my point with rural areas and 5G is because of the way the tech inherently is, I just don't see it EVER coming to rural areas because of the huge investment required. Some houses are a mile apart or more and therefore each one would need a mini tower, lol.

Totally agree. In rural areas, the telcos would need to feed service through hard lines to the poles, then add 5G antennas anywhere people live, which of course isn't going to happen. Nor will they build extra towers to fill in the areas that 5G can't manage in the same way that 4G and 3G can.

 

[macduke]

Totally agree. In rural areas, the telcos would need to feed service through hard lines to the poles, then add 5G antennas anywhere people live, which of course isn't going to happen. Nor will they build extra towers to fill in the areas that 5G can't manage in the same way that 4G and 3G can.

Yeah, I have to wonder if there will be a 5.5G or 5GE that comes along to address this. Either that or the hardware just isn't where it should be. Otherwise we're not on a good trajectory for 6G. LTE will be around for a good long time with 5G in population centers and maybe at some point quantum entangled communications will be a thing, negating the need for towers entirely with FTL communication that is inherently secure. Imagine that!

 

[jmgregory1]

Yeah, I have to wonder if there will be a 5.5G or 5GE that comes along to address this. Either that or the hardware just isn't where it should be. Otherwise we're not on a good trajectory for 6G. LTE will be around for a good long time with 5G in population centers and maybe at some point quantum entangled communications will be a thing, negating the need for towers entirely with FTL communication that is inherently secure. Imagine that!

You're probably right - there will need to be a major shift from radio waves to something else before we can get around the hurdles each of our existing communication technologies face.

 

[DCIFRTHS]

I’m upgrading from an XS Max, I upgrade every year like most people in my circle. No one wants last years phone.

Oh. The horror

 

[Damon2]

There is not a guarantee. Intel did not have a 5G modem READY. Then they sold the division to Apple. It’s safe to assume that Apple didn’t buy it for their 4G technology.

You think Apple are going to churn out a modem in less than a year lmao?
If Intel who have a huge experience in modem making them Apple definitely will not have their own modem next year.

Let’s use our common sense here...
Please also see the Qualcomm Apple settlement, it’s stated that Apple has agreed to use Qualcomm modems for the next few years.

Next year is guaranteed to be Qualcomm.

 

[jezbd1997]

I meant how do you know that not Qualcomm modems were used for the for the 11 Pros? I'm aware the Xs were all Intel modems, but Apple had wanted to use QC modems in the Verizon Xs phones, QC declinedl

The QC deal wasn’t sealed until only a couple of months ago, the orders etc would have already been in for Intel months in advanced.