What the carriers are calling 5G is a portion of the 5G standards that
don't provide the high speed service that the mmwave tech does. For the
last 40 years, the FCC has been handing over to cell phone companies
chunks of spectrum that previously were reserved for over the air
television. Until some time in the 80s, the top tv channel was 83.
Then it was reduced to 69 with 70 - 83 given to cell phones. Later
they did it again with the highest tv channel being 51. More recently
the government again gave channels 38-51 to the cell phone carriers.
Currently the top tv channel is 36. 37 is reserved for radio astronomy.
I laugh when I read something about these moonbats who go on about 5G
signals being hazardous to human health. They've been exposed to those
frequencies for decades when they were used for television.
My guess is that T Mobile's service went down the crapper because people
signed up for it, they don't have the capacity to handle the demand
customers are placing on the network and either are unable to correct
the problem or unwilling to spend the money to fix it.
on 10/30/22 16:11, Michael Butash via PLUG-discuss wrote:
> Thanks for the feedback, though that really bites. Reminds me of
> Sprint wireless broadband circa 2001 using fixed antennas, it was
> great at first, but then only in the middle of the night, as it sucked
> entirely during the day as it couldn't deal with the capacity either.
>
> I'm not surprised, real 5g using mmwave technology is really only
> decent to around 700ft or so, as I've used a few products for fixed
> wireless point to point or multipoint as well. It's also what drives
> ultrawideband technology used by apple now pervasively, marketed as a
> "personal area network" for short range optimized use. It's simply
> not *good* as a wan technology.
>
> That said, carriers use 5G generically whether they're talking real
> mmwave 5G or just some enhanced version of 4G they can't market
> anymore unless they call it 5G too, so who knows what you're really using.
>
> My customer is starting to use 5g in a large local 1100-some store
> retail chain to get off the last remnants of the last of old T1's and
> other crap rural broadband providers as the only choice until now,
> it'll be interesting to see how they fare here and other region
> markets in the long run.
>
> -mb
>
>
> On Sun, Oct 30, 2022 at 3:44 PM Daniel Stasinski via PLUG-discuss
> <plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org> wrote:
>
>
> A while back I gave impressive stats and glowing praise on my
> switch to T-Mobile Home Internet. It had a few limitations that I
> had to work around, but it was fast. However, for almost a
> month now it has dropped to just above T1 speed most of the day
> and is pretty much useless. I'll be switching back to DSL, which
> unfortunately is my only other option where I live.
>
> *Daniel P. Stasinski*
> daniel@GenericInbox.com
> ✞ /Jesus Is King /✞
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