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Skylantech t1_ixcy3gc wrote

I dunno about the 5G hype…. I’ve had a couple of 5G phones now and it seems like the speeds are about the same if not….. slower?

Sure speed tests reveal some promising results, but the time it takes to load webpages or videos is disgustingly longer than it should be.

Maybe thats just Verizon for you 🤷‍♂️

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Crishien t1_ixcejfr wrote

90% of 5g are overclocked 4g towers.

Also you don't get true 5g speeds if you don't stand right under the transmitter. Power is greatly reduced over distance.

I also get connected to 5g everywhere, but often it's so slow it won't load a page and I have to manually switch to 4g which loads instantly.

But anyway, there's 0 use for true 5g speeds as you probably don't download 10 4k movies in one go to watch 5 minutes later.

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