with 5g we can expect speeds of up to 1.6
gigabits per second which is just insane so is it worth spending the extra money
to get yourself a 5g phone can you use the 5g phone to
replace your slow router and then dump your sluggish isp all together
there's a bunch of stuff that you need to know about 5g first which is exactly
what we're going to learn today okay let's do this
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so we know that 5g is the next generation tech that follows 4g
but it's a little bit more complicated than just that
and this is where we have to cut to all this marketing hype and really
understand 5g you see the first thing you need to
know is that not all 5g networks are the same
and this has a direct impact on your speed depending on your cellular carrier
they have a different implementation of 5g
and this impacts not only the availability of 5g
but its speed and actual usage you see when it comes to 5g there are two groups
millimeter wave and sub 6 networks so why does all this matter and stick with
me here well millimeter wave is stunningly fast
it carries more data greater bandwidth but it has
two major drawbacks it requires the carrier
to have physical mini cell sites and you need to be in
close proximity to one of those cell sites
to really take advantage of that beautiful insane 5g
speeds the other downside is that it has very limited ability to work
through stuff so if you're inside a home or inside your office or your car
or even if there's a tree between you and the many cell sites well it just
doesn't work now sub 6 on the other hand well that travels a lot further can pass
through buildings which means whether you're indoors or outdoors
you get a nice stable connection however well
the speed of the subsex network is isn't so wow
as the marketing would have you believe so if your carrier has 5g
don't be impressed just yet you see if they use the millimeter wave and you
don't live by one of those mini cell sites
you're probably only gonna get four g's anyway now if they use the sub six
more stable more usage but the speeds aren't stupidly fast
now of course to take advantage of 5g you also need 5g
hardware this is where the cell phone industry is having an absolute
field day with these super fast 5g phones
i have the new samsung note 20 ultra 5g it's an awesome phone can
really do a lot and you can also handle 5g if i was on the verizon network and
used a 5g which is millimeter wave i would need to find a
spot that's very close to the mini cell spot in order to get those speeds
however since i'm connected to the t-mobile speed and they use the sub-six
i don't need to be anywhere close to the tower and luckily my area has got full
5g coverage but what does that practically mean
well i'm gonna go test the t-mobile 4g on the pixel 4 xl
and the 5g on the note 20 ultra 5g and i'm expecting the results to be wow
on the 5g now to be clear this is a layman's test
in other words i'm taking two devices i'm going to run some speed tests and i
want to understand what data i'm going to get on 4g versus the 5g
this isn't done in the lab this isn't under ideal conditions
but this is the average lay person who would get a phone and expect
5g speeds expect to be blown away but is that
gonna happen well we're gonna test that out now
okay let's get some testing done so 4g is on the left
5g is on the right i'm going to connect to the exactly the same plano texas site
using speedtest.net and we're gonna run these tests consecutively
three times this way we're gonna get a nice
average i will then also pick this up and move it to another site which is a
couple of feet away on the other side of the trampoline
to see if location makes any difference so we can see
the first set of tests test one test two and test three
and now we're gonna get a nice average and i will have everything summarized
shortly so don't worry about that let's move to a couple of feet away on
the trampoline on the other side should this make any difference well
let's see so again phone on the left 4g phone on the
right is 5g speedtest.net same location
same site that we're connecting to running the test
three times to get those averages test one is
in obviously this is in fast forward for those who don't know how speed test
works but this is in fast forward i want to get those results so test
number one test number two test number three is coming up and then
let's analyze the results
right the results are in so location number one
4g got 33.16 download with 5g got 20.76 download
you can clearly see that 4g was better again on the 4g
11.13 on the upload and 5g got 6.32 again 4g
was better then we moved a couple of feet to the left
things changed on the 4g on location number 2 the average was 38.1
on the download versus the 5g which was 41.26 on the download
and upload 9.73 on the 4g network and then 5g 5.20
so a whole mixed bag and simply changing location by couple of feet changes
everything okay so let's go back to the original questions
should you spend extra money on a 5g and replace your router from your isp
with a 5g hotspot well as you can see from the various tests
5g is ridiculously sensitive to your location
moving it a couple of feet either way has a direct impact on the speed
whereas 4g was relatively consistent 5g was sometimes faster than 4g but not
consistently faster every single time there was also a lot of jitter around
the 5g whereas in the 4g not so much you're probably going to get
a better experience on that 4g now this is location specific so you
might have a completely different result and i guess that's exactly my point
5g isn't the same for everyone all of the time
would i spend extra money right now on a 5g phone
no would i replace my home router with a 5g hotspot
well it depends as i said before if you run this test from your home and you get
a nice faster speed than your isp gives you
superb go ahead and replace your isp with a 5g cell phone hotspot make sure
you get unlimited data plan that covers that hotspot
and then you are absolutely golden way faster than your isp
i am glad devices like phones and routers and laptops
are getting 5g built into them so the future proof
would i spend the money right now to get one of those devices
and spend the extra money right now nope i'm afraid it's just not there yet i
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