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by cm2187 2162 days ago
Not sure if you are being sarcastic, but assuming you aren't. No consumer is asking for 5g, and I don't think any consumer will realise the difference. And not sure that 5g can do much good on a train, unless the train circles around inside a big city and never goes in the countryside where what matters is antenna with long range.
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5g also doesn't beat my wifi. My wife and I slashed our data plans during COVID.
but your wifi is unreliable and slow. Instead of buying a good AP, buy this 5G modem for only $5 and get your nice, capped 20MBit/s for $200 a month. Isn't this just what you need, when every site is slowly just getting a fibre-connection theoretically allowing a community hosted mobile mesh-network in any city which deserves the name.
But with 5G i can watch Netflix faster /s

5g is just another white rabbit big Multinational are chasing to justify/force infrastructure replacement.

Or to get 4k video streaming on my tiny smartphone screen, because I'm worth it!