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by Retric 1224 days ago
Again you can’t directly compare distances between 5G and DSL because the wire isn’t taking the shortest path through 3D space between teleco equipment and your modem.

Also a single 600-700MHz 5G tower can cover hundreds of square miles with 5G service with up to 250 megabits per second. 2.5-3.5GHz can still hit several miles with up to 900 megabits per second, and 24-39GHz towers can cover a mile radius at up to 3Gbps. Real world performance depends on many many factors, but DSL performance can be similarly degraded from it’s theoretical maximum.

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i compared with mm wave 5g because it requires same density of deployment as DSLAMs for proper performance, if not higher.

> Real world performance depends on many many factors,

like how many UEs are sharing spectrum. Which is usually a lot

> but DSL performance can be similarly degraded from it’s theoretical maximum.

totally.