• paraphrand@lemmy.world
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    2 years ago

    These companies are constantly mislabeling these networks every generation. They are addicted to advertising bullshit.

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    This shit started with 3g. None of the carriers were even close to supporting 3g, which was designed to support 100mbps.

    Tmo and vzw had a modest improvement from 2g even though it was still slow as shit but AT&T simple did nothing and started calling theirs 3g.

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      One hundred millibits per second? That means it takes ten whole seconds to send a single bit! That’s outrageous.

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      4G LTE was the point of no return. It was supposed to mean “it’s not 4G yet but we have an upgrade plan to get there”, but when they finally did, marketing found out that to the average person, going from 4G LTE to 4G sounded like a downgrade, so they rebranded it to 5G.

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    Who the fuck cares about 10Gbit/s? With data caps, there is nothing I am downloading on a mobile device that is perceptibly faster than downloading it at 1/1000 of that speed

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      Holy shit I thought data caps died in the mid 2000s. Why is the US allowing ISPs get away with this nonsense?

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      The point is for dense areas, so theres enough bandwidth to share

      No one needs 100Mbps on their mobile data 99% of the time.

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    2 years ago

    Fine I’ll stop misleading people about 10g.

    In other news have you heard about our 11g network?