Samsung Tests Experimental 5G Network, It's Fast

[squall3031]

And here in Australia, we are still stuck with ADSL + Copper wiring while government oppose to building FTTP and opting for FTTN instead.
Dear god, we need someone with mighty power to get rid of these incompetent politicians from our parliament.

 

[gifi4]

60Mph = ~96/97KMph not 110KMph

 

[FAST6191]

Also, who need 7.5gbps on their phones?!?! I have 100mbps at home via ethernet and it's as fast as I could possibly want...

Phones are increasingly becoming the general computing device for people. Equally "all I could ever want" when it comes to discussions of speed and storage tends to be a bad thing to say, or at least one born of not having considered things well -- being your own server is very nice for a lot of things.

 

[Deleted member 194275]

And here in Australia, we are still stuck with ADSL + Copper wiring while government oppose to building FTTP and opting for FTTN instead.
Dear god, we need someone with mighty power to get rid of these incompetent politicians from our parliament.

I'm not trying to be a politician lawyer here, but Australia is huge. It is easy to put antennas and wires all over Korea, all over Japan, all over Belgium, but huge countries like Australia, it is fucking expansive and hard to do. Just imagine how many kilometers of wire is needed to connect Perth to Sydney...

 

[FAST6191]

I'm not trying to be a politician lawyer here, but Australia is huge. It is easy to put antennas and wires all over Korea, all over Japan, all over Belgium, but huge countries like Australia, it is fucking expansive and hard to do. Just imagine how many kilometers of wire is need to connect Perth to Sydney...

Backbones are expensive and annoying, you certainly would not want to fund one as an individual or probably even as a company that might otherwise try to own its own infrastructure, but nothing major in the grand scheme of things. Most would view Australia's internet situation as a prime example of poor planning, poor regulation, poor competition (probably even worse than the US), poor investment and a general lack of understanding. If you look at something like population density instead ( http://www.abs.gov.au/ausstats/abs@...~Geographic distribution of the population~49 ) and it becomes a far more agreeable situation to try to manage.

 

[Sicklyboy]

Carriers are trying to stop unlimited data, not drop the price. They don't want to give you unlimited internet. Every major carrier is now pushing "family plans" that have a set amount of GB a month.
Also, who need 7.5gbps on their phones?!?! I have 100mbps at home via ethernet and it's as fast as I could possibly want...

I remember when I thought 56k and a 13gb hdd was unbelievably good

 

[Tom Bombadildo]

Carriers are trying to stop unlimited data, not drop the price. They don't want to give you unlimited internet. Every major carrier is now pushing "family plans" that have a set amount of GB a month.

AFAIK, Verizon is the only major US carrier that doesn't offer an unlimited data plan.

Which ISP offers (real) unlimited 4G data plans?

See above. Regarding the "real unlimited" part, of course carriers aren't going to let you use up 500GB of data a month or something, but when I had the unlimited data plan with Sprint I tried testing whether there was a cap and I got to about 100GB in a month and I didn't hear a word or an extra charge.

 

[WiiUBricker]

AFAIK, Verizon is the only major US carrier that doesn't offer an unlimited data plan.



See above. Regarding the "real unlimited" part, of course carriers aren't going to let you use up 500GB of data a month or something, but when I had the unlimited data plan with Sprint I tried testing whether there was a cap and I got to about 100GB in a month and I didn't hear a word or an extra charge.

Give me a link to the ToS of said ISPs.

 

[Joe88]

this was the fastest ive gotten with "4G"

 

[FAST6191]

this was the fastest ive gotten with "4G"

I wonder if it says something when people block IP addresses but leave coordinates.

 

[Joe88]

That was somewhere in the city so I left it