Post #3280726

2026-06-04 03:05 UTC

None of this makes sense! With 3G, we had clearly defined speeds, and what constitutes 3G. 4G mostly defined itself, but it left a bit of grey area. Then 5G was posting speeds slower than 4G’s top speed. There was never a defined speed range. The term 5G is nothing more than marketing. It means nothing. I haven’t even heard of 6G, but given how shit 5G’s handling went right from the start, I assume 6G has to be inserted anally.

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@just_another_person@lemmy.world 2026-06-04 03:20

5G was mostly about cramming more connections into the spectrum and expanding broadcast range (as well as some other things), but it wasn’t just about node speed on the network.

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@Brkdncr@lemmy.world 2026-06-04 03:39

I hate to tell you this, but 3G was a lie too. 3g should have been good to 100mbps.

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@scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 2026-06-04 04:32

It was always meant to be great in dense areas, which it is, but marketers went all apeshit promising that it was going to be the second coming of Christ. Instead they should have shut the marketers ina corner and called it what it is, an enhancement to 4g. That 4g and 5g would hand off interchangeably. This is why you should never let business dictate tech. They think they know what they’re talking about but they don’t, and end up pissing everyone off.

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