Can 5G Replace Your Home Internet? | WSJ
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- Опубликовано: 1 окт 2024
- Blazing fast 5G speeds are here but they aren't all that useful on the new 5G smartphones. WSJ's Joanna Stern packed up a motor home to see if the connection could power all her connected gadgets, including laptops, printers, Xboxes and camera-equipped doorbells. She explains the confusing world of 5G along the way. Photo illustration: Sharon Shi
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I've had double ads for months now.
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Well, would you look at that-when you park in front of a 5G tower you have 5G.
Uh, yes really, I thought she would drive around and test it, stupid idea for a video?
I smelled the clickbait from the intro, 5G in a highway in the desert?
Well you have to have a 5G tower every 500 feet so really you’re always close to one.
3g is here still 1mb/s
4g is here still 1mb/s
5g is here still 1mb/s
@Levine Levine Like the US would allow a CCP influenced and Controlled company to install their network lines.
@Levine Levine It's a geopolitical move. What do you expect?
@@IpSyCo like they did not since more than 30 years.
Thank you!
2005 - edge can stream a 360p video
2010 - 3g can stream a 480p video, edge can browse the internet
2015 - 4g can stream a 720p video, 3g can stream a 240p video, edge can load a webpage if you are patient
2020 - LTE can stream a 1080p video, 4g can stream a 360p video, 3g can browse the internet, edge no service available
Lol
Instead of living under a bridge by the river, we'll be fighting for space under 5G poles. I could have a mobile streaming setup and no one would know I'm living the life in a $5000 van
Everyone will know due to your brain cancer
Nah, most probably ADSL Cable or Fiber for home internet
@John Doe source please? I'd like to learn
5G conspirators probably are going to write about how a reporter died lol 😂
When she said her home WiFi is 100mbps
me who gets 1mbps max: Really? You need 5g?
Arijeet Debnath it was 1100 mbps
I have 250mbps WiFi at home and I think it’s slow
3g 4g 5g but still 1mb 😭
@@TeaMHackeRPiratE you can continue with your G, but if the cable, that delivers died to the past can deliver only 1mbps, then what do you want? Hint: you need faster speed delivered to whatever pole you use.
That just speaks of how bad your internet is though...
The issue is today's 5G is still nonstandalone 5G(NSA), real 5G with super low latency is 5G standalone(SA). That's why gaming was laggy. Current 5G still relies on LTE uploads. When standalone 5G launches, you'll see latency improve greatly.
Did it launch already?
Because 5G haven't come to upload speed, currently right now 5G is only for download speed.
5G without Huawei is not 5G.....
oh wow lol. we're like ten years away from having that kind of coverage
@@zhaohong1972 what?
@@Arthur-gl4qr Spam bot, report and move on.
Having in mind the rapid growth of 4G implementation, I’d say 5 years away
@@computronium8 note that major parts of the USA do not have 4G.
This is the most unscientific showcase of anything have seen in my life.
There's no need to go outside. Just freekin buy the 5g pole instead
I wonder how much a 5g pole cost at someone home? Parking spot near pole will be hot spot for sure.
5G: Hit your data cap in record time.
They will slow you down to 4g
Adults wasting time playing games. World has gone crazy.
Sure, you can use 5G instead of a broadband connection at home, but it's going to be CONSIDERABLY more expensive. The cell companies aren't going to give up anything for free. With 5G you could potentially use your entire data limit up in seconds then be subject to obscenely expensive overage charges.
4g is already faster than my home WiFi. I don’t understand why WiFi I can access anywhere is faster than the place I pay money for WiFi to be specifically moved to
Comparing VZW download to the home wifi upload speeds..... Considering you’re in Jersey City and getting 100 upload, likely you’re on Verizon FiOS so you can upgrade to 1000 mbps down and upload for a little more in cost. mmwave uploads currently are between 20 Mbps and 110 Mbps so the fiber would be much better on the upload and pings are 1-5ms.
I am still each time amazed at what things wsj is paying you to do in your videos XD
I don't really anticipate the need to buy a phone for its ability to pick up 5g anytime soon based on these tests. I'm more focused on improved ram, battery life, storage space, and the camera's capabilities since 5 g will take really a decade or more flesh out all the kinks. Also, I find it very hard to beat Google Fiber, it's basically 5g and it's already here.
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Wonderful, a few folks in NYC, Chicago, a few other huge cities will have faster cell data. BUT I live in a half million metro area in the Midwest and when I drive 5 miles east I can only get 3G. 5G is not going to fix that in the next decade. When I visit my partners family farm 40 miles sw of KC, neither my Verizon nor her AT&T phones work at all. 5G is pure BS in most of the Midwest. The only reason 4G works within 5 miles of the interstate is the truckers need it and pay premium rates.
I have an IPhone 12 Pro Max with 5G. The best signal I ever received in 5G was 70mbps down. On LTE 250mbps. 🤷♂️ Scam!
Running Apex Legends without lag😂, "This seems like the ONE "😅
5G should not be used in your home unless you have no other options (such as Verizon Fios which can give you gigabit+ speeds). 5G is primarily designed for IOT and mobile applications. It is not practical to use your cell phone for home internet. Fiber Optics will always be faster than wireless.
Forget the 5G, I wanna know about the RV!
Might as well throw out the microwave oven when you put 5G in.... Things big tech decided to go silent on. Research was done in early 1990s when scientists and engineers were looking at the limits of cellular capabilities. Is research still around?
Not true
Gaming is clear winner! 5G inside high automation commercial settings seems compelling and I think new innovations will be built environment based rather than on our phones. // Your videos are great! Tx
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When you compare 5g to optical fiber its like comparing snail to airplane
here in HK, my home wifi is 1gbps. lol
Your controlled by Chinas governemnt. I don't want to hear it.
@@insectbite1714 VPN....
not worth it if with CCP spying your gadget 😂
quite you communist
@Cam Darlington Can't tell if you are being sarcastic or not lol. Hong Kong apartments are notoriously small, and houses are un-affordable.
And here I am getting 550 mb/s download speeds an 100 mb/s upload in Lisbon, for 60€/month.
A massive state initiative from 2008-2011 to build an incredible fiber optics infrastructure that everyone has to have access to has allowed this to happen. The infrastructure company rents it to multiple ISP's and due to the early investment in fiber optics technology, Portugal became a software/hardware powerhouse when it comes to its fiber optics service.
5g is cool and all, but from what I've seen so far, it won't change my life in the immediate future
Enough to pay half a year of fiber Internet fees here in China. 60EUROS
@@baotutubenbenxiong yes, it's cheaper in China but you don't get the same level of access and it's not universal.
I live in ukrane and we have 1000mb/s for $4 per month)
Who's your ISP, please?
In miami we get 10000mb/s for 1 dollar
You are going to pay more for 4G and slower home wifi in US regardless. I was told like 3 to 4years ago. And we still don't have fiber.
@NOYOU XD Yet they make you pay the same price or higher for slower speed.
The main feature of 5G is not speed, it's close to zero latency.
Oh yeah, it's speed. If it reaches it's potential, the speed would be a 100x that of 4G
I have 5G home broadband here in London, the one with big huawei wifi router and I live 150 meters from the 5g node. And yes I get faster speeds than standard fibre, however the biggest problem is instability, there all the time these short dips where either speed goes down significantly or the ping is extremely high 100ms +. So what that means in reality is let’s say I’m streaming Netflix or Disney plus in 4k but every five minutes I get this drops in quality to sub hd because of the instability of the 5g. Of course this problem is non-existent on standard broadband or fibre
*cries in filipino*
No,optical fiber is far better in my experience.
In London UK I barely get 60-80mbps down 30-40mbps upload from my home broadband. That is relatively fast here. You need a specialist supplier if you want faster speeds than this. Real advantage will be for countries that can jump straight from 4G only connection on their mobiles to 5G in most places, as they won't have to waste money on infrastructure like putting cables in the ground etc
Cables is good idea
Who needs tht speed on the phone ? 🤦🏼♂️
its so u can work on ur laptop remotely from anywhere
Yeah it's useful for Self driving and VR
Home WiFi can go up to 1 Gbps where I come from.(60$)
WoW, that's a great price for the speed. I pay $73/month for 30 Mbps (this is in Canada)
@@JJs_playground yeah, India does have cheaper internet compared to the rest of the world but not everyone here can shell out that much.
Here in Nepal $140 for year. (30 MBPS)
@@JJs_playground what!
@@filbao8113 to be clear that is $73 Canadian dollars, so around $55 USD. But ya we, canadians, pay some of the highest internet rates.
Also edit to my original post, I called my ISP and got it bumped to 60Mbps for the same price ($73/month CAD).
*You are still using HUAWEI patents you know :) 👍 thus paying loyalty fees*
No, the point of banning Huawei was to not have to use their spying inefficient infrastructure. The only upside to Huawei is their infrastructure would’ve been cheaper. We just would’ve been trading off actual good infrastructure and being spied on by the CCP.
Watching this on my slow connection, irony
I would be happy to have consistent 200 mbs through out the coverage area. Super fast in some spots and slow in most of the places do not cut it. The user experience has expectation to build in.
Huawei is the best
This is pathetic.
It did already!
My ISP in India do provide 1 GBPS speed in India through optical fiber if I take up their most expensive subscription which is ₹3499 or USD 48. But who need that much speed anyway. I am happy with 150 MBPS plan.
5g is just a better 4g but how better you say you know its 5 greater than 4 thats why?? Right.
U get 100mbps at home?
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In rural areas of England you're lucky to get 15.
5g seems rushed, and useless. There are tons of protocols and algorithms that would make this wavelength more useful too but I can’t understans why they’re not using them. What’s the point if it can barely go through a wall and can’t travel farther than a couple hundred feet.
I cannot join my friends camping in california because I need phone and internet all the time for my work (there maybe emergencies). A productive society needs good fast Internet everywhere
A productive society needs to have places with no coverage so people can take a break from work and recharge
So, basically I need to sell my house so I can live inside an RV that'll need to be parked next to one of those mmwave towers in order to enjoy the true 5G VZW capabilities of my iPhone 12 Pro's internet speeds? Ummm, I'll have to sleep on that one.....
Interesting experiment that shows some performance on the 5G networks.
Although, I can't ignore the fact that I'm really annoyed that she keeps comparing 5G as amazing compared to her 100mbit/s connection and as if wifi was inferior to 5G. Seriously, she's going around in the middle of the city which I'm sure she could get much faster broadband connection than 100 mbit/s if she wanted to pay for it. The 5G test are uncapped speeds, so that's an unfair comparaison vs the capped home broadband.
For outside the city with people stuck old cooper connection, that's an other story, but the test wasn't done on the country side, so....
Wow sub-6 Speed in the US is really bad. You get 4x faster speed in Germany with LTE. 😂 also we get the same speed using sub-6 like in the US with mmWave.
speed is just one difference between 5g and 4g,but not.the most,with nearly zero.lag compare to it was before will boost bunch of industries.for example,last year,a chinese doctor used 5g to successfully did an surgery on a monkey for 30kms away.and chinese slef-driving developed dramaticly due to the 5g participation.
In India
3G=2G
4G=3G
5G=4G
😂
Third world country that's why
*If you use Huawei, the answer is "yes"*
(insert Chris Farley voice here)
It's hard to make 5G WORK WHEN YOU LIVE IN A VAN.... DOWN BY THE RIVER.
Even if we get High Up/Down speeds ... how much is it going to cost? Cable Internet is expensive enough and is definitely not accessible to all Home Owners. Cable Internet really needs an affordable competitor in the US.
let's put it this way. my verizon gets me 100 MB download speed on ethernet connection, on wifi probably 25 if i am close enough..... takes out my 5g phone = 20 if i am lucky. lol. unless you're really close to the tower, you'll be the only lagger in game.
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You can easily achieve 10 gbps using a fiber optics + WiFi 6 (802.11ax) at your home.
Seriously!!!? To enjoy such speeds you have to be close to a 5g pole , that's stupid . also do you really need all that speed? If so buy a fiber optic line with a WiFi 6 router and enjoy it at your house. 5g applications aren't just for high speed internet for individuals it's more suited for industries that require low latencies and massive machine connections.
This is blatant advertising for Verizon. What happened to journalistic integrity?
You pay for what you get. Don’t expect to get 1000 mbps at a cheap price, especially comparing it to unlimited at-home WiFi.
Goes with the mids.......like yeah doesn't know how to controll people or just forget dont have the watch but time is there like brownies.
This is a pointless excercise. What you're testing, is the phone's capability as a router not 5g. You should test a dedicated 5g router for this to be informative, otherwise it's just a cheap click bate.
Where can I have this 5 G speed even for my phone? As of now, my Verizon phone can't even handle a phone call without dropping it every 30 seconds. I barely get any bar on my phone.
Change the carrier
4:06 fortunately your colleague didn't reply: You are beautiful.
A good primer for people. Using a phone as a WiFi hotspot for a lot of devices... the phone isn't designed for that so I'm not sure why you'd do it that way... It will be nice when cellular can compete with the monopoly cable companies in my area.
1:23 on the right is download speed and on the left is upload, they aren’t comparable.
I believe that it's not mmWave. Also this test is under a basestation (BE) which doesn't make sense. Many users are pretty random in distance to the BS. So when you report the speed please do a random walk on the street. If it's mmWave, there will be quite a lot of BS on the street, otherwise, the signal must be super low due to the short wavelength.
Oh great, microwaves everywhere just for a faster internet.
Y'know microwaves are small because even with the high amount of energy output, if it covered a much larger space, it wouldn't have the ability to heat stuff up?
Was waiting for the video from WSJ on 5G testings!!
Joanna Stern Rocks! There I said it...
50mbps is 5g? that's 4G speed. i got 60mpbs from 4G. also, 5g speed should be 600-700mbps.
80-90 mbps on sub6 and twice as fast as 4g? is this just in the states like this? Here in Europe i get 150 mbps on 4g.
If WSJ asks me to go and do the speed test, I would try parallel downloads on several laptops.
Edit: the question still remains, do we really need 5G with that speed? If you want your Gb's and Tb's of data to be stolen in a flick (Like Thanos wiped out the half population of all universe in a flick :D) or if you have 8k LED TV's at home then you surely need 5G.
4G = brain fry@100mbps
5G = brain fry@1000mbps
6G = brain fry@???
Just need the facts .. not a bunch of childish coverage and annoying background music.
5G in the common Sub 6 standard is still only ~100mbs. In New Jersey Verizion FiOS can hit ONE GIGABYTE per second for about $79/month plus TV in first time customers homes.
God, I hate that way of talking. Every time she comes to the end of a sentence, the last word, it almost sounds like she squeezes it out like a fart.
Many areas of the country have no service at all - please invest in towers for those areas before upgrading from 4G to 5G.
Actually for me stupidass Cox doesn't service my address so wireless is my best option
Have anyone delve into it's cons?
5G has to have many towers located around cities cus it has difficulty going THROUGH things and doesn't carry long distances unlike radio waves which go for miles before reaching another tower.
So I guess the con is you will likely need to sit in the same room as it.
5G does not work outside big cities due to radio limits
5G is like a low quality version of 2g from 2000s
dum-dum spotted!
shouldn't she be concentrating on price rather than speed? price is the thing that will hold most people back.... not the fact that they are *only* getting 100mbps at home
In the comparison of the two different speeds one is in upload and the other in download, this can contribute to generate a difference
You are correct
I'm pretty sure that city is pronounced "Joyzee City"
This lady doesn't know anything about wifi bandwidth.
You need Fiber at home. 500/500 at a reasonable price.
Why all these reviews does not mention, it will kill your phone battery?
Wow! the future is here.. Can't wait to live under a pole.
Why can't everyone just get wired fiber?
Europe’s already on 8G
Instead of hyping 5G, maybe WSJ should focus on the massive failure of cell and land data in rural America. Why should a coffee farmer in Nigeria have BETTER and lower cost data service than an Iowa farmer?
Because American capitalism does a poor job of providing basic utilities.
Can't wait to use 5G at 2G speed
If you wanna game, show the ping please -.- .....
I get 5g I connect it to a gl inet router using USB tethering it's fast
1 have a 1 gbps plan on my home wifi. So i guess its better than ur 5g
The best part is that she set up a Ring doorbell on the car's sliding door
you should have used a 5G router not a smartphone hotspot