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		cptskippy on Feb 27, 2018 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: After rising for 100 years, electricity demand is ... > Not to mention latency is much higher. One of the primary focuses of 5G is to reduce latency and LTE has reduced latency tremendously. My personal experience looking over test logs on my phone is that LTE averages ~40ms with a low of 25ms and a high of 80ms. My home internet averages ~16ms with a low of 12ms and a high of 44ms. Gaming is one of the few things where you can really tell the differences between sub 100ms latencies and so for most people wireless internet is more than sufficient.

sarchertech on Feb 27, 2018 [–]

Those averages don't really tell you much. What matters in terms of quality is the consistency of the latency and packet loss.

But even without latency issues, we don't have the technology to replace more than a tiny fraction of total wired bandwidth with wireless.

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