Why 5G Sucks ⚠️

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Published 2022-10-29
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All Comments (21)
  • @bemimu
    Can we just appreciate the fact that Arun respawned and instantly continued talking after being hit by a car?
  • What doesn’t suck though is Arun’s ability to rickroll us every time
  • By the time 5G is at its peak performance, also coverage wise, I’m pretty sure they’re already marketing 6G 😂
  • @dude-ji8hq
    Imagine the doctors Internet lags while on surgery
  • @pjp13579
    A while back some people in rural England, though 5G towers were causing Covid so their busted them down. Turns out what they had destroyed were 3G and 4G tower and whole areas were left without connection, even for emergency services.
  • @timr0by
    In my experience, I’ve locked my phone to only use LTE. When I’m on 5G, stuff rarely loads, even with full bars. When I switch back over to LTE, things start working again as normal. And this has been on numerous different phones and operating systems.
  • @roskoe95bg
    Hi Arun, I am a little bit confused. I used to be an integration field engineer for the cell towers in Bulgaria and while I have worked we had true 5G network, but the interesting part is that our network use the centimeters wave instead of the mmWaves. The frequency spectrum that is used is between the 3.1-4.6 Ghz which is related to the cm waves (super high 3Ghz - 30Ghz) instead of mm waves, and also the speed is from 800mbits up to 1.5 gigabits, that is the intriguing part of the whole scenario. Maybe there is a different standard for each country to be used.
  • @AllanBorch
    Yesterday was one of those days, where I had a SERIOUSLY slow internet speed... I looked at my phone, and saw the usual '5G' ...and I kept thinking: "maybe I'm between cell towers..." ...NOW I know the problem!😅 Thank you Arun, for clearing that up!😎
  • @TechBlock
    EE in the UK seem to have simply rebranded their 4G+ connection to “5G”. At least that’s what it feels like in my area. I used to actually get faster speeds back in 2020 over their 4G+ connection then I do now in 2022 using “5G”.
  • @JLMtime
    LTE was actually suppose to be the last upgrade it means - Long Term Evolution - it is suppose to be able to get a boost of speed each generation regardless how old your phone gets.. my 5G F sucks its laggy AF
  • Every engineer knew that there is no way to eliminate delay over a network with physical distance involved. What the vendors and carriers were really talking about is distributing the server services nearer to the clients phones to reduce latency. Yes they definitely mislead everyone except those who understand physics. And the mmwave issues with range are also something that we cant fix yet (laws of physics apply again) so expect that to be very slowly implemented due to the extreme cost involved.
  • @CED99
    Arun's take on things required for future networks is spot on - more coverage, better reliability, and 'good enough' speeds (like good 4g speed)
  • I love the fact that when Arun had to describe a year, he always mentions a popular phone released that year.
  • Exactly to the point , congrats! I wish more professional journalists where this open thinking and honest for the industry they “live from”
  • @Pookkyy
    5:30 My heartbeat and my jaw dropped with 68 others
  • @la_prima
    Over the years, Arun created a new style of youtube category. Congrutaltions!
  • @ZenoDovahkiin
    Bro imagine your son dies and the surgeon blames lag.
  • Thank you for posting this vid. I've lately been pretty frustrated with my cell provider that I contemplated switching carriers. Before I did that, I started to do some research into 5G and found what you had explained about it bundling all of the other network speeds into one. I was pretty frustrated with this to be honest and 5G is forever ruined for me. My only concern is that I've noticed 4G LTE goes much slower than it previously did. But now I'm not actually sure if I'm getting LTE or just regular 4G or even 3G. I miss the days of when if I had the LTE symbol, it meant I was going to actually have a good, solid connection.