> Isn't 5G supposed to solve the mobile latency issue?
Kinda.
So 5g is faster, but its still wireless, and shared spectrum. This means that the more people that use it, or the further they are away, the speed and bandwidth per client is adjusted.
(I'm not sure of the coding scheme for 5G, so take this with caution) For mobiles that are further away, or have a higher noise floor, the symbol rate (ie the number of radiowave "bits" that are being sent) is reduced so that there is a high chance they will be understood at the other end (Shannon's law, or something) Like in wifi, as the signal gets weaker, the headline connection speed drops from 100mb+ to 11.
In wifi, that tends to degrade the whole AP's performance, in 5G I'm not sure.
Either way, a bad connection will give you dropped packets.
Kinda.
So 5g is faster, but its still wireless, and shared spectrum. This means that the more people that use it, or the further they are away, the speed and bandwidth per client is adjusted.
(I'm not sure of the coding scheme for 5G, so take this with caution) For mobiles that are further away, or have a higher noise floor, the symbol rate (ie the number of radiowave "bits" that are being sent) is reduced so that there is a high chance they will be understood at the other end (Shannon's law, or something) Like in wifi, as the signal gets weaker, the headline connection speed drops from 100mb+ to 11.
In wifi, that tends to degrade the whole AP's performance, in 5G I'm not sure.
Either way, a bad connection will give you dropped packets.