<story><title>5G Is Likely to Put Weather Forecasting at Risk</title><url>https://hackaday.com/2019/04/16/5g-buildout-likely-to-put-weather-forecasting-at-risk/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>derekp7</author><text>I was wondering, what exactly 5G will bring us.  For the most part, all the tasks I need to do on a phone (pocket computer &amp;#x2F; communicator) can be done even with 3G (video, streaming music, and any website&amp;#x27;s loading time is more than acceptable at 3G speeds).&lt;p&gt;The only thing I can think of is 5G will allow for more overall network bandwidth, so the data caps on &amp;quot;unlimited&amp;quot; plans wouldn&amp;#x27;t be needed.  But compared to how we use our phones today, what new items will be be able to do with 5G that we can&amp;#x27;t do with current 4G&amp;#x2F;LTE?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>MrMember</author><text>With data caps I don&amp;#x27;t see much use for it. I still think it&amp;#x27;s hilarious that carriers advertise download speeds that would blow through most people&amp;#x27;s monthly data allowance in at most a couple of minutes.</text></comment>
<story><title>5G Is Likely to Put Weather Forecasting at Risk</title><url>https://hackaday.com/2019/04/16/5g-buildout-likely-to-put-weather-forecasting-at-risk/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>derekp7</author><text>I was wondering, what exactly 5G will bring us.  For the most part, all the tasks I need to do on a phone (pocket computer &amp;#x2F; communicator) can be done even with 3G (video, streaming music, and any website&amp;#x27;s loading time is more than acceptable at 3G speeds).&lt;p&gt;The only thing I can think of is 5G will allow for more overall network bandwidth, so the data caps on &amp;quot;unlimited&amp;quot; plans wouldn&amp;#x27;t be needed.  But compared to how we use our phones today, what new items will be be able to do with 5G that we can&amp;#x27;t do with current 4G&amp;#x2F;LTE?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jdietrich</author><text>&lt;i&gt;&amp;gt;But compared to how we use our phones today, what new items will be be able to do with 5G that we can&amp;#x27;t do with current 4G&amp;#x2F;LTE?&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;5G has the potential to provide throughput and latency that is comparable to a fixed broadband connection. In reasonably competitive markets (i.e. not the US), that&amp;#x27;s A Big Deal. Latency is a particularly acute issue in many applications; 4G generally adds about 50ms in the best case scenario, but 5G can easily provide sub-millisecond latency. Imagine a near-future where it simply doesn&amp;#x27;t matter whether you&amp;#x27;re on WiFi or cellular, because they both provide the same experience.</text></comment>