Can you beat this cellular throughput?

[wwillson]

Recently I was waiting for a flight in at the far end of the B gates at Chicago Midway. I saw the cellular radios and decided I would see if one of them was AT&T. It sure was and because the throughput was so high, it has to be mmWave. The only way to get that much throughput from mmWave, because it's incredibly distance sensitive, is to be standing very close to the antenna. I was standing about 25' from the radio/antenna.

Can you beat this 5G throughput?

 

[brandon9715]

Highest I've gotten is a tad over 1gbps because all I ever see is C-band at best. The tower next to my apartment is still LTE band 13 with 10mbps of throughput

 

[PandaBear]

It depends on how many people you are sharing this bandwidth with. Airport, stadium, train station, conference center, that's probably the only place you can get these demand concentration and line of sight to use them. I probably CAN get this kind of bandwidth in a lab, but in real world likely no use for it. It is like a drag racer won't use all of its HP day to day.

I do think we need the equivalent in wifi in the future, like 60GHz if I remember right, with MuMIMO.

 

[wwillson]

It depends on how many people you are sharing this bandwidth with. Airport, stadium, train station, conference center, that's probably the only place you can get these demand concentration and line of sight to use them. I probably CAN get this kind of bandwidth in a lab, but in real world likely no use for it. It is like a drag racer won't use all of its HP day to day.

I do think we need the equivalent in wifi in the future, like 60GHz if I remember right, with MuMIMO.

All true, but I just curious if someone can get better cellular throughput.

 

[alarmguy]

never came close to that. Best I ever did was around 770 close to a cell tower outdoors.

 

[redhat]

Wow now that is impressive. I exclusively used AT&T and FirstNet when I was in the healthcare sector as my carriers. Had great relationships and was very satisfied with them. Especially my account rep and the supporting team.

 

[Skippy722]

On Verizon via US Mobile…. Nope

But that’s better than T-Mobiles “5G UC” in the same spot on the same phone!

 

[ripcord]

Wow, that's fast enough to download all 11 seasons of Baywatch while rushing to your connecting flight!

 

[Joe1]

That's impressive! I hope you have an unlimited data plan or your carrier doesn't count speed tests towards your data allotment because that test likely consumed more data than most people use in a month.