Where does LTE end and 5G officially start?

[PAYBACK]

Curious to know your thoughts. Currently on RAIN 5G and although there are still some teething problems couldn't be happier coming off ADSL 10meg line. Question is as 5G becomes more popular and more people jump on board, contention ratios start coming into play. What is the minimum speed a person should be getting given the product we are paying for is 5G?

Theoretical download wall is 6400Mbps but cannot find mention of the minimum download speed as it relates to 5G. Also do you think we will see speed increases past what we are seeing currently with RAIN network which is hitting close to 700Mbps in some cases.

 

[NeonNinja]

I think 150Mbps will be fair and sufficient for everyone.

 

[Grouter]

Congestion is real. Try visiting Sedgefield at the moment where we have a single tower servicing the whole town. Currently just a trickle of holidaymakers and already rain and vodacom feel almost like dial-up. Not to mention the disconnects. Thank goodness for the local wisp.

 

[BradleyKZN]

Curious to know your thoughts. Currently on RAIN 5G and although there are still some teething problems couldn't be happier coming off ADSL 10meg line. Question is as 5G becomes more popular and more people jump on board, contention ratios start coming into play. What is the minimum speed a person should be getting given the product we are paying for is 5G?

Theoretical download wall is 6400Mbps but cannot find mention of the minimum download speed as it relates to 5G. Also do you think we will see speed increases past what we are seeing currently with RAIN network which is hitting close to 700Mbps in some cases.

Relating to speed, the fast I have seen on LTE is 150mbps on MTN, standing at the tower. So I feel as long as 5G is 200mbps +/- I would be happy with it. Especially considering the LTE package I was on was R800 for 150+150GB and on 5G I can download that in a few hours.

 

[PAYBACK]

Relating to speed, the fast I have seen on LTE is 150mbps on MTN, standing at the tower. So I feel as long as 5G is 200mbps +/- I would be happy with it. Especially considering the LTE package I was on was R800 for 150+150GB and on 5G I can download that in a few hours.

Makes sense. Sunday when RAIN 5G went down I was on solid 150 and assumed was on LTE network. By defining minimum speeds for 5G one can expect minimum speed level which should hopefully surpass LTE. Once they start speeding up network I guess we will have a maximum we could expect on say TIER 1 (200Mbps - 700Mbps) for R1000pm.

5G will be massive disruptor if these early impressions are anything to go by. That is until FTH gets proper traction. Even then at these speeds fiber is weak sauce in comparison. Kicker will be network stability.

 

[cavedog]

Well depends really. I'm covered by Openserve fibre so anything above 200Mbps means better value for money on 5G than on Openserve. If you are covered by Vumatel then that changes everything because R1499 gives you 1Gbps. If I had Vumatel coverage I won't go for 5G unless you can't install or for whatever reason then 5G is definitely an alternative.