Oz has fastest 4G networks in the world
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Oz has fastest 4G networks in the world
Apparently, with sparse coverage, nonetheless, if I need something quick, I ditch both the home or office internet and tether up to Optus.
http://www.smh.com.au/digital-life/m...221-3350n.html
http://www.smh.com.au/digital-life/m...221-3350n.html
#2
Re: Oz has fastest 4G networks in the world
Apparently, with sparse coverage, nonetheless, if I need something quick, I ditch both the home or office internet and tether up to Optus.
http://www.smh.com.au/digital-life/m...221-3350n.html
http://www.smh.com.au/digital-life/m...221-3350n.html
#3
Re: Oz has fastest 4G networks in the world
As someone who knows something about this, fibre is still the best medium available today but wireless is only going to get better and faster and cheaper
#4
Re: Oz has fastest 4G networks in the world
I know nothing about it, can it/will it ever be capable of handling 20,000,000 (or more) connections at the same time across Australia ?
Last edited by ozzieeagle; Feb 21st 2014 at 4:33 am.
#5
Re: Oz has fastest 4G networks in the world
I don't see why not but at that level, the weak link would be the connections coming into Australia (mainly across the pacific). I'm not sure but I reckon that's where it would fall down
#6
Re: Oz has fastest 4G networks in the world
As an aside, Virgin Mobile have finally turned on 4G on their prepay network. You have to do some mucking about, but it works!
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Re: Oz has fastest 4G networks in the world
But will it be as fast as Koreas 5G?
#8
Re: Oz has fastest 4G networks in the world
No, not in the foreseeable future. Not even close. Already reaching saturation in its current role as a complementary technology. The percentage of data downloaded through a wireless connection has been decreasing for the last 5 years. It now moves just 4% of data, wired does 96%.
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Re: Oz has fastest 4G networks in the world
One of my mates connection speeds.
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Re: Oz has fastest 4G networks in the world
One of my mates connection speeds.
http://comparespeedtests.com/brag.php?id=3038361479
http://comparespeedtests.com/brag.php?id=3038361479
Until they up wireless download capacity to something reasonable like 100 gigs at least, then I dont see how it can have a long term future. From my limited understanding that can never happen because of spectrum/bandwidth issues ????
Lets put it this way, I've just downloaded Utopia the TV series, it's been a very slow download because there are very few seeders and it's taken about 3 days and a bit to download 5 gigs at a limited speed of 24.9 kps.... Still that is far more useful to me as a user than 3 gigs at 600 mbs.
My ADSL speed is circa 16 mbps at present which is fine for my useage.... I could do with a faster connection in the future though, with the advent of live Hi def TV streaming on the horizion from around the world. I dont see how the limited quotas on wireless are ever going to be useful, for me at least, with the massive amounts of data that tv streaming willl need.
Last edited by ozzieeagle; Feb 21st 2014 at 9:17 pm.
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Re: Oz has fastest 4G networks in the world
On a side note, I see there's not going to be a Samsung S5, their going straight to the 6. Clever marketing to be a model 'higher' than Apple. So I'm guessing the next iphone will be a 7!
#12
Re: Oz has fastest 4G networks in the world
Try searching on "Ultra HD 4K and beyond". My impression from reading all the highly technical articles is that only the next generation of fibre to the home will be able to carry the proposed standards in about ten years time, they won't be available on Free to Air because they'll need speeds and bandwidths that we can hardly imagine at the moment. We'll have 27 channels of sound with definition far greater than 4K on huge TVs, not sure that I'll want it that big but many people will.
#13
Re: Oz has fastest 4G networks in the world
Try searching on "Ultra HD 4K and beyond". My impression from reading all the highly technical articles is that only the next generation of fibre to the home will be able to carry the proposed standards in about ten years time, they won't be available on Free to Air because they'll need speeds and bandwidths that we can hardly imagine at the moment. We'll have 27 channels of sound with definition far greater than 4K on huge TVs, not sure that I'll want it that big but many people will.
And, of course, there is little point to 4K resolution unless you have a projector anyway - so they'll finesse the quality for those expensive, but not really very big, flat screen TVs.
Upshot is it won't need 4x the datarate, and it probably won't even take 2x the datarate. A bit of content delivery from close at hand, a bit of buffering, and they'll probably fit it into Turnbull's 25Mbit, or down ADSL2 running at full rate.
#14
Re: Oz has fastest 4G networks in the world
Haven't got 4G where I live yet, so I haven't got a 4G device yet either. Will wait until it is available before splashing.
Currently on cable and getting 36MB download which is fine for now.
Currently on cable and getting 36MB download which is fine for now.
#15
Re: Oz has fastest 4G networks in the world
I didn't make it too clear but I meant Beyond 4K. Tests were carried out last year between London and Paris, they needed Gigabytes to carry all the data. The BBC produced an excellent Podcast on these tests. New TV standards are now being planned and researched about 10-15 years in advance.