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		mijoharas on Jan 29, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Ask HN: Is it just me or is 5G strictly worse than... Side note: I have the same rant for laptops, wifi and 5ghz/2.4Ghz. If a network is on both most clients will just prefer the 5ghz no matter the signal quality/packet loss. As a user I'd rather have a working slightly slower connection than a broken faster* one. *Not actually faster due to packet retransmission time from packet loss

roxgib on Jan 30, 2023 [–]

Even on 2.4GHz the internet connection is usually the limiting factor anyway, unless you're on a high speed network with a lot of congestion.

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