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0 pointsrefulgentis1y ago0 comments

This is blatantly false. I will bet many $$$ that no one in this thread has ever gotten 1ms.

If you search "5g latency", Google's AI answer says 1 ms, followed by another quote lift from Thales Group™ saying 4G was 20 ms and 5G is 1ms.

Once you scroll past the automated attempts, you start getting real info.

Actual data is in the "SpeedTest Award Report" PDF, retrieved from https://www.speedtest.net/awards/united_states/ via https://www.speedtest.net/awards/reports/2024/2024_UnitedSta....

Spoiler: 23 ms median for fastest provider, T-mobile.

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BenjiWiebe1y ago

Latency to where? Speedtest servers or cell towers?

refulgentisOP1y ago

I assume Speedtest servers, as they wouldn't have a way to get measurements for individual cell towers at scale.

(at least, I don't recall being able to get that sort of info from iOS APIs, nor have I ever seen data that would have required being derived that way)

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