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1timer
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5G with Stadia, anyone?

My ISP is rolling out the first 5G wifi routers in 2020 and they are promising 1000mbs up/down speeds with "less than 1 ms" ping time. But, has anyone tried Stadia on a 5G connection?

Even if it turns out to be half of what is promised, it will still be a major shift in network speeds. 

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Stoked4Good
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As soon as you get, trick it via a hotspot, and let us know.  : )

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Greenhill
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I have noticed my tmobile 4g has recently tripled speed and massive improvement in ping. Not sure if that is related in any way. 

In my country many production facilities like factories use 5g very often. For latency and stability. And to maintain many different connections with many different individual wireless cells at the same time in the same environment. So many people playing over 5g in the same room would work fantastic. And they say that 5g has issues with reaching through walls tho, factories don't have many walls. 

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Mad_Dog_Bravo
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@1timer : 

<1ms latency : Light travels at about 200,000 kilometers per second through optical fibers, roughly two thirds of the speed of light in a vacuum. This means that every 100 km or 60 miles of distance a packet has to traverse adds half a millisecond to the one-way latency and thus 1 ms to the RTT.  That's on a purely optical network with no added latency for the packet to go from one hop/device to the next. 

1gig speeds: 5G mmWave has difficulty going through many walls and windows, so indoor coverage is limited at best.

I would take your ISP promises with a big pinch of salt...

It will be very interesting to see what the actual is vs the promised once you're up and running on a 5G tariff with mmWave 5g.

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1timer
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@Mad_Dog_Bravo thank's for the tech info. I am very used to the way ISPs market their products so I won't be too dissapointed if the given figures will never work in reality. My current deal is for 50mbits up and down but in reality I get 20-40 (roughly 23ms ping). Stadia works great wired and ok wireless (my wireless is really crappy in general). The 5G network should reach my suburban home before summer but the wifi router costs 800-900 euros plus 30-40 euros monthly fee... I'll let you all know if it's worth the money.
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