DocAndersen
`5th Generation or 5g networks were made available in the US National Mall. The National Mall is the field where many of the Smithsonian Museums are, and it is also a part of Washington DC where you can watch movies live, on your cellular phone. There is less lag now there than anywhere else in the US. 1.4-gigabyte speed has been recorded on a 5g connected cellular device. Just to put that into perspective, the best bandwidth you can get at home is the Museums gig. 1.0, not 1.4! You can buy a 4g/5g portable hub, and away you go. The number of 5g cities is increasing every single day.
One of the smart things trends I’ve noticed, lately, is the growing number of the connected device. While I realize that most people are not lining up (or running out) to buy new connected devices, I did want to point a couple of critical things out.
1. If you have the internet at home, to connect all these devices requires bandwidth. Your router is a single point of access to the internet. That means your connected devices all rush to the router to get out.
2. Many devices have two types of communication that they share – one is the I am an alive conversation; the other is net new data.
Based on that most home routers, can support 100 or so devices before there becomes an issue. One hundred devices seem like a lot I know, but in the end, it isn’t. Most connected weather stations are two, or event here devices. The more devices you have that connection, the more you need bandwidth at the router level…
5g gets you closer.
Now, from an I am a little paranoid when it comes to security, you also need to have a device that watches your network. I highly recommend the Fing device. It is not expensive, and it notifies you any time someone or something connects to your network. That is critical when it comes to having and using your bandwidth. If someone gets control of your wifi other than you, they control when and how much bandwidth you will have.
Don’t forget, when you consider devices remote devices you connect to, that also requires a level of bandwidth. From Netflix to Virily, there is a growing network need.
The connection is important, but it can easily be lost.
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I use streaming media services?
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To my mind, it’s very useful to be a little paranoid when it comes to security!!! Thank you so much for this article, think to buy such watching device.
It is a great thing to be a little paranoid. Know that we are always being watched!
I have more problems with our NZ phone companies. Especially our old phone company called Spark.
Next some people try to ring up and tell us there is something wrong with our computer.
So I am not interested and hang up, the said people say they are from Spark but they are not.
you were right to hang up that is a huge telephone scam (hi, there are issues with your computer.)
Q: Most of us have fewer than 10 devices at home right?
Yes (12 votes) – 92%
No (1 votes) – 8%
Q: I use streaming media services?
Yes (6 votes) – 50%
No (6 votes) – 50%
Q: I need to upload photos to web sites?
Yes (13 votes) – 100%
Q: I don’t worry about connections at my house.
Yes (6 votes) – 43%
No (8 votes) – 57%
Great! Have you already got it? We are expecting it in India by mid 2020. We expect to be at lowest rates in the world same as we getting 4G.
It has been live in DC for roughly 3 weeks. I have a 5g puck for when I visit my customers in downtown DC!
The speed at which we rush is reflected in all these devices. Information overload seems to be the ailments we are all suffering from. But I wonder about the quality of information and how useful is the information that we download.
I have called the time we are in the pre-information age for a long time. I keep telling people if you can’t search and get the right answer right away we aren’t in an information age.
The installation of a filter on the human, isn’t an information age!
Blame it on Google . 😀
I wish there was an easy blame to place. Sadly, google is a contributor, but not the cause.
I am a lady of leisure and so would not want anything in my life that runs at jet speed. (lol)
ah lucky you! imagine, for a second, downloading an entire movie in less than 10 seconds.
That is exactly what is worrying me. I have made a mistake collecting music, first cassettes, then cds, and then downloads and what do I see youtube has it all. (lol)
The nice thing about the legal agreement is for music, if you own the Cassette, LP or CD, you can have a backup copy (MP3) and that is legal. The same is true for movies.
I am always interested in seeing the evolution of media. The biggest most critical thing that 5g buys most people is virtually instantaneous weather warnings. It will shave 20, 30 seconds off weather alerts. That is enough time for many more people to get to safety!!!!!
I really have no time to watch movies and honestly The music is languishing too.
Everyone is over fed busting at seams.
And by the way my repaired hotch potch quiz is published. Neatly done I am happy but it was a lot of work for me.
I wonder, first I disagree that people are bursting at the seams.
I believe the world is entering a pre-information age, the evolution of that will resolve the majority of overload issues.
As far as I am concerned I have over loads of everything and could safely say they are busting (not bursting_ at the seams
I suspect you have at least three camps now.
I have too much information available
I have the right amount of information available.
I do not have enough information available.
Based on that we have to see where we are, where those around us are and what we can do the bridge that gap.
I remember when IPNG was being rolled out and they were talking about the addressing space and I kept wondering why we’d need so many. Now I know…
Tracking the reality of the world –
I have turned off 12 devices that were connected in the past two days that I didn’t even have connections to anymore!
you just dodged a big fat security risk
yeah. I decided I didn’t want to end up with an IoT zombie attack.
and reduced your vulnerable surface area by a bunch
The reality for me is the weather devices in my house. That is the weak point of my network.
I put them on their own segment and keep the traffic on that network, I put that segment directly to the internet.
BUt, you could still attack that segment from those devices.
if those devices are isolated, even if hacked what would the hacker gain?
that depends then on what is on the PC right?
if the hacker can get to your PC, you’re horked
Horked?
That I have to say is a new one for me.
But yes, if they socially engineer access to your pc, all is lost.
it’s a fun word, doesn’t get nearly enough exposure
well by my lack of knowledge, I am intrigued.
can you use it with a person?
I am horked at you?
Or is it more situational, you should have changed your password now you are horked?
I’ve only used it in the latter context. lemme check
https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=horked&utm_source=search-action
Thanks-Alex.
I am always intrigued with how people use words.
Sometimes, word use is horking crazy.
other folks collect tchotchkes, I collect fun words
I did as well when I was writing more poetry. Now, I live in the world of TLA, FLA, MLA and the resulting confusion is always fun to explain!
knew the first one, was able to intuit the others
Yeah the computer world has a lot of them. I spend a lot of time translating for customers.
even though I use the TLA, I don’t think of the acronym when I say it. so when folks say CPU unit, I flinch…
CPU is always interesting. When people tell me it is the central processing unit, i point to it on a motherboard and say “its the right or left side processing unit.” They look at me and groan.
Dad jokes rule!
are you concerned that the FPU firmly attached to the CPU?
not since the Pentium 60 and the issues with that chip.
that was back when they were first being rolled out, to take the burden off the math coprocessor
I remember the impact of the first FPU 🙂
you’d think it wouldn’t make much of a difference, and you’d be so wrong
If 5G will make the internet access faster then I would be thankful.
it truly will make the internet more responsive!
I wish you good luck and I hope it works great.
Thanks – it is a big deal for everyone. The reality for you is probably not until 2022. But it is coming!
Yeah, I suppose we’ll wait a long time for that
It has to do with the initial setup cost and the model the companies use. In Europe, you have those pesky mountains in the middle of a lot of places.
The important things I need are a working PC, constant access to the Internet and everything working and finely tuned every day.
5g presents much less latency, so your constant connection tot he internet would be much more responsive!
Much new to me, my friend
5g will be spreading in Europe over the next 24 months. It is worth the wait!
I’ll wait and see what happens, my friend
you will end up with 5g eventually I promise!
Thanks, dear friend …. I believe
Good luck with the 5g. We don’t have that much technology in the house to make it a concern just yet.
Thanks – it will be deployed fully in the US by 2024. The reality is you get more for less with 5g!
Good luck and have a great day Doc.
Thanks, Carol! Connection as you know is a personal quest of mine.
This is indeed very great news
i just ordered a 5g puck for when I am in downtown DC