5G network internet speed 10 times faster than 4G
People around the world have experienced the high data speeds and great connectivity assuring better reliability of the 4G network and now are curious to know what does 5G has to offer. The commercial rollout of the 5G network is very near in the US, which probably can take place at the end of 2019 or the beginning of 2020. Some smartphone brands had already launched their flagships with 5G modem and hence are 5G ready for instance Samsung Galaxy S10 (8gb, 512 Gb), Huawei Mate X, LG V50 ThinQ, Oneplus 7 Pro 5G, Oppo Reno 5G and likewise. The fastest 4G modem can provide data speed of 2 Gbps and 5G is in developing phase and is designed to be 10 times faster than 4G, which would suggest the possibility of 20 Gbps and that too with extremely low latency of 1ms (response time which would be much faster than Human Reaction).
Some application of 5G data speeds
The anticipated data speeds of the 5G network open the doors of infinite possibilities. The top possibilities or ideas which could benefit the vast could be
- Wireless home broadband as 5G can replace fiber optics-based internet lines laid underground because of low latency.
- Numerous applications of such speed and latency can be found in the field of automation like automating seaports, automating robots in industries.
- Safety may get enhanced by the use of 5G in driverless cars.
How much RAM is required for the 5G network?
The 5G modem will definitely provide extreme data speeds on the 5G network. But are other components like RAM, storage etc. able to pair with these data speeds? The answer to this question can be found by understanding the working of RAM. The main function of RAM is to load the software into its memory which gets refreshed at much higher rates that are in MHz To understand it considers a 4 GB RAM which actually means 32 GB of RAM. Now to access internet one requires a web browser or some other similar software/application which gets loaded into RAM. Now the 5G modem can offer data to a device Upto the speed of 20 Gigabits per second which is less than 32 GB of RAM. So hypothetically with maximum 5G speed on can utilize maximum RAM of 20 GB which is 2.5 GB. But no one finds such content over the internet. So hypothetically with maximum 5G speed which would be 20Gbps you can load up 2.5 GB of data from the internet into your ram in a single second and such amount of data is never required in surfing or streaming content in single second. So hypothetically to completely 5G network speed 4 GB of RAM is more than enough.
Now taking downloading into consideration the data downloaded is stored in secondary storage devices like hard disks, SSDs, or SD cards. Hence the maximum write speed of any of these devices limits the downloading speed.
Is it possible to convert 4G Phone To 5G phone?
The modern flagships phones like Samsung Galaxy S10 5G, Huawei Mate X, LG V50 ThinQ, Oneplus 7 Pro 5G, and Oppo Reno 5G has already got 5G modem to sign into 5G network but 4G phones cannot be converted to 5G as 5G network uses much wider spectrum and data transferred is more efficiently encoded compared to 4G. But considering the past where Reliance Jio in India provided 4g modems that can shares internet connectivity non-4G phones using Wi-Fi, a similar idea can be repeated in India with 5G’s case. So it is advisable to buy a 5G ready phone to get the benefits out of 5G network around 2020 to 2022.
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