Why 5G Sucks ⚠️ 

Someone had to say it 😂 To see me buy the most Satisfying Tech on the Internet: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-0BR-HgA3mlo.html Or to check out my unboxing of every Nintendo Games Console: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-vtvFVH9JdNI.html

Can we just appreciate the fact that Arun respawned and instantly continued talking after being hit by a car?

What doesn’t suck though is Arun’s ability to rickroll us every time

By the time 5G is at its peak performance, also coverage wise, I’m pretty sure they’re already marketing 6G 😂

Imagine the doctors Internet lags while on surgery

A while back some people in rural England, though 5G towers were causing Covid so their busted them down. Turns out what they had destroyed were 3G and 4G tower and whole areas were left without connection, even for emergency services.

EE in the UK seem to have simply rebranded their 4G+ connection to “5G”. At least that’s what it feels like in my area. I used to actually get faster speeds back in 2020 over their 4G+ connection then I do now in 2022 using “5G”.

Hi Arun, I am a little bit confused. I used to be an integration field engineer for the cell towers in Bulgaria and while I have worked we had true 5G network, but the interesting part is that our network use the centimeters wave instead of the mmWaves. The frequency spectrum that is used is between the 3.1-4.6 Ghz which is related to the cm waves (super high 3Ghz - 30Ghz) instead of mm waves, and also the speed is from 800mbits up to 1.5 gigabits, that is the intriguing part of the whole scenario. Maybe there is a different standard for each country to be used.

You just described exactly how I felt ever since the announcement of 5G! I thought of these scenarios, but grit my teeth not wanting to be a party pooper or "impede" progress.

Yesterday was one of those days, where I had a SERIOUSLY slow internet speed... I looked at my phone, and saw the usual '5G' ...and I kept thinking: "maybe I'm between cell towers..." ...NOW I know the problem!😅 Thank you Arun, for clearing that up!😎

In my experience, I’ve locked my phone to only use LTE. When I’m on 5G, stuff rarely loads, even with full bars. When I switch back over to LTE, things start working again as normal. And this has been on numerous different phones and operating systems.

Exactly to the point , congrats! I wish more professional journalists where this open thinking and honest for the industry they “live from”

The car thing scared the soul out of me💀

Arun's take on things required for future networks is spot on - more coverage, better reliability, and 'good enough' speeds (like good 4g speed)

Over the years, Arun created a new style of youtube category. Congrutaltions!

God bless you . I have not continued to pursue my youtube career. But have learned so much from you. Thanks for your videos.

Every engineer knew that there is no way to eliminate delay over a network with physical distance involved. What the vendors and carriers were really talking about is distributing the server services nearer to the clients phones to reduce latency. Yes they definitely mislead everyone except those who understand physics. And the mmwave issues with range are also something that we cant fix yet (laws of physics apply again) so expect that to be very slowly implemented due to the extreme cost involved.

I love the fact that when Arun had to describe a year, he always mentions a popular phone released that year.

This video is spot on! 4G is already more than enough for most people, as you said we just needed more coverage and stable consistent high speed and maybe lower latency for gaming! They should have worked on improving 4G to achieve that optimum state instead of building a whole new costly and heavy infrastructure + facing new challenges

Thank you for posting this vid. I've lately been pretty frustrated with my cell provider that I contemplated switching carriers. Before I did that, I started to do some research into 5G and found what you had explained about it bundling all of the other network speeds into one. I was pretty frustrated with this to be honest and 5G is forever ruined for me. My only concern is that I've noticed 4G LTE goes much slower than it previously did. But now I'm not actually sure if I'm getting LTE or just regular 4G or even 3G. I miss the days of when if I had the LTE symbol, it meant I was going to actually have a good, solid connection.

Great content and superb points. Why would I want Verizon's 5g here in the US when they can't even offer 4g properly in the Great Plains regions I frequent most? I've never been one to buy the hype for anything new in the first place. Tis nice to see someone putting this out there...

Thank goodness a tech influencer is finally mentioning this, we didn't need 5g, my samsung m30s is a 4g phone and it's more than fast enough for my usage but just because am on a less crowded network, but the more crowded providers have very low speeds, we need an improved 4g

Finally someone truly understands that 5G is not yet matured. Thank you for making such a valuable video which I can share and spread awareness about the current state of 5G.

5:30 My heartbeat and my jaw dropped with 68 others

LTE was actually suppose to be the last upgrade it means - Long Term Evolution - it is suppose to be able to get a boost of speed each generation regardless how old your phone gets.. my 5G F sucks its laggy AF

This makes me feel so glad that I didn't buy a 5G phone because it had 5G, but settled for a 4G that I liked better. I thought that it was a risqué move, since I remembered how much my parents struggled with their 3G phones, when 4G took over.

Bro imagine your son dies and the surgeon blames lag.

I often switch my phone to 3G only because i get a reliable 6mbps low latency connection. Because everybody moved off 3G, it's bands are unused at the moment. This is in the UK.

I completely agree. When 5G pops up on my phone, the vast majority of the time, it's super slow and doesn't work. It seems that switching between 5G and 4G is pretty haphazard as well and causes a lot of disruption. Definitely considering turning 5G off on my Samsung Galaxy S21.

Thank you, Arun! I’ve never heard anyone explain this before. I’ve made choices between handsets because of 5g vs 4g and I’ve even chosen network providers based on their better 5g coverage. Now I know why I’ve not seen any tangible difference. Top content as always. Thank you 🙏

Even in secondary school when we’re 14 or 15 they teach us about the short travel distance of higher frequencies waves so I don’t know how these tech companies grossly overlooked it.

One funny thing I very quickly found out about 5G was when I was standing in open are with coverage, if I faced direction of the tower, I got full signal and speed, but if I turned 180 degrees, signal would immediately drop due to my body being in between and connection would get less reliable at slower speeds. Like it had hard time penetrating my body or getting around it. Only reason why I got it in my subscription now is because it eventually got included "without extra charge", probably used for mobile service providers favorite thing, rising subscription few months latter. Since they always do this, first add to the subscription plan, wait for 3-6 months then rise the price and say how it is market conditions and them offering more and more... without answering question about who asked for more in the first place. :-D Then some people think they are smart ans change providers, since not all of them do it at the same time, but within 2-4 months latter, they all hiked their prices. Some just delay it to get people to come over, but each time they take turns. And that is lovely world of local service providers. Anyway, generally, it is just early days of 5G and it has slow deployment, plus with making things messier with whole different bands, some slower for range, others faster for few locations, they tend to also oversell whole coverage, since you see slow wavelength coverage on their maps, not fast one. Though I will admit, having phone to auto switch between everything kind of works fine for me, usually when it gets too bad it will switch to 4G. I only had to manually switch back when it was first deployed, since phone would want to stay on 5G and that made experience so much worse. But dunno if it is improvements from service providers, updates to phone or both, something made it better.

bro that scene when you got hit by a car actually scared me for a split second 😭💀

As one of 5g engineers, I need to clarify a few steps: 5g never was only mmWaves, it was marketed through mmWaves due to more obvious difference. In Europe mmWaves weren't given to mobile operators yet, thus 5g sign in UK means 3.5 GHz = sub 6 GHz (still different frequency to 4G). 5g is really not finalised yet, thus taking 5g contract you become more a beta tester than a luxurious user. It will receive updates each year, so stay tuned. Do not expect 5g to be a game changer outside of cities, it will require a lot of antennas to be available there (no financial sense). The demand on data rises every year, so the fact that during transition period users would not receive problems would be fantastic. Without 5g, 4g would be not able to hand a load in a few years.

I literally never really cared about 5G, because I almost always get awesome 4G speeds and almost never have any buffering or lag when using RU-vid, Netflix and other streaming services. I use video calls daily and with them also everything is without problem, even when I also browse the Internet. And you're right, someone had to say it, I'm glad you made this video! 🔥

My hometown still only has 4G, but even the current 4G towers can't handle the amount of users we have without experiencing major drops in speed during the daytime. For the longest time I've been thinking that they have to improve the capacity on the current 4G towers before even considering updating the infrastructure to support 5G.

I've ran speed tests back to back and 4G was the same as 5G. The biggest issue with 5G is reliability and network switching. It's so annoying to constantly drop calls while I'm driving down the road when the phone is switching between 4g and 5g. I've disabled 5G on my phone

A relief to see people across the world facing the same problem !!

5:33 what a scene man, editors' real chad

This right here is the video I can send to people instead of having to constantly explain myself. My SIM provider, my friends, my family, my colleagues... people trying to hype me up. I've told them before and now I get to say "I told you so". I bought an iPhone 12 Pro in 2020 and I've never used whatever 5G tech it has. I consume HD content. I remotely access my work station. Never used 5G. I will take a slower, but more stable connection any day and that's exactly what 4G is. The increased price and the drain on battery life are just a nice bonus argument against 5G, but I would have advocated it still, if only it was stable.

I believe that instead of 5g they should have released 4g+ that the signal moves one moblie to another to increase the connection

These little things in your videos just make them so much more enjoyable. The little red arrow which moved when "Samsung Galaxy S21 FE 5G" changed to "Galaxy S21 5G Series" ... Just a very nice touch. Kudos to the editor!

Arun wont make you watch his videos without taking notes. A lot of education gone on in there. Thank you Arun

Actually 6G is a big thing for a different reason. Every wireless technology uses radio-frequency like 2.5g and 5g, and everyone of these has channels used to trasmit informations, it can happen that in the same channel there are different devices talking and that traduces in interferences, lowering the overall quality and speed. Because techologies like 2.5g and 5g have a limited amout of channels and in particular of 5g, a good amout are reserved for goverment use like radars and meteo, you understand that it's quite limited, also nowdays that everyone is connected to the internet in more that a way. So why 6G exists? Becuase it introduces a ton of new channels, a lot more of 2.5 and 5g, resolving the problem of interferences in big cities.

The absolute professionalism of nailing making a 'nod' toward ads and sponsors, without derailing the video for it, is on it's own enough for me to support the channel, so that everyone in every genre of videos can look to it as an example.

Totally on point! I'm in Silicon valley in California, supposedly one of the most tech forward parts of the world and I actively disable 5G on my mobile because, like you say, performance sucks!! The hype and the promises have never eventuated.. The marketing and sales teams got a bad case of the tail wagging the dog with respect to the engineering!!

So far I'm very satisfied with the 5G that I use at home (I live in Finland). I live in an area with multiple apartment buildings, so there must be a lot of other users in the area. I have a 1000M deal (45 Euros per month, unlimited data) and in the beginning I was getting maximum of 300M download, however one day it just exploded and now I am getting most of the time very close or even over the maximum promised speed. It is actually hard to reach the bandwidth limit even if I try. Only once, one day it was slow (around 200M), the rest of the time very good speeds near or over 1000M. I am fully trying to use the bandwidth as much as possible. According to the operator, my account is clocking around 17-20TB download traffic every month and no one has complained yet. 😀

Higher density of antennas means much more accurate triangulation.

I remember 5G coming out when I was working at Best Buy.. I never had high hopes for it. The range alone was enough for me to call this a dud. The amount of towers you have to set up and the unreliability of the signal is a recipe for disaster. My exact sentiment was what you said in the video: I would much rather have more reliable 4G and more coverage than 5G speeds. I always told people when I was selling phones that a 5G plan isn't worth it lol

A very interesting video and explains something I experienced recently: I live in the Philippines, in the middle of nowhere. There is 4G available here ahead it's ok. A couple of weeks ago I went to the mainland and noticed my phone switched to 5G, while on the highway quite a bit far away from any city. I saw this as strange - in my head 5G was a predominantly urban thing and wasn't even capable of replacing 4G on a wide area. The other thing I noticed is that each time my phone switched to 5G it basically lost service (as in connected to the tower but the data rate was too slow to actually use, compared to 4G which was fine) .. thanks for a very informative video.

Ok, this is an amazing video! The car crashing animation had me scared out of my skeleton!! 😮

That “yeah sure” killed me 😂😂😂😂

This makes a lot of sense! I had noticed my iphone 12 not being able to handle any data or connection at all on 5g, especially in cars. I found LTE worked way better to the point that I have set my phone to LTE only because it is just so useless on 5g

1:58 that's a weird screen

I got several 5G ads while watching this video

This is so interesting. I live in the Netherlands. 3G, 4G and now 5G all have great coverage here

We need more videos like this that take a sceptical look at marketing vs reality - very good video

hey thats my video you're watching at 4:10! Thanks for making my day :D

I know this video is 9 months old but here in the U.S in the Chicagoland area with Tmobile I routinely hit 800mbps speeds with 5g. I downloaded a 3.5 gb movie in less than a minute today. I love it!

I like how Arun respawned and continued talking just for us

I just now recently moved from 3G to 4G. I remember back in the day when 4G was a buzz word. Yet most people were struggling to reach 3G signal. Now I can go anywhere and have 4G 99% of the time. Its never good to be an early adopter in tech. Especially when it’s regarding a whole country wide infrastructure update.

I upgraded from a Xs to 14pro at launch and was excited to experience these crazy 5G speeds they relentlessly advertised for years, only to find out 4G is actually faster. I've tested 5 different cities and a lot of the times the phone is barely connected (under 1mb down or up). Very disappointing to spend so much money on the latest/greatest tech only to get speeds that were considered mediocre 10 years ago.

I'm a technician that install Antennas for home internet with router, in Italy (With 11 months of installing internet antennas behind those words) i can say that most internet operators you have an average 200/300mbit/s download speed and it can happen to install 500/850mbit/s. Yes latency is not the best thing with 30ms to 50ms compared with 7ms of the cabled lines but the speed difference is worth the loss.

I love how my city finally figured out what to do to improve 5G speeds in a small city with 35,000 people

I really love how you cover the topic thats not many techtuber cover. Really love your content and channel. Keep making good stuff.

3:44 that post-soviet background 😄

That car crash looked way too real, took me by surprise haha

5G is like trying to use Rallye cars as taxis.

Arun, loved this video so so so much! It's probably one of my favourite videos you've posted this year. Seems like you spend time on actually bringing information, than spending a couple of dollars on random things on the internet! Keep Going Boss✨♥️

I just bought a 5g phone and I didn't even think about this.

I have disabled 5G and set my smartphone to connect to 4G LTE only, and now I am able to get up to 15% longer runtime per charge cycle.

I agree with this title, its a gimmick IMO. Glad to see you pumping out vids like usual tho.

I get so excited everytime my notification bell goes off and I see a pop up of your video upload! I'm never disappointed! Great job Arun. Really insightful this one! Let's chill with 5G for now. 4G ain't bad at all.

Minute 5:30 scered me there should be a jump scere warning 😅 and I love your videos ❤️

When you mentioned doing a speed test to check 5g speeds I went ahead and checked mine given my phone says I have 5g at home all the time. I'm one of the lucky ones to have good 5g I guess cause it came up as a 140Mbps connection. My wifi is still better (about 380Mbps on the phone, 800ish on PC) but it's nice to know my 5g isn't a waste.

5:31 Nooooooo Arun 😱 R.I.P. 😭

Man I seriously love your vids. You really put your heart in them and try your best to make them perfect

Can i just say that Arun is an absolute god for surviving a car

Great vid, subscribed! Glad I am not the only one with unusably slow pathetic 5G connectivity. My phone basically becomes unusable when it is connected to a Verizon 5G network

OMG you are so correct. It got so bad with me I thought my phone was defective. It got to the point where I had to turn off 5G and I've been using 4G ever since.

9:30 I saw what you did there

The best thing about 5G is delivering what 4G promised

0:10 can we appreciate that on the phone, the internet is called 'big boy 5g', the time is 4:20PM and the percentage is 69%

Probably the most useful video yet, and thank you for clarifying the points. I often thought of acquiring a 5G device but given where I live (Jordan) and the fact that 5G is not likely to come any time soon (nor provide any appreciable speed over 4G) makes one reconsider their decisions on what phone to upgrade to.

I won't be surprised if they're going to slow down 4G LTE so that you're more likely to switch to 5G.

My heart stopped at 5:31... Gotta make a donation to your editor.

As someone who sells network infrastructure equipment, I Was always confused by the vendors who failed to mention the distance issue. Clearly the idea for them was simple. Needs to sell much more infrastructure to make it work Ker-ching

4:15 what was that bald man in the back ground doing 😂😂 Arun how awkward was it to tell him you were making a video I need answers

Still can't get over when a community went infront of a city council I believe, complaining about all the bad things that have been happening because of a new 5G tower only for at the end the representative to reply that they hadn't turned it on yet

6:22 that sound effect was funnier than it should have been

I agree. There is no business case for 5G in 99.99% of the cases. In Asian countries which are not oil rich and not China, these vendors of 5G are even struggling to sell 5G equipment to telecom operators.

I’ve disabled 5G on my phone, it always got hot and never really worked properly. Now I understand why.

5:40 i wouldn't like that because if there's an interference with the signals well the patient could die

The one use case were 5G mmWave really makes sense is in large venues, arenas and stadiums. If you live in a city and frequently go to sporting events as many people do this is a huge benefit. The transmitters can be positioned in a way to avoid obstruction. This is made trivial by the configuration of most arenas where the line of sight is of crucial importance. i’m sure that many of us have experienced extremely slow or essentially useless connections when attending a big event not only with this, improve the experience for the people in the arena, but will also improve the experience for people surrounding the arena in the already dense parts of the city, where the old 4G towers would be overwhelmed, stealing, bandwidth from even those outside.

I used to live in a really densely populated city in the US, and Verizon's 5g was actually significantly slower than the old 4G tech, even during off-peak traffic hours, at it's best their 5G was like 40% slower than 4G. During peak traffic hours it was something like 60% slower. Came to the same conclusion that it wasn't true mm-wave 5G, but rather the sub-6GHz, which suffers far more from network congestion than 4G does. I was one of the few people I knew that was actually hyped to get true 5G, mostly for streaming games from my PC at home to a mobile device wherever, but sadly that dream never came to fruition lol. Great vid as always 👍

Since the introduction of 5G on mobile phones, I've disabled 5G connectivity on my new 5G phone, pretty much on the first day. It eats more battery power, and data speed tends to vary as the wind. 4G is more than sufficient for mobile phones. Makes no sense to go 5G and beyond for public areas.

5:20 Where did that lady come from?

Arun always finds a way to rickroll us in every video.

Sydney, Australia. 5G has been great for large file transfers on the go (on the train, or at Central station). I can reliably upload several GBs or download a dozen or more GB without fretting about time constraints. As a consumer it's not really noticeable, but as a business operator on the move, it's an absolute must.

It seems like when I have bars of 5G my phone practically bricks while Showing LTE of any strength I get full functionality