Re: Fastest Mobile Networks 2021
Chris <[email protected]> Wed, 6 Oct 2021 18:51:50 -0000 (UTC)
| Newsgroups | misc.phone.mobile.iphone,comp.mobile.android,alt.cellular |
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| Organization | A noiseless patient Spider |
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Wade Garrett <[email protected]> wrote: > On 10/6/21 4:18 AM, Chris wrote: >> Wade Garrett <[email protected]> wrote: >>> On 10/5/21 12:19 PM, Chris wrote: >>>> Wade Garrett <[email protected]> wrote: >>>>> On 10/5/21 2:51 AM, Joerg Lorenz wrote: >>>>>> Am 05.10.21 um 08:38 schrieb NewsKrawler: >>>>>>> Fastest Mobile Networks 2021 >>>>>>> https://www.pcmag.com/news/fastest-mobile-networks-2021 >>>>>>> >>>>>>> For our 12th annual test, we drove more than 10,000 miles, speed-testing >>>>>>> AT&T, T-Mobile, and Verizon 4G and 5G in cities, towns, and rural regions >>>>>>> all over the US. We found a radically new landscapeāand a surprising winner. >>>>>> >>>>>> That is utter bullshit and at best a tiny little bit of anecdotal evidence. >>>>>> >>>>> Yeah well it all doesn't matter anyway. >>>>> >>>>> Everybody's network is plenty fast enough to easily handle any task you >>>>> do on a little screen. It's all marketing BS and "We're Number One-itis." >>>>> >>>>> Like the Olympics- eight guys finish the race separated by only a couple >>>>> of hundredths of a second. They're all fast as hell. What difference >>>>> does it make... >>>> >>>> Only one of them is remembered. >>>> >>> That is a sporting event and if you participate, the idea is to win. >> >> Exactly. >> >>> Here, we're talking about effin' cell phone service fer cryin' out loud. >> >> Right. So why make an analogy to the olympics, then? Your analogy didn't >> work. >> >> > Actually, it does. The point I made- and which you missed- is that > people make a big deal over small differences among similarly well > qualified/high performing entities and need a "winner". The differences are not small. > I used the Olympics (all the athletes are top notch). Athletes are supreme beings and the pinnacle of human performance. Mobile broadband is for the masses where differences in average speed can make big differences to individual use cases. > But I could have just as easily used the Miss America Pageant or Dallas > Cowboys Cheerleaders tryout finalists (all hottie babes) or maybe the > best shotgun from a collection of fine 19th century English double > barrels (they're all beautifully engraved works of mechanical art) or > maybe the best Old Masters painting in the Metropolitan Museum or Louvre > collections. There's no such thing as best art. Art is intrinsically subjective.