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Originally Posted by Robbie0723
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Here is the T-Mobile map you link to. It shows that 5G is available only for about a half mile of highway 441. Whether or not that is the slow kind of 5G or the fast kind, I don’t know. (The 5G is PURPLE on the map.)
I would really like it to be available everywhere. I just wanted to warn people that it may never be available all over The Villages, and it certainly isn’t now, so don’t be swayed by the ads. It seems that 5G at its best is really fast, but it only has a range of about three hundred yards, and it doesn’t penetrate walls. Maybe it will be possible to put receivers on our walls or roofs and get it inside that way. I don’t know. It won’t work with satellites or cell towers. It works best in densely populated cities with lots of above ground utility poles. I suppose that the wiring for it would be pulled through conduits along the streets, just like the other wires at The Villages. Now there’s a source of income! Renting space for wiring. Would the occasional light pole be enough, as it is now? I don’t think so, but maybe more will be installed. Three hundred yards. Three football fields. I think we would need about three times as many poles as we have now. That could be done, perhaps. But I read that it doesn’t go around corners well. So we could have interesting situations where we have it in the front yard, but not in the back yard.