Eli5: why isn’t 5g internet as fast as they said it would be?

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I remember people saying it would be faster than most wired connections.

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One of the selling points of 5G was that it would allow more connections per tower. At least for 5G Home Internet, it wasn’t very impressive to be deprioritized so quickly.

Population density didn’t change much from 4G to 5G. I suspected that it was traffic shaping and not lack of capacity.

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