Why can my phone say I have 5G coverage and multiple bars of service in some areas, but apps and webpages still fail to load or load very slowly?
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The bars only tell you how strongly your connection is (direct line of site and close by is good, far away and inside a building is bad).
It has nothing to do with how fast the speeds you are getting.
Usually, if you have good bar strength and slow speeds, it’s because too many people are connected to the same tower. I always for instance get super slow speeds when I’m in traffic at an intersection. It’s the fault of the cell phone company for not properly allocating enough bandwidth; reach out to them on Twitter, I’ve done it for T-Mobile and actually have gotten them to make improvements in my area.
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