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Ahh yes, hyping a non-existent technology... Gotta love it.
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Enter the fifth generation of wireless (5G), which hasn't even been defined yet, but which people are already fairly sure is going to wash your dishes, cure cancer, and help John Travolta with his pronunciation problems.
Is there anything the next, entirely ambiguous incarnation of wireless technologies can't do? The best part moving forward is, even if you're not actually offering "5G" any time in the next decade, you can always just pretend you do. Put "5G researcher" on your next resume update even if you're a janitorial custodian.
People speculate about new technology all the time. Think about the iPhone, every year at least 6 months before it is officially announced by Apple there are multiple internet blogs/posts speculating about what the next phone will include or look like.
I recently bought a Netgear Nighthawk router and it has 5g in it but I am not sure what the heck I will be able to use that for.
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A beefy router certainly deserves beefy specs. Inside the Nighthawk is a dual-core 1GHz processor—powerful, for a consumer router. The R7000 supports 600Mbps at 2.4GHz and up to 1300Mbps at the 5GHz band. Three external antennas ship with the router and attach to the back panel. The R7000 also has 128MB flash memory and 256MB RAM.
There are two USB ports; one on the front of the router and the second on the rear. The front port is USB 3.0 and the back port is USB 2.0. The USB 3.0 port was deliberately placed on the front, away from the 2.4GHz radio, to reduce Wi-Fi signal interference.
I recently bought a Netgear Nighthawk router and it has 5g in it but I am not sure what the heck I will be able to use that for.
5G prevents some of the interference you get on 2.4G from other devices in your house. You'll usually get better performance but less range on the signal and it only works with devices that are dual band, not all cell phones, tablets or computers have 5G support.
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