4G/5G etc

[kellys_eye]

Not familiar with this technology so:

Are all the cell masts (stations/transmitters etc) connected to a hi-speed internet connection to give them the capacity to distribute data? If not, how do they each manage to deliver such HSD as 'individual' cells?

 

[bushtech]

http://www.fujitsu.com/downloads/TEL/fnc/whitepapers/Fujitsu_Wireless_Backhaul.pdf

 

[kellys_eye]

Thanks for that link - very informative.

Some background explanation.....

Locally we are poorly provided as far as an internet connection is concerned - 4Mb/s download at best (many are sub 2Mb/s) over a POTS connection using ADSL. The average for the rest of the country is now stated to be 32.7Mb/s and it is .gov policy to provide a basic minimum that exceeds what we currently get.

Over recent years we have, as a community, tried to progress an improved service on a private basis but the best we managed was a commitment from the providers to deliver such services on the proviso that 'we' stumped up at least half the cost..... £100,000+ ($130,000). Works out at over £1,000 per property......

More recently there has been a mast erected in a local village to provide 4G (possibly 5G) mobile coverage - the private sector being more pro-active than .gov, natch.... and we suspected that there would be a fibre connection to this mast that should, in our opinion, also offer a fibre-termination cabinet in the village for high speed internet access to local properties.

We are led to believe that the fibre side is being installed by .gov representatives therefore hope (and will kick up fuss accordingly if not!) that we will soon be on the receiving end of a more reliable and faster internet service.

 

[bushtech]

Staying in the rural areas you are always sucking on the rear mammalian protuberance. When we moved into the bush I was forced to get a sat connection for internet at an eyewatering cost. Fortunately one of the ISP's put up a tower a long way away. Putting up a directional yagi at least allowed me to move to a cheaper connection. ( Getting the ISP to divulge the coordinates of the tower so I could point the yagi was of course a very interesting exercise, paranoia in extremis)

Fortunately a private company put up a wifi tower on a hill nearby and I could finally get a decent connection. Unfortunately their towers run point to point so if 1 tower goes down all towers downstream from it also go belly up.

If you are going to be asked to ante up for some service the best you could hope for is a wifi link costwise.

 

[kellys_eye]

We investigated a satellite feed - same problem, eye-wateringly expensive. Our location is all hills, mountains and lochs so line-of-sight connections are pretty much useless which is also why I suspected the new mast would have a fibre connection.

 

[bushtech]

Perfect for Wifi towers on the hills. The trouble with fibre is that you need to run the fibre to wherever it goes. Here that means digging a trench.

 

[dorke]

The 2G/3G should be old history in most of the western world.
Rural areas always suffer of poor bandwidth/infrastructure,since providers will not commit to scarcely populated places.

The above link should be a decade old, if not older.
Here is a more up to date 4G/5G info.
Enjoy.

BTW ,
your problems may be solved with 6G, when it will arrive,it will have satellite integration .