5G *not* faster than 4G - Netgear Nighthawk...

Fry750

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I've been a user of the Netgear M2 Nighthawk router and have recently (within past 8 months) experienced an explosion in speed - was around 30mb/s now it's consistently 100mb/s+.

Interestingly, it's 4G based however it's MUCH quicker than my 5G Sony Xperia 1 and Nighthawk M5 5G router.

Both the Sony and M5 report around 50mb/s. The Sony says 4G LTE+ at around 3 bars while M5 says 5G at 5 bar strength, so they're even reporting signals slightly differently.

What is likely to be causing this?
 
Anyone know how 4G+ (LTE-Advanced) relates to 5G upgrades in the last couple of years?

I heard that LTE-A can be considered a perquisite upgrade to 5G in some cases.

Does the router report that the signal is 4G+ or LTE-A? 4G+ is supposed to be capable of around 100mbps (with higher theoretical maximum speeds).
 
The MR2100 is actually capable of 2gb/s in theory - I should probably test both routers and investigate the EE settings as such, see what it says.
 
Just tried another test, switching from 5G to LTE results in much faster speeds for the M5 (MR5200).

No such luck with Sony phone though, still much slower even when disabling 5G (which isn't active anyway).
 
The problem with 5G is the distance is shorter than 4G.

So you can get a 5G signal but its on the outer radius of the signal, whereas you're well inside 4G's radius.
 
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