Before considering 5G as a home internet service, it’s important to understand the differences between the two types of networks currently advertised: one is called mmWave 5G, and the other is called sub-6. While 5G smartphones are increasingly built to support both versions, the experiences on each type of network are very different.
Sub-6 5G is what most people are using when their phone shows a 5G symbol, and it is by far the most common in the United States. This is because sub-6 5G can span longer distances. The downside, however, is that sub-6 5G is considerably slower than what many expect when they think of 5G — it wasn’t uncommon to experience 5G speeds slower than 4G LTE speeds on the same network when wireless carriers first started rolling out their next-gen networks (via PC Mag).
In comparison, mmWave 5G is much faster, but not easy to find. This is due to the short distances the signal can travel (via Verizon). For this reason, mmWave 5G is still largely limited to parts of big cities. Most people do not have access to the faster 5G network, meaning they may get speeds similar to or barely better than what they’d get from 4G LTE, at least in the United States. In 2020, Open Signal published an analysis of mobile broadband speed averages by country and found that the U.S. had some of the slowest speeds due to the lack of mmWave coverage.
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