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A 5G future

O'Reilly

Back in the 1980s, Nicholas Negroponte said everything wired will become wireless, and everything wireless will become wired. High-speed networks through 5G may represent the next generation of cord cutting. Can 5G replace wired broadband, allowing one wireless service for home and mobile connectivity? I don’t, do you?

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Real user monitoring vs. synthetic monitoring: Understanding best practices

Dynatrace

Data collected on page load events, for example, can include navigation start (when performance begins to be measured), request start (right before the user makes a request from the server), and speed index metrics (measure page load speed). For example, the ability to test against a wireless provider in a remote area.

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HTTP/3: Performance Improvements (Part 2)

Smashing Magazine

A Primer on Speed. Discussing performance and “speed” can quickly get complex, because many underlying aspects contribute to a web-page loading “slowly”. Because we are dealing with network protocols here, we will mainly look at network aspects, of which two are most important: latency and bandwidth. Congestion Control.

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HTTP/3: Practical Deployment Options (Part 3)

Smashing Magazine

Using just a few (but still more than one), however, could nicely balance congestion growth with better performance, especially on high-speed networks. Finally, not inlining resources has an added latency cost because the file needs to be requested. In our own early tests , I found seriously diminishing returns at about 40 files.

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