"5G made a number of promises when it debuted. The first was the ability to handle excessive capacity. I tested that promise outside a baseball playoff game this past October, and I found it to be partially true. The other promise was better coverage coast to coast. Now, it was time to head out and give that a try. How 5G could improve coverage outside of city centers."
"To do this, I took those same Google Pixel 10 Pros on a road trip across the most boring highway in America (and, thankfully, a different highway home) through the bulk of central Indiana and Illinois. I also passed through parts of Kentucky and Tennessee. Since I live in Chicago, I have found 5G coverage to be pretty great, but what about when I leave the big city?"
"This time around, I wanted to test not only network speed, but overall coverage. So, I took those same three Google Pixel 10 Pros - one each with an AT&T, Verizon, and T-Mobile eSIM card and I attached them to a 2x4 pine board. I plugged them into an Anker Solix C1000 Gen 2 portable power station. Then I loaded up nPerf, which is an app that measures connectivity."
A road-trip evaluation used three Google Pixel 10 Pro phones provisioned with AT&T, Verizon, and T-Mobile eSIMs to measure 5G coverage and performance across central Indiana, Illinois, parts of Kentucky and Tennessee during a 13-hour drive from Chicago to Nashville. Devices were mounted on a 2x4 pine board and powered by an Anker Solix C1000 Gen 2 portable station while the nPerf app gathered location, carrier, and signal-strength data. Results showed generally good to decent signal reliability across the three major carriers. Non-standalone 5G network architecture and deployment strategies influenced coverage performance. Previous capacity testing near a playoff game indicated 5G capacity handling was partially effective.
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