Supported 5G modems

[Bjørn Mork]

Aleksander Morgado <aleksander at aleksander.es> writes:

> Don't know of any 5G USB dongle, although I didn't really look for any
> myself.

Assuming the request for 5G is primarily for higher bandwidth, then I
believe it's impossible in a USB dongle. Not space enough for the
antennas (unless you cheat and make them external), and no way near
enough power and cooling.

You can create a USB device with an external power supply and a big
enough box to fit both antennas and cooling.  But that's hardly a
"dongle" anymore.

The same pretty much applies to high bandwidth 4G devices.  Don't know
exactly where the practial limit for a dongle is, but looking at the
market it's probably around cat4.


Bjørn