In case you missed it, it's the first day of April and that date brings a lot of heavy baggage with it. Most importantly, it's April Fool's day, so we need to use those skills we have honed over the past five years and question pretty much everything we see or read today.
Secondly, it's Hive Power Up Day, so make sure you take a little bit of Hive today and roll it into your Hive Power. If you are a small enough account you might win some prizes. If you are a bigger account, you just get that warm fuzzy feeling of knowing you are growing something great here on Hive.
I did a little power up myself today.
April is also the "halving month", so we have that going on, plus, a week from today there is a pretty big celestial event happening too that you may or may not have heard about. I plan on covering that a bit more tomorrow.
Finally, another April marks the fact that we are officially about four years past what we probably didn't realize was the beginning of the Covid Pandemic. I may or may not remember correctly that it was right around this time four years ago that the rumors about 5G causing Covid were starting to pick up steam.
Believe it or not, 5G is actually the real reason I am writing this post. I was looking through my old photos trying to find a picture of a tower to fit the theme, but unfortunately, the photo of the lighthouse and watch tower was the closest thing I could find.
I think by now, we have fully accepted the fact that 5G cellular service didn't cause Covid. Right? Right? Since we can't be mad at 5G for that, how about we find a different reason to hate on it? Maybe because it absolutely sucks.
I'm curious if anyone else has experienced this? I think what frustrates me so much about 5G is the fact that I clearly have service, but the service itself just seems to blow donkey balls. I can be sitting in a location and have full bars of 5G service and I can't get a website to load to save my life.
The funny thing is, I can force my phone to connect at 4G LTE and everything works just fine. Faster in fact than my supposed "ultrafast high speed Internet". I know it all has to do with radio frequencies and bandwidth and all of those other fancy terms, but it's just annoying when things don't work the way they are supposed to.
When I travel down to Ohio, I always have to switch my phone to 4G LTE to get Internet to work around the Columbus area. You would think in a city that big, they would have pretty decent coverage.
Again, that's what drives me crazy. I can have full bars of service and the phone just stalls. Silly me for believing that I should actually be able to use all the features of my smartphone when I have full bars of 5G!
I have no doubt it will get better over time, but it just baffles me how the experience can vary so much from area to area. I can sit in my house and get two bars of 5G and it works better than full bars in most other places.
Maybe it's just something with T-Mobile (my carrier), but they are supposed to have one of the largest 5G networks in the country, so you would think they might have their ducks in a row.
Maybe I should just be happy we aren't all still using 3G service for everything. Bad 5G service is still better than good 3G service right?
I'm curious, have you ever experienced what I talk about above? I'm not counting sporting events or other crowded areas where the radios might be at capacity due to the volume of users. I'm talking, just sitting around on the patio with full bars of 5G and it stalls. Have you tried changing your phone to use the older 4G service? Does that fix things for you?
Please tell me it isn't just me!
From what I have read, April could be a wild month for us. Be careful out there and especially today, listen to The Who and don't let yourself get fooled.
Or perhaps a little Doobie Brothers: