5G Home Internet
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I’ll caveat by saying I don’t understand how this **** works, but I just “upgraded” my phone and I’m apparently on 5G now. I’m less than impressed.
If you have access to a good wired connection, 5g isn't going to do anything for you. If you're rural, it would be better than satellite.
Which service? Because you can thank ATT for lobbying down what counts as 5G within the US. True 5G will show a little UC or UW next to the 5G symbol and even then it isn’t the best type
Just took that while on a teams call. It destroys Satellite man and 99% of American connections.
5G internet is worth it, just be careful of data caps
Yes it's good but what's the data cap and price? For home internet with multiple users, a wired connection if available will usually be better due to the data caps. And that latency is pretty poor
Here’s no teams call.
Good enough for you? Lol
Plus no one can actually detect less than 100ms latency except try hard gamers which that’s better than any DSL or Satellite will provide anyway.
I don’t and probably will never have fiber to my house. We’ve got 70MBPS Century Link right now. The 5G unit is about 5 houses down the road straight in front of my house. We do not have any 5G devices to test speed or anything.
I have the same latency, but @ISUCyclones2015 has a download that is 10x mine, with a much better stability number. Has better upload than me too, but not much.
I’m US Cellular. I haven’t priced in a while, but being rural, USC is “reliable” and is half the price (or more) than other carriers in my area.
70MBPS with Centurylink??? I have someone coming to push mine to 40MBPS tomorrow. They say that is the best they have for me.
How is this for timing? Just got off the phone with the tech. He said it wasn’t going to be worth it for me to go from 30MBPS to 40MBPS. Long story, but it made sense and I’m basically ******. Only option I have is to explore Verizon or TMobile, apparently.
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I have 550 upload and 560 download mbps with Metronet in Ames. No clue what they mean or what my ping is(can't find it). All I know is my internet is fast.
We have Verizon 5G in conjunction with our cell phone plan. It's not bad, although other options would probably be better. Whenever I run games I'm pinging something like 25-35 ms, and that's even with everyone in the house streaming something in nearly every room. The biggest pain was getting Hulu live TV to work with it - the geolocation of our ZIP code was like 30 miles away from where we live, which was a big problem in trying to get to get the live TV automatically set up through the internet. We had to have someone set it up manually on their end, but once that happened, it's worked just fine.
Great point about geolocation for your locals via streaming service. Probably something most people don’t think about.
I dropped flaky ATT 15meg service (in WI) for cheaper TMobile home Internet (usually ~200meg) and haven't looked back. But services often think we're in other neighboring states, which has been a problem for mlb.tv. YouTube tv hasn't been an issue though -- it doesn't seem to have a problem getting our correct location.
I just checked and neither Verizon nor T-Mobile home internet are available where I live.
I love where I live, but some things suck about it. Exhibit A.
upload and download can be very fast, but if there's a delay in your connection (ping), you will notice it under certain circumstances (internet conferencing and gaming, primarily).
My dad recently received a direct mail piece from TMobile. I would love to switch because Mediacom isn't the greatest. Plus, at $50 per month that would save about $30/month.
The TMobile material mentions a gateway, is that basically the same as modem/wireless router? How is the set-up for multiple TV's, does each need a gateway? My dad's TV aren't smart, so we have Roku set up on both TV's. Can Roku be used for wireless?
TIA