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SCNCY

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Does anyone use the Verizon Fios Home Internet? My wife and I are getting close to moving in to our home and are looking at internet options. In our area, the best option is Cox, which offers 150-500 mpbs for between $60-$80/mo with data limits. Of course, this is for the first year of service, and it looks like the price increases and additional $20/mo thereafter. I was looking to see if there were other options available that may be a little cheaper and saw that the mobile carriers have home internet Wi-Fi available. If anyone uses the service, how is it? Is it reliable? Do you get fast speeds?
 
Just to clarify, Verizon Fios and Verizon Mobile are 2 different things.
If you could actually get Verizon Fios that would be a no brainer to get it. its extremely good service from my experience.
 
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I had Verizon FIOS in NY (I think it was NY, moving every couple of years stuff gets fuzzy). It was good. Probably the best service (speed and features) I've had out of the 6 (I think) different cable companies I've dealt with over the past 15 years.
 
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Does anyone use the Verizon Fios Home Internet? My wife and I are getting close to moving in to our home and are looking at internet options. In our area, the best option is Cox, which offers 150-500 mpbs for between $60-$80/mo with data limits. Of course, this is for the first year of service, and it looks like the price increases and additional $20/mo thereafter. I was looking to see if there were other options available that may be a little cheaper and saw that the mobile carriers have home internet Wi-Fi available. If anyone uses the service, how is it? Is it reliable? Do you get fast speeds?
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As stated below, make sure you're talking about Verizon Fios and not thinking about use Verizon mobile for home internet. I've been trying to find an option in southern Iowa where the only option is Windstream at 6mb for way more money than it should be. My phone gets 10x faster connection but there's no great option for using mobile for home internet.
 
What's the difference between Verizon Fios and Verizon mobile? Other than mobile being regular phone service.
 
The are also different types of the cellular home internet, like LTE or 5G. But FIOS is way better as it’s fiber to your house.
 
Yeah, I think when I checked to see if it was available in my area, it was Verizon 5g mobile. The actual fiber optic cable is not available in my neighborhood.

With that said, anyone know how the mobile version works?
 
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Yeah, I think when I checked to see if it was available in my area, it was Verizon 5g mobile. The actual fiber optic cable is not available in my neighborhood.

With that said, anyone know how the mobile version works?
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you get a device like a cradlepoint that can take a verizon usb stick or something, thats the basics of it, maybe a verizon stick can be stuck in a computer not sure, you can also enable a hotspot on ur phone and connect your computer to ur phone, but i would talk to neighbors, unless u are using to just check emails and read the news u are going to battle overages, maybe tmobile or someone doesnt have overages not sure, i would ask neighbors also see what they use
 
Tonight I'll be setting up T Mobile 5 G internet at our house, I'll let you know how it works. Someone said something about Southern Iowa, is T Mobile available there? This could be an option. $60/month.
 
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Tonight I'll be setting up T Mobile 5 G internet at our house, I'll let you know how it works. Someone said something about Southern Iowa, is T Mobile available there? This could be an option. $60/month.
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I've had TMo Home Internet for about a month and have been happy with it. But I had been getting 15mbps ATT DSL for the same price (with frequent network congestion in peak times) so it was pretty easy to impress me. I'm also about 500 feet from a TMo 5G tower, so that helps.
 
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Tonight I'll be setting up T Mobile 5 G internet at our house, I'll let you know how it works. Someone said something about Southern Iowa, is T Mobile available there? This could be an option. $60/month.
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Please do, we are T Mobile customers so we would probably prefer to go this route.
 
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Tonight I'll be setting up T Mobile 5 G internet at our house, I'll let you know how it works. Someone said something about Southern Iowa, is T Mobile available there? This could be an option. $60/month.
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Is that unlimited data? T Mobile home is not available where I'm looking and Verizon has severe data limits on their hotspots.
 
So @SCNCY I've connected via T-Mobile and obviously it is working. I've not noticed any difference when using my surface so far. My wife thought one of her work items saved a bit slower but after the first save her other stuff seemed to save about the same as Mediacom. T-Mobile just needed to warm up?

Only three devices connected so far and more to come so I'll keep the updates coming.
 
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Quick update on T-Mobile internet so far. ( @SCNCY )

I've not really noticed any issues. Maybe a couple of glitches with TV but I blame that on youtubetv at this point.

My wife did not complain about saving her files until today but these were large files she was saving and she'd said pretty much the same thing with mediacom. The big test will be her working on some month end stuff. (She's in accounting)

My oldest son complained about the PS 4 lagging the first night but he was in a 'mood' that night and was complaining about a lot of stuff. His friends have been playing a lot of Mario Kart on the Wii together lately, there were no complaints about that.

I'm optimistic so far with this set up. Youtube tv will be an adjustment though. I'm not a fan of the interface right now. Having issues with my projector and surround sound etc.., but that is not due to internet.
 
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Quick update on T-Mobile internet so far. ( @SCNCY )

I've not really noticed any issues. Maybe a couple of glitches with TV but I blame that on youtubetv at this point.

My wife did not complain about saving her files until today but these were large files she was saving and she'd said pretty much the same thing with mediacom. The big test will be her working on some month end stuff. (She's in accounting)

My oldest son complained about the PS 4 lagging the first night but he was in a 'mood' that night and was complaining about a lot of stuff. His friends have been playing a lot of Mario Kart on the Wii together lately, there were no complaints about that.

I'm optimistic so far with this set up. Youtube tv will be an adjustment though. I'm not a fan of the interface right now. Having issues with my projector and surround sound etc.., but that is not due to internet.
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Im most interested in the streaming, like YouTube TV, HBO Max, etc. Everything we use probably isn’t that intense, just general working from home internet needs.

Appreciate the update!
 
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