Do you ever use Verizon's home internet stuff? I'm thinking about trying it out.
Do you ever use Verizon's home internet stuff? I'm thinking about trying it out.
I've been thinking lately about setting up my home internet plan from Verizon. Have other folks tried this before? Even though I haven't opened the package yet, I'm planning ahead so I don't run into trouble later. Thanks!
Your big issue is that your neighbors might live in different houses with different cell towers, so it's hard to tell if the service will work well for them. Verizon has many different "home" internet plans depending on what equipment you have. Before T-Mobile started calling everyone 5G and other companies joined, there was a home 5G offer that gave you up to 1 gigabit but at max speeds. These were not made for mobile phones and only worked in very small areas because the radio signals don't go far. Only Verizon and AT&T used this kind of service. If you get it, it works fine for home use, but you usually need a special receiver placed outside to get the best results. Most other home internet services share towers with mobile users, so performance changes as people move in or out because they drive by. If your tower is near a major highway, rush hour traffic will slow down your data speeds. To do better, put your router on a window on the side of your house closest to the cell tower. Most routers show you how strong the signal is from the tower. Like anything that uses radio waves, weather can cause interference and mess with things. It usually works fine but don't try playing online games on this connection. Games won't work well because a delay or buffer could make them crash. You will probably see random lag spikes in most online games if you use any mobile broadband service. I haven't tried playing games on the best type of 5G because there isn't much coverage like that yet. The good thing is there seems to be no data cap, which is nice compared to before. However, I think it costs just as much as regular physical cable internet. If you live in an area where nobody else has wireless service, then maybe it's a deal for you. Otherwise, I would always choose something that comes over a wire instead of through the air.
That advice sounds okay in general. I really do need to game online right now. Also, buying this for $25 every month saves me a lot compared to my current phone bills. My home internet is already slow, hitting around 175mbps max, so going higher on speeds would help things feel better. But can't I connect my Aps? Like my Unifi ones? That still might be the same problem with online gaming, right? If this only works at 300mbps or even faster but not enough for me to play games, then it's a deal breaker. My money is tight, so saving some cash makes sense if it actually helps things work properly.
Hey there, what parts of that old thread did you skip reading? Like the part about the internet and a wifi 6 mesh system.
If you can get it to $25 by bundling it with your cell plans it is a pretty good price. The rates I saw were either $60 or $80. Gaming does not care about speed other than for initial install. It might use 1mbit/sec up and down. Many games use far less, closer to the 300kbit/sec range. What they want though is very consistent latency between the packets. This is how the game attempt to predict position based on it allowing for the delivery time of the data which does not work if the latency is jumping around. It does not matter if you have 300mbps or 1gbit,the latency needs to be very consistent and faster connection speed by itself does not make the latency better or worse. Mobile broadband because you are sharing the total bandwidth with other people the latency will vary a lot as the system attempt to balance the load between everyone. It also to lesser extent than wifi is subject to interference but it causes the same issue of variable latency because of data retransmissions. If you were to look at just gaming you would be better off using a slow dsl connection with 10mbps down and 1mbps up rather than say a mobile connection that gets 500mbps down and 50mbps up. This is a problem very unique to online gaming and to a lesser extent something like video conferencing. Almost any other kind of application prefers more bandwidth and does not care about latency too much. Don't expect to get 300mbps on verizon. After you posted this I went and read their plans in detail. It is the standard smoke an mirrors all cell phone companies have. The only new thing that makes it very interesting is it really doesn't have a monthly data cap. Like every other vendor verizon is calling pretty much everything they now offer 5G. Like most vendors the vast majority of the network was what they use to call LTE + or LTE advanced. It doesn't run any faster they just changed the name. Verizon does offer true 5g that runs up on the 60ghz radio band but it is limited to large cities and only tiny part of them. In addition in the fine print it says it will drop to the older 4GLTE if the signal is not good enough. To make matters even worse they also say in the fine print they will prioritize other users (ie mobile users) traffic over home users. I seriously doubt you will get 300mbps. If you have verizon cell plans see how fast the phone runs. I would not expect much difference espeically if you have a 5g phone. Still it is better than they used to offer, they used to have data caps that made these plans unusable for most home users.
Alright. Thanks for the details about games. I think we have the gadget ready to test over three weeks, so maybe I will watch how it behaves when used.