Verizon 5g as hotspot if anyone has it yet
I don't yet have 5g available in my home area yet. If anyone has 5g already and uses their phone as a hotspot, I'm interested to know what is being offered as far as monthly hotspot data limits an...
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I'm sure someone will correct me, but 5g is a misnomer.
There are different versions of 5g that are out on the market. I believe the version that Tmobile is offering is a higher speed LTE (or 4g) which has greater range but isn't as fast.
Verizon's version is Millimeter wavelength and it can't pass through walls of a home. you have to have an external antenna to receive the signal - and it's a very short distance (1000' or less).
It's back to the old CDMA (Verizon/Sprint) versus GSM (AT&T/TMobile).
Let's not forget Starlink is coming in mid 2020 for much of the US and I think that will give terrestrial based solutions a run for their money. Of course, there are the questions of cost, bandwidth (Speed) and data caps.
oh one last thing.
If you use Speedtest, every single ISP in the country gives priority to those packets going to speedtest.net. I would suggest trying dslreports.com and use their speed test. It's going to be a more realistic test in terms of non priority routed packets through the internet.
There are different versions of 5g that are out on the market. I believe the version that Tmobile is offering is a higher speed LTE (or 4g) which has greater range but isn't as fast.
Verizon's version is Millimeter wavelength and it can't pass through walls of a home. you have to have an external antenna to receive the signal - and it's a very short distance (1000' or less).
It's back to the old CDMA (Verizon/Sprint) versus GSM (AT&T/TMobile).
Let's not forget Starlink is coming in mid 2020 for much of the US and I think that will give terrestrial based solutions a run for their money. Of course, there are the questions of cost, bandwidth (Speed) and data caps.
oh one last thing.
If you use Speedtest, every single ISP in the country gives priority to those packets going to speedtest.net. I would suggest trying dslreports.com and use their speed test. It's going to be a more realistic test in terms of non priority routed packets through the internet.
