New home internet update: Verizon 5G router arrived and it’s… alright. 100 Mbps if the wind is blowing the right direction. 🤪 Trying to be patient until fiber is ready.
Serhiy Makarenko @manton I have Verizon LTE Home Internet. It’s good for the backup line, but it’s not great as a main internet channel. As a backup channel, it helps me a lot during the last two years. Great investment in case you are primarily working from home.
Ιωνας are you paying for 100 or 300? i love rural and my g5 home router goes 350mb usually.
Manton Reece @jonah Only paying for 100 and sometimes we're not even getting that, so I think the signal isn't very strong here. Still experimenting.
Ιωνας my plan, included a free house extender as part of a whole home plan. If you have a similar promotion, perhaps get the extender and experiment with fringe placement for better reception and rely on the extender? I remember you posted about your cell phone antenna attachment to the car. Would that help with a 5G home Internet?
Manton Reece @jonah I love my car antenna, it really does help. If we keep this 5G at home, seems worth the investment for sure.
Bryan I’ve been using 1gig fiber at my house in metro Portland for a few years now, and while it’s amazing, I do feel like it’s overkill. I imagine my household could function mostly fine on 100mb. That said, I don’t run a business on the internet.
R Scott Jones have you posted more details on your car antenna? I’d love better connectivity during camping road trips.
Joe Steinbring :thisisfine: @bryan @manton I decided to upgrade to 1046/1046 fiber at home a year or so into the pandemic. That's always felt excessive, but cutting the speed in half with AT&T only cuts the price by $10-$20, and if I switched to gigabit with the cable company, it would be 1046/40. That upload speed doesn't feel like enough.
Manton Reece @rscottjones Yes, check out this blog post. Camping road trips is exactly why I got it. As I say in the post, it's not magic and can't do what Starlink can do, but for no monthly fee it's great.
JL Gatewood most RV folks swear by the WeBoost. It’s proven tech and as you said, no lock-in with one company.
James Manes @bryan I have 2gig and upgraded my entire network to support it. However... I now end up hitting bandwidth caps of the services. 😂 Turns out most people out there cap their uploads to 1 gig!
