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| A teetotaling beer aficionado  |
Anyone using this? I'm intrigued with the concept and T mobile (others as well) is offering $30/month along with purchase of iPhone 14, which with my trade in would be basically free. Would include 1 Year Paramount Plus Free and Free Netflix and a $50 gift card. Speeds are listed a 33 to 185 depending on tower location which is fine for my needs. Good or not so much? Men fight for liberty and win it with hard knocks. Their children, brought up easy, let it slip away again, poor fools. And their grandchildren are once more slaves. -D.H. Lawrence | ||
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Everyone in my immediate family has been using it through Verizon for about 6mo now and so far it hasn't been an improvement over 4G in any way. In fact, its usually much slower. You may have different results with different carriers and areas but it just hasn't lived up to the hype in my experience. No one's life, liberty or property is safe while the legislature is in session.- Mark Twain | |||
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Signal strength is important. I'm on T mobile and have a cell tower pretty close. 100-150Mbps is the norm for me. Plenty good enough for streaming 2 TVs and web surfing. | |||
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I know people that have been on 4G LTE service for years and except for usage caps were happy with it. One thing to keep in mind is that 5G covers a bunch of different levels of service. Including long distance ones that are not high bandwidth. My advice is to make sure there is a customer friendly return policy. I had a friend that tried the T-mobile system and it was awful. | |||
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Nullus Anxietas |
I've I 4G LTE cellular modem on T-Mobile for a backup Internet connection. On the rare occasion our Comcast Internet connection goes down, our router automatically switches to the LTE modem. Only reason I ever notice it's actually happened is I get email notifications when it does. "America is at that awkward stage. It's too late to work within the system,,,, but too early to shoot the bastards." -- Claire Wolfe "If we let things terrify us, life will not be worth living." -- Seneca the Younger, Roman Stoic philosopher | |||
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There are some small areas of the country where it's apparently pretty good. In most areas it's terrible though, and the 5g they offer really isn't full 5g. I keep mine turned off, it's quite a bit slower in my area and tends to slow down even more as it tries to bounce back and forth to 4g every time I pick up or lose the limited 5g signal. For me, it's just not quite ready for primetime. "The people hate the lizards and the lizards rule the people." "Odd," said Arthur, "I thought you said it was a democracy." "I did," said Ford, "it is." "So," said Arthur, hoping he wasn't sounding ridiculously obtuse, "why don't the people get rid of the lizards?" "It honestly doesn't occur to them. They've all got the vote, so they all pretty much assume that the government they've voted in more or less approximates the government they want." "You mean they actually vote for the lizards." "Oh yes," said Ford with a shrug, "of course." "But," said Arthur, going for the big one again, "why?" "Because if they didn't vote for a lizard, then the wrong lizard might get in." | |||
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With a decent phone 5G is game-changing, where the signal is OK. Signal strength is dependent on: a) your carrier, b) what your carrier has in your location and c) how good of a chipset/antenna your phone has. Get all three in your favor, and it's crazy fast. | |||
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Go Vols! |
Tmobile 5G works reasonably well in our area. It could vary dramatically depending on your location. That Paramount+ is the heavily loaded with commercials version. | |||
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| A teetotaling beer aficionado |
I was asking about internet service, not phone. 5G internet Men fight for liberty and win it with hard knocks. Their children, brought up easy, let it slip away again, poor fools. And their grandchildren are once more slaves. -D.H. Lawrence | |||
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| I'd rather be hated for who I am than loved for who I am not |
My area does not have 5G and when I was in Vegas earlier this month the 5G didn't seem to work. ie would load internet pages. when I picked up the LTE it was blindingly fast... | |||
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