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- TEAM SGG PATREON / somegadgetguy Verizon 5G Fixed Wireless Home Broadband Review! This was WAY better than I was expecting it to be.
Test driving Verizon's 5G fixed wireless broadband out in the suburbs, it's not the right fit for OUR needs, but it MIGHT rock YOUR socks!
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Amazingly good and detailed review. I'm quite impressed by Juan's knowledge and skills at explaining all the ins and outs to his audience. I got this Verizon box and it is working well enough to decide to switch providers. But I did experience a few glitches with connecting to Eero extenders, and eventually worked all that out over a couple days.
I have the T-Mobile version of this for the last year+ now and in my particular location, it's working out really well. T-Mobile also is running a $25 for life deal on their 5G Home Internet and I got it for my parents who live a little over a mile away and their service was very sketchy, unusable most of the time and had to return it and go back to Spectrum even though I am in a very central part of LA with plenty of T-Mobile signal saturation.
Where do I find this deal?
Awesome review ❤ I’m currently considering this home internet service with Verizon or T-mobile
This ended up working out better for my family. We currently pay $85 a month for Spectrum 250/12 service. I was able to get Verizon 5G for $50/month. We live downtown on the second floor of an apartment complex with clear line of sight to a Verizon cell tower. So, this was a perfect candidate to test out. If I could get consistently better performance for $35 less per month, it would be worth it. I'm just a few days in, but it's looking promising. I pay for the 85-300 tier which is purposely conservative. Most of the time, my Google router measures around 500/100. The lowest so far is still significantly faster than my Spectrum service. So far so good. This is looking like a keeper. I live in an area with great infrastructure next to a college campus, bus station and various businesses. I don't notice any significant issues during the day. I use this along with my Google Nest mesh equipment and I don't notice any drop off in speeds between my equipment and the Verizon router. This was not the case when I trialed T-Mobile's 5G service. Their little router didn't play well with my equipment. And for the record, I wasn't a Verizon customer and ran into the same "half-activation" issue. Had to call support and 1 hour later it was resolved. Second issue I had is that the setup is completely through the app. Step-by-step. Every, single, step. It requires you to pair the Receiver portion with the Verizon app on your mobile device. Problem was that the Bluetooth setup didn't play nice with my Pixel 4L. I couldn't pair with the device and had to factory reset it multiple times. Thankfully, I had a second device I could install the app on and the Bluetooth setup completed successfully. Once I passed that point, it was smooth sailing.
So, to conclude, what will happen as more customers come on board? Who knows. Hopefully performance won't tank too bad. One thing I should point out is that now, Verizon is shipping this in two pieces. They'll send you a 5G Receiver that's essentially a modem, and they also send you a big router. It looks like the same one they send to their FIOS customers. The great thing about this is that if you move to an area with FIOS service, you should be able to bring this equipment with you and use it with that service. I'm happy with it so far.
I have it myself and it is a backup to my Spectrum Cable internet. I am a Verizon customer so it added 25 to my bill for an unlimited backup connection that tends to get speeds of 280-320 Mbos down and 15-18 upload speeds. I got it in December. In March they activated more towers near my condo with the C-Band 5G so that I could move the gateway from my master bedroom to my gust room desk. I have 500 down and 20 up with Spectrum. Upload is what I crave too. Spectrum is doing mid and high split upgrades that will massively increase upload speeds. Is fiber not available in your area? I miss my gig fiber I had in Boston with Verizon.
I love mine. I wish I could have fios in my area but nope. Miles better and more consistent than spectrum and WAYYYY cheaper. Since I'm already a verizon customer it was easy to get it added. While I was in the process of moving between homes I would literally just plug and unplug the box and take it with me to the different houses hahahahaa. I know the tech has been around for years and 5g is just a marketing thing but I regret wasting so much cash on spectrum over the years
If I were just a little closer to the FAST towers...
@@SomeGadgetGuy I don't even have an outlet by a good window hahaha. Luckily it's a small apartment
I have the same unit. It completely rocks.
My grandparents had 12 Mbps down and 1 up via CenturyLink for over a decade before they cut their cord and no longer offered it there. They switched to this and it was incredible.
I went from Comcast to T-Mobile home internet I average 300 Meg's down and twenty to thirty up. Works good for me.
I love my Verizon 5G home internet, no data cap and price being so cheap compared to Comcast which I was paying $85-100 a month not including the unlimited data which would be another $30 a month and then equipment fees and taxes brings it to be quite pricey. Verizon includes the fees and taxes as part of the price which is awesome.
I will poopoo on verizon 5g & their fios as well. You are a person which I enjoy in my rear view. For your knowledge, there are physical limitations transmitting data through radio-waves regardless of wireless band. 6 GHz will be much more efficient & faster, but again there will be limitations. Cell phone tower is connected to hundreds to thousands cell phones & speeds will vary based on users & devices streaming simultaneously. yes, 5G has a higher capacity compared to Long Term Evolution (LTE) network, but data transmitted from cell phone towers eventually end up in ISP servers & routed to destination servers which are located throughout the world. For example, if you are using an app which has your private health information (phi) or banking information, by law, the data is stored somewhere in the united states and your speeds will be much faster accessing that data, but if you are streaming to a website & their servers are located in eastern Europe than it will be relatively slow compared to servers near you. Having fiber optic or 5G is just a medium to flow data, but there are many variables which can impact the speeds.
We have the 5G home internet box as well. We initially got it for our winter home in Mission,Tx and it worked well. We were told we could bring it back to iowa and use it there. One problem where we live in Iowa does not have 5G yet so we tried it anyway and are able to get 3g speed which is pretty slow but we made it work. When we signed up it only boosted our account total by 5.00 dollars…..somehow we got a loyalty discount of 20.00 dollars
Very interesting how rough your setup experience was. I have visible for my phone plan which even though it is owned by Verizon I had to set up a new account (visible offers $5 off for Verizon 5g home internet). Setup was smooth and I had internet in minutes. Overall I'm going to keep the 5g home internet with the biggest perk being no data caps. I'll be connecting nest cameras around my house and I want to get the best quality camera feed. It's not the fastest speeds compared to comcast but the service has been stable for me at 250down/20up and that is good enough for my usage. Haven't tried gaming yet. Just casual streaming services.
It wasnt even that rough. It was just funny that it got locked up like that. Took three different Verizon reps to sort it out, and they all had a bit of a laugh over it.
We’ve used the V5g Home Internet for 2 mos. We’ve used Verizon Mobile for >10 yrs. A perk: V5g H Internet free for first year, then guaranteed $25 Ttl/mo for the following three years! I placed the V5g gateway in windows facing 6 directions. It worked fine in each location. My house is in NE Austin within spitting distance of Dell, Samsung, Tesla gigafactory, etc. -May have something to do with our service. We run three iMacs, two MacBook pros, a MB Air, 5 iPads, two printers and three iPhones from that li’l white box! Upload and download speeds are at least as good as Spectrum was. We’re very satisfied!
Does the gateway have just one broadband of 5G??? Im trying it for 30 days but we run on Google Fiber and we love it we have 2 5G's for $70 monthly not bad since we combine our security camaras / several Tv's/ and many other electrical devices.
You have c-band in your area. Maximum speed is 300 down and 20 up. On C-band line of sight is usually not required. Mmwave on the other hand, does require line of sight. Mmwave can also get speeds above 300 if you subscribe to the plus plan.
That's not true maximum C band caps around 800mbs Verizon just caps C band on 5g home internet to 300mbp.
Hi do u have issues with Spectrum dropping 2 times a day? I replaced my router daily with spectrum and new lines have been put in too! I live 1,000 feet from a 5G ULTRA wide band t mobile tower too!
Guess I'm spoiled with Verizon FIOS here on the east coast. 75 a month for gigabit speeds.
I pay $45 a month with Xfinity gigabit speeds, that's the only source in my area
@@RJ_Uploads I'm always constantly surprised how bad the speeds are out west. We have xfinity and FIOS here and they are basically the same price.
We always spoiled when u have fiber. Have att fiber but soon back to spectrum :(
Wish I could pay that, I ONLY have access to frontier, 120 a month for gigabit speed. So I'm going to go verizon 5g.
I paid 35 for Verizon in it’s really good where I’m at
Thanks for sharing!
JuanBagnell, you mentioned you have a router that can aggregate two separate services. Can you list the make and model of your router?
So yeah I ordered mine from a salesman that called me back after I left it in my cart and didn't finish it. It is also my only thing on the Verizon account. I got stuck not being able to set it up because my account was a shell account and apparently the store I picked the device up from did not transfer my device from ready to pick up to picked up. Then today I was able to set it up after being on with customer support for 45 minutes about. The help lady was upset because she couldn't get it to activate either. So now after a day of having the device I now have Internet.
Glad it got sorted. VZW sorry has been really clumsy cancelling my account too.
i just got this aswell, and i think looking up where the verizon 5g towers are and putting the router near a window facing that direction helps. Also I had the same problem with the phone number connected to the verizon account that never got set up.
It's such a funny little bug the way they have you set up an account.
Had one of these for several months. Sometimes gets decent speed but download often throttles down to 3 Mbps. Very dependent on network traffic at specific times and home internet gets the lowest priority. Was not reliable as the only internet service for our home. They say no data caps but very slow speeds seemed permanent half way thru billing cycle every month at around 300 GB of usage. I kept my cable service during my test period and had to often switch our home back to it. As a point of reference, we have a number of smart things including cameras that use bandwidth as well as streaming television. Streaming was choppy even when the signal strength showed 250 Mbps. I gave up when I contacted support with very slow speed issues, one day, and they told me I was using to much bandwidth and this solution was probably not right for me. My bottom line, it works fairly good but then it doesn't. I returned mine as well.
To much bandwidth? I have about 10 computers hooked to this and my smart tv ,there has been a few times I had speed issues but not enough to worry about or even complain about. even with all that it would go down to 124 MPBS download speed from 300 MPBS download. Upload is what really sucks for some reason somedays I will only get 6 MPBS upload speed, however I dont upload things like video or big files on this. I was running second life for a while on my 5g home it actually worked really good.
we live a couple/few miles outside of town in my state, basically rural area but its still considered the same town. anyway, i called multiple IP companies and basically all thats really in my particular area is satellite internet. which we got when we first moved in here, it was fine in the beginning but after a while we got rid of it because it had a mind of its own (big surprise) and would intermittently drop offline, sometimes for days. so i googled till i was blue in the face and 1 day came up across tmobile home internet. which was just ok in the beginning to now its really not all that great. now i`m considering looking into verizon to see if it will be any better.
It would be cool if through the Router settings on Verizon, there was access to the SMS of the box, somewhat like how some routers let you send/receive local email
I really looked LOL. I probably missed something, but none of the verizon reps could find an answer either.
Somebody messed up somewhere because the number assigned to the 5g router is a data only line.. no calls or text.. data only
I have Verizon currently and ran into the same set up issue you did. I found it hilarious when the tech in the phone admitted it was a bug they were "working" on. After set up it's been fine. I'm more of a casual user so the speeds have met my needs. Did have one morning during a Zoom meeting where it was dropping out. My down speeds are typically around 250. Sometimes more sometimes less. Waiting for fibre to become available in my neighborhood. My other choice is ripoff Comcast.
The FCC is asking for comments on isp data caps, make sure to share your thoughts about why you WONT use Comcast 👍
Would you mind sharing how they solved the link services issue for you? I have the same problem and they couldn’t figure it out, it’s been a month. Seems like both of got lucky and got the right support person, I’m at number 5 and no hope, lol.
I’m currently on a century Link network that gets 1.5 mbs when hard wired 😂 I would kill for 80 mbs right now
Important for folks like me to keep that in perspective. I'm perpetually upset that we really don't have fiber to home roll outs anymore.
Feel your pain, Centurylink here too, download speed 1.5, upload is .4!
In my area fastest wired is 25mb. I got this verizon fios box (luckily I can actually see the tower from my home) and get 300mb. My mind is blown. If you have a tmobile or verizon tower near you that supports 5g, it is time to switch (check their online cell tower maps or they each offer a free month trial to test drive).
Hmm. This might be something worth checking out here in Orange County if it's possible.
I also live in a townhouse, and found that it will not reach my bedroom on the other side of the floor plan. I called into Customer Service and they offered an extender for 299 dollars. Not going to pay that for something that should work through one wall and a fireplace... Keeping it for the savings, but needing an extender. Buyer Beware.
Yooo this is legit!! I remember the jump from EDGE to 3g with carriers trying to offer this service bc it was faster than dial_up hahaha ... ive seen several antenna trees go up along the freeway (nearby) and Verizon has always had mobile speeds that are good enough for computers if latency isnt a concern
I can't get it to work. The registration email doesn't work. I might have to give up and return it. The app won't allow me to register.
I play call of duty on it and it runs fast and solid with never any drops like spectrum , spectrum loses connection so often that switching to this it’s been very consistent, I live a few blocks away from two 5 g towers so it’s not giving me any issues
I'm tempted to try that, but I have two issues. No cell service penetrates my home. I've tried all of them and not one cellular service has more than a bar in my house so I'm stuck using wifi calling.
2 Data caps. I have to pay extra to remove the data caps on Comcast because the default one is too low. Given I hit my phones data caps halfway through the month, I'm worried I would cap out my data connection since I primarily consume content from the internet
Ugh. Unfortunately it's a cell signal like any other, but you might want to ask still. Often in situations like that, there might be an external antenna that might pick up better reception.
Mine works fine
Thanks man. I’m keeping it as a backup, works great for us, but I have the same issue, only have the 5g home internet like you did and can’t link services after registering. I haven’t had luck finding the right support person like you did. So far talked to at least 5, none of them could solve it, same endless cycle hitting the can’t link services issue. It’s been a month and I would love to be able to see my account, lol. Do you remember how they solved it for you?
You perfectly represented my thoughts on the device - except I was already a Verizon customer so got the $25/mo price. About 80% of Spectrum performance for 30% of the cost - I'll take it!
I haven't really done much research into the best location for mine other than walking around the house and doing 5Guw speed tests on my phone. Everywhere is about the same.
As for the SMS issue, that's kinda funny. The T-mobile box has a screen on it showing signal strength and incoming SMS, but that's majorly lacking on the Verizon cube. Hopefully the next Gen box from VZW will have better info on the box.
But seriously, this was so much better than I expected.
Thats where I stand too - just got my vz cube set up & there's lil bits of brief lag here or there, but $25 for uncapped fine internet is better than $50 for 300 gigs max of good internet in my situation.
was considering this because cox is getting to pricy, but don't know if it can handle my demands
Has anyone asked if the weather is bad like rain and thunder, does that effect the speeds?
It should still work normally. The 5G signals are not much different than the 4G LTE signals, they just have more bandwidth and will have better latency in the near future when 5G standalone comes online.
We want to cut the cord with AT&T Internet because they aren't offering me faster Internet speed "in my area". So we're moving to Verizon - but only for the Internet. We want to keep - at least for now - our U-verse TV. We were told that we could still watch U-verse while using Verizon internet.... but this does not seem to be the case. I had my doubts, but they told us that we'd be able to. Any ideas on what he might have meant/what he was talking about 🤔.
Verizon offered me 1 year free wifi when I was in there activating a watch I was having trouble connecting. I didn't accept the offer as they were really persistent.
Well, I ordered this January 23rd and he have not worked in my house all the way to now so what I'm gonna do and just return it back and this is my first time ever order this internet from this company. They have not work from day one I talked to the technician, they did what they did on the end you see what was wrong. They said I was getting good signal. But I still aint got no signal right now. Today so it happened since january twenty third and what is this february
I have AT&T fiber in the Bay Area, gigabit service for 70 bucks a year.
Would have loved this when I was living in Manhattan
$70 per YEAR? How’d you score THAT deal? We have AT&T fiber gig Internet also, but we pay $100 per month. Did you mean to say $70 per month?
This is probably a stupid question, but I truly don’t now anything about internet. I have spectrum and I really don’t like it. I bought the eero mesh system and it definitely helps to get signals in and around my house. Would the eero system make this 5g box work better? Also, I couldn’t tell you where my closest Wi-Fi tower is!
It might be a good combo.
Your modem gets the internet from outside your home. The Router routes the internet to all the devices INSIDE your home.
This box is a modem and router in one, but you can use your eero instead of the built in wifi.
If spectrum isn't giving you good speeds, even with an eero, it might be worth taking the VZW modem for a spin.
I’ve had it for 2 weeks and it just not good enough compared to spectrum which I hate. Been trying to cancel but it’s a nightmare.
Same here, Spectrum is rock solid but Verizon 5G home wireless drops out occasionally (stops working for several minutes). Speeds are variable. You get what you pay for.
We are on our second box. The first one kept disconnecting at least once a day and we would have to disconnect the box to reboot it. Now the second one is doing the same thing. So annoying.
That is annoying. Hope they sort it out for you.
I have this service now, for about four months in total. Nothing but issues. Live in the Augusta GA area and a cell tower is about a half mile away from me. You can see it from my son's bedroom window. Went with the plus plan to get the 300 to 1 gig speeds. Well thta's not happening, we were told after we set it all up that the best we could get, if we are lucky, is 300 down, average around 150 down on a good day. Closer to 80 to 100 is average. Very laggy with gaming as well. And then the little white box broke after two and a half months, takes about three days to get a new one in the mail. ( can't go to a Verizon store to swap out ) This one is no better. Both have had to have multiple resets weekly because its locking up or losing connection. I'm guessing it's Verizon in this area more than anything else, Maybe not quite ready for this type of system for use here. Think they have some equipment upgrades that are needed to make this a better system here and was rushed out anyway. About to switch to another provider again.
We have T-Mobile home internet, starlink and att fiber. Keeping att fiber. The other 2 are shotty at best where we live(major metropolitan area)
Nothing can touch fiber for reliability.
I do not have my Verizon Askey Gateway anywhere near a window, I been pulling almost 275 MPBS download and 10 up, I have had Verizon 5g home internet for over a year now. Occassianally I will have issues were I have to reboot the cube but it only happens every 3 months. BTW a real Fixed wireless service that sucks is At&t internet air, total junk.
I just tried it. It's a cool service but won't work for my needs. The speeds fluxuate too much.
I switched over to AT&T Fiber Internet 300. I like.
Want. Fiber. SO. BAD.
I’m not out in the woods. This is an ordinary suburb of a major city. And yet, nobody has run ground lines to my brand new building. No cable, no fiber, no copper.
As if they assumed only power users would want something more than 5G Home. Like TV for instance.
And I’m only getting 2 bars 5G right now. So I’m not very hopeful.
I like your Maxx figure!
One of my faves. 😊
Problem I ran into with my T-Mobile home internet and it's probably the same with Verizon... my MLB and NBA subscriptions would considered me to be in a New York Market. I couldn't watch any York team even though I live in New Hampshire and unfortunately I'm a New York fan and I subscribe to watch New York teams.
Aw that sucks. I didn't try that...
got the Verizon wireless device last week. It did not work. It is going back.
I have it & for $25 a month unlimited & 250mb down serves me very well, with a 10 yr price guarantee. Unfortunately I'm moving next yr & this probably won't work so back to Cox $80 month with usage cap 😢
I've had the Verizon 5G gateway for little over 2 months now. I kept my cable internet for a while to make sure it was working good and slowly started adding devices to the Verizon wifi. I have 14 devices counting Alexa, security cams, etc. After a couple weeks I canceled cable and instantly saved $100 a month for internet/wifi. It's been working good. I stopped using my router and extension completely and just use the Verizon cube. It works great from the middle of my condo and get excellent signal in every room. The only issue is my son is a gamer and I hear him effin' and jeffin' every so often. We've just started getting internet drops the past week. I hope that's not going to be a regular issue.
Well I suppose tmobile has the advantage of being able to receive text messages on the little home screen on the 5G modem.
LOL from my experience here, a pretty useful feature...
@@SomeGadgetGuy yes it is indeed lol!
We just installed the Verizon 5G a few days ago. The setup instructions were AWFUL, but the performance is waaaaaay better than Spectrum. We are gunna dump Spectrum like 3rd period French. 😂
If spectrum starts adding data caps, I'll make the jump back to verizon 👍
@@SomeGadgetGuy
For us part of the decision is their reliability. The wifi seems to go down all the time. That combined with the fact the steaming channels we selected are way less than we are paying for cable, so bye bye Spectrum.
Oh the spectrum hardware is GARBAGE. We use a business grade router to deal with that. The VZW modem+router was definitely better than the spectrum router.
With Verizon 5G Home internet you will be pushed to the bottom in priority and your speeds will drop or your service will stop working until congestion clears up. Not dependable.
False.. I get 400-500mbps all day everyday.
Bro, have you ever heard of power line adapters.🤔
They work like garbage in apartments and condos, especially in units with old wiring.
It’s just one big hotspot
While this might work out for some folks, my biggest gripe is that this does NOT increase the signal strength. Sprint years ago had something similar in the form of "signal boosters". What made Sprint's different is that, while still required a similar set up to this, it would actually boost the signal as opposed to just distributing the signal that's already there. In areas where signal is weak, this does nothing to help. While I want this to become the norm and put pressure on traditional ISPs, half of these solutions ARE from traditional ISPs, which doesn't help for competition to enter the space.
That's not a signal booster.. it's a router just like what cable companies give out except connects to a tower.. not a fiber or tv cable. If the signal you get is weak then maybe that's a good option for you right now.. as they keep building the network it may getting better in your area.
@Super10 What Sprint had were ACTUAL signal boosters. I should know, I still have the boxes from them. They were actually quite large in size in comparison to what T-Mobile offers nowadays. These had a touchscreen that you could interact with them to set them up. During the setup process, the box itself would tell you that it was boosting the signal. Also, they came with pretty long warnings about exposure and distance keeping. I have what T-Mobile considers a "signal booster" and all it does is use your current home internet as back haul to distribute 4G LTE from a nearby tower, but it does NOT boost the signal itself. It also does not have the same warnings as the one from Sprint.
@@Gabilleta I'm talking about the verizon cube in the video isn't a booster and yes sprint had something similar but it wasn't a router like what's in the video.
It’s not bad but it’s not for gamers. I switched back to Cox high speed.
If you have a clear shot on the tower, it works fine for gaming.
Do you live in a dense urban area?
Nope.
Sent mine back because I couldn't get it to work with my tv Roku. No physical help to set it up all on me and I'm not really that good at tech. They deliver it and just expect you to do all the work. No weno! It's ridiculous! Hire some Tech to help out the customers in person!
Verizon added it to my account fo Free for 12 months
The uploads in your area sound exceptionally bad. localized monopolies probably keeping it that way. I am with AT&T Atlanta and they offer 300 up and down for $50/month.
I'm literally a block away from fiber. It's killing me.
@@SomeGadgetGuy ypu should make friends with someone in that othee block and run a lan cable from their house to yours 🙃
I think LTT has a video doing something similar
Tried it. Too slow. I thought it was using a different technology other than cell signal. Bad signal where I live. Waiting for return packaging from Verizon.
Stay on top of VZW retentions. What I couldn't show here in this video, they delayed my return SO much that they tried to charge me for extra months. Detail ALL your communications with them.
I get 150-200 mbps not even the true 5g but my ping is around 50. Great for gaming not the best but for 45$ for the next 5 years sign me up coach.
Not good 4 gaming. I got 2 PS5's n it runs horrible on this
Charter/Spectrum is better over 5G marketing crap going around. I have used Comcast & Spectrum & both were good. We stream like crazy & gamers & none of these 5G crap dont work.
14MBPS NEAR DISNEYLAND CA. DONT DO IT!!!!!
Worked decent enough for what it is for about 4 months....now however , is literally unusable for gaming. never getting 5G or 10G again rather have dsl with a solid connection LOL
I can see the tower and it works well for gaming, about 50ms ping. I am impressed.
I was charged $40/ month because the representative said it was because of my plan. The Verizon Internet slowed down the speed of the internet on the desktop. It did not connect to the other devices.
To close the plan for the Verizon Internet, I had to go through three customer service representatives. The first two said they kept getting an error. The third one was fast talking and seemed to want to get rid of me. But, he did say that he would have the return kit sent to me so that I can return the box and wires for the Verizon Internet.I have been a Verizon customer for years. This was very rude. I hope that they don't charge me for the Verizon Internet. I only had it for two days.
You had it installed backwards. The light goes in facing you.
I’ve had fiber optics before tried this 5g Verizon crap two days in I’m sending the trash back.
Wifi bridge
Jebus, every review i see of these home providers is always someone switching from spectrum xD. God everyone hates them, i thought it was just me. Im paying 105 now for spectrum for the 500/20 and its awful. Inconsistent and kinda crappy. IT works ok most times but kinda lame. Hopefully this verizon service is alright.
He must be too far or have to week of a signal because I consistently get over 350 every day.
I get rock solid 300 as well, but my area would not get highly congested.
Highway robbery.
Thx for this video...made my decision to NOT get this
Since then it's taken almost two months to finally sort out the billing issues with returning the equipment if that helps reinforce your decision. 😐
@@SomeGadgetGuy thats always the case..they tell you after you return equipment "it takes 1-2 billing cycles"
Dont know about Wifi but TV is trash. Want my account?
it works but it's not good for gaming. HORRIBLE LATENCY it's okay for video Steaming and basic browsing
If you are lucky enough to get a clear shot on the tower it works fine. I get sub 50ms ping on mine and game lots.