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.
@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.
@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.
@manton 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?
@jonah I love my car antenna, it really does help. If we keep this 5G at home, seems worth the investment for sure.
@manton 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.
@manton have you posted more details on your car antenna? I’d love better connectivity during camping road trips.
@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.
@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.
@manton most RV folks swear by the WeBoost. It’s proven tech and as you said, no lock-in with one company.
@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!