5G speeds

[Davidoo]

I live in Phoenix and supposedly the whole city and surrounding area are in the Verizon 5G Nationwide coverage. My speedtest shows downloads of a little below and sometimes above 200 mb/sec and uploads of about 60. I'm going to go to one of the areas that has the UWB coverage in a few days and see what difference it makes.

I was at my girlfriend's house over the weekend way north of town in a pretty isolated area and was surprised to see the 5G displayed. The speeds there were about half of what I get in the city, probably because my signal is much lower. Still, getting as much as 90 for downloads which is WAY faster than the 10 if I'm lucky it there for 4G.

 

[Jeremy8000]

So got my Pixel 6 Pro today. Just got home, figured to try a speed test on T-Mobile to see how it compares with the S20 FE it is replacing.

Typical speed I'd get on the S20 FE was normally around 80-120Mbps, so I'm hoping the Samsung modem isn't too far short. And I get this...



Edit... Popped my sim back into the S20 FE for a roughly same-time comparison, and it was pulling about 300Mbps. Evidently T-Mobile turned up the 5G near my house today In either event, the speeds were close enough that it appears that if one is technically stronger than the other, it isn't by much.

 

[buzzy3970]

So got my Pixel 6 Pro today. Just got home, figured to try a speed test on T-Mobile to see how it compares with the S20 FE it is replacing.

Typical speed I'd get on the S20 FE was normally around 80-120Mbps, so I'm hoping the Samsung modem isn't too far short. And I get this...

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Edit... Popped my sim back into the S20 FE for a roughly same-time comparison, and it was pulling about 300Mbps. Evidently T-Mobile turned up the 5G near my house today In either event, the speeds were close enough that it appears that if one is technically stronger than the other, it isn't by much.

Was about to come and say your Samsung modem is very capable lol. I love that I get speeds upward of 500 Mbps on my Samsung devices and that includes my tab s7+.

 

[Jeremy8000]

Was about to come and say your Samsung modem is very capable lol. I love that I get speeds upward of 500 Mbps on my Samsung devices and that includes my tab s7+.

By comparison I tried a speedtest using the wifi, connected to T-Mobile Home Internet (5g modem made by Nokia, I think) and pulled about 330Mbps, so seems solid.

 

[swampbaby]

I have Verizon and 5G UW is not available in my area so when I'd have 5G turned on and ran Speedtest my results were utter crap. I turned 5G off in the settings.

 

[Jeremy8000]

I have Verizon and 5G UW is not available in my area so when I'd have 5G turned on and ran Speedtest my results were utter crap. I turned 5G off in the settings.

Give Verizon a little time to deploy in bands that actually have coverage. I can't even begin to imagine when T-Mo will bring mmWave to my small market, but even normal bands are giving me more bandwidth than I could conceive of knowing how to use (yet). Pulled this when I was actually in town today instead of on the outskirts.

 

[mmidgley]

Some day I hope my 6 Pro can do anything near what you guys are getting on 5G. My first 5G speedtest showed about 5down, 1up. That's terrible for LTE. Bad for 3G. Not anywhere near 5G. I messaged T-Mobile. They pushed some kind of reset and had me power off for a minute. Next speed test was 12down, 29up. That's almost okish for LTE. Still not 5G.

T-Mobile. ugh.

 

[Jeremy8000]

Some day I hope my 6 Pro can do anything near what you guys are getting on 5G. My first 5G speedtest showed about 5down, 1up. That's terrible for LTE. Bad for 3G. Not anywhere near 5G. I messaged T-Mobile. They pushed some kind of reset and had me power off for a minute. Next speed test was 12down, 29up. That's almost okish for LTE. Still not 5G.

T-Mobile. ugh.

If you're seeing 29 up, the dl speed is likely just so low due to network congestion or poor optimization. For me, while i'm loving the new speeds, the main benefit I sought from T-Mo's 5g is the extended range and in-building penetration of their sub-6GHz network which they've very widely deployed - and it has really delivered that for me.

 

[buzzy3970]

I have Verizon and 5G UW is not available in my area so when I'd have 5G turned on and ran Speedtest my results were utter crap. I turned 5G off in the settings.

Sounds about right. Verizons 5g speeds without uwb are nothing to talk about lol.

 

[beantownsouth]

Sounds about right. Verizons 5g speeds without uwb are nothing to talk about lol.

When I was still on Verizon, 3 weeks ago, my P5 was always on 4G LTE. Verizons sub6 5G is nothing to write home about. Now once I was in downtown Charlotte, their mmWave 5G rocked.

 

[mggm100]

This Pixel 6 is my first 5G phone, so this is all new and confusing to me. I just set it up yesterday and expect it needs some time to settle down. When my phone shows 5G, the speed tests are slower than when it shows 4G LTE. But when it shows 5G+ or 5G UC, the download speeds are in the 300-500 Mbps range. I got all those connections in the same room of my house at various times yesterday. Today it seems to have stopped switching connections and is staying on 5G UC. I did learn that UC means Ultra Capacity. Carrier is T-Mobile.

 

[Davidoo]

This is from near my office in Phoenix on Verizon's Nationwide 5G. Seems pretty decent. I will be in an area of the city later this week that is on the ultra wideband 5G, so looking forward to seeing what I get there on my Pro.