s20 fe 5g slow lte speeds

[thebear]

I am on a verizon prepaid plan with an unlocked s20 fe 5g phone. I know a lot of people are comparing their 5g speeds in these forums, but I am having trouble with my lte speeds. Most of the time I am on wifi and things work fine, but I noticed that when I am on lte the speeds are extremely slow. They are in the 1-3Mbps range on downloads. I have found that when I restart the phone or reset the network connections the speeds go up to where they should be: 40-60Mbps in my area in central ohio. At first I thought I may be getting throttled by verizon, but I am not near my data limit and restarting the phone fixes things for a couple of hours at most. This has been very consistent behavior the past week while I have been monitoring it. Has anyone else noticed something similar with lte speeds? Is this a problem with my phone? settings?

 

[tony bag o donuts]

I have no such issues on my unlocked version on AT&T Cricket service. Yes my data is throttled by cricket but not noticing it on the device itself.

Doesn't Verizon sell their own variant of the phone to work on their network or am I imagining it?

 

[mustang7757]

I think that was the concern early on if unlocked model s20 FE would be good on Verizon, Verizon models were made specifically for its 5g .

 

[KPMcClave]

I think that was the concern early on if unlocked model s20 FE would be good on Verizon, Verizon models were made specifically for its 5g .

The question is which flavor of 5G? All the options should support the (not-so-great-right-now) "nationwide 5G" Verizon recently flipped the switch on across the country. It's the "UW 5G" that requires the Verizon variant on the original S20, and that we were left to speculate about on the unlocked S20 FE.

I'd bet the "LTE" connection @thebear is getting at such slow speeds is "nationwide 5G." There were plenty of reports that it was worse than LTE service had been, and I know I've had what was supposed to be 5G (in the status bar) that returned a Speedtest result as being on LTE. So, there's plenty of blurring of the lines.

My guess would be it's a network issue as they work to get everything running smoothly. Unless someone knows of a phone-side issue that could cause @thebear's issue.

 

[mustang7757]

The question is which flavor of 5G? All the options should support the (not-so-great-right-now) "nationwide 5G" Verizon recently flipped the switch on across the country. It's the "UW 5G" that requires the Verizon variant on the original S20, and that we were left to speculate about on the unlocked S20 FE.

I'd bet the "LTE" connection @thebear is getting at such slow speeds is "nationwide 5G." There were plenty of reports that it was worse than LTE service had been, and I know I've had what was supposed to be 5G (in the status bar) that returned a Speedtest result as being on LTE. So, there's plenty of blurring of the lines.

My guess would be it's a network issue as they work to get everything running smoothly. Unless someone knows of a phone-side issue that could cause @thebear's issue.

They should give a option to turn off until they get this going