Verizon turned on 5G nationwide.

[donm527]

That's just awful.....some of the more affluent towns in my county still won't allow cell towers or anything that would disrupt the town's landscape. We also have cell towers that attempt to look like trees.

Yeah, I'm not sure how I feel about it since they just started putting them up. Parkland was known for the "park-like" character of the city, no stores or traffic lights allowed, that has changed in the last couple of decades with development. :-\ I am in the outer fringe with basically the Florida Everglades my backyard, so I do hope they make use of existing poles in the rest of the city or stick with the other band and use the existing large towers. mmWave sounds terrible if you need line-of-site.

 

[Mike Dee]

This is strange. I took out my SIM card for a different reason S20 Ultra and when I put it back my phone booted up into 5G. I have not updated except that I am on Android 11 beta as of today. Also the 5G is working indoors but the sad part is it's slower than LTE like many have experienced with other carriers. So what's the point of having 5G when it's one quarter to one half the speed of what I get on LTE?

 

[donm527]

This is strange. I took out my SIM card for a different reason S20 Ultra and when I put it back my phone booted up into 5G. I have not updated except that I am on Android 11 beta as of today. Also the 5G is working indoors but the sad part is it's slower than LTE like many have experienced with other carriers. So what's the point of having 5G when it's one quarter to one half the speed of what I get on LTE?

Do you know how far you are from a 5G antenna? Low band or the mmWave band?? Estimate the distance from the antenna?? Wonder how fast when you are in eyeshot of the antenna.

I took an evening bike around my neighborhood... see there are now 4 mmWave mini towers outside my community and on Google maps it said it's approx. 3000 ft. away in straight lline. Like I mentioned before I read mmWave has a effective range of 500 to 1000 ft.

 

[Mike Dee]

Do you know how far you are from a 5G antenna? Low band or the mmWave band?? Estimate the distance from the antenna?? Wonder how fast when you are in eyeshot of the antenna.

I took an evening bike around my neighborhood... see there are now 4 mmWave mini towers outside my community and on Google maps it said it's approx. 3000 ft. away in straight lline. Like I mentioned before I read mmWave has a effective range of 500 to 1000 ft.

I don't know but it kind sucks that I can't disable it like Tmobile subscribers can. Luckily I can switch to WIFI.

 

[mustang7757]

I don't know but it kind sucks that I can't disable it like Tmobile subscribers can. Luckily I can switch to WIFI.

Get with T-Mobile

 

[donm527]

I don't know but it kind sucks that I can't disable it like Tmobile subscribers can. Luckily I can switch to WIFI.

I believe AT&T also won't let you disable it. That's why I am not in a rush to change my plan. The cost difference is about the same but it would suck if I have to constantly deal with a situation where it does detect 5G but it's weak and it won't unlock and move to a stronger 5GE (4G )

 

[Mike Dee]

AT&T won't let you disable it. That's why I am not in a rush to change my plan. The cost difference is about the same but it would suck if I have to constantly deal with a situation where it does detect 5G but it's weak and it won't unlock and move to a stronger 5GE (4G )

I didn't change my plan. Ultrawide band 5G is extra on my plan but not this Nationwide lowspeed stuff. Don't get me wrong I'm getting OK speeds between 40 and 50 but my LTE runs 150 to 210 lately and my WiFi is usually over 200.

 

[trucksmoveamerica#AC]

Verizon has nothing to brag about speed. I checked several times on my 500 mile trip today. Not impressed

 

[Mike Dee]

Verizon has nothing to brag about speed. I checked several times on my 500 mile trip today. Not impressed

I would be outraged if I wasn't on wifi most of the time. It's over glorified LTE but slower. My device is 75 percent slower than last night.

 

[buzzy3970]

T-Mobile 5G started the same way, but now most of the time it's faster than there LTE. It will increase as time progresses, but it's kind of funny because it reminds me of you commercials they made about their LTE being faster than T-mobile's 5G. Never ending cycle.

I would be outraged if I wasn't on wifi most of the time. It's over glorified LTE but slower. My device is 75 percent slower than last night.

 

[bold1193]

It is a total crap shoot by me. In certain areas, I get the 5G with 130 download and 70 upload. And other places I get 60 down and 20 up

 

[dre22era]

Give it 20 years and the more populated area's of the nation should have something resembling 5G... basically the eastern half of the U.S. I doubt the more rural parts of the west will get it in a lot of our lifetimes....if ever. They'll probably come out with something "better" before they ever spend the money to truly build a 5G nationwide infrastructure. I think it's more of a "shiny new thing" to get people's attention and money.

20 years? Nah, 5G will be the standard in less than 5 years

 

[jmk32]

Got the update and after reboot saw 5G for the first time ever on my Note and got excited. Did a speed test and it was just the same low speed 4G I get in my house. DC suburbs. :-(

 

[DSMpowerhousegroup]

I did get higher than my average during one of the speed test I did yesterday. It's not mmWave, but it did speed up my averages. I'm usually on WiFi anyways everywhere I go though. Rarely get close to using up my data because of that.

 

[cnotes2019]

Sadly blame DSS

 

[pmjj]

This is my indoor speed on 5g

 

[pmjj]

this is my speed outdoors

 

[J Dubbs]

20 years? Nah, 5G will be the standard in less than 5 years

I like your optimism, I hope it's closer to 5 years ;-) But since they'll basically have to install mini 5G towers every block or so everywhere to get good coverage, I highly doubt the carriers will do more than focus on the highly populated areas at first, because that's their best cost to profit ratios. The more spread out areas will be lower priority, and I highly suspect some areas will be no priority. Plus I think there may be some pushback from customers who are happy with their 4G speeds, and don't want to raise their phone bill for something they don't need.... especially for the foreseeable future living with covid and the financial hardships it may cause.

I was being slightly sarcastic about 20 years, but for it to be the "standard"? As in everywhere for everybody? I don't think that'll be happening in 5 years ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ The carriers are too cheap for that... especially with the effect covid is going to have on the economy for the next few years :-O

 

[Venom0642]

All those 5G speeds doesn't even come close to my 4G LTE which is way much faster from all the speedtest i see here on 5G lol

 

[donm527]

All those 5G speeds doesn't even come close to my 4G LTE which is way much faster from all the speedtest i see here on 5G lol

My 5G...E speeds are better

Kidding aside of course I'm not always rocking at 300 Mpbs everywhere... but I have noticed average speeds creep up and that particular area only use to be in the 100 range maybe a year ago and notice that where ever I go which is good.

I'm thinking like when 4G was starting to get going, 3G averages were going up and I was enjoying staying back with 3G a little longer while more people moved to 4G. Honestly, I be just happy sticking around 4G if averages go up to 100+ while everyone jumps on the iPhone 12 5G SuperCycle free up the 4G bandwidth until 5G gets to those 500+ average numbers