5G. Is live NYC

[MozMan68]

I've been real happy with our GB xfinity here in Seattle. I switched from my own router to xfinity's modem/router and it gives solid performance throughout the house (with basement).

I was fortunate that my home office setup was directly above my utility room, so I went for it and drilled a small hole in the corner of the baseboard and was able to move my Xfinity modem and Eero router 3 feet away from me. Direct connection to my gaming computer shows the 1,400mbps speeds consistently and I connect my work laptop to the Eero router (since the 2nd Xfinity port is used up going to that). Get speeds regularly in the 900mbps speed range on that. Wifi near the routers is in the 250mbps and will drop to 180-200 at the furthest point away from there.

 

[sparksd]

I was fortunate that my home office setup was directly above my utility room, so I went for it and drilled a small hole in the corner of the baseboard and was able to move my Xfinity modem and Eero router 3 feet away from me. Direct connection to my gaming computer shows the 1,400mbps speeds consistently and I connect my work laptop to the Eero router (since the 2nd Xfinity port is used up going to that). Get speeds regularly in the 900mbps speed range on that. Wifi near the routers is in the 250mbps and will drop to 180-200 at the furthest point away from there.

Interesting. I'm a good distance from my xfinity router - multiple walls away - and get a dependable 700+Mbps on Win11 Surface Pro 7, 2021 12.9 iPP & 12PM phone. In the basement, it drops off to about 450Mbps.

 

[andyw715]

When I'm able to have one paid internet service (mobile) that I can use at home, reliably, then I'll be interested at which point I'll dump Spectrum.

200mbs that Spectrum provides enough throughput (for now) to support a dozen or so wifi clients and an apple tv.

 

[jz0309]

Does it matter? They compete against each other for our dollars. They will develop, we will buy/use what works best. It's not like 5G speeds are a closed system owned by a single company. Speed is speed.

infrastructure gets updated every 8 year or so, that is fine, and it should be as close to the latest and greatest, but, I currently refuse to pay extra for 5G (see below), and with my 11ProMax I got speed of 100k+ in places like San Francisco or Chicago which would be sufficient for my needs (and I know I'm not everyone).
BUT, start providing infrastructure in not so populous areas, the people there are charged the same as people in metro areas for crappy service. I live in a 100k+ town in SoCal, not at the edge and I've been getting these kind of result for 4+ years, nothing happened to 4g/LTE infrastructure updates, so I have no reason to get excited about 5G ...

 

[NYCValkyrie]

5G just went live NYC Speed has doubled to 300 mps. However it’s 2 a.m. now so I expect a slower speed in the morning
It’s nowhere near the mmWave we see in Verizon stores
Now the question is … is it worth the battery life I’m going to sacrifice to get that speed ?
In my opinion, No
I’m disappointed as we’ve anticipated so much more for so long

It was rolled out sometime in the fall for TMO (maybe late summer?) and my top speed so far was 655 down (SoHo) but the average is around 100-200 down in the downtown Brooklyn area. On a mobile device, it doesn't really matter after 50 down, maybe 75.

 

[bushman4]

I’m assuming you’re talking about c-band 5G. So you’re seeing 5G UW next to your signal. If that’s the case and you mentioned battery life, Do you notice a big hit to battery life while using the c-band?

Are you sure it’s not millimeter wave?

Thanks; genuinely curious.

It came up as 5G+ which is not mmwave ATT says it’s C Spectrum
Didn’t have a chance to judge battery drain as by morning they turned it off and it hasn’t been on since

 

[upandown]

It came up as 5G+ which is not mmwave ATT says it’s C Spectrum
Didn’t have a chance to judge battery drain as by morning they turned it off and it hasn’t been on since

Oh I was assuming you were on Verizon.

 

[macsound1]

My speed keeps going up...went to gig service a cople of years ago...they upped it to 1.2 (really 1.4) with no price change. The installed fiber this Summer which will give me much higher upload. I'm happy with that progress.

I'm glad they do that.
I have Comcast and I have to change the person's name who the account is in so I can keep my internet only bill under $100/month for 250/10