Just ordered a Verizon home internet cube

[slykens]

At home I'm in the next tier down on their map being regular 5G nationwide service. I ran the verizon wireless speed test at home and was getting 10 mbps down and 10 up, at work this morning I'm showing 5 mbps down and 3 up w/a 359ms latency sitting next to a window w/4 bars of service in a 5G Ultra Wideband location.

Verizon's (and ATT's for that matter) 5G network is behind TMO capacity wise due to spectrum availability.

Verizon and ATT initially turned on a spectrum sharing feature that shared existing LTE spectrum with NR (5G) dynamically in order to claim a 5G network rollout. In the last six weeks, VZW and ATT have been able to start activating their C-band spectrum. The C-band spectrum is old satellite spectrum that is around 3.8-4.2 GHz with wide contiguous bandwidth available to the carriers. (As a side note, this proximity to the radar altimeter band at 4.2-4.4 GHz is why the FCC and airlines were concerned about "5G" - specifically C-band 5G)

Expect both VZW and ATT to start having dramatic improvements in overall 5G performance soon, if not already in some areas. Backhaul will also need to be upgraded so even in "ultra" areas things might take a bit longer to really speed up.

TMO's acquisition of Sprint put them about eighteen months ahead of VZW and ATT as Sprint came along with a wide swath of bandwidth at 2.5 GHz (band 41). TMO also held back part of its 600 MHz spectrum purchase from a few years ago exclusively for 5G so they did not share spectrum with their LTE network. TMO quickly deployed hardware and lit those wide swaths of band 41 spectrum up as "5G Ultra-Capacity." I've personally tested it at 500 Mbps+ in dense areas (Pittsburgh, Boca Raton)on my iPhone and would expect VZW and ATT to be able to match that performance by the end of the year in many places.

 

[SLUPSU]

Verizon's (and ATT's for that matter) 5G network is behind TMO capacity wise due to spectrum availability.

Verizon and ATT initially turned on a spectrum sharing feature that shared existing LTE spectrum with NR (5G) dynamically in order to claim a 5G network rollout. In the last six weeks, VZW and ATT have been able to start activating their C-band spectrum. The C-band spectrum is old satellite spectrum that is around 3.8-4.2 GHz with wide contiguous bandwidth available to the carriers. (As a side note, this proximity to the radar altimeter band at 4.2-4.4 GHz is why the FCC and airlines were concerned about "5G" - specifically C-band 5G)

Expect both VZW and ATT to start having dramatic improvements in overall 5G performance soon, if not already in some areas. Backhaul will also need to be upgraded so even in "ultra" areas things might take a bit longer to really speed up.

TMO's acquisition of Sprint put them about eighteen months ahead of VZW and ATT as Sprint came along with a wide swath of bandwidth at 2.5 GHz (band 41). TMO also held back part of its 600 MHz spectrum purchase from a few years ago exclusively for 5G so they did not share spectrum with their LTE network. TMO quickly deployed hardware and lit those wide swaths of band 41 spectrum up as "5G Ultra-Capacity." I've personally tested it at 500 Mbps+ in dense areas (Pittsburgh, Boca Raton)on my iPhone and would expect VZW and ATT to be able to match that performance by the end of the year in many places.

Your post prompted me to run speed tests on my TMobile service, my phone is usually connected to my home WIFI network and usually gets 450 mbps and less than 200 mbps on 5G (in the exurbs of St Louis). The test resulted in a speed of 480 mbps, so for the first time ever, my cellphone on 5G is faster than my home network. I also turned my mobile hotspot on and ran a test on a connected laptop and got a speed of 75 mbps, not bad I guess.

 

[Obliviax]

Your post prompted me to run speed tests on my TMobile service, my phone is usually connected to my home WIFI network and usually gets 450 mbps and less than 200 mbps on 5G (in the exurbs of St Louis). The test resulted in a speed of 480 mbps, so for the first time ever, my cellphone on 5G is faster than my home network. I also turned my mobile hotspot on and ran a test on a connected laptop and got a speed of 75 mbps, not bad I guess.

my wifi is 287.49 and 48.51 while my 5G phone is 15.87 and 6.55 respectively