I have both 2 gig att fiber and verizon 5G home plus. Verizon is backup and att is main, att is 2gig up and down and verizon is 320 down 35 up. When I do speedtest, it goes to 600 mbps then throttles to 300.
5G: for small house, apartment, condominium. Better place it near the windows covered by a curtain, shade or blinds. For few people living in a house. Fiber: very clear videos. For bigger house and family. For those people who are playing online games. Both of these, if you're using a classic wireless adapter on your desktop computers, better buy a new one. The faster, the better.
my parents' had fiber wifi through AT&T. honestly AT&T fucking sucked. There would be multiple times that the internet would just disconnect and be gone sometimes for an hour, one time as long as 5 days. We also had a neighbor who yelled at my poor mother b/c the idiots at AT&T put the damn cable through their backyard without telling her. We would reset the modem as they told us and it still would never never work. The incomptent techs AT&T sent never permanently fixed the problem i've heard 5g is not reliable at all but anything is an improvement over that nightmare of an experience we had with AT&T
We have T Mobile 5G now. $40 per month, but I have poor Zoom calls with it. Your video explained why, thank you. We have an opportunity to pre-sign up (construction will be done in December of 2024) for Fiber optic 200 x 200 for $71 per month. Is that enough for zoom calls? We only have 2 people. 3 TV's and 2 Chromebooks. Only a couple of these are turned on at the same time.
Fiber is almost always more stable and reliable than a wireless cellphone signal. Unless a 5G internet service is cheaper than your fiber internet AND cost is a concern, I would recommend keeping fiber internet.
I’m a gamer looking for better ping , would the symmetrical speeds improve ping in games? As 5g is very low upload, and ping is both upload and download time per ms
@alexfrancis194 For gaming, it's more of the fact that fiber has a lower latency and it's the most reliable connection because it's immune to almost all interferences (assuming the router and their equipment at the other end is functioning properly) that makes it better for gaming compared to 5G rather than having symmetrical speeds. With 5G,although theoretically is a big improvement compared to LTE, at some point you can't avoid the fact that wireless radio aren't as fast as a wired connection and that they are more prone to interference and congestion (though the latter should be something that 5G should somehow handle it better), and since more demanding types of gaming require a fast and stable connection, I would recommend fiber. If you into light gaming however (don't play fps for example), you're a Light internet user and the price is cheaper than fiber, I could see 5G as a cheaper alternative you can try, otherwise just get fiber, even the lower speed ones they usually offer goes a long way
I have both 2 gig att fiber and verizon 5G home plus. Verizon is backup and att is main, att is 2gig up and down and verizon is 320 down 35 up. When I do speedtest, it goes to 600 mbps then throttles to 300.
5G: for small house, apartment, condominium. Better place it near the windows covered by a curtain, shade or blinds. For few people living in a house.
Fiber: very clear videos. For bigger house and family. For those people who are playing online games.
Both of these, if you're using a classic wireless adapter on your desktop computers, better buy a new one. The faster, the better.
good info even though I'm not a tecky
5G is a joke. They hyped it up just like 4G while using 3G. They all are very slow compared to fiber internet!
Yup!
is the verizon product no simply a glorified hotspot?
Kinda, I recommend verizon's fiber, I've only had issues 2-3 times in the past 6 years, all of them because someone was unplugging the ONT.
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my parents' had fiber wifi through AT&T.
honestly AT&T fucking sucked. There would be multiple times that the internet would just disconnect and be gone sometimes for an hour, one time as long as 5 days. We also had a neighbor who yelled at my poor mother b/c the idiots at AT&T put the damn cable through their backyard without telling her. We would reset the modem as they told us and it still would never never work. The incomptent techs AT&T sent never permanently fixed the problem
i've heard 5g is not reliable at all but anything is an improvement over that nightmare of an experience we had with AT&T
We have T Mobile 5G now. $40 per month, but I have poor Zoom calls with it. Your video explained why, thank you. We have an opportunity to pre-sign up (construction will be done in December of 2024) for Fiber optic 200 x 200 for $71 per month. Is that enough for zoom calls? We only have 2 people. 3 TV's and 2 Chromebooks. Only a couple of these are turned on at the same time.
Yes - I do believe that would be enough for just two people.
Is it worth it to switch from fiber to 5g
In my situation - no. 5g wasn’t as consistent with speed and reliability
Fiber is almost always more stable and reliable than a wireless cellphone signal. Unless a 5G internet service is cheaper than your fiber internet AND cost is a concern, I would recommend keeping fiber internet.
Neither would work where I live. Assuming the dollar amount$ were monthly?
Yes
I’m a gamer looking for better ping , would the symmetrical speeds improve ping in games? As 5g is very low upload, and ping is both upload and download time per ms
@alexfrancis194
For gaming, it's more of the fact that fiber has a lower latency and it's the most reliable connection because it's immune to almost all interferences (assuming the router and their equipment at the other end is functioning properly) that makes it better for gaming compared to 5G rather than having symmetrical speeds.
With 5G,although theoretically is a big improvement compared to LTE, at some point you can't avoid the fact that wireless radio aren't as fast as a wired connection and that they are more prone to interference and congestion (though the latter should be something that 5G should somehow handle it better), and since more demanding types of gaming require a fast and stable connection, I would recommend fiber.
If you into light gaming however (don't play fps for example), you're a Light internet user and the price is cheaper than fiber, I could see 5G as a cheaper alternative you can try, otherwise just get fiber, even the lower speed ones they usually offer goes a long way