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AT&T 5GE is surprisingly quite a bit more than just advanced LTE and you would notice a deviation(200mbps vs 150mbps) in speed if the signal actually read LTE. It's a little bit different from LTE, and it's not low band 5G (which is actually intended to perform worse but have better coverage per tower). But it's something like LTE+++ And it does not work on most LTE only Android phones. This is why they call it 5G evolution because it's more advanced than their normal LTE but it's still not a 5G band. it was/is an evolutionary step towards 5G.
One other thing you weren't paying attention to signal strength. The further away you get from the tower the weaker the signal and the slower the data transmission.
Thank you for the shout out Stetson. It would be good to have you on the podcast again or I can join you on yours. Video was #tremendous phenomenal work. Very appreciated.
@@techzoe3898 “Yeah Verizon is a bit Congested here in NYC” That’s their excuse for delivering slow speeds. AT&T has tons of customers in that area too but they are really impressive. Verizon is overpriced and overrated.
@@redman8767able overrated ? They work just great for me. Rootmetrics and third party testing would disagree with you in NYC. Then again location is everything
@@quantum_vortex_ As of Q3 2020, They're the largest wireless carrier in the US by number of subscribers so unless 176 million is nobody I'd say you're wrong
When you go to out to the country verizon is the only provider that has good coverage. They have the best coverage by far. So if you live in the city verizon isn't that good but in the country that's the only option
In the small city where I am T-mobile connections are almost non existent, At&t works sort of fine unless your in a small patch of forest or at this certain intersection and Verizon is a rather good powerhouse
@@frostcate2546 that's the case in most of the rural areas. I went upstate NY with friends (in a small town, not in the middle of nowhere) and I didn't have any service with my t-mobile and my friends, which had verizon, had 4 bars.
LTE has been around much longer than 5G, so LTE has the advantage. 5G is still new, so overall, it's good to see where we're standing for 5G so far. Plus there have been news and info about 6G, yes 6G! Only time will tell how everything goes for technology.
95% of “5G” out right now is nothing but just a tweaked LTE signal. From a science standpoint they are virtually identical. Actual 5G is MMWAVE, a completely different beast entirely. Unless you are on MMWAVE you have LTE.
Wow. Fast forward to August 2021 and T-Mobile was just named the fastest carrier in the US. Stetson you should revisit this video! It would be really interesting to watch how things have changed.
It's not tremendous here in LA . Sure it can get up to 3gbps . But walk 2 steps and it disappears and u back to slow lte. And verizon has the slowest lte here in LA it's like 5 -10 mbps . Att is the best here because if u go out there 5G+ área which is mmwave u at least fall back to a really fast lte that's still getting 100+ mbps .
so what do you do with the bandwidth? Are you using it for seedboxes ? 3 gigs of bandwidth is meaningless unless you just like to look at speedtest numbers.
@@kickassclone75 it's not about the bandwidth, it's about CAPACITY. The more bandwidth you have the more capacity it can handle before it slows down. The more lanes traffic has on the highway, the less likely the slowdown
Using both Verizon and AT&T I have really noticed you get the best network experience with no limits when using AT&T. I gave up on Tmobile many years ago. AT&T doesn't throttle their network one bit. That's more than value, that's justice and consumer friendly. Verizon has the best coverage with AT&T closing the gap and AT&T has the fastest speeds. Thanks for the video. Great job 👍
Yes AT&T throttles. I have it on LTE modem and phone. They throttle my modem around 25 Mbps download. My phone connected to the same tower will have 110 download
@@Bryan-Hensley Interesting because I'm curious if your devices are capable of connecting to all available bands? I know the newer the device is the more bands it can connect to. I haven't experienced any throttle with AT&T in a very long time. Still seems like you get more than decent speeds though. Stay safe and stay well 👍
@@SINCITYJ yes I am getting all the bands. AT&T is only using 12, 2 and 66 around here. Speeds are about the same on band 2 and 66. A little slower on 12. I can have the data modem and my phone on the same band, the modem will never go above 26 Mbps download, the phone will get to over 100 mbps. I think they are throttling all unlimited data plans but letting phones go wide open. But I'm happy with anything above 22 Mbps. If my modem gets on band 12 the speed will hover around 15 Mbps download. I don't understand why anyone needs 100 Mbps download.
I live in puerto rico, after hurricane marian destroyed the island. TMOBILE rebuilt their spectrum with their lates towers and cells. It averages 90-120 on LTE and 5G 190-350 down 89up.
Short summary: Basically turn off 5G unless you’re in a city that offers true ultra wideband/mmWave 5G. What I don’t get is why would they separate the low band 5G from 4G LTE. Why not combine the them and just call it 5G? You would seemingly have increased speed over just 4G LTE.
Wow! Excellent video Stetson. Thank you for taking the time to go out to all these locations for us. The results were pretty shocking, hopefully it improves sooner rather than later.
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AT&T is still the same, in areas like sac, redding, yuba, ect. granted i work for AT&T but i got faster speeds then i got on verizons network. going up to the foothills and out of the way locations like newcastle and aubern youll experience slower speeds though
Stetson: Aside from the channel bandwidth consider the effect of backhaul connections. So, what you’ve measured is the how complete are the connections feeding 5G transceivers - at least in the mm bandwidth. It doesn’t matter what the transceiver capability if the feed can’t fill it. Note that the LTE based systems work fine not only from a bandwidth perspective, but the network feeding them are mature and able to give them all they can handle. Right?
It was super fun to test! And thank you for your response on Twitter as to why the LTE speeds were so much faster than 5G! I'm really excited for bid-band and high-band 5G to be rolled out in more locations, because as we can see this low-band 5G just isn't cutting it--except for the marketing materials so carriers can promote they offer 5G in more locations and slap a 5G icon in our status bars 😂
have tmobile for a while. their prices are good and I root for them but the speeds are getting worse. At&t is putting in that work though. might look into switching
Im in Minneapolis with t-mobile and my 5g download speeds range from 160-260 throughout the city while my lte speeds go from 40-120. Uploads are 5g 30-100 and lte 12-40. iPhone 12 Pro max
I have a 5G phone on T-Mobile and honestly, I was expecting more when I first got it. It is just as fast or even slower than 4G LTE. Tbh low-band 5G is not that great besides coverage
Can't help buy notice that ATT is consistently a higher ping than the rest. It isn't horrible buy I wonder if you would notice a difference if trying to do something like FaceTime. Awesome video as always. But as far as "ATT 5G" goes I have to say I never see it pop up. I work in location that is suppose to be covered and traveling my whole state it hasn't shown on my iPhone once. I even went so far to even contact support because I thought something was wrong, but they couldn't see anything that would limit it and my plan was a 5G plan. I personally think their coverage map is just plain wrong.
Great job on the video, finally a decent test video in Colorado. Would be awesome if you could test remote cities of the state too but also have a good population size.
Yeah. It is hilarious that 5G is basically slower than LTE right now. Either way, I plan to probably get a 5G phone next year. I’m thinking about the next Samsung. My S8 has been feeling a little old for awhile, but I do have to say it has served me well. My plan is to get the next Samsung for my main US Cellular while maybe putting my US Mobile Verizon SIM in my S8 since I have no other VOLTE phones that are technically mine currently and my S8 would work great for that.
I have AT&T iPhone 8 in 2021. I am happy AT&T LTE is very fast in your tests. I am happy I randomly discovered your YT channel as your content is very helpful and beneficial for considering cell phone plans.
I just ran my own test on AT&T 5g+ vs LTE. The results are about the same if I didn't know any better I would say it is the same 170MB up 30mb down. What I have noticed about 5G during daily usage is that it eats battery faster, and I get questionable reliability. If I disable 5G, I get consistent service and better battery life. Not what I was expecting at all
Networks in the USA are doing 5G wrong. Here in the U.K. all of our networks decided to deploy midband first and the results I’ve seen are impressive and give massive uplift compared to 4G. Vodafone, O2 and EE regularly hit 500mbps compared to 50-250mbps on their 4G network. Three can hit 800mbps and there are reports of 1gbps or more on their mid band network compared to between 20-70mbps seen by there. All U.K. networks started with 3.4-3.8ghz, the issue is that US networks have started with 600mhz band which is going to give a false perception to US consumers that 5G is not an improvement on 4G. LTE-A is a very good tech compared to low band 5G especially if there is very little bandwidth being utilised on the 5G networks.
To add to this. O2/EE/Vodafone use 40-50mhz of 5G bandwidth and Three uses 100mhz as a channel width. You’re talkint about 40mbit/s for every 5mhz of spectrum on a 5G network.
As someone who lives in the Denver area I can also confirm that AT&t is killing it in the area with their LTE speeds. I've had all three major carriers within the last year and AT&t by far is the best for signal strength and speed very very impressed with them. Overall, Great work on the video thank you for all your time and effort and going to all these different places it was very informative!
Awesome video! Thank you for putting in the effort to go to different places across all the networks. I noticed US Mobile beginning to roll out 5G where I live, and it’s just disappointing compared to the faster LTE network. Interesting that despite AT&T’s false advertising of “5G”-e, they’re actually giving you better speeds across the board (unless you happen to be in sight of a mmwave transmitter). I’ll take “reliably fast” over “rarely INSANELY fast”
im getting 200-300 downlink with TMo in pittsburgh pretty often. i honestly use my phone as a hotspot more often than my wifi, because it's faster. lol
This is an excellent question! I may try and go through the footage and check, but unfortunately I didn't capture those data points for this specific video.
Great test set. There are two points... if you are in a mmWave area, the 5G really does make a world of difference. Second, if you upload, esp tethered, 5G is (usually) vastly superior. So the use case matters in deciding where to go. I also found that streaming (that is, feeding a stream, not consuming one) over 5G tends to be more consistent, FWIW.
Stetson!! This is so good and very different from the speeds I've gotten down here in South Florida. But I agree with your takeaways. Did you notice how much data these speed tests use up?
Att is very expensive but you definitely get what you pay for. In my area I get 220mbps on T-Mobile and 40 on att and 200 on Verizon so T-Mobile has cheaper costs and best preformance.
Thanks for putting this together we can see how hard you worked to get this done thanks. I was thinking of changing from T-Mobile but now I am sure thanks again.
I live in Longmont too and my experience has been pretty different from your video with Tmobile. I get close too 300mbps from Harvest Junction area, and most areas around here. In some areas, it still shows 5G but only gets 30 to 50 Mbps like your video. This is with iPhone 12 Pro.
Have you tried doing LTE vs 5G speed tests in the same location? I’ve consistently seen slower speeds on 5G compared with LTE on T-Mobile. I’d be curious to hear what your results are!
@@StetsonDoggett I just tested it, 29 down 17 up on LTE, 243 down 30 up on 5G. Usually its even higher on 5G, maybe now is peak hour. ibb.co/qkLPfQ7 ibb.co/X3czGYj
in other words ATT dsnt need to be on 5g to be fast!! and its facts!!! up in Estes park ATT LTE goes up to 200 plus depending on where u at! 5G is a joke
I really appreciate your time and effort making this video! You were very thorough and I really appreciate you showing ALL of the data you collected! Stay safe!
Did u turn the ios 5g always on and not on auto? As went to check out mmwave on att with my phone s20 ultra and dads iPhone 12 pro max and it was having lots of issues(with the auto turned on as I forgot about it)
@@madbirds mm wave with Verizon is way faster it reaches like gig speeds and the other 5G isn’t as well and I have iPhone 12 as well and Verizon 5G nationwide isn’t so hot right now it’s usually a little faster or a little slower then LTE, AT&T has like the best lte network in terms of speed ever but I’m sure Verizon’s is more reliable
Its awesome to get a comparison in colorado there are a few dead spots all over the place i know of a few for t mobile thinking of switching to verison but now im thinking at&t
I’m honestly unsure. From Apple’s keynote presentation, it sounded like the iPhone 12 would only connect to 5G when it “needed it”, which I presume meant for downloading files, streaming music or video content, or other more data-intensive tasks. It’s unclear if the phone would be able to tell which connection would be faster, or just what technology it was connected to (5G or LTE). So yeah, I’m not sure, but I’d be curious myself to test this!
This is why I switched to AT&T. They have barely any 5G, however their LTE is not only more available, but it's faster than any of the others on even 5G. It's the only company that will even work in the White Mountains where I travel a lot to. Also the fact you admit to doing your tests only near Verizon towers, makes this test bias, and yet AT&T still held it's own.
Interesting, in my area in Utah T-Mobile is the unquestioned fastest with Verizon behind and AT&T being very slow. Also, time of day has a huge impact on speeds.
Based on the speed tests being displayed on the video it sounds to me like there’s no real huge reason to rush out and buy the iPhone 12 if you want 5G coverage. This is not the first time I’ve seen these kind of results I think if I were to purchase the iPhone 12 pro myself, I would be tempted to turn off 5G and just give everyone a chance to build out their networks a little bit more
The good news is the iPhone 12 has a great LTE modem, too. I think I’ll probably end up leaving 5G turned off too, based on my results in my area. Performance does vary a lot from location to location though, so it may be worth running some of your own tests in your own location to see how the networks perform.
Google Fi (Tmo) user. What I find is that every time I try to do something on 5g there is an initial lag of several seconds, sometimes up to a half a minute before data starts flowing at any reasonable speed. When using RUclips for example. Like there is some kind of check in process. Can be very frustrating.
Excellent video! You put a lot of work into it. One suggestion would be to also compare a similar phone like a Note 20 Ultra in a similar test to not only compare carriers but iPhone vs. Android.
Wow. Thanks for all the effort you put into this video. I was really excited about Visible gaining future 5G support, as my LTE speeds are fantastic. Now.... not so much. Thanks!
Visible is on the bottom of the pole in throttling. I get 100 mbps sometimes but then during the evening it drops to 2 or 3 Mbps. Sometimes lower to the point it's unusable. I'm wanting to stay with Visible but this gets old sometimes. I can't even load a website during these times
@MOHAMED MOHAMED AT&T cuts hotspot at 10gb. Verizon only has a 15gb plan with a hotspot, Verizon also throttles video at 480 resolution, t mobile is pretty bad around here and also throttles video at 480 resolution.
I think location should be a factor in determining a carriers network speed. I have T-Mobile and where I live in PA, my 5G speeds are pretty dang good I was constantly hitting between 115-150 mbps of download but my LTE is much slower just barely hitting 20mbps. I'm assuming midband 5G has hit my area but not every part has it of course, so I think it's worth having another look in the future.
Thank you so much for all your hard work on this comparison video. I truly appreciate all your videos. I hope you make it to New Orleans one day soon and do a comparison video. I would love to know who dominates here. I’ve heard Verizon rules in the city area. I’m live close to Lake Pontchartrain and I have AT&T and I think the LTE or 5ge works better here, but I’m not sure because I don’t have a Verizon phone to compare. My neighbors think Verizon is the better one. At home though, I’m mostly on Wi-Fi which I have Spectrum from Charter. Thanks again for the video!
AT&T has a huge fiber network across the USA is what gives them an advantage. They have absolutely the best backhaul system out of all the carriers. The backhauls are the bottlenecks in cellular
great effort however, you need to compare RSRP to the throughput. At each location there will be a difference in proximity to the carrier's antenna and thus will effect your results.
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Excellent numbers! Thanks. I’ll wait to upgrade to 5G, unless AT&T deploys full mm-wave somewhere I frequent (that is, if COVID19 lets up so that I can go anywhere!). Interesting that Verizon’s mm-wave indicator said “UW,” seemingly implying microwaves rather than mm waves...
So, while I appreciate all the hard work and it is very interesting information, there’s something kind of missing. Speed test and the word faster do not necessarily translate into the user experience. Example: the car has a top speed of 200 mph. Does that mean it accelerates 0 to 80 mph more quickly? Faster top speed, faster acceleration, faster off the line? There are many variables and considerations. What I wish you would also have done is to scroll through TikTok or Facebook or launch a high-resolution Netflix stream or RUclips or prime video. Build a new playlist in Spotify and jump from track to track. Maybe I’m the only one, but I don’t own my phone or subscribe to a particular network in order to run speed test. Messaging, media consumption, sharing videos that I just took of someone’s sports event, and other real-world things. Did LTE do all those things better or worse did 5G do them better or worse? Did anyone of the three companies consistently do those real world things better or worse? I don’t mean to be harsh, these are the real questions that I wish had answers.
ATT 5Ge is very impressive in Baltimore, MD. 116 ⬇️/ 7⬆️ but since I got the iPhone 12 my 5G test average 319 ⬇️/48⬆️ but I’m not in the heart of the city where I’m sure it’s faster. However I go to VA a lot and say for instance I’m going to Hampton VA, the deeper in VA I go, I’ll start at 5G to 5Ge to just LTE. 2 weeks ago in Hampton VA I was getting 5.03⬇️/1.83⬆️
Sooo.... what do you think of 5G?
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How is AT&T’s fake 5Ge faster?
AT&T 5GE is surprisingly quite a bit more than just advanced LTE and you would notice a deviation(200mbps vs 150mbps) in speed if the signal actually read LTE. It's a little bit different from LTE, and it's not low band 5G (which is actually intended to perform worse but have better coverage per tower). But it's something like LTE+++ And it does not work on most LTE only Android phones.
This is why they call it 5G evolution because it's more advanced than their normal LTE but it's still not a 5G band. it was/is an evolutionary step towards 5G.
Did all the tests use prioritized data?
One other thing you weren't paying attention to signal strength. The further away you get from the tower the weaker the signal and the slower the data transmission.
@@g00bermeister there's no such thing as a 5g band.
Thank you for the shout out Stetson. It would be good to have you on the podcast again or I can join you on yours. Video was #tremendous phenomenal work. Very appreciated.
ATT LTE is very impressive. I’m in Queens, NYC, and I get about 100 down with ATT Prepaid , 45 down with T-Mobile, and 25 down with Verizon.
Yeah Verizon is a bit congested here in NYC.
@@techzoe3898 Depends where. They still rule NYC overall
@@Longshore79 oh yeah definitely
@@techzoe3898 “Yeah Verizon is a bit Congested here in NYC” That’s their excuse for delivering slow speeds. AT&T has tons of customers in that area too but they are really impressive. Verizon is overpriced and overrated.
@@redman8767able overrated ? They work just great for me. Rootmetrics and third party testing would disagree with you in NYC. Then again location is everything
Att: 5G? Never heard of him 🤔
We have really fast LTE 💪🏻💪🏻💪🏻
Its because nobody has ATT
@@quantum_vortex_ As of Q3 2020, They're the largest wireless carrier in the US by number of subscribers so unless 176 million is nobody I'd say you're wrong
@@nickgagner3798 Lol i only know 2 people with att
@@quantum_vortex_ exactly, *you* only know 2 people, that doesn't mean that the 176 Millions others don't exist
@@ryzechdev that is not att's mobility subscriber base
Looks to me like At&T Dominated almost everywhere unless you’re standing next to a Rare Verizon Millimeter Node.
Verizon nodes all up my street
When you go to out to the country verizon is the only provider that has good coverage. They have the best coverage by far. So if you live in the city verizon isn't that good but in the country that's the only option
In the small city where I am T-mobile connections are almost non existent, At&t works sort of fine unless your in a small patch of forest or at this certain intersection and Verizon is a rather good powerhouse
@@frostcate2546 that's the case in most of the rural areas. I went upstate NY with friends (in a small town, not in the middle of nowhere) and I didn't have any service with my t-mobile and my friends, which had verizon, had 4 bars.
Lol att does well with LTE+
I’m asking myself, why get 5G when AT&T has LTE that good?
Latency might be a huge factor and the future for 5 g is meant to be better
exactly. LTE meets all my requirements now i really don't care about 5G
LTE has been around much longer than 5G, so LTE has the advantage. 5G is still new, so overall, it's good to see where we're standing for 5G so far. Plus there have been news and info about 6G, yes 6G! Only time will tell how everything goes for technology.
What latency? 5G infrastructure isn't fully setup yet for less than 10 ms latency
95% of “5G” out right now is nothing but just a tweaked LTE signal. From a science standpoint they are virtually identical. Actual 5G is MMWAVE, a completely different beast entirely. Unless you are on MMWAVE you have LTE.
Wow. Fast forward to August 2021 and T-Mobile was just named the fastest carrier in the US. Stetson you should revisit this video! It would be really interesting to watch how things have changed.
Vzw mmwave is tremendous. Approaching 3 gbps in the cle.
It's not tremendous here in LA . Sure it can get up to 3gbps . But walk 2 steps and it disappears and u back to slow lte. And verizon has the slowest lte here in LA it's like 5 -10 mbps . Att is the best here because if u go out there 5G+ área which is mmwave u at least fall back to a really fast lte that's still getting 100+ mbps .
Yeah but their nodes are sparse.
so what do you do with the bandwidth? Are you using it for seedboxes ? 3 gigs of bandwidth is meaningless unless you just like to look at speedtest numbers.
@@kickassclone75 it's not about the bandwidth, it's about CAPACITY. The more bandwidth you have the more capacity it can handle before it slows down. The more lanes traffic has on the highway, the less likely the slowdown
Using both Verizon and AT&T I have really noticed you get the best network experience with no limits when using AT&T. I gave up on Tmobile many years ago. AT&T doesn't throttle their network one bit. That's more than value, that's justice and consumer friendly. Verizon has the best coverage with AT&T closing the gap and AT&T has the fastest speeds. Thanks for the video. Great job 👍
Yes AT&T throttles. I have it on LTE modem and phone. They throttle my modem around 25 Mbps download. My phone connected to the same tower will have 110 download
@@Bryan-Hensley Interesting because I'm curious if your devices are capable of connecting to all available bands? I know the newer the device is the more bands it can connect to. I haven't experienced any throttle with AT&T in a very long time. Still seems like you get more than decent speeds though. Stay safe and stay well 👍
@@SINCITYJ yes I am getting all the bands. AT&T is only using 12, 2 and 66 around here. Speeds are about the same on band 2 and 66. A little slower on 12. I can have the data modem and my phone on the same band, the modem will never go above 26 Mbps download, the phone will get to over 100 mbps. I think they are throttling all unlimited data plans but letting phones go wide open. But I'm happy with anything above 22 Mbps. If my modem gets on band 12 the speed will hover around 15 Mbps download. I don't understand why anyone needs 100 Mbps download.
I live in puerto rico, after hurricane marian destroyed the island. TMOBILE rebuilt their spectrum with their lates towers and cells.
It averages 90-120 on LTE and 5G 190-350 down 89up.
I wish T-Mobile would do this across the country! That’s amazing to hear though. I’m glad you guys are getting fast speeds!
Short summary: Basically turn off 5G unless you’re in a city that offers true ultra wideband/mmWave 5G.
What I don’t get is why would they separate the low band 5G from 4G LTE. Why not combine the them and just call it 5G? You would seemingly have increased speed over just 4G LTE.
Here in Texas it's the same trend. AT&T has fast LTE, VZW and TMO are slower. Mint and Visible are cheaper for unlimited though so there's that.
Excellent real-world testing. Thank you for all the hard work and clean presentation of the results.
Wow! Excellent video Stetson. Thank you for taking the time to go out to all these locations for us. The results were pretty shocking, hopefully it improves sooner rather than later.
You’re welcome, Brave Shine! Thank you for your comment!
This is greet to hear,small steps for big room for development on Network carrier.
What's the development all about cause the whole hype most network carriers spend millions of dollars on commercial is quite outstanding.
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So in a nutshell: Go with AT&T and get real 4G not like the marketing "5G" which is just there to exist.
Good video and your other vids helped me lower my bill so thanks for that
I need to find a RUclipsr like you that can do this same video in NorCal
AT&T is still the same, in areas like sac, redding, yuba, ect. granted i work for AT&T but i got faster speeds then i got on verizons network. going up to the foothills and out of the way locations like newcastle and aubern youll experience slower speeds though
Stetson: Aside from the channel bandwidth consider the effect of backhaul connections. So, what you’ve measured is the how complete are the connections feeding 5G transceivers - at least in the mm bandwidth. It doesn’t matter what the transceiver capability if the feed can’t fill it. Note that the LTE based systems work fine not only from a bandwidth perspective, but the network feeding them are mature and able to give them all they can handle. Right?
Exactly. The backhauls are the bottle necks
That's 3.5 ghz band 48 Stetson. Cbrs. Possibly laa b46 5 .2 ghz for that fast vzw test near the mmwave site.
Remember T-Mobile did the same thing in 2011 calling HSPA+ 4G when it was just 3G+
AT&T is guilty of that too
i believe other carriers did that too
Att is a very fast network. Vzw can be bogged down in markets with too many users. Tmobile is... t-mobile 😂
It was super fun to test! And thank you for your response on Twitter as to why the LTE speeds were so much faster than 5G! I'm really excited for bid-band and high-band 5G to be rolled out in more locations, because as we can see this low-band 5G just isn't cutting it--except for the marketing materials so carriers can promote they offer 5G in more locations and slap a 5G icon in our status bars 😂
have tmobile for a while. their prices are good and I root for them but the speeds are getting worse. At&t is putting in that work though. might look into switching
In NYC w/ T-mobile on 5Gis anywhere from 400-500 download/ on LTE 80-150
Im in Minneapolis with t-mobile and my 5g download speeds range from 160-260 throughout the city while my lte speeds go from 40-120. Uploads are 5g 30-100 and lte 12-40. iPhone 12 Pro max
As a network engineer, remember when 1,5 Mbps download on T1 was exiting !!! Ages ago……
I have a 5G phone on T-Mobile and honestly, I was expecting more when I first got it. It is just as fast or even slower than 4G LTE. Tbh low-band 5G is not that great besides coverage
I experienced the same thing where I live with T-Mobile. They seem super slow. Though tethering with 5g is much faster
if you live in big/busy cities it’s going to be significantly slower especially during certain times of day.
@@kinglouis2987 well I live in a rural place where most of the people have verzion but still, its kinda slow compare to other companies
Can't help buy notice that ATT is consistently a higher ping than the rest. It isn't horrible buy I wonder if you would notice a difference if trying to do something like FaceTime. Awesome video as always. But as far as "ATT 5G" goes I have to say I never see it pop up. I work in location that is suppose to be covered and traveling my whole state it hasn't shown on my iPhone once. I even went so far to even contact support because I thought something was wrong, but they couldn't see anything that would limit it and my plan was a 5G plan. I personally think their coverage map is just plain wrong.
That’s because ATT’s closest data access point to Denver is in Plano TX. T-Mo/VZ both have local access points in Aurora CO.
I live in Dallas and I easily average over 200 Mbps down, and 20 up where I live on T-Mobile LTE.
Why is the upload so slow?
Att 5GE speeds are what I get on Tmobiles 5G. In Denver sprint has a solid 2.5 network so hopefully Tmo does the same with it.
Show how fast these are during the middle of a work day after you have hit your plan’s data cap and they throttle your down to a snail speed.
Great job on the video, finally a decent test video in Colorado. Would be awesome if you could test remote cities of the state too but also have a good population size.
Yeah. It is hilarious that 5G is basically slower than LTE right now. Either way, I plan to probably get a 5G phone next year. I’m thinking about the next Samsung. My S8 has been feeling a little old for awhile, but I do have to say it has served me well. My plan is to get the next Samsung for my main US Cellular while maybe putting my US Mobile Verizon SIM in my S8 since I have no other VOLTE phones that are technically mine currently and my S8 would work great for that.
5g phones will hold a better connection to towers because they can monitor all bands and several towers simultaneously. 4g doesn't..
Bruh, sweet video. Nice job. Lots of good information. Keep it up!
This video is from December 2020. In AUgust 2021 results will be way different. T-Mobile has way more N41 rolled out that they didn’t back then
I have AT&T iPhone 8 in 2021. I am happy AT&T LTE is very fast in your tests. I am happy I randomly discovered your YT channel as your content is very helpful and beneficial for considering cell phone plans.
I just ran my own test on AT&T 5g+ vs LTE. The results are about the same if I didn't know any better I would say it is the same 170MB up 30mb down. What I have noticed about 5G during daily usage is that it eats battery faster, and I get questionable reliability. If I disable 5G, I get consistent service and better battery life. Not what I was expecting at all
Networks in the USA are doing 5G wrong. Here in the U.K. all of our networks decided to deploy midband first and the results I’ve seen are impressive and give massive uplift compared to 4G.
Vodafone, O2 and EE regularly hit 500mbps compared to 50-250mbps on their 4G network.
Three can hit 800mbps and there are reports of 1gbps or more on their mid band network compared to between 20-70mbps seen by there.
All U.K. networks started with 3.4-3.8ghz, the issue is that US networks have started with 600mhz band which is going to give a false perception to US consumers that 5G is not an improvement on 4G.
LTE-A is a very good tech compared to low band 5G especially if there is very little bandwidth being utilised on the 5G networks.
To add to this. O2/EE/Vodafone use 40-50mhz of 5G bandwidth and Three uses 100mhz as a channel width.
You’re talkint about 40mbit/s for every 5mhz of spectrum on a 5G network.
As someone who lives in the Denver area I can also confirm that AT&t is killing it in the area with their LTE speeds. I've had all three major carriers within the last year and AT&t by far is the best for signal strength and speed very very impressed with them.
Overall, Great work on the video thank you for all your time and effort and going to all these different places it was very informative!
That’s because they raised their rates so high that the network is less crowded
T-Mobile needs a Mariokart mushroom at 8:41 😂
Awesome video! Thank you for putting in the effort to go to different places across all the networks. I noticed US Mobile beginning to roll out 5G where I live, and it’s just disappointing compared to the faster LTE network. Interesting that despite AT&T’s false advertising of “5G”-e, they’re actually giving you better speeds across the board (unless you happen to be in sight of a mmwave transmitter). I’ll take “reliably fast” over “rarely INSANELY fast”
Us mobile isn't a network owner. They are a MVNO.
im getting 200-300 downlink with TMo in pittsburgh pretty often. i honestly use my phone as a hotspot more often than my wifi, because it's faster. lol
Was there any measurable difference in ping and jitter between 5G and LTE in your testing?
This is an excellent question! I may try and go through the footage and check, but unfortunately I didn't capture those data points for this specific video.
As always love your work, excellent man! 👍🎖
Been getting around 800mbps in philly surburbs where i live near villanova on tmobile.
Amazing video! Please do more like this. Love it!! Keep up the good work
Great test set. There are two points... if you are in a mmWave area, the 5G really does make a world of difference. Second, if you upload, esp tethered, 5G is (usually) vastly superior. So the use case matters in deciding where to go. I also found that streaming (that is, feeding a stream, not consuming one) over 5G tends to be more consistent, FWIW.
Great inputs, thank you!
Stetson!! This is so good and very different from the speeds I've gotten down here in South Florida. But I agree with your takeaways. Did you notice how much data these speed tests use up?
Thanks for a very informative video ! Sounds like a lot of work and time.
Att is very expensive but you definitely get what you pay for. In my area I get 220mbps on T-Mobile and 40 on att and 200 on Verizon so T-Mobile has cheaper costs and best preformance.
What apps/tools were used to do test? Where can I get apps/tools to do my own tests?
Did you have 3 different SIM cards or phones?
Thanks for putting this together we can see how hard you worked to get this done thanks. I was thinking of changing from T-Mobile but now I am sure thanks again.
Love this video because I live in Colorado. Could you please do an updated 2023 version of this & please include Aurora. Thank you
I live in Longmont too and my experience has been pretty different from your video with Tmobile. I get close too 300mbps from Harvest Junction area, and most areas around here. In some areas, it still shows 5G but only gets 30 to 50 Mbps like your video. This is with iPhone 12 Pro.
Have you tried doing LTE vs 5G speed tests in the same location? I’ve consistently seen slower speeds on 5G compared with LTE on T-Mobile. I’d be curious to hear what your results are!
@@StetsonDoggett I just tested it, 29 down 17 up on LTE, 243 down 30 up on 5G. Usually its even higher on 5G, maybe now is peak hour. ibb.co/qkLPfQ7
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Wow, those are great speeds! I’ll have to keep my eye out for that kind of performance when I’m in different locations!
I'm curios what plans you used on each provider to do this test since 5g prioritization changes on each plan for each provider.
Stats and a lot of work into it. You got yourself a like and subscribed
in other words ATT dsnt need to be on 5g to be fast!! and its facts!!! up in Estes park ATT LTE goes up to 200 plus depending on where u at! 5G is a joke
Greta video!! It’s crazy how unstable the connectivity of 5G is right now. Never thought I’d like to see a 5GE connection 😅 great work on this!!
I appreciate it, Randy!
I appreciate your time doing this testing. It does shed a big light on the reality of 5G at present!
AT&T is the best with LTE. I get 300 Mbps where I am. Even during peak hours its around 200 Mbps.
I really appreciate your time and effort making this video! You were very thorough and I really appreciate you showing ALL of the data you collected! Stay safe!
Did u turn the ios 5g always on and not on auto? As went to check out mmwave on att with my phone s20 ultra and dads iPhone 12 pro max and it was having lots of issues(with the auto turned on as I forgot about it)
Yep, 5G was set to "5G On" for all tests. Example at 6:05.
@@StetsonDoggett interesting. That some slow mmwave also.
@@madbirds it’s not mm wave in any of the tests lol it’s their nationwide one
@@SpeedyDacoit yes there was.... he did 2 or 3 locations with mmwave
@@madbirds mm wave with Verizon is way faster it reaches like gig speeds and the other 5G isn’t as well and I have iPhone 12 as well and Verizon 5G nationwide isn’t so hot right now it’s usually a little faster or a little slower then LTE, AT&T has like the best lte network in terms of speed ever but I’m sure Verizon’s is more reliable
Its awesome to get a comparison in colorado there are a few dead spots all over the place i know of a few for t mobile thinking of switching to verison but now im thinking at&t
Awesome comparison on the coverages. Good job and thanks!
If you put phone on 5G Auto, would it pick the faster of the 2?
I’m honestly unsure. From Apple’s keynote presentation, it sounded like the iPhone 12 would only connect to 5G when it “needed it”, which I presume meant for downloading files, streaming music or video content, or other more data-intensive tasks. It’s unclear if the phone would be able to tell which connection would be faster, or just what technology it was connected to (5G or LTE). So yeah, I’m not sure, but I’d be curious myself to test this!
This is why I switched to AT&T. They have barely any 5G, however their LTE is not only more available, but it's faster than any of the others on even 5G. It's the only company that will even work in the White Mountains where I travel a lot to.
Also the fact you admit to doing your tests only near Verizon towers, makes this test bias, and yet AT&T still held it's own.
Interesting, in my area in Utah T-Mobile is the unquestioned fastest with Verizon behind and AT&T being very slow. Also, time of day has a huge impact on speeds.
How is AT&T overall in Utah?
Based on the speed tests being displayed on the video it sounds to me like there’s no real huge reason to rush out and buy the iPhone 12 if you want 5G coverage.
This is not the first time I’ve seen these kind of results
I think if I were to purchase the iPhone 12 pro myself, I would be tempted to turn off 5G and just give everyone a chance to build out their networks a little bit more
The good news is the iPhone 12 has a great LTE modem, too. I think I’ll probably end up leaving 5G turned off too, based on my results in my area. Performance does vary a lot from location to location though, so it may be worth running some of your own tests in your own location to see how the networks perform.
Google Fi (Tmo) user. What I find is that every time I try to do something on 5g there is an initial lag of several seconds, sometimes up to a half a minute before data starts flowing at any reasonable speed. When using RUclips for example. Like there is some kind of check in process. Can be very frustrating.
Excellent video! You put a lot of work into it. One suggestion would be to also compare a similar phone like a Note 20 Ultra in a similar test to not only compare carriers but iPhone vs. Android.
Wow. Thanks for all the effort you put into this video. I was really excited about Visible gaining future 5G support, as my LTE speeds are fantastic. Now.... not so much. Thanks!
Visible is on the bottom of the pole in throttling. I get 100 mbps sometimes but then during the evening it drops to 2 or 3 Mbps. Sometimes lower to the point it's unusable. I'm wanting to stay with Visible but this gets old sometimes. I can't even load a website during these times
@MOHAMED MOHAMED AT&T cuts hotspot at 10gb. Verizon only has a 15gb plan with a hotspot, Verizon also throttles video at 480 resolution, t mobile is pretty bad around here and also throttles video at 480 resolution.
@@Bryan-Hensley att has up to 30 gb hotspot on elite
@@JesseDH2990 I use 7gb per day
You have to get 5g sim card from att the white one. the yellow or blue sim card wont get 5g signals.
I think location should be a factor in determining a carriers network speed. I have T-Mobile and where I live in PA, my 5G speeds are pretty dang good I was constantly hitting between 115-150 mbps of download but my LTE is much slower just barely hitting 20mbps. I'm assuming midband 5G has hit my area but not every part has it of course, so I think it's worth having another look in the future.
And this is on the Essentials plan mind you
Thank you so much for all your hard work on this comparison video. I truly appreciate all your videos. I hope you make it to New Orleans one day soon and do a comparison video. I would love to know who dominates here. I’ve heard Verizon rules in the city area. I’m live close to Lake Pontchartrain and I have AT&T and I think the LTE or 5ge works better here, but I’m not sure because I don’t have a Verizon phone to compare. My neighbors think Verizon is the better one. At home though, I’m mostly on Wi-Fi which I have Spectrum from Charter.
Thanks again for the video!
Is it possible to get more 1900mhz or 2100 MHz on 5G? I mean it has decent coverage as shown with LTE and is really fast
In Chicago I always get around 200 down on T-Mobile on my iPhone mini. 😀👍
How about doing this same test on the Northwest areas?
ATT is still working on there 5G frl frl it’s probably gonna be the best of the best. There LTE is unbeatable tho
I know.
If they put 5G+ everywhere they will definitely destroy T-Mobile coverage.
AT&T is just new to 5G. Of course it’s gonna be slower.
AT&T has a huge fiber network across the USA is what gives them an advantage. They have absolutely the best backhaul system out of all the carriers. The backhauls are the bottlenecks in cellular
I Have a 5G phone on AT&T and the speeds are not bad.
great effort however, you need to compare RSRP to the throughput. At each location there will be a difference in proximity to the carrier's antenna and thus will effect your results.
Your videos are well done! You deserve a million subscribers for the time you consume making these valuable information avaolable to the public for free!
How about doing the same test on the Nothwest area?
Excellent numbers! Thanks.
I’ll wait to upgrade to 5G, unless AT&T deploys full mm-wave somewhere I frequent (that is, if COVID19 lets up so that I can go anywhere!).
Interesting that Verizon’s mm-wave indicator said “UW,” seemingly implying microwaves rather than mm waves...
Great work Stetson appreciate the time you put into this video, thank you. Hope your hands didn’t freeze too much
There’s one spot in my house where I get 600 upload and 98 download on the T-Mobile network 5G
So basically you’re honestly just better off with 4G cause items far more Consistent than it’s 5G Counterpart, Nice! Thanks!
Great video and awesome information!!!
Did you get the new t-mobile sim it get crazy fast with new sim
What app are you using to test The data
Really appreciate your efforts. Good Job!
I have an iPhone 12 how do I turn off 5G and leave it on LTE I have at&t
This was amazing info!!
Great job as usual two thumbs up 👍👍
So, while I appreciate all the hard work and it is very interesting information, there’s something kind of missing. Speed test and the word faster do not necessarily translate into the user experience. Example: the car has a top speed of 200 mph. Does that mean it accelerates 0 to 80 mph more quickly? Faster top speed, faster acceleration, faster off the line? There are many variables and considerations. What I wish you would also have done is to scroll through TikTok or Facebook or launch a high-resolution Netflix stream or RUclips or prime video. Build a new playlist in Spotify and jump from track to track. Maybe I’m the only one, but I don’t own my phone or subscribe to a particular network in order to run speed test. Messaging, media consumption, sharing videos that I just took of someone’s sports event, and other real-world things. Did LTE do all those things better or worse did 5G do them better or worse? Did anyone of the three companies consistently do those real world things better or worse? I don’t mean to be harsh, these are the real questions that I wish had answers.
My speed tests are pretty much identical to the streaming speeds. I check both.
Incredible video!
Lol you commented even before finishing the video! 😂 I appreciate the support! 🙌🏻
@@StetsonDoggett I gotta support my favorite creator as much as possible!
In cellular network settings did you use 5G mode not the auto 5G mode?
In the video it shows he was just using 5g mode and not auto
is the Verizon 5 g nationwide or 5g ultra ?
AT&T: I AM SPEED
VERIZON: I COULD BE A CONTENDER
T-MOBILE: GUYS WAIT UP!
T-Mobile is actually way faster where I live
Great job as always!
It’s like you said it all depends on location. If you are in NYC you will get a different result.
Csn you do the test again after January 1st?
Using AT&T, it works just fine, maybe a tad bit better than T-mobile, NYC 😊
ATT 5Ge is very impressive in Baltimore, MD. 116 ⬇️/ 7⬆️ but since I got the iPhone 12 my 5G test average 319 ⬇️/48⬆️ but I’m not in the heart of the city where I’m sure it’s faster. However I go to VA a lot and say for instance I’m going to Hampton VA, the deeper in VA I go, I’ll start at 5G to 5Ge to just LTE. 2 weeks ago in Hampton VA I was getting 5.03⬇️/1.83⬆️