It's magic!
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Is it 5G, or 4G?
The difficult we do right away... ...the impossible takes slightly longer.
Evidently, it's 5G. They sent a Verizon Internet Gateway Business FSNO21VA router. Can't see what it is on their site, but an ebay listing shows it as 5G. Never thought I'd see that in Montana!
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Just went from a crappy internet provider (on the phone for hours type of crappy, with crappy 10 Mb (at best) connection) to Verizon 100 Mb/sec for only $5/month more. Holy moley!!! Being able to zoom in Google Maps satellite view and have things updated within a second is mind-blowing! And even more mind-blowing: it isn't even a physical land line! Verizon just put a tower just out of line-of-sight, and it is all wireless! Effin' amazing that those types of speeds can be had just through the airwaves! And can someone explain it like I am 5, how a tower can supply a hundred or more houses at that speed and still get good throughput wirelessly? I seriously suspect that it can't when the load increases, but speed tests are showing the full 100. And on top of that, my phone connects to our WiFi signal and speed tests on it show the full 100 Mb/sec as well! (And a WiFi 6 indicator appears.) Life changing! No more buffering all the cat videos! :laugh:
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Just went from a crappy internet provider (on the phone for hours type of crappy, with crappy 10 Mb (at best) connection) to Verizon 100 Mb/sec for only $5/month more. Holy moley!!! Being able to zoom in Google Maps satellite view and have things updated within a second is mind-blowing! And even more mind-blowing: it isn't even a physical land line! Verizon just put a tower just out of line-of-sight, and it is all wireless! Effin' amazing that those types of speeds can be had just through the airwaves! And can someone explain it like I am 5, how a tower can supply a hundred or more houses at that speed and still get good throughput wirelessly? I seriously suspect that it can't when the load increases, but speed tests are showing the full 100. And on top of that, my phone connects to our WiFi signal and speed tests on it show the full 100 Mb/sec as well! (And a WiFi 6 indicator appears.) Life changing! No more buffering all the cat videos! :laugh:
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Fiber still beats wireless. However I still get speed envy: I'm at 1G now and found out that I could get 3. Imagine, it would take only seconds to download that movie I spent hours choosing. :laugh:
Mircea
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Fiber still beats wireless. However I still get speed envy: I'm at 1G now and found out that I could get 3. Imagine, it would take only seconds to download that movie I spent hours choosing. :laugh:
Mircea
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Fiber still beats wireless. However I still get speed envy: I'm at 1G now and found out that I could get 3. Imagine, it would take only seconds to download that movie I spent hours choosing. :laugh:
Mircea
Mircea Neacsu wrote:
Fiber still beats wireless.
Well there's a low bar for you. But, I'm talking about reliability, not speed. I despise wireless anything with a passion. I've lost count of the number of times people have called me because they keep losing their wireless connection. I've got enough of my own problems in that area, I have no need to try to solve other people's as well. Use a wire, problem solved - for all practical purposes, forever.
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Mircea Neacsu wrote:
Fiber still beats wireless.
Well there's a low bar for you. But, I'm talking about reliability, not speed. I despise wireless anything with a passion. I've lost count of the number of times people have called me because they keep losing their wireless connection. I've got enough of my own problems in that area, I have no need to try to solve other people's as well. Use a wire, problem solved - for all practical purposes, forever.
dandy72 wrote:
Use a wire, problem solved
Amen! I say the same thing except for the day when I was looking at the prospect of digging a trench to put some garden automation in my shed. Then I said "screw it, I'll use wireless" :)
Mircea
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dandy72 wrote:
Use a wire, problem solved
Amen! I say the same thing except for the day when I was looking at the prospect of digging a trench to put some garden automation in my shed. Then I said "screw it, I'll use wireless" :)
Mircea
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dandy72 wrote:
Use a wire, problem solved
Amen! I say the same thing except for the day when I was looking at the prospect of digging a trench to put some garden automation in my shed. Then I said "screw it, I'll use wireless" :)
Mircea
Mircea Neacsu wrote:
I was looking at the prospect of digging a trench to put some garden automation in my shed. Then I said "screw it, I'll use wireless"
Don't complain... You might have started the trench and then say have to say: "Damn it, I'll have to use wireless" ;) ;P :laugh: :laugh:
M.D.V. ;) If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about? Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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Just went from a crappy internet provider (on the phone for hours type of crappy, with crappy 10 Mb (at best) connection) to Verizon 100 Mb/sec for only $5/month more. Holy moley!!! Being able to zoom in Google Maps satellite view and have things updated within a second is mind-blowing! And even more mind-blowing: it isn't even a physical land line! Verizon just put a tower just out of line-of-sight, and it is all wireless! Effin' amazing that those types of speeds can be had just through the airwaves! And can someone explain it like I am 5, how a tower can supply a hundred or more houses at that speed and still get good throughput wirelessly? I seriously suspect that it can't when the load increases, but speed tests are showing the full 100. And on top of that, my phone connects to our WiFi signal and speed tests on it show the full 100 Mb/sec as well! (And a WiFi 6 indicator appears.) Life changing! No more buffering all the cat videos! :laugh:
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David O'Neil wrote:
how a tower can supply a hundred or more houses at that speed and still get good throughput wirelessly?
Naturally the solution for a provider, any provider, is to throttle service when there is a problem at the IP level. There is also bandwidth saturation, but not clear to me if that applies. Certainly googling for the answer doesn't provide one. Might be that it is high due to the nature of how the actual communication is involved. But would not be surprised if throttling on that is also possible. That is a different kind of throttling than what would be for actual IP traffic. Unfortunately googling is likely to provide a lot of noise that tends towards nefarious plots (sort of) without realistically providing objective information. So there are complaints about something being slow and thus it must be the providers fault without really eliminating all of the other possible problems. And then a lot of conjecture on top of that. My only thought is that one can only hope that most of the neighbors don't really do much with their networks. So the kids texting for most of the day will have zero impact versus someone who is running a performance/load testing business out of the house is going to be a problem.
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Just went from a crappy internet provider (on the phone for hours type of crappy, with crappy 10 Mb (at best) connection) to Verizon 100 Mb/sec for only $5/month more. Holy moley!!! Being able to zoom in Google Maps satellite view and have things updated within a second is mind-blowing! And even more mind-blowing: it isn't even a physical land line! Verizon just put a tower just out of line-of-sight, and it is all wireless! Effin' amazing that those types of speeds can be had just through the airwaves! And can someone explain it like I am 5, how a tower can supply a hundred or more houses at that speed and still get good throughput wirelessly? I seriously suspect that it can't when the load increases, but speed tests are showing the full 100. And on top of that, my phone connects to our WiFi signal and speed tests on it show the full 100 Mb/sec as well! (And a WiFi 6 indicator appears.) Life changing! No more buffering all the cat videos! :laugh:
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My cable provider here in BC (Canada) is Shaw, and they provide up to 2GB internet with their new modems - I have the 1.5 GB option because I work from home. Its standard cable to the house and modem, but from there it is all wireless for everything. I can have a Teams video call, as well as large downloads and still have the TV cable box streaming wirelessly. No issues with any of this.
