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Verizon wireless home internet has been amazing for us! We get OVER the advertised 300mbps download and our 25mbps upload is great too! All of this for only $70 a month with NO caps or contracts! Xfinity costs $100 for the same! And as an added bonus, Verizon is giving away a FREE Nintendo Switch and $200! After over 2 decades, it will be great to finally say good riddance to Xfinity! member for 18.6 years, 4586 visits, last login: 2 days ago lodged 2 days ago
Would Verizon do what T-Mobile couldnât for me and provide stable internet? Short answer, yes! After I canceled T-Mobile, I see the ad for Verizon wireless 5G Home Internet. $50 dollars with autopay for 2 years guarantee, no contract, no data caps. Seems like I heard this before and was hesitant to try. I did some research and at the time of the beginning off February 2022, there was very little reviews or info. But with no contract and cancel anytime, I figure why not. Turns out this was a good decision. Ordering online was easy. Just put in information and a few clicks, got the modem within a few days. Once the package arrived, you are shown a card, one side for 4g and the other for 5g. I used the instructions for 5G, basically setup the modem near the window and boot it up. The Verizon app walks you through the process. Basically you have 2 lights, red means no signal, white means good. This was different from T-mobile where you could see signal strength and position it to get the best signal so I had to trust the app/device. After setup, I was able to login and get wifi. I hooked up the internet to my local network. Internet speeds were what Verizon said, that with 5G, it would be between 85MB to 300MB. I was consistently getting 300 MB. Upload was 20 MB. I can tell that it is capped to this as via speed tests, it would climb about 300 then slowly throttle down to 300. Upload the same thing, springs to 40MB, then throttles down to 20MB. Latency is actually good. I get low 20s for the most part, sometimes go to upper 20s, but not as much. »www.speedtest.net/result ··· 9c47.png After some rewiring on my LAN network, Service has been mostly consistently good. You do get a public IP, which is a plus, but no passthrough option on the modem. You do get both ipv4 and ipv6. Due to the service being up, service has been basically the same as my old wireline. Realtime/online gaming has been mainly good. Playing Team Fortress 2 with servers in Virginia, I mainly get a mid 40s ping, sometimes in the low 50s. But it is very playable, as opposed to T-Mobile. Jitter is still there, but I hardly notice it at all when playing, so that is a plus to me. Zoom calls have been good, as it should be. No issues so far with remote work. But there are some cons. I have noticed that it seems that the public ip does changeâ¦a lot! This mainly happens for the most part in the middle of night, so I am not too concerned. If I had dedicated port forwarding, this might be annoying to some. There have been a few times that the ip would change in the day and I would take a 30 second hit, but service does restore. For the price and consistent speeds, so far, I am willing to live with it. But I am monitoring to see how it goes. But again, for the most part, it has been consistently up. Overall I am pleased. Maybe not the perfect solution, but I am happy with it. Speeds are consistent, latency is low and just works. With wireless, again mileage varies on where you are at. But I will keep checking the line to see if it improves as advertising seems to be ramping up on Verizonâs part. member for 15.7 years, 26 visits, last login: 1.9 years ago lodged 2 years ago
I love Verizon Wireless because no matter where I am in the country, I know I can get service. I have 3 lines on Go Unlimited Loyalty, for a total of $160/month, after Autopay, Verizon Connections (work), and Verizon Mobile + Home Level 3 discounts (taxes & fees included). I have 2 iPhone 11s on Device Payment, both of which are $200 (8.33/month) off from an upgrade offer, plus a paid off iPhone 8. All in all, price is a bit high, but you get what you pay for. **Note: I update this review a lot, but I don't archive the old copies. If you have any questions, feel free to IM me!** member for 9.6 years, 4406 visits, last login: 128 days ago updated 3.4 years ago
I only have a Verizon PAYGO plan and I never tested their speeds, would not do much good on a non 4G phone. My plan is grandfathered from the good old Alltel and I get about twice as many minutes/texts when I would on a current Verizon plan. The only reason I keep this phone is to have a back up for my T mobile phone and for certain rural coverage situations. Rural coverage is the only strong point of Verizon. Everything else is miserable, customer service, tech support,their stores, billing. Company deploys deceptive practices. I tried their post paid for 10 days and I ran. If you really must have an extensive rural coverage or a limited choice of providers or use them as a back up, go for it. Otherwise, there are better choices. On edit: There have been some positive changes in verizon's plans, mainly due to the T-Mobile's competition. The post paid plans for single line users are becoming very competitive On edit 2018/08/18 The customer service, which used to be beyond catastrophic for pre paid customers, has significantly improved in recent years. You also get text alerts whenever the payment due day is coming, so you won't loose your service and your prepaid monies. This review will not be updated after 2019/05/10. Reason : DSL forum account closing member for 11.1 years, 3071 visits, last login: 4.8 years ago updated 4.8 years ago
Ultimately I did a bring your device SIM with Verizon for their prepaid unlimited hotspot with no throttle (this doesn't include congestion on the tower). I bought a cheap hotspot off of ebay (Verizon AC791L) and utilized it to activate the service. I then use a MOFI 4500v2 with two external YAGI antennas for the better connection to the tower. I use LMR400 for the better cabling. This setup works very very well. I am getting 32d 11u on avg, with lowest being 21d 10u. Their tech support is completely useless when it comes down to understanding aftermarket routers, so be aware if you can not figure it out yourself, this might not be a good option. Outside of that, the service is very good and consistent connection. I have very little congestion even during hot hours (5p-9p) and Saturday. I couldn't be happier compared to the speeds I was getting with ATT service which the tower congestion was unbelievably bad. member for 5.8 years, 225 visits, last login: 4.2 years ago lodged 5.1 years ago
For six months after I left college, I was desperately searching around for broadband Internet for my laptop. DSL and cable connections were tempting. But, they had no coverage in my area and TimeWarner Cable wanted me to cough up over $900 to get a cable out where I live which was way too costly for me, especially since I just got out of college. And I heard enough evil things about sattelite Internet so I didn't want to venture into their territory. But while Christmas shopping for my family at Best Buy, I came across a Verizon Wireless salesman selling wireless USB modems. He was quite understanding of my situation and gave me plenty of information about Verizon's wireless Internet network, including the NationalAccess connections possible in places that couldn't normally get dial-up. Tempted, I subscribed to the network right on the spot and the cost for the USB modem was reduced since I now had a subscription. Installation of the modem was simple enough once I installed the hardware for it on my computer via CD and setting up the modem for one of my computer's USB port. The installation of the modem only took me about 5 minutes. As for connections, I can only get the NationalAccess connection out where I live, but the connection's quite good and I can get download and upload speeds 4 times faster than my old dial-up connection on AOL when I ran a speed test on the modem (120 kbps Down/ 123 kbps Up). There are two major problems that I do have with Verizon Wireless's services though. First, would be the 5 GB monthly download limit. With my regular Internet use at college, I would normally use about 25 to 30 GB a month doing Internet browsing, video streaming, and peer-to-peer downloads using Bittorrent. My laptop only has about 25 GB of hard drive space so I can't overhaul my laptop with downloaded files as heavily as those with higher storage capacities for their computer. 5 GB is a bit limiting for what I would like to get off my new connection, especially since I can only get the NationalAccess connection from Verizon Wireless out where I live. Second of course, would be the limitations of what you can do with Verizon's connection. Verizon Wireless's Terms of Service specifically state their service is only meant to be used for basic Internet uses such as Internet browsing and e-mailing. Peer-to-peer programs and video streaming, my two frequent uses of the Internet at college, are of prohibited use in their services and I've heard of enough folks who made the jump from Verizon to Sprint because they felt limited in what they could do online while with Verizon Wireless. With both of these issues, I think Verizon Wireless has a poor preconceived notion of what they think all people like to do online much like sattelite Internet providers have with their Fair Access Policies. If you live in the boonies, can't get DSL or cable out where you live, and can't stand dial-up or sattelite Internet, then Verizon Wireless could be for you. Just be prepared for a limited online experience if you like doing more online besides Internet browsing and e-mailing. UPDATE (12/14/07): During the past few days, my area was hit by a series of snow storms. This obviously effected how good my connection was as both my download and upload rates had dropped into the lower-90 kbps on Thursday and my connection was at two bars most of the time up to early today. Right now, my connection is back up to three bars and my download rate improved from Wednesday's speed test. UPDATE (4/6/08): It's been over four months now since I went on Verizon Wireless for an ISP. I can still only get NationalAccess connections here at my house and even with an antenna I bought for my USB modem, I can still only get NationalAccess. The only benefit with the antenna is an improved signal with my connection. My Internet use during the week is normally close to or over 100 MB a day since I work most of the day and around 200 MB a day on weekends. A good chunk of my data usage comes from seeing videos on Youtube, frequent downloading, and updating my virus and spyware protection. NationalAccess seems more of a blessing for me since videos and downloaded files do take time to load up on the 1XRTT connection of NationalAccess. I would be more tempted to use more of my monthly data if I did have BroadbandAccess capable speeds out where I lived which could give me problems thanks to the 5 GB cap VZW has set up. It would be better if they either gave higher data usage for the month or actually give Sprint a run for their money by actually offering unlimited data usage at a cheaper price. Otherwise, the connection has been able to hold up very well and I rarely lose my signal. If VZW were to just lighten up on their Terms of Service and their monthly caps, then I could do more with the connection without worrying about my data usage. UPDATE (4/8/08): I checked Verizon's Terms of Service today and it looks like they have lightened up on what you can use their connection for. Online gaming and streaming are now allowed. I still wish they can lighten up on their monthly caps. UPDATE (6/2/08): I now have BroadbandAccess Rev. A coverage out where I live. After doing a speed test, I got 953 kbps down, 500 kbps up. While the greater speed is a great asset to me, now I'm gonna have to be more wary of how much I download since I can get things faster. I still think VZW should lighten up on their caps. UPDATE (6/3/08): Speed tests came up with 831 kbps down, 397 kbps up. And the speeds I got from yesterday had me tempted to do some downloading which within an hour, I already used over 100 MB of my data usage. I've already used over 3 GB of my data usage for this billing period so far and it won't be for two weeks until my data account is reset for the next billing period. I see no reason to having such a large amount of download speed if I have such a small monthly cap put on it which is why I could deal with NationalAccess easier since it took me longer to get stuff downloaded. UPDATE (7/13/08): As of Friday, I went over my 5 GB cap yet so far I haven't been throttled which must mean my area isn't too reliant on the wireless tower near my house. And topping off the fact that I signed up for VZW back in December of last year, I also don't have to worry about overage fees so I'm in a bit of a lucky situation at this moment. But, this doesn't change my criticism of being wary of Verizon's caps, especially if you got a contract with them after March of this year. Latest speed test results are 778 kbps down, 380 kbps up. UPDATE (9/18/08): I got my bandwidth throttled last month from using 8 GB in a month due to the fact I'm currently unemployed. I have heard rumors that those with an 'unlimited' account can use up to 7 GB in a month before having their speed throttled which could explain why the two months I went over 5 GB didn't get me throttled. I'm now back at full speed as of today. Latest speed test results are 1035 kbps down, 388 kbps up. UPDATE (12/2/08): It's now been just over a year since I first made my contract with VZW. I've been throttled for a second month since I used nearly 8 GB in two consecutive months which goes to show where a tight monthly cap can get you while bored and unemployed. But of course, I don't have overage fees to worry about since I'm still on an 'unlimited' contract. As far as my connection is concerned, it still holds up well in most circumstances. I've had occasions where I can't connect to web sites or lose my connection due to heavy weather. But, this is expected since it's a wireless connection after all. I am hoping within the next year that VZW loosens up on its tight caps before I have to renew my contract. It would be a pain to have to pay overage fees just because I decide to go giddy on watching Youtube videos one night in a single sitting. I've even heard that T-Mobile offers a 10 GB cap or unlimited data usage with its customers which seems far more flexible than what I'm getting out of VZW. Too bad there's no T-Mobile coverage out here. Otherwise, I would consider jumping WISPs once my contract with VZW expired if Verizon still doesn't loosen up on caps.than UPDATE (6/9/09): It's been over 18 months now since I first got on a contract with VZW. Connection still holds up well and I'm still not happy with the 5 GB bandwidth cap. While it does look like VZW's easing on its overage fees, the price is still costly for my regular monthly usage being between 7 and 8 GB. I still don't have to worry about overage fees for another 6 months since my contract is still on VZW's old terms. But I'd like something more better than paying over $100 in overage fees every month if I choose to renew my contract with them. UPDATE (9/3/2010): Still on VZW and I've been on my old contract for nearly 3 years meaning I can now jump ship whenever without being charged an ETF. Being unemployed's led me to make more use of my Internet connection with me normally using 10-11 GB a month which has led to my connection speed getting throttled every other month. Connection still holds up well in most situations, despite frequent throttling. Unless VZW learns to not be so tight with their caps (doubtful!) or I find similar/ faster Internet speeds at a better price (unless I escape from the boonies, fat chance for another 3-4 years when LTE is deployed), I plan to stay on my grandfathered contract where I don't get charged overage fees for as long as possible. UPDATE (10/26/14): Effective as of yesterday, I am back on VZW thanks to Millenicom no longer offering Verizon service. Since my Jetpack from Millenicom is a Verizon compatible device, I was able to put the device on a monthly shared data plan with VZW without having to go back on a contract. There was some confusion from the store rep I talked with as he thought Verizon's "double data" promotion offered at the time was also applicable for hotspots as he said I could get 40 GB for what you'd normally pay for 20 ($130). When I found out of the store clerk's error a day later as I only had 20 GB out of what was promised from the clerk, I talked with customer service and they were kind enough to transition me on their "double data" promotion at 30 GB a month. Counting the taxes added onto the already pricey $150 I would be paying for this plan, I am looking likely to pay close to $200 for the bill and my first bill will come with a $35 activation fee, $15 more than the fee I would have if I wanted to reactivate a device used by Millenicom. I'm just hoping I can ride things out on VZW until I can get coverage off a regional wireless provider since I have been in contact with them since earlier this year to push for coverage from them to come my way as they have more generous data offerings at cheaper prices than the national wireless providers have right now. UPDATE (12/16/16): Surprising that I haven't updated this in so long. As of August, I switched over to Verizon's "New Verizon Plan" where they lowered the prices on their data offerings, now offer rollover data, and give you the option to throttle your speed if you go over your data cap. Besides this, I got a new K8 V Android smartphone off VZW so I could combine my hotspot and phone plans together with one provider instead of having them separate as I did in the past with my phone plan via GoPhone. I am currently on the 50 GB data plan which gives me more than enough data to make use of compared to the past couple years where I was regularly going over my data cap in most months. However if you live in a household where you have many family members using it as their primary data connection, 50 GB is still a bit low for many modern uses of the Internet and the price is still fairly steep, even if it is an improvement from VZW's prior data offerings. UPDATE (3/14/17): Effective as of today, I switched my phone over to Verizon's new Unlimited plan and killed service to my four-year old hotspot since I now have the AT&T Home Base for my household's main means of Internet access. With the price cutting and more generous data offerings between AT&T and VZW, I will now be saving about $120 a month with wireless provider payments. Will be glad to save on more money between months moving forward with both options. UPDATE (5/2/17): A fair number of developments occurred since my last update. When switching my plan back in March, VZW Customer Service accidentally switched off my phone instead of my four-year old VZW Aircard. To compensate for the error, my phone was put back on and I had a fairly large credit applied to my user account that was enough as such to pay off my bill for March and cover most of my bill for this month. In addition, I have decided to downgrade to a 5 GB postpaid plan for my smartphone that will take effect on my next billing cycle. As I'm not getting as much mileage out of the Unlimited plan as I thought, decided to use the downgrade so I can save on more money. member for 16.5 years, 4625 visits, last login: 7 days ago updated 6.9 years ago
I've been with Verizon from day one when they took over my local cellular provider in about 2001. Naturally the customer service was initially poor when my old cellular was first taken over by Verizon. Fortunately after the transition period the customer service has gotten better and better and as of 2016 is IMO the Ritz-Carlton of customer service for cellular providers. I have a "Customer Loyalty Plan" and I've gotten extra deals and services for that customer loyalty. Since the days of Smartphones I've used iPhones. The download and upload speed naturally vary greatly by location. My cellular plan includes international traveling and local data and minutes limits are valid or applied when I use my phone outside of the US. My only complaint about them is they seem to excessively and too often significantly change their plans and or contract terms. They also have a tendency to fragment their plans in that your monthly cost is derived from packaging several services into on custom personal package. I'd like to see more of the various options or services standard in specific plans. member for 7.6 years, 1464 visits, last login: 4.6 years ago updated 7.5 years ago
No cable service here. Installed Dish TV a year ago on recommendation of local installer, who also represents DirecTV and Dish internet but didn't recommend them. straight talk zte z288L off shelf at local WalMart Just bought 2nd data allotment on line and saw significant data rate increase, seems competitive but a bit cheaper than AT&T. Performance about same as TWC (uncapped) was in Ohio. member for 19.5 years, 191 visits, last login: 3.4 years ago updated 7.6 years ago
fast and but kinda slow 1.56 mbps which is half of my DSL from AT&T HSI/DSL at home . I wish it was faster . I might try Clear /Rover for backup up wireless broadband for my line of work I do .. member for 18.8 years, 156 visits, last login: 3.5 years ago updated 7.8 years ago
(Note: The footnote says I just joined this week. I have a request in to DSLR to verify my Premium account from many years back.) This is an honest and knowledgeable Verizon LTE Internet Installed review. Since being installed, we have gotten reliable, high speed service with no failures. All contacts with Verizon have been positive and produced excellent support. The Verizon router establishes a subnet (internal network) for your home. Any data transferred within the subnet will NOT count against your data usage -- only data that exchanges between the router as an internet gateway to the tower will count against your usage. (If you have a weak signal, I've been told that dropped, and thus repeated, packets will count also. I have a solid signal and have never seen packet loss on the Verizon router. That is something you can only determine using the Verizon router diagnostics -- which are very minimal.) So traffic to your printer within your home subnet will not add to your data usage, but all traffic outside the Verizon antenna will. I originally had questions about whether Verizon was overcharging or properly metering my usage. To resolve and get the answers, I bought my own router from Netgear. I used it connected via ethernet (not wifi) to the Verizon router which then allows me to subnet my internal network one layer lower. The Netgear routers allow much better monitoring and control over the outdated router model that Verizon uses. Netgear also has a nice app named Genie that helps simplify retrieving the information about your subnet. Note that ALL my internal home devices connect to the subnet (internal home network) established by the Netgear router -- none except the Netgear router connect to the Verizon router. With the Netgear router utilities, I can monitor my overall usage daily, weekly, monthly (total and average) and match them against the reported Verizon data. For the past eight months of my monitoring, there has been a 100% correct correlation between my internal Netgear reported usage and the Verizon router reported usage found on the Verizon website. It is true that Verizon data may be reported late, but I have never seen a delay of over 24 hours -- 6-12 hours is not unusual. Any traffic on my internal subnet cannot get to the Verizon router unless internet access is required -- then the Netgear router passes the data flow to the Verizon router. Again, the data counted by Netgear and the Verizon router are a match. When I first connected, I actually used the poor Verizon router traffic log to determine throughput (subtract current timestamp data total from a specific earlier timestamp data total to get usage for that day. The result was a near match to the Netgear reported throughput. (A few kbytes of data is insignificant -- your can never really get two devices to perfectly agree. At the MByte level, they agree.) So, yes, I invested $120 in a good router and I have complete monitoring capability. And yes, I have always found the Verizon reported data to be completely correct within any given day. If you are having issues, you need to understand what it is that your devices are doing on your network. Verizon can only report what data flows through their devices including an LTE router and their data is correct. Phone to 4G data usage appears to have different issues. What I have written does not address direct phone 4G usage. We ALWAYS route all phone data traffic through our internal network and thence through the 4G LTE router. That is the only way to verify actual data flow. As I mentioned earlier, it is imperative that you understand how data is used. Video streaming may use huge data amounts -- especially HD. Audio streaming is MUCH less data intensive. Most video sources (i.e. YouTube, Netflix, etc.) allow you to choose the level of video to reduce data if your are on a metered connection like Verizon. Microsoft Windows 10 allows you to limit updates if you are on a metered connection. Otherwise one new update may cost 3-5 GB of data. But regardless of how much data you use, if you identify the source(s) of your usage, you will most likely find that Verizon is reporting correctly. WATCH OUR FOR CHROMECAST! Chromecast connects through your network to your gateway and CONTINUOUSLY downloads significan data. With one unintended connection, I used 5 GB overnight. The only way I know of to limit Chromecast is to completely remove it from your network (tv or whatever). One last point. I personally would not rely on phone data reporting for complete accuracy. Too much depends on the strength of the phone 4G signal and that varies as you move from place to place. Or it may be erratic if your home has poor 4G reception. Also, you should not consider 4G LTE internet service if you do not get a strong signal. Verizon should not permit it. An addition problem may well occur if you use one of the Verizon portable 4G LTE routers for internet service and move it to a weak signal location. member for 7.8 years, 1 visits, last login: 7.8 years ago updated 7.8 years ago
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