Verizon 5G Home Internet After One Year: Should You Get It? 

Thanks for sharing your experience, and thank you for the kind words! - Brian

I’ve been using this WiFi for several months and it is the worst WiFi I have ever seen yet alone have, sometimes I can barely get to do my homework and I would be lucky if my games run smooth without having 30 frames per second, I can rarely run Roblox with a 1000 dollar gaming laptop. It isn’t good I can’t recommend anything else more

Hi, thanks for commenting! Yeah, 5G Home Internet is a great backup to cable/fiber because it relies on totally different technologies. So if, say, harsh weather takes out the fiber, then 5G will probably still be ok. I get max speeds of 300mbps. Reliability has been very good for me. - Brian

Hi Dennis, thanks for sharing! Some folks have said that rebooting every so often helps with the reliability. I haven't had any downtime in months now though, without doing that. - Brian

Maybe in your area, but here Spectrum has been rock solid for over 20 years now. Been down once or twice in that time due to extreme storms power outages

Would benefit people knowing what games you play. PvP games are definitely better wired.

Jc do you live in the city or the country

Verizon 5G Home Internet is month-to-month. No annual contract. You would probably need to get the 5G Home Plus plan, but I recommend trying it out for a month to make sure. - Brian

Hmmm... I'm just as baffled by these problems as you are. Yeah, trying pass through is worth a try. - Brian

It depends on the actual speed available in your location. I would guess that the 5G Home Plus plan (300Mbps max) could handle that load. The 5G Home (100Mbps max) might have issues. - Brian

PLEASE DONT DO THIS IT IS TERRIBLE I CAN BARELY RUN ROBLOX WITH A THOUSAND DOLLAR GAMING LAPTOP

Unfortunately, I don't know of any ways other than the obvious ones that you've probably already tried. The cause is probably something outside of your control.

Thanks for sharing! Hope it works for you! - Brian

Hope it's working well for you. - Brian

@disablemycable - It's working great so far 👌!! I did tell Verizon if fios ever comes to my area I want to try it. But I'll have to wait and see. Any hoo good video my friend. Keep up the good work 👍!!

Glad to hear it's working well for you! Thanks for writing! - Brian

I feel bad for you, you were tricked into thinking that this internet provider is good, I can barely run Roblox on my 1000 dollar gaming laptop and games on my PlayStation barely work, everyone in my house hates it

@JJ-mn3nd - It works good for me. 👍

For these measurements, I'm wired (Ethernet).

Sorry it didn't work out. Yes, it is exactly a cell phone hot spot.

Theoretically, Verizon won't offer the service in your area unless you have enough signal. Try entering your info on their website to find out. But if you already have Verizon on a phone, I probably would be wary of getting home internet with fewer than 3 bars of signal strength.

There is no data limit for Verizon 5G Home Internet. There are speed caps though depending on what service you sign up for. - Brian

Available speeds probably depend on location and number of cell towers in your area.

Hey Dylan, Verizon offers a few fixed wireless products. One of them is their LTE product which has speeds capped at 50mbps down and 5mbps up. This is offered in areas that have not received upgrades yet. The second one is their 5G product which is the one that is going to provide a very fast experience. Speeds are capped at 300 down and 20 mbps up. It’s available where they have done upgrades and C-Band(N77) has been deployed. The last one is another 5G product that is sold in areas where Verizon has deployed mmWave which is a very high frequency. You will typically see it in cities and this product allows for speeds up to 1Gb down not sure what the upload restrictions are. If 50mbps isn’t meeting your needs I am gunna assume it’s because you have a higher speed option available. If it’s cable you will want to stick to that . That being said if you’re looking to save money you may want to explore if T-Mobile or AT&T offer their fixed wireless home internet in your area. Your internet speed will be dependent on coverage in your area generally speaking you should expect to average around 50mbps-150mbps down and 10-20mbps up with any fixed wireless solution There are of course exceptions but that is a general rule of thumb

thank you for the well thought out response, I appreciate the knowledge @@dennisp8520

3 year price guarantee. Is there a cap for data? Xfinity has 1000gb per month and if you use more they charge.

Great overview, thanks Dennis!

Nice, thanks for sharing! - Brian

Great deal!!!

I agree with this 100%. - Brian

yes their app sucks bad. i hate it.

@@1supermanprime I switched to another internet company.

Did you try rebooting the box. You are getting LTE speeds and I've seen cases with me that when it reverts to LTE it won't go back to 5G without a reboot.

Rebooted many times but did fix the issue. I have a decent signal. 4G LTE Signal Strength -88.0 5G Signal Strength -92.0 How can I check if the VZW gateway is connected to 5G or LTE?

Having pretty much the same issue here except just having it all the time now. I had good 300mbps service for 6-7months, but recently I can't get anything higher than 30mbps, and whenever I restart the gateway it gets better for only 10 minutes and goes back to 30mbps. I really wish I had cable internet where I live because I'm so fed up with this trash ass internet.

The same thing happened to me. It was great at first, but I do online instruction and the upload went down to 2bps. Had to switch back to cable and pay through the nose. The problem started well after the firmware update.

That's when everyone is off work and are at home watching streaming movies, shows and what not. That's why everything starts to bog down.