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Where do you live?! I thought we had it bad with 15Mbps ADSL in rural Vermont. YouTube and Netflix are surprisingly tolerable as long as only one person is watc

Where do you live?! I thought we had it bad with 15Mbps ADSL in rural Vermont. YouTube and Netflix are surprisingly tolerable as long as only one person is watching. How is it for you at 5? Do you get cell service? We don't and that's actually the bigger hassle. Wi-Fi calling is kind of shit, and the coverage outside the house is appallingly unreliable. iMessage is frustratingly unreliable too. I'll be on Wi-Fi, but it won't have gotten synched up with Verizon and it'll refuse to send a message until it does.

leereeves 3y ago
At 5 Mbps, YouTube only works up to 720p. I assume streaming is the same but haven't seen one that reports the current resolution. We do have cell service. We're in an older 1950s development that was never rewired, but not far from newer developments. The biggest problem for me is that downloads keep getting bigger and bigger. The latest AAA games are almost 100 GB and take days to download.
- hattmall 3y ago
  All 3 of the major carriers have unlimited plans that would far outpace your DSL.
  - bradknowles 3y ago
    The GP may well only have 4G/LTE available, not the faster 5G/fixed wireless. In our neighborhood, the 5G/fixed wireless stuff is not yet available from T-Mobile or Verizon, only 4G/LTE. And either way, even that coverage is spotty and speed varies highly on the time of day that you're trying to use it. All this is fine for a tertiary backup solution (behind Starlink) but not as a primary method of accessing the Internet.
- charrondev 3y ago
  Have you considered Starlink? You should be able to get a ton more bandwidth there.
astrange 3y ago
My parents had 5MBbps ADSL in the middle of downtown Atlanta for the longest time, and it'd get worse when it rained. They refused to get cable for "we don't even own a TV" ideological reasons or something, but apparently there was no way to get better internet from a telecom company.

leereeves 3y ago

At 5 Mbps, YouTube only works up to 720p. I assume streaming is the same but haven't seen one that reports the current resolution. We do have cell service. We're in an older 1950s development that was never rewired, but not far from newer developments. The biggest problem for me is that downloads keep getting bigger and bigger. The latest AAA games are almost 100 GB and take days to download.

hattmall 3y ago
All 3 of the major carriers have unlimited plans that would far outpace your DSL.
- bradknowles 3y ago
  The GP may well only have 4G/LTE available, not the faster 5G/fixed wireless. In our neighborhood, the 5G/fixed wireless stuff is not yet available from T-Mobile or Verizon, only 4G/LTE. And either way, even that coverage is spotty and speed varies highly on the time of day that you're trying to use it. All this is fine for a tertiary backup solution (behind Starlink) but not as a primary method of accessing the Internet.
charrondev 3y ago
Have you considered Starlink? You should be able to get a ton more bandwidth there.

astrange 3y ago

My parents had 5MBbps ADSL in the middle of downtown Atlanta for the longest time, and it'd get worse when it rained. They refused to get cable for "we don't even own a TV" ideological reasons or something, but apparently there was no way to get better internet from a telecom company.