Just added this service for $25 a month. So now with my get more phone plan with Hulu ESPN Disney Apple Music and Apple Arcade my 13 max pro please and my Internet I’m at $119 a month.
I just signed with Verizon, so far the service is great, I was paying for the Blast service with Xfinity, but the speeds never really came up to the promised speeds, Verizon 5g matches their speed no problem and for less than half the price, and I didn't have to sign up for cable TV that I don't even watch. They always tell you they offer you so many channels, what's the point if I don't care about 95% of those channels. I was paying $180 to Xfinity, now I only pay $60 with Verizon.
@@blazes2480 the Verizon box has WiFi 6 and the range is really great, I removed my old router and I'm only using the Verizon gateway. It also has two Ethernet giga ports.
I just switched to Verizon Home 5G internet and so far so good! I used to live in a major city so being able to find internet wasn't an issue. As a result, I got so used to consistent 700-800 mbps download/upload since I had fiber internet. But moving to a different city my options were quite limited. Aside from Xfinity and Satellite, there wasn't really any options. My family recently switched over from AT&T to Verizon so I checked if home internet was available in the area I am currently residing and it is. Although Verizon isn't the strongest as T-Mobile (my personal cell carrier) hovers from around 300-350 mbps download and 50-60 mbps upload. Verizon still comes pretty close at at 250-300 mbps download and 40-50 mbps upload no matter the time throughout the day. Pretty impressed so far, and with their best plan, it's only $35 a month which you cannot beat. More than fast enough for my personal projects and to be able to use it for gaming is a bonus.
I just checked Verizon 5G, lowest cost plan is $60. How did you get $35? I pay $114 for Xfinity, basic cable and internet. 35 Mbs download speed the best.
It's $60 if you don't pay by autopay with a debit card, otherwise it's $50 with both of those. If you also have a qualifying Verizon 5G on your phone you can get it down to $25
We just pu verizon yesterday. We live in Rural Missouri. Only previous viable option we had was Broadband, which is over $100/month and got 7 mbs download max, 2 upload max, usually get 3-5 down 1 up (We streamed TV fine with few hiccups or buffering). With Verizon we get consistent 50 mbs down 8-10 mbs up! JUST AMAZING! We're switching to Phone plan and will drop to $25/month really soon!
@@EasyFritzsy $110/month & $600 nonrefundable equipment fees for Starlink. No thanks. I'll stick with Verizon $25/month no equipment fees. Super fast for what we need.
Have have Verizon 5g for like 5 months now. It's super fast and almost never drops. Usually like 800 megabytes per second. Multiple streaming devises work at the same time easily. I live in downtown Houston and so get the one mounted on the window.
@@ScottAllison yeah. I am amazed. I played flight simulation easy on my exbox one via cloud gaming. Wow. That was fun! Apparently that requires super fast internet. Before this only ATT DSL was available with around 5 mega bits or cable at like 40 or 50
@@Whizz_Wizard maybe it's a typo? It certainly isn't 4 megabytes. My roomate is steaming in the bathroom I am streaming on TV and streaming on my phone. All HD all perfect.
I'm also in LV and just got the Verizon 5G home service, I'm also very impressed with the service thus far. It was great breaking up with Cox and paying $35 per month, saving me 50% off internet access costs.
@@topeonekenobi6878 I’m not a gamer but it’s worth a try if you can get the signal, there is no risk in trying it out. Just keep Cox until you feel the new service will be acceptable for your needs
@@WThomas exactly this!! Try it and see if it works for you. No minimum contract and if you cancel within the first month they'll give a full refund on the monthly fee
I had a crappy experience with self-setup. Customer service was completely clueless. Finally when I said it was "damn ridiculous" the final rep I spoke to hung up on me. It's going back.
Verizon just announced 10 year price guarantee. Verizon also said the wireless box should be mounted outside on a pole. That changes everything. Apparently, there are too many issues with the inside boxes.
That's what I was thinking, Verizon keeps showing the inside device install in their videos. When you go through the process they keep saying is at home easy set up, but the FAQs talk about the pole. Crazy
Only the mmWave outdoor units can be mounted outside. The cube device is for indoors and runs on C band, which gets through windows ok. The problem with mmWave is it can't.
Very helpful, just got my cube today 30 Day trial. I’m hope to finally cut the cord. I only subscribe to cable for the Wi-Fi. Why do I feel anxious about Spectrum? If this works out, my Wi-Fi expense will go from $88 to $35!
Jacked in Just this morning! WOW ! (pardon the pun). But in the end not surprising cuz it's Verizon. I've been a customer for 26 years . And this thing is amazing absolutely amazing Mine I have in the corner of two exterior returns...all wall. Behind the flat screen. That's walls not glass. For my money, when they said window and or ... Exterior walls, they meant it I never knew TV and online could move that fast for $25 a month. These are amazing times, the world of tech that you can actually use without being a techie. Ladies and gentle I think we are all witnessed someone actually building that elusive better mouse trap. Go figure.
I recently got their 5g home service and did get the window mount unit in Dunmore, PA. They put a pole on the corner of my block and I get 1.3 gig of download and 300mbps upload speeds consistently.... Service has been awesome.
I think Verizon's FWA Home Internet has a lot more promise than T-Mobile's. They (Verizon) just need to get their network built up and tweaked to be a competitive product, which may take a year or two.
This is good to know. Because i am moving to baltimore and there is no cabled-internet available at house that i am renting. Which is ridiculous, but that is Baltimore for you
I have been using Verizon, here in the San Diego area, for the past 6 months and for $50 a month, I am averaging speeds around 300-320 Mbps download and about 20Mbos upload. This is faster and cheaper than my previous cable internet provider, Cox.
I just got mine today and I'm getting a solid 150+ speed 20 upload I downloaded about 500 gigs of games in like 1 hour or so I haven't had cox internet for over 5 days cause of an "outage"
@@ScottAllison Very good! I get high coverage across most of the house and have speeds routinely at 325mbps. The highest I was getting off cable wifi was about 50mbps. The setup was surprisingly easy. I was waiting for something to go wrong but it never did.
I too have Verizon 5G plus G plus and so far speeds vary from 90MB megabytes 233 to Maybe 400 and then at night Speeds vary from 26 to a 140 and this is in the Nashville Tennessee area But any choice that you have for ultimate Internet service is better than Comcast
For a household with 1 or 2 people looks great , for a family of 4-5 it will not be enough at 9 pm , nothing will stream at high quality and extra devices like cameras will suffer
Good review...thank you. I'm pretty sure that (at least thru The Cube the service is throttled. Through my phone (Z Fold 3) I consistently get speeds up 500 down and 100 up. The cube consistently gives speeds of 300 down and 20 up. At low usage times I have observed rate spikes as high as 400 down and 30 up...but by the end of the test interval they have always dropped back to 300 down and 20 up. It's VERY consistent and therefore I suspect throttling...likely to balance network load. It might be different with the window mounted unit...which I didn't even know existed until watching this review. Final point...I live within a mile of Verizon store (we all know the best cell coverage is right around the carrier's store!) so I have STRONG cell coverage including I suspect mm wave.
They likely have mmwave at the store, but due to the frequency that is literally line of sight. That service can get up to a gigabit. You are quite right the cube service is throttled at 300/20. Verizon have said publicly they may increase speeds later next year once they have rolled out more of the spectrum they recently acquired. Fingers crossed!
Just recently had one of these flyers in mailbox, giving us a discount since my family has Verizon wireless. Have had Cox Gigablast for a bit and it's pretty good, but this is very tempting. Greetings from Summerlin neighbor.
I live in summerlin I have Cox and paying $160 for the internet service since we have the Gigablast (our kids are all streamers and gamers) do you guys think we can get fast speeds with Verizon here in summerlin? Thank you for any input.
@@joelrodriguez6072 the answer is "it depends. Maybe". It depends how far you are from a Verizon tower equipped with the latest C band frequencies. Summerlin isn't know for it's great cell phone coverage but there are parts which are fine. There's also a new tower under construction which could help. All you can do is place the order. You have 30 days to try it out. If it's no good, send it back and you won't have to pay for that month.
Why my experience is so bad with Verizon 5G home Internet? I have been on 5G home Internet plan since this Apr, and got problem every month since, and it usually took days for the service to restore. I am going to switch to other providers now.
Set mine up a hour ago and I'm setup over a Ethernet Cable and have it hooked up to my Xbox and downloading at 45/48 Mbps. We only have 4G LTE but I'm vary happy so far. We are also out in the country so even when they do get 5G Network congestion. I hope they keep improving and it's way more reliable then T-Mobile's home internet. Heck we are talking 30 to 40 milliseconds which is even better than AT&t's network and I'm a mile away from the cell site. It's 60 or 50 with auto pay. Mine is also not by the window and go through two walls before the outside and again the towers at 1 mile it says I have a full strong signal but I do have a question is there a way to log in through the UI and if so is there a way to check the signal strength within the device itself see T-Mobile's device was straightforward but I'm not for sure how you do it on here interesting thing also is when I'm connected through Xbox to look at the network settings I haven't opened that usually on any other carrier that I've ever did on a mobile hotspot it's either a moderate to a strict NAT type so this was a big surprise to me cuz even on T-Mobile I had a straight net on their home internet so this is actually kind of cool no port forwarding or anything needed
Glad to hear it's working well for you! If they do add on C band 5G to your tower you're going to be even happier! There is a way to see the signal strength on the ASK box, but it takes a little extra effort: community.verizon.com/t5/Verizon-4G-LTE-Router/ASK-NCQ1338-signal-and-band-information/td-p/1240361/page/2
Just ran 3 tests, 2 with the device directly plugged into the Ethernet and so far verizon is miraculously slower. How much they pay you to say it’s good
How much do they pay me? Not a penny. Unfortunately with 5G not everyone is going to get great speeds. There's so much variability with local conditions. But mine is still holding up well, after many months th-cam.com/video/dmKDJ0PZ-Tk/w-d-xo.html
In my city Verizon claims it provides 5g home internet and after receiving my gateway and getting connected to the internet, the speeds were not great....way slower than what I was getting with spectrum and definitely nowhere near the advertised speeds...after spending hours with Tech support online, I decided to cancel on day one since the speeds were too slow for what I'm used to
I feel like it be good for your everyday wifi needs but just a feeling that when it comes to gaming and doing updates & downloading/installing games it'll be extremely slow. I have a Samsung Galaxy S20 Ultra + with unlimited data plan. The hotspot drains the 50GB high-speed data quite quickly when it comes to installing games on my Xbox or Playstation. After it's used up its just extremely slow. I'm a truck driver. I can play online just fine with the hotspot even without the "high-speed" portion. It's just the updates that I prefer to be connected to legitimate wifi.
It offers up to 300 Mbps download which compares extremely well with cable broadband. I'm not a gamer but heard that it performs quite well with relatively good ping.
I came from Suddenlink this is Insanely better it's not even close I could barely get 50 stables suddenlinking and drop all the time and now I'm getting over 320 with Wi-Fi 6 it's amazing I'll never switch
Keep checking as they're continuing to upgrade towers, and in Summerlin in particular there's a project to add brand new towers as well. wfhlasvegas.com/f/improved-cell-service-coming-to-summerlin
Thanks for the video this is an interesting service, I'm not switching away from AT&T Fiber anytime soon but I see potential in this as a backup internet source. I wish they had a cheaper tier that was data capped at 250 Gigs/month or so. Questions for Scott: 1) Are you assigned a public IPv4 address or is it IPv6 only? 2) Since you have this in passthrough mode can you reach your home network remotely? Over 80/443?
Don't switch to Verizon. It'll be great at first, but after a year or so they'll start slowly downgrading your internet quality in hopes that you don't notice. I am a soon-to-be-former Verizon user with an axe to grind, and I advise you use literally anything else. They are unworthy of even a cent of your money.
I switched from Comcast to T-Mobile but the lack of port forwarding was a killer for that service for me. I then switched to Verizon 5G and although the upload isn't as good the fact that I can use the port forwarding feature makes it a keeper. Setting up the network is so much easier than Comcast also. My speeds are consistent with your video report. I have 9 LAN and 6 Wi-fi "clients"
Why not just buy your own router with decent port forwarding build in? Ideally if they have just a phone modem without some crappy lower power router and wifi combo I'd take that.
@@joeneighbor And I would still have to go through the T-Mobile or Verizon modem which is where the problem is. I access my network while I am on the road. Verizon has a very clean and easy to use port forwarding setup. 300 down and 25 up. Not the greatest up but good enough for me and my house is small so I am 50/50 WiFi/either-net. I have 2 OTA DVR's on 2 antennas, 1 Tablo, 1 Recast, serving 2 TV's and a number of ham radio resources. I am happy with my present setup. That is what counts, No?
Yeah I actually just got my Verizon home internet device today and I looked at my Xbox Nat settings and was shocked to see that it was open lol. T-Mobile's home internet even though it's a lot faster my area can only do 4G LTE it hasn't been upgraded to 5G yet but 50 mb with about 6 MB upload I can't complain because my home DSL service that I have right now is only 6 MB down in 900 KB supplement so this Verizon's home internet is amazing so far. I just hope that it plays with online games well I mean I'm going to assume once 5G comes around in my area or if other people have tried this device on 5G the pain times are probably more reasonable I know what T-Mobile sitting at over a hundred and so milliseconds was pretty rough and that was on there 5G Network
This monopoly of windstream here is awful. $140 for a 50mb down, 1.5 up line. Just tried tmobile, and I am in the extended range, and while download/upload are much better, the ping is ~80-100 in game, vs the normal 20-40 I get, and it's noticeable, sadly. I have the ultra 5g signal from verizon here, but the home internet isn't available, and I wonder why :(
@@ScottAllison I have a question do your speeds drop after using it, when I first set it up I was getting 300mbps down and 10mbps up, but after maybe an hour, I was only getting 70-80 mbps up and 10 mbps down, I was using the 5ghz network, on both tests. Next morning when I ran a test at 8 am I got 300/10 so the same speeds originally but when I did the test later in the day I only got 80/10. Can you please tell me if this happens to you, and how to fix it.
@@ScottAllison That statement is subjective, your speaking about the vast majority having half the upload speed I have. Plus speeds depend on a lot of different variants, speed plan, cable line conditions and equipment. Although coax has its limitations, I’m not doubting that if you have a clean line with good level there’s no reason a cable subscriber shouldn’t have anything less than 20 mpb upload, actually I’m willing to bet most cable subscribers do have 20mpb upload. Additionally, Verizon is also advertising to having a “ typical upload speed of 10 mpb upload “ right on the website to purchase home plus. Also I can’t justify the price Verizon is killing people with $80 bucks a month for home plus that’s advertised to give you 85 - 300 download speeds. RIGHT NOW with spectrum I pay 49.99 for 300 mpb download package but I’m actually achieving faster speeds than that at 479 mpb down and 32 upload average for almost half the price. I’ll say this Verizon is super expensive and alway has been. I can only recommend Verizon home and home plus to people who live in rural areas with no cable or fiber but as far as cable is around it will always stand to give you the best value.
i have have this cube for around 2-3 months now, download speed has been great, and so has upload, but one thing i dont get is the ping, ping is around 90-500 give or take. so gaming hasent been the best exsperiance so far, can get far lower and stable ping on my micro carrier of tmobile hotspot from phone
@@justice777B probably nothing? Ping is really determined by network performance. Perhaps using an external router and putting the Verizon cube in IP Passthrough mode may improve it. That's work trying.
Tried one of these and was only getting 5-8mbps UP and 26-32mbps DN. Was only 6 miles from downtown/nearest tower. Seems strange there's such a harsh difference in speed. I live in a suburb.
Did Verizon say you would get 5G at your home address? You need to be no more than about 1.5 miles from a 5G tower you stand any chance of getting a usable signal.
I wish that you would have explained the effective range of the gateway. Is it a whole house? Or should you get repeaters? Can you access it outside the opposite exterior of your home?
I was very impressed that in my case it does cover the whole house, but at the end of the day every house is different, based on the size, layout construction and so on. After the initial tests I'm now using it in Passthrough mode so I can use my existing router and access point. That disabled the cube's built in WiFi.
RN I have Comcast, router going through Or I mesh to cover entire house. Some devices REQUIRE 2.4ghz signals. If I switched what would you recommend as setup?
@@ScottAllison Hi Scott. Thanks for sharing so much information. I just set up my Verizon Gateway and it is working beautifully over here in Summerlin. I have a fairly new NETGEAR router. What is the benefit of using passthrough mode? And how would I do that, connect the Verizon cube to my NETGEAR router?
Do you have a home wired router to connect? Or do you just plug in your wired devices directly into the box? I have a wired and also wireless network at home. Yes i can just use Verizon’s router for as my wireless subnet / devices but i need all my wired subnets to connect as well.
There are two Ethernet ports on the bottom so you can plug in there. Alternatively, you can turn on IP passthrough mode and just plug in your existing equipment, which is what I do. That disables WiFi on the box and just turns it into the equivalent of a cable modem.
Be aware Verizon and CSG will not help you with this product in any way. Just got mine and three hours later it still won’t work and you cannot reach anyone via phone.
Doing my due dillagance into Verison when i heard that they offer a cheaper price than T Mobile, but already there is something that bothers me; Do i really need to agree to getting a Mobile plan too just to get the cheapest price??? And with auto pay??? Cant i just have internet for the sake of internet for that low price? I REALLY dont like the idea that im being suckered in with the promise of cheap, high performance internet when the fine print clearly says that its gotta come with some conditions like also having a phone plan with them along with signing up with Autopay just to ease their insecurities weather or not they will get their money.
Even the regular non discounted price of $60 per month is pretty competitive. They're pretty up front about that. It's not hidden in the small print. Yes they lead with $25 per month but it clearly says underneath that price it's $60 with no phone plan and no autopay. The cheapest cable plans start around there.
@@ScottAllison i got it a day early, and even today it doesn’t work…I can’t find a number either to call. I tried to restart it by unplugging it. It also blinks blue if you hit the power button, as if you trying to turn it off…it doesn’t state what that means
Flashing blue is normal. You must activated WPS pairing mode. What you want is a solid white light. If you can't connect, reach out to Verizon support. They have live chat on their website.
hi im new customer with the verison internet system, i have a question. who do u contact when u need help.for all the numbers i have for the service is only about their phone service , nothing for the internet, so im wondering what , who helps. I need some help.
Sorry, I can't help with that, contact Verizon. Mine worked straight out of the box. I did read they don't activate it until the day it was supposed to be delivered. If it arrives a day early it won't work
@@ScottAllison yea, I ran into that problem with it being delivered a day early. But I was able to get this nice Verizon associate over at activations to activate it. And she made it work!
Go to cellmapper.net It will only show 4G LTE unfortunately but if you know where it is and what you're looking for you can confirm if it has the right C band 5G installed. imgur.com/a/aDA4bFH
It's not a hotspot, it's for home Internet. Really what that means is that the pricing is different. It's cheap, and has unlimited bandwidth included (no data caps). But it's not designed for mobile use. That said, I did try it out in my RV and it worked. Separate video here: th-cam.com/video/aK2dbyD--Pk/w-d-xo.html
It works great I just wish the speed for faster for 4G LTE Customers. 50/6 when compared to TMO 4G LTE 300 Mbps Downloade and a minimum 20 Mbps Upload. Verizon is 50 and so is TMO so for the same price us Verizon Customers get less. Now Verizon device as port forwarding/DMZ which is great for Xbox and PS user's but people let's start asking Verizon to be competitive with TMO and offer like oh say 100/25 I think sounds good as that's what I see on my phone and the internet side as fixed wireless is where we need it. The other issue is the 8 Mbps streaming cap. That's something they don't tell you. Other then that it works That is not no cell tower. That's a 🌴 Tree 😆
It's not meant to be used on the go, in fact the terms and conditions say it must be used as the registered address. But they don't currently enforce that.
So, what happened with WeLink? Currently it's the only option at my parents home as neither Verizon or T-Mobile are available there. Was it a bust, or was Verizon just so much cheaper?
It's actually been pretty good this year! I had a lot of problems last year but it's been pretty solid this year. If you can get it, it's worth trying out.
Yeah, I would. It's been great. I bought it as a backup to welink which hasn't been very reliable. I've used the Verizon cube for days on end and it's been mostly great. There was an issue with mine disconnecting for about 13 seconds per day, but newer software is supposed to have resolved that. There's nothing to lose from trying it out. No long term contract,!
@@ScottAllison Thanks Scott, Yeah I'm currently actually looking at it. I had a question about data capping, I just wanted to make sure there was none, so I'm chatting with a rep online. They are telling my the service isn't available at my address... I live about 6 houses to the west from you LOL
You can put in another address that does qualify, then change the delivery address to your place. Technically this is against their terms so they may cut you off, but they haven't been doing so as yet.
No, you don't need Ethernet. A solid white light is good. Just connect using the details on the bottom. Should work! If you've just switched it on give it a few minutes.
Try logging in to your 5G Home Gateway, go to WiFi settings and then turn off band steering. You can access the gateway using the information printed on the label on the bottom Band steering setting: Toggle to enable or disable Band Steering. When Band Steering is enabled your dual-band router’s network will have one WiFi name, and your wireless devices will be assigned to the best frequency (2.4GHz or 5GHz) automatically. While enabled, all of the settings for your WiFi network can be configured in this tab. When disabled, your router will display two separate WiFi networks (2.4GHz & 5GHz) and the settings for each frequency can be configured from their respective tabs in the top men
The issue with gaming is the ping response time. Cable or fiber is always going to be best but from what I've heard Verizon can be pretty good. T-Mobile by comparison is often too slow for gaming. The only way to know for sure is to try it out.
@@ScottAllison Thank you. I am looking into anything that will save money. Cable and fiber prices have hit a price hike that it's not even worth it to me anymore. I will let you know how it goes. To teenagers and to bot be able to game is like telling them dont breath lol.
This is a really odd question but how does it deal with heat? Home network box is in my closet and the closet gets pretty hot. I have to run a fan near my Cox cable modem because when it heats up I lose coverage.
I keep it a room that gets pretty hot towards the end of the day, up to 80 degrees, and it seems to cope fine. Hotter than that, I don't know. I know that people with the T-Mobile 5G home Internet device often put a fan next to it as it overheats.
Does anyone know if the 5G Home Plus plan will give faster speeds? Agent claimed the extra 10 a month would give me faster speeds, I only saw extra perks I did not need.
I just signed up for 5g home plus and I'm trying to figure something out (my equipment hasn't come yet, but I'll answer definitively once I get it). There were murmurings of the cube router supporting faster-than-1-gig uplink speeds on the port. On the plus service, its not clear whether its "capped" to 1 gig, or "You're just not gonna get more than 1 gig because you're probably plugging it into a 1 gig network." Does anybody know if the lan ports on this can do >1 gig? And if so, is it capable of (even if only on occasion in perfect conditions) spiking over 1 gig download speeds on the "Home plus" service. I 'm going to be plugging it into a 1/2.5/5/10 gig capable SFP+ adapter in a mikrotik switch and it will be interesting to see what it can actually do. Additionally, the cell tower is only about 300-400 feet from my house and I can see it from the window I'll be installing the gear in. I think I'm setting up to get the absolute best case service possible here.
If you're getting the cube it's capped 300 down and 20 up, on both plans. You only get faster speeds on mmWave, which isn't widely available. Verizon have said they may increase speeds in the future on C band once they are utilizing the full spectrum allocation but haven't given a timeline.
Is this thing going to cover 4 internet TVs running in the same time? I'm asking because i have an att router that covers 3 TVs in the same time. The router powered by cable internet. Is very good i never had an issue. I'm asking this because i bought service for a Verizon gateway 25 a month and they told me that is going to cover more TVs and devices running in the same time. I never installed Verizon because i don't believe that is going to cover more devices at the same speed since i have an att internet plan What do you think? I have att fiber 1000 plan
Your AT&T fiber is the premium, top of the line way to get Internet. The verizon service is very good, and competes well with cable. I don't know if it could cope with streaming 3 HD feeds at the same time, but my guess would be yes. There's more than enough bandwidth for that. But ultimately it's going to depend on a bunch of factors based on your location and signal strength. The only way to know is try it and see.
A verizon rep just stopped by the other day and there wasn't any other internet companies other than xfinity availble for our location. We already have verizon for our phones and it would be much cheaper then xfinity. Would the mmWave offer faster speeds? We are getting 600mgbs atm.
mmWave is much faster, up to a gigabit, but you don't get a choice. If that's available at your address they'll send that. But for most people it's the 300 Mbps cube they'll get. That has much much greater coverage.
Do you think my kids could have multiple gaming sessions going on with this service? This service just went live in my area, and it's about $60 cheaper a month compared to xfinity, so i'm considering switching.
Good question. I'm not a gamer, but it's easy to test the service out. There's no contract and if you cancel in the first month they'll refund you in full
Yes you can have multiple gaming sessions going on at the same time I have the Verizon 5G plus while my girlfriend is playing on the xbox S I'm on the computer and then on top of that both kids are whare watching streaming services at the same the same time why all this is happening at once I am in Nashville Tennessee downtown Nashville within 5 minutes
@@d3flash453 the Verizon 5g cubes allow u to run port forwards as well as DMZ's on the numerous videos posted though. I wouldn't have ordered the service if it didn't. Did you set up the gateway properly to enable UpNp to start?
The speeds are "up to" and will vary according to signal strength and distance from the cell tower. Unfortunately this is one downside. There is less predictability with a mobile connection compared to a wired one
@@ScottAllison mine doesn’t. I have a two story apartment and I have the unit upstairs . The mbps are in the 50s downstairs with the help of router extenders while upstairs is 250mbps-300mbps
@@ScottAllison I might end up returning it before my 30 days run out . There’s some sort of interference downstairs with the Verizon unit as I had it there in the first floor at first and was only receiving tops 50mbps
Hi, I am really nervous about this.i still have dsl landlines. It would be $25.00 for Verizon. I would give up my $33 internet and $55 home phone. Really didn't see the way it was connected. Where the username is ,password. Anyone in a large city having going luck. This would be for 2 Smart TVs, cell and laptop . Thankd
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Just added this service for $25 a month. So now with my get more phone plan with Hulu ESPN Disney Apple Music and Apple Arcade my 13 max pro please and my Internet I’m at $119 a month.
Nice that's pretty own i got one too
That’s a steal.
I just signed with Verizon, so far the service is great, I was paying for the Blast service with Xfinity, but the speeds never really came up to the promised speeds, Verizon 5g matches their speed no problem and for less than half the price, and I didn't have to sign up for cable TV that I don't even watch. They always tell you they offer you so many channels, what's the point if I don't care about 95% of those channels. I was paying $180 to Xfinity, now I only pay $60 with Verizon.
Do you need a router?
No, the box they supply is a router as well. If you want though you can use your own by putting the Verizon box in IP passthrough mode.
Ok but where exactly is the pass through located
@@blazes2480 the Verizon box has WiFi 6 and the range is really great, I removed my old router and I'm only using the Verizon gateway. It also has two Ethernet giga ports.
In case I need to add a router can anyone tell me where the pass through is
I just switched to Verizon Home 5G internet and so far so good! I used to live in a major city so being able to find internet wasn't an issue. As a result, I got so used to consistent 700-800 mbps download/upload since I had fiber internet. But moving to a different city my options were quite limited. Aside from Xfinity and Satellite, there wasn't really any options. My family recently switched over from AT&T to Verizon so I checked if home internet was available in the area I am currently residing and it is. Although Verizon isn't the strongest as T-Mobile (my personal cell carrier) hovers from around 300-350 mbps download and 50-60 mbps upload. Verizon still comes pretty close at at 250-300 mbps download and 40-50 mbps upload no matter the time throughout the day. Pretty impressed so far, and with their best plan, it's only $35 a month which you cannot beat. More than fast enough for my personal projects and to be able to use it for gaming is a bonus.
I just checked Verizon 5G, lowest cost plan is $60.
How did you get $35?
I pay $114 for Xfinity, basic cable and internet.
35 Mbs download speed the best.
It's $60 if you don't pay by autopay with a debit card, otherwise it's $50 with both of those. If you also have a qualifying Verizon 5G on your phone you can get it down to $25
@@ScottAllison So I have to be subscribed to Verizon mobile first?
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No, you don't
@@ScottAllison You said - qualifying Verizon 5G on your phone you can get it down to $25
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We just pu verizon yesterday. We live in Rural Missouri. Only previous viable option we had was Broadband, which is over $100/month and got 7 mbs download max, 2 upload max, usually get 3-5 down 1 up (We streamed TV fine with few hiccups or buffering). With Verizon we get consistent 50 mbs down 8-10 mbs up! JUST AMAZING! We're switching to Phone plan and will drop to $25/month really soon!
Wow! That's a massive upgrade, even on LTE. If you get C band 5G one day you're going to be ecstatic.
I would say trying Starlink
@@EasyFritzsy $110/month & $600 nonrefundable equipment fees for Starlink. No thanks. I'll stick with Verizon $25/month no equipment fees. Super fast for what we need.
Do they charge you for data usage?
@@Josewatchesvids Nope, unlimited data. No, throttling.
Have have Verizon 5g for like 5 months now. It's super fast and almost never drops. Usually like 800 megabytes per second. Multiple streaming devises work at the same time easily. I live in downtown Houston and so get the one mounted on the window.
Those are awesome speeds!!
@@ScottAllison yeah. I am amazed. I played flight simulation easy on my exbox one via cloud gaming. Wow. That was fun! Apparently that requires super fast internet. Before this only ATT DSL was available with around 5 mega bits or cable at like 40 or 50
Im so confused, i see all these videos its so good, then on the actual site it says four megabytes
@@Whizz_Wizard maybe it's a typo? It certainly isn't 4 megabytes. My roomate is steaming in the bathroom I am streaming on TV and streaming on my phone. All HD all perfect.
I'm also in LV and just got the Verizon 5G home service, I'm also very impressed with the service thus far. It was great breaking up with Cox and paying $35 per month, saving me 50% off internet access costs.
Haha, yeah, this is great to hear! One less Cox customer.
Likewise i live in vegas too..way better than slow cox
Do you think it’s all worth it to ditch cox for this,? How about streming in 4k ? How about gaming like PS5? Thinking of getting this and ditch cox .
@@topeonekenobi6878 I’m not a gamer but it’s worth a try if you can get the signal, there is no risk in trying it out. Just keep Cox until you feel the new service will be acceptable for your needs
@@WThomas exactly this!! Try it and see if it works for you. No minimum contract and if you cancel within the first month they'll give a full refund on the monthly fee
I had a crappy experience with self-setup. Customer service was completely clueless. Finally when I said it was "damn ridiculous" the final rep I spoke to hung up on me. It's going back.
Yeah, customer support is bad. If it doesn't work then you're right. Just return it.
Competition is good for consumer. I was using cable internet until AT&T pulled fiber in my area. Couldn't be happier with new service.
You're so lucky to have access to fiber! What does it cost?
@@ScottAllison I have 300/300 service for $55 plus tax - $60. I am in Los Angeles area.
That's a great deal for symmetrical fiber. I'm jealous
Fiber is awesome, I got the 1 gig up and 1 gig down. I pay $80 a month though but the first year was only $60 a month.
Bro AT&T Fiber is so much better! Verizon is good for single home family and like light gaming w light remote work at home jobs.
Verizon just announced 10 year price guarantee. Verizon also said the wireless box should be mounted outside on a pole. That changes everything. Apparently, there are too many issues with the inside boxes.
That's what I was thinking, Verizon keeps showing the inside device install in their videos. When you go through the process they keep saying is at home easy set up, but the FAQs talk about the pole. Crazy
Only the mmWave outdoor units can be mounted outside. The cube device is for indoors and runs on C band, which gets through windows ok. The problem with mmWave is it can't.
@@ScottAllison Still better hardware, all people, even if installed inside will benefit greatly.
Very helpful, just got my cube today 30 Day trial. I’m hope to finally cut the cord. I only subscribe to cable for the Wi-Fi. Why do I feel anxious about Spectrum? If this works out, my Wi-Fi expense will go from $88 to $35!
Did you like it more than spectrum?
@@aaronprieto613 the Wi-Fi speeds yes. I find it faster.
Jacked in Just this morning!
WOW ! (pardon the pun).
But in the end not surprising cuz it's Verizon.
I've been a customer for 26 years .
And this thing is amazing absolutely amazing
Mine I have in the corner of two exterior returns...all wall. Behind the flat screen. That's walls not glass.
For my money, when they said window and or ... Exterior walls, they meant it
I never knew TV and online could move that fast for $25 a month.
These are amazing times, the world of tech that you can actually use without being a techie.
Ladies and gentle I think we are all witnessed someone actually building that elusive better mouse trap.
Go figure.
I recently got their 5g home service and did get the window mount unit in Dunmore, PA. They put a pole on the corner of my block and I get 1.3 gig of download and 300mbps upload speeds consistently.... Service has been awesome.
That's fantastic!
you got lucky
I got nearly 3 to 5 miles to nearest tower got only 2 VZ as max.
I think Verizon's FWA Home Internet has a lot more promise than T-Mobile's. They (Verizon) just need to get their network built up and tweaked to be a competitive product, which may take a year or two.
This is good to know. Because i am moving to baltimore and there is no cabled-internet available at house that i am renting. Which is ridiculous, but that is Baltimore for you
I have been using Verizon, here in the San Diego area, for the past 6 months and for $50 a month,
I am averaging speeds around 300-320 Mbps download and about 20Mbos upload. This is faster and cheaper than my previous cable internet provider, Cox.
Live in California and only paying 45 a month for 300 megs and works great
I just got mine today and I'm getting a solid 150+ speed 20 upload I downloaded about 500 gigs of games in like 1 hour or so I haven't had cox internet for over 5 days cause of an "outage"
Sounds good!! Glad it's working well
They just came out to me here in VA cause cox was to weak for area waiting on box to come now
Picked one up this week since you can literally see the new 5G tower from our window. I'm curious to see what sorts of speeds we get
How's it going?
@@ScottAllison Very good! I get high coverage across most of the house and have speeds routinely at 325mbps. The highest I was getting off cable wifi was about 50mbps. The setup was surprisingly easy. I was waiting for something to go wrong but it never did.
@@heihei3453 that's awesome! Glad it's working well
I'm sure the cat will take care of the intruder ,on its personal play area ,just give it time
I moved it to a better spot where it wouldn't annoy them. 😂
I too have Verizon 5G plus G plus and so far speeds vary from 90MB megabytes 233 to Maybe 400 and then at night Speeds vary from 26 to a 140 and this is in the Nashville Tennessee area But any choice that you have for ultimate Internet service is better than Comcast
For a household with 1 or 2 people looks great , for a family of 4-5 it will not be enough at 9 pm , nothing will stream at high quality and extra devices like cameras will suffer
Good review...thank you. I'm pretty sure that (at least thru The Cube the service is throttled. Through my phone (Z Fold 3) I consistently get speeds up 500 down and 100 up. The cube consistently gives speeds of 300 down and 20 up. At low usage times I have observed rate spikes as high as 400 down and 30 up...but by the end of the test interval they have always dropped back to 300 down and 20 up. It's VERY consistent and therefore I suspect throttling...likely to balance network load. It might be different with the window mounted unit...which I didn't even know existed until watching this review. Final point...I live within a mile of Verizon store (we all know the best cell coverage is right around the carrier's store!) so I have STRONG cell coverage including I suspect mm wave.
They likely have mmwave at the store, but due to the frequency that is literally line of sight. That service can get up to a gigabit. You are quite right the cube service is throttled at 300/20. Verizon have said publicly they may increase speeds later next year once they have rolled out more of the spectrum they recently acquired. Fingers crossed!
Ok, stupid question but, do you have a cable that plugs into the box or is it a stand alone wireless box you just connect to wirelessly?? 🤔
It's a standalone box, no other router is needed. It also has 2 Ethernet ports on the bottom if you want to connect something directly instead.
I had a customer tell me she loved the home internet & said she loved it when her family went camping. Said she just plugged it in and it worked
do you get a trial with this box? I leave in a rural area verily get 2 vz bars and lots of buffering.
Just recently had one of these flyers in mailbox, giving us a discount since my family has Verizon wireless. Have had Cox Gigablast for a bit and it's pretty good, but this is very tempting. Greetings from Summerlin neighbor.
Howdy neighbor!
I live in summerlin I have Cox and paying $160 for the internet service since we have the Gigablast (our kids are all streamers and gamers) do you guys think we can get fast speeds with Verizon here in summerlin? Thank you for any input.
@@joelrodriguez6072 the answer is "it depends. Maybe". It depends how far you are from a Verizon tower equipped with the latest C band frequencies. Summerlin isn't know for it's great cell phone coverage but there are parts which are fine. There's also a new tower under construction which could help. All you can do is place the order. You have 30 days to try it out. If it's no good, send it back and you won't have to pay for that month.
Give it a try. There’s a 30 day worry free guarantee if you don’t like
Would I have to add a wireless router to it to get wifi or do I need it plugged into computer?
No, it is an all in one unit and has WiFi built in!
You can also connect it to a 3rd party wireless router with some tweaking...!
Why my experience is so bad with Verizon 5G home Internet? I have been on 5G home Internet plan since this Apr, and got problem every month since, and it usually took days for the service to restore. I am going to switch to other providers now.
Set mine up a hour ago and I'm setup over a Ethernet Cable and have it hooked up to my Xbox and downloading at 45/48 Mbps. We only have 4G LTE but I'm vary happy so far. We are also out in the country so even when they do get 5G Network congestion. I hope they keep improving and it's way more reliable then T-Mobile's home internet. Heck we are talking 30 to 40 milliseconds which is even better than AT&t's network and I'm a mile away from the cell site. It's 60 or 50 with auto pay. Mine is also not by the window and go through two walls before the outside and again the towers at 1 mile it says I have a full strong signal but I do have a question is there a way to log in through the UI and if so is there a way to check the signal strength within the device itself see T-Mobile's device was straightforward but I'm not for sure how you do it on here interesting thing also is when I'm connected through Xbox to look at the network settings I haven't opened that usually on any other carrier that I've ever did on a mobile hotspot it's either a moderate to a strict NAT type so this was a big surprise to me cuz even on T-Mobile I had a straight net on their home internet so this is actually kind of cool no port forwarding or anything needed
Glad to hear it's working well for you! If they do add on C band 5G to your tower you're going to be even happier! There is a way to see the signal strength on the ASK box, but it takes a little extra effort: community.verizon.com/t5/Verizon-4G-LTE-Router/ASK-NCQ1338-signal-and-band-information/td-p/1240361/page/2
i was a bit wondering about how many ethernets are in it. i seen only two. i might have to buy those extra ethernet ports
Hmm might try this since charter refuses to do any discounts
Yeah, when cable is the only hand in town they can do what they like!
Just ran 3 tests, 2 with the device directly plugged into the Ethernet and so far verizon is miraculously slower. How much they pay you to say it’s good
How much do they pay me? Not a penny. Unfortunately with 5G not everyone is going to get great speeds. There's so much variability with local conditions. But mine is still holding up well, after many months th-cam.com/video/dmKDJ0PZ-Tk/w-d-xo.html
In my city Verizon claims it provides 5g home internet and after receiving my gateway and getting connected to the internet, the speeds were not great....way slower than what I was getting with spectrum and definitely nowhere near the advertised speeds...after spending hours with Tech support online, I decided to cancel on day one since the speeds were too slow for what I'm used to
same we got it in our home and it’s terrible, nothing but problems since day one.
I feel like it be good for your everyday wifi needs but just a feeling that when it comes to gaming and doing updates & downloading/installing games it'll be extremely slow. I have a Samsung Galaxy S20 Ultra + with unlimited data plan. The hotspot drains the 50GB high-speed data quite quickly when it comes to installing games on my Xbox or Playstation. After it's used up its just extremely slow. I'm a truck driver. I can play online just fine with the hotspot even without the "high-speed" portion. It's just the updates that I prefer to be connected to legitimate wifi.
It offers up to 300 Mbps download which compares extremely well with cable broadband. I'm not a gamer but heard that it performs quite well with relatively good ping.
I only have LTE home in my area
I came from Suddenlink this is Insanely better it's not even close I could barely get 50 stables suddenlinking and drop all the time and now I'm getting over 320 with Wi-Fi 6 it's amazing I'll never switch
That's fantastic! Love to hear that
its amazing how fast it is
Do you need verizon phone plan to get verizon internet?
Nope
Not available in south summerlin ,las vegas
Keep checking as they're continuing to upgrade towers, and in Summerlin in particular there's a project to add brand new towers as well. wfhlasvegas.com/f/improved-cell-service-coming-to-summerlin
Thanks for the video this is an interesting service, I'm not switching away from AT&T Fiber anytime soon but I see potential in this as a backup internet source. I wish they had a cheaper tier that was data capped at 250 Gigs/month or so.
Questions for Scott:
1) Are you assigned a public IPv4 address or is it IPv6 only?
2) Since you have this in passthrough mode can you reach your home network remotely? Over 80/443?
It's an IP4 address, and yes you can reach remotely
Don't switch to Verizon. It'll be great at first, but after a year or so they'll start slowly downgrading your internet quality in hopes that you don't notice. I am a soon-to-be-former Verizon user with an axe to grind, and I advise you use literally anything else. They are unworthy of even a cent of your money.
I switched from Comcast to T-Mobile but the lack of port forwarding was a killer for that service for me. I then switched to Verizon 5G and although the upload isn't as good the fact that I can use the port forwarding feature makes it a keeper. Setting up the network is so much easier than Comcast also. My speeds are consistent with your video report. I have 9 LAN and 6 Wi-fi "clients"
Great to hear! It's a quality product. I'm very impressed with it.
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Why not just buy your own router with decent port forwarding build in?
Ideally if they have just a phone modem without some crappy lower power router and wifi combo I'd take that.
@@joeneighbor And I would still have to go through the T-Mobile or Verizon modem which is where the problem is. I access my network while I am on the road. Verizon has a very clean and easy to use port forwarding setup. 300 down and 25 up. Not the greatest up but good enough for me and my house is small so I am 50/50 WiFi/either-net. I have 2 OTA DVR's on 2 antennas, 1 Tablo, 1 Recast, serving 2 TV's and a number of ham radio resources. I am happy with my present setup. That is what counts, No?
Yeah I actually just got my Verizon home internet device today and I looked at my Xbox Nat settings and was shocked to see that it was open lol. T-Mobile's home internet even though it's a lot faster my area can only do 4G LTE it hasn't been upgraded to 5G yet but 50 mb with about 6 MB upload I can't complain because my home DSL service that I have right now is only 6 MB down in 900 KB supplement so this Verizon's home internet is amazing so far. I just hope that it plays with online games well I mean I'm going to assume once 5G comes around in my area or if other people have tried this device on 5G the pain times are probably more reasonable I know what T-Mobile sitting at over a hundred and so milliseconds was pretty rough and that was on there 5G Network
This monopoly of windstream here is awful. $140 for a 50mb down, 1.5 up line. Just tried tmobile, and I am in the extended range, and while download/upload are much better, the ping is ~80-100 in game, vs the normal 20-40 I get, and it's noticeable, sadly. I have the ultra 5g signal from verizon here, but the home internet isn't available, and I wonder why :(
Great speeds, I also live 0.6 miles away from a tower, Love those awesome speeds, do you still have 5G home.
Yes I do. Still working great.
@@ScottAllison I have a question do your speeds drop after using it, when I first set it up I was getting 300mbps down and 10mbps up, but after maybe an hour, I was only getting 70-80 mbps up and 10 mbps down, I was using the 5ghz network, on both tests. Next morning when I ran a test at 8 am I got 300/10 so the same speeds originally but when I did the test later in the day I only got 80/10. Can you please tell me if this happens to you, and how to fix it.
@@valsdreamin residential areas all Internet providers tend to be slower in the evenings as that's the peak time for usage.
@@ScottAllison Sorry for this dumb question but what is your signal strength?
So is this plug and play no Ethernet cable to phone line? Just plug in outlet and setup
Correct. All you need is power. That's it.
Can this cube be connected to mesh router? Which means 1) connect it to router with Ethernet cable, 2) turn off cube wifi and only use router wifi.
Yes! You can. If you enable passthrough mode it disables built in wifi
Thank for the video, I just about to get Verizon 😂
The upload speed is definitely not double what cable does. I have cable (spectrum) and my upload speed is consistently 25 mpb to 35 mpb.
That's great. Vast majority of cable customers have a lot less than that. 10 is typical.
@@ScottAllison That statement is subjective, your speaking about the vast majority having half the upload speed I have. Plus speeds depend on a lot of different variants, speed plan, cable line conditions and equipment. Although coax has its limitations, I’m not doubting that if you have a clean line with good level there’s no reason a cable subscriber shouldn’t have anything less than 20 mpb upload, actually I’m willing to bet most cable subscribers do have 20mpb upload. Additionally, Verizon is also advertising to having a “ typical upload speed of 10 mpb upload “ right on the website to purchase home plus. Also I can’t justify the price Verizon is killing people with $80 bucks a month for home plus that’s advertised to give you 85 - 300 download speeds. RIGHT NOW with spectrum I pay 49.99 for 300 mpb download package but I’m actually achieving faster speeds than that at 479 mpb down and 32 upload average for almost half the price.
I’ll say this Verizon is super expensive and alway has been. I can only recommend Verizon home and home plus to people who live in rural areas with no cable or fiber but as far as cable is around it will always stand to give you the best value.
Can you change the DNS on the modem? I have TMHI and you can not change of the IPV4 settings as the use CGNAT.
Do you pay for the Verizon router or they ship it for free
Free!
i have have this cube for around 2-3 months now, download speed has been great, and so has upload, but one thing i dont get is the ping, ping is around 90-500 give or take. so gaming hasent been the best exsperiance so far, can get far lower and stable ping on my micro carrier of tmobile hotspot from phone
Good point. I'm not a gamer so this wasn't something I looked at
@@ScottAllison what setting can we change to get better ping?
@@justice777B probably nothing? Ping is really determined by network performance. Perhaps using an external router and putting the Verizon cube in IP Passthrough mode may improve it. That's work trying.
@@ScottAllison have you connected a Witt extender into the 5G port and connected in your room and used an Ethernet cable that way?
Tried one of these and was only getting 5-8mbps UP and 26-32mbps DN. Was only 6 miles from downtown/nearest tower. Seems strange there's such a harsh difference in speed. I live in a suburb.
Did Verizon say you would get 5G at your home address? You need to be no more than about 1.5 miles from a 5G tower you stand any chance of getting a usable signal.
Just looking at the palm tree 🌴 5g antenna gives me a headache
I dont get 5G in my area verily 2 VZ bars. How can be efficient if I get this box. Thanks
Cox is just so terrible and i see i get 5g uw in virginia beach so hopefully this is better thx for video.
mine isnt even working. its powered on but my tv and ps5 wont connect.
I wish that you would have explained the effective range of the gateway. Is it a whole house? Or should you get repeaters? Can you access it outside the opposite exterior of your home?
I was very impressed that in my case it does cover the whole house, but at the end of the day every house is different, based on the size, layout construction and so on. After the initial tests I'm now using it in Passthrough mode so I can use my existing router and access point. That disabled the cube's built in WiFi.
RN I have Comcast, router going through Or I mesh to cover entire house. Some devices REQUIRE 2.4ghz signals. If I switched what would you recommend as setup?
@@ScottAllison Hi Scott. Thanks for sharing so much information. I just set up my Verizon Gateway and it is working beautifully over here in Summerlin. I have a fairly new NETGEAR router. What is the benefit of using passthrough mode? And how would I do that, connect the Verizon cube to my NETGEAR router?
Doesn't beat hard wired fios service
No, but most people don't have access to fiber
Do you have a home wired router to connect? Or do you just plug in your wired devices directly into the box? I have a wired and also wireless network at home. Yes i can just use Verizon’s router for as my wireless subnet / devices but i need all my wired subnets to connect as well.
There are two Ethernet ports on the bottom so you can plug in there. Alternatively, you can turn on IP passthrough mode and just plug in your existing equipment, which is what I do. That disables WiFi on the box and just turns it into the equivalent of a cable modem.
Be aware Verizon and CSG will not help you with this product in any way. Just got mine and three hours later it still won’t work and you cannot reach anyone via phone.
332 mbps and 27 mbps for uploading. It's ridiculously fast.
Do you get tv?
Yes I stream TV, but it's separate to Verizon. That's Internet only.
Is 25 a month because you also have phone service?
What about gaming? I’m usually a ethernet cable gamer. Is this good for wireless on ps5 ?
I'm not a gamer but there's two Ethernet on the bottom.
Doing my due dillagance into Verison when i heard that they offer a cheaper price than T Mobile, but already there is something that bothers me; Do i really need to agree to getting a Mobile plan too just to get the cheapest price??? And with auto pay???
Cant i just have internet for the sake of internet for that low price?
I REALLY dont like the idea that im being suckered in with the promise of cheap, high performance internet when the fine print clearly says that its gotta come with some conditions like also having a phone plan with them along with signing up with Autopay just to ease their insecurities weather or not they will get their money.
Even the regular non discounted price of $60 per month is pretty competitive. They're pretty up front about that. It's not hidden in the small print. Yes they lead with $25 per month but it clearly says underneath that price it's $60 with no phone plan and no autopay. The cheapest cable plans start around there.
I just got it today but,when I connect it’s saying no internet connection….the light is solid white to….someone please help
Was it delivered early? Verizon don't activate them until the original planned delivery date. Yes, this is dumb.
@@ScottAllison mine came yesterday, a day early .. and I got a Verizon associate at activations to connect it for me a day earlier.
@@ScottAllison i got it a day early, and even today it doesn’t work…I can’t find a number either to call. I tried to restart it by unplugging it. It also blinks blue if you hit the power button, as if you trying to turn it off…it doesn’t state what that means
Flashing blue is normal. You must activated WPS pairing mode. What you want is a solid white light. If you can't connect, reach out to Verizon support. They have live chat on their website.
hi im new customer with the verison internet system, i have a question. who do u contact when u need help.for all the numbers i have for the service is only about their phone service , nothing for the internet, so im wondering what , who helps. I need some help.
I just got mine today but I've been having problems connecting it to the internet, it keeps connecting but with no internet connection.
Sorry, I can't help with that, contact Verizon. Mine worked straight out of the box. I did read they don't activate it until the day it was supposed to be delivered. If it arrives a day early it won't work
I had the same issue, just leave it connected eventually it will work. Or call the incompetent verizon customer service ##
@@ScottAllison yea, I ran into that problem with it being delivered a day early. But I was able to get this nice Verizon associate over at activations to activate it. And she made it work!
Scott, how do you find the local towers? Thanks Dan
Go to cellmapper.net It will only show 4G LTE unfortunately but if you know where it is and what you're looking for you can confirm if it has the right C band 5G installed. imgur.com/a/aDA4bFH
how is this different from other 5G UW hotspots that Verizon offers?
can this device be used on a RV? ie move around the country?
It's not a hotspot, it's for home Internet. Really what that means is that the pricing is different. It's cheap, and has unlimited bandwidth included (no data caps). But it's not designed for mobile use. That said, I did try it out in my RV and it worked. Separate video here: th-cam.com/video/aK2dbyD--Pk/w-d-xo.html
I appreciate this test. Wow. Uhmmm. I assume this isn't located by a 5G UW Tower?
I'm 0.6 miles from a 5G C band tower.
It works great I just wish the speed for faster for 4G LTE Customers. 50/6 when compared to TMO 4G LTE 300 Mbps Downloade and a minimum 20 Mbps Upload. Verizon is 50 and so is TMO so for the same price us Verizon Customers get less. Now Verizon device as port forwarding/DMZ which is great for Xbox and PS user's but people let's start asking Verizon to be competitive with TMO and offer like oh say 100/25 I think sounds good as that's what I see on my phone and the internet side as fixed wireless is where we need it. The other issue is the 8 Mbps streaming cap. That's something they don't tell you. Other then that it works
That is not no cell tower. That's a 🌴 Tree 😆
I wonder if you are a truck driver, if you could keep this in your truck for a unlimited internet solution.
It's not meant to be used on the go, in fact the terms and conditions say it must be used as the registered address. But they don't currently enforce that.
So, what happened with WeLink?
Currently it's the only option at my parents home as neither Verizon or T-Mobile are available there.
Was it a bust, or was Verizon just so much cheaper?
It's actually been pretty good this year! I had a lot of problems last year but it's been pretty solid this year. If you can get it, it's worth trying out.
@@ScottAllison Thanks for getting back with me.
I will have the folks give it a go.
I recommend not cancelling your old provider until your happy with welink. Unless you're happy going without Internet.
@@ScottAllison That was the plan.
Good plan!
I'm tired of waiting on WeLink and thinking of getting this instead. Would you recommend this as a replacement over our current cox internet?
Yeah, I would. It's been great. I bought it as a backup to welink which hasn't been very reliable. I've used the Verizon cube for days on end and it's been mostly great. There was an issue with mine disconnecting for about 13 seconds per day, but newer software is supposed to have resolved that. There's nothing to lose from trying it out. No long term contract,!
@@ScottAllison Thanks Scott, Yeah I'm currently actually looking at it. I had a question about data capping, I just wanted to make sure there was none, so I'm chatting with a rep online. They are telling my the service isn't available at my address... I live about 6 houses to the west from you LOL
You can put in another address that does qualify, then change the delivery address to your place. Technically this is against their terms so they may cut you off, but they haven't been doing so as yet.
And there are no data caps
@@ScottAllison once I told them when I searched online it said it was available... they came back and said it was..
Does the internet slow after a certain amount of used Gigabytes?
No, I haven't seen it slow down
Does the Ethernet have to be plugged in for this to work wirelessly. I have a white light and no internet connection
No, you don't need Ethernet. A solid white light is good. Just connect using the details on the bottom. Should work! If you've just switched it on give it a few minutes.
Doesn't connect to Peloton Bikes
Try logging in to your 5G Home Gateway, go to WiFi settings and then turn off band steering. You can access the gateway using the information printed on the label on the bottom
Band steering setting: Toggle to enable or disable Band Steering. When Band Steering is enabled your dual-band router’s network will have one WiFi
name, and your wireless devices will be assigned to the best frequency (2.4GHz or 5GHz) automatically. While enabled, all of the
settings for your WiFi network can be configured in this tab. When disabled, your router will display two separate WiFi networks
(2.4GHz & 5GHz) and the settings for each frequency can be configured from their respective tabs in the top men
I just wanna know are there any extrs fees?
No extra fees
How large of an area does it cover?
Has anyone used it for gaming ? I have 2 boys and they game alot in the evening. Does it slow down after a certain time?
The issue with gaming is the ping response time. Cable or fiber is always going to be best but from what I've heard Verizon can be pretty good. T-Mobile by comparison is often too slow for gaming. The only way to know for sure is to try it out.
@@ScottAllison Thank you. I am looking into anything that will save money. Cable and fiber prices have hit a price hike that it's not even worth it to me anymore. I will let you know how it goes. To teenagers and to bot be able to game is like telling them dont breath lol.
So whatever happen to your welink internet did it ever come back on? Does it work now or what
It came back on after 5 days. I'm going to post another update video soon, I've now had it for 6 months. I've had a few issues:(
This is a really odd question but how does it deal with heat? Home network box is in my closet and the closet gets pretty hot. I have to run a fan near my Cox cable modem because when it heats up I lose coverage.
I keep it a room that gets pretty hot towards the end of the day, up to 80 degrees, and it seems to cope fine. Hotter than that, I don't know. I know that people with the T-Mobile 5G home Internet device often put a fan next to it as it overheats.
Do you have any problem in bad weather so far?
No issues with weather
What city are you in?
What is the difference with 5 g and the 1 gig Fios ? What’s better
FiOS is fiber. Fiber is better. But fiber isn't available for the vast majority of Americans. It also tends to be pricey.
Does anyone know if the 5G Home Plus plan will give faster speeds? Agent claimed the extra 10 a month would give me faster speeds, I only saw extra perks I did not need.
Agent was wrong. The plus plan doesn't give faster speeds. Like you said it's just extra perks, discounts, etc
I just signed up for 5g home plus and I'm trying to figure something out (my equipment hasn't come yet, but I'll answer definitively once I get it). There were murmurings of the cube router supporting faster-than-1-gig uplink speeds on the port. On the plus service, its not clear whether its "capped" to 1 gig, or "You're just not gonna get more than 1 gig because you're probably plugging it into a 1 gig network."
Does anybody know if the lan ports on this can do >1 gig? And if so, is it capable of (even if only on occasion in perfect conditions) spiking over 1 gig download speeds on the "Home plus" service. I 'm going to be plugging it into a 1/2.5/5/10 gig capable SFP+ adapter in a mikrotik switch and it will be interesting to see what it can actually do. Additionally, the cell tower is only about 300-400 feet from my house and I can see it from the window I'll be installing the gear in. I think I'm setting up to get the absolute best case service possible here.
If you're getting the cube it's capped 300 down and 20 up, on both plans. You only get faster speeds on mmWave, which isn't widely available. Verizon have said they may increase speeds in the future on C band once they are utilizing the full spectrum allocation but haven't given a timeline.
Is this thing going to cover 4 internet TVs running in the same time? I'm asking because i have an att router that covers 3 TVs in the same time. The router powered by cable internet. Is very good i never had an issue.
I'm asking this because i bought service for a Verizon gateway 25 a month and they told me that is going to cover more TVs and devices running in the same time. I never installed Verizon because i don't believe that is going to cover more devices at the same speed since i have an att internet plan
What do you think?
I have att fiber 1000 plan
Your AT&T fiber is the premium, top of the line way to get Internet. The verizon service is very good, and competes well with cable. I don't know if it could cope with streaming 3 HD feeds at the same time, but my guess would be yes. There's more than enough bandwidth for that. But ultimately it's going to depend on a bunch of factors based on your location and signal strength. The only way to know is try it and see.
Thanks for the answer!
A verizon rep just stopped by the other day and there wasn't any other internet companies other than xfinity availble for our location. We already have verizon for our phones and it would be much cheaper then xfinity. Would the mmWave offer faster speeds? We are getting 600mgbs atm.
mmWave is much faster, up to a gigabit, but you don't get a choice. If that's available at your address they'll send that. But for most people it's the 300 Mbps cube they'll get. That has much much greater coverage.
@@ScottAllison I see. I assume mmWave would be availble because verizon just added the 5g wifi near our home.
Do you think my kids could have multiple gaming sessions going on with this service? This service just went live in my area, and it's about $60 cheaper a month compared to xfinity, so i'm considering switching.
Good question. I'm not a gamer, but it's easy to test the service out. There's no contract and if you cancel in the first month they'll refund you in full
Yes you can have multiple gaming sessions going on at the same time I have the Verizon 5G plus while my girlfriend is playing on the xbox S I'm on the computer and then on top of that both kids are whare watching streaming services at the same the same time why all this is happening at once I am in Nashville Tennessee downtown Nashville within 5 minutes
That's awesome!
@@glogictechsummers3045 just doesn’t work good with Nintendo it has a strict nat type
@@d3flash453 the Verizon 5g cubes allow u to run port forwards as well as DMZ's on the numerous videos posted though. I wouldn't have ordered the service if it didn't. Did you set up the gateway properly to enable UpNp to start?
No go for me. Sending it back.
Has anyone tested the electro magnetic levels? Radiation levels?
You can download the test results on the FCC website
Mine flashed all night and was still flashing in the morning. Any ideas?
Can you plug up your Ethernet cord into it? I’m trying to figure that out before I purchase
verizon say not available in my aREA
That's a bummer, but they are expanding constantly. Keep checking every few months
Anyone using google wifi with it? any limitations on number of devices?
You just need to put it in IP passthrough mode if you want to use your own router/WiFi
Super!
Why does it only give me 60mbps
The speeds are "up to" and will vary according to signal strength and distance from the cell tower. Unfortunately this is one downside. There is less predictability with a mobile connection compared to a wired one
@@ScottAllison thx bro for responding i fixed it already i guess it wasn't close enough to a widow
@@raulbenitez1502 glad it's working better now!! Putting it by a window is definitely a good idea
Can I plug my Ethernet cord into it?
Yes you can
Does it have good range ?
Pretty good yeah. It covers most of my house 2 story house
@@ScottAllison mine doesn’t. I have a two story apartment and I have the unit upstairs . The mbps are in the 50s downstairs with the help of router extenders while upstairs is 250mbps-300mbps
Apartments are tough because there's more interference from others WiFi
@@ScottAllison I might end up returning it before my 30 days run out . There’s some sort of interference downstairs with the Verizon unit as I had it there in the first floor at first and was only receiving tops 50mbps
I’m from Vegas and I just got it and my speeds are not great
Sorry to hear that. I think it can vary a lot where you are and the time of day
Thanks
Hi, I am really nervous about this.i still have dsl landlines. It would be $25.00 for Verizon. I would give up my $33 internet and $55 home phone. Really didn't see the way it was connected. Where the username is ,password. Anyone in a large city having going luck. This would be for 2 Smart TVs, cell and laptop . Thankd