T-Mobile & Verizon home internet with a fiber like experience? The Starry way!

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[DarthKoonstyle]

Definitely feel T-Mobile should be able to utilize a hybrid system, to be honest. I pull 500 MB easily with an external directional cross polarized antenna with N41, and B66/B2 4g Carrier Aggregation predominate on the upload I'm hitting 60 MBs per second. With the 25-30 foot pole I have the antenna on, I am ableto turn it to 4 different points (where I get n41 connection), two of which I can get direct LOS to, hit 450-500 Mbs, and that are under 1 mile away.
This is at the border of suburbs and urban areas in southern Summit County in Ohio. I'm thinking about getting a separate antenna to face at the other tower, or maybe a yagi set and place them like 6 feet from eachother to maybe try to achieve 4x4 mimo instead of the single antenna = 2x2. Or try to point at the other tower and see if I can get any benefits via aggregation. Haven't decided yet but I'm definitely enjoying these speeds. Spectrum around here offers "200 mb" which is usually like 125 at anyplace I've tested, even with 2.5 Gb Ethernet ports, and people are lucky to get 2 MB up. And AT&T pretty much offers DSL only around here. T Mobile's internet is like a generational leap in internet service for most people around here, if they knew about it. I'm glad they don't, I'll stick with my 500/60 speeds (highest I've seen is 590.48 on Speedtest when I tested around 2am on a Sunday...). I have seen my router rate the connection with multiple devices hitting it for Speettest for QOS measurements up to 730 Mb.
Either way, hitting that with a $70 antenna from Amazon and 30 feet of coax, rigged through the trashcan, vs a bonafide solution? I think a lot could be done, especially if they started beaming backhaul on those mm waves between towers and letting N41 take care of midrange and N71 take care of the rural connections, they could really capitalize and enhance each if planned properly..

[ryanfraley]

US Cellular is experimenting with mmWave fixed wireless in rural areas, the catch is that an external antenna is required in areas not close to a tower. I sense that Starry is trying to do something similar.

[geebee]

The days of cables running through your house are coming to an end.

[MrKbarker]

I get 500Mbps down and up with google fiber at home. I have T-mobile cell service and it blows my mind that when I leave home I have faster service than with my fiber a lot of the time! I got 869Mbps yesterday. Fastest I’ve seen. I’m a Speedtest nerd! Using around 30gb of data a month. T-Mobile if you have the ultra capacity band you’ll average 500-600mbps here in Madison, AL. And it’s everywhere! Nobody really needs gig speeds so I’m okay with where we are speed wise to be honest. It would be interesting to see if they partnered with a fiber optic provider and to do what xfinity is already doing. They have Wi-Fi hotspots everywhere! But take it to the next level and it automatically switch to which ever is better at the time. Wi-Fi connection or cellular. Not have to enter a password or anything. And nerd fact. Xfinity has the best Wi-Fi speeds of anybody right now! I tried them out for 30 days and got 750Mbps average. Fastest speed was 914!!! That was using a iPhone 11 too so now probably even faster with Wi-Fi 6E coming out! They will be one of the first providers releasing Wi-Fi 6E! Gig speeds baby! Not that it matters but cool I guess haha. I stayed with google fiber optics due to better latency for gaming. 20ms better on average. Makes a difference in Call of duty.

[Ram]

Agree... if they can use MM-Wave to do FW that would be great! I do think they can really pose a threat to big cable!

[sunilsidhwani]

T-Mobile has all but said they're not going to be able to get their 5G Home Internet at my house address. Given the history from their days with substandard 4G LTE, I have no expectations that they'll change their stance and improve anything anytime soon. I'll be intrigued to see what Verizon Home Internet has to offer when 5G Home Internet arrives.

[fredwilliams]

It will be interesting to watch the FWA fad play out. Despite its local rural failure, I still hope it will induce cable to become more competitive. I believe one effect is evident though, cable is going to tilt its equilibrium in the fiber direction. The bigger question is, will the phone companies be able to keep up with sleeping cable giant they have so rudely awoken?