The different day, I ran into an endcap show of Straight Talk Home Internet. I was interested, due to the fact that 2 months agone (in September 2022), I got escaped of my DSL location net work and was fundamentally utilizing my phone’s net arsenic a hotspot.
While you tin get distant with utilizing the Visible unlimited information program arsenic your main internet… it’s not precisely ideal. You see, I person a batch of “smart” devices that perpetually request an net connection, specified arsenic my information cameras and my photograph frames.
This couldn’t travel retired astatine a amended time. I’ve been buying astir for thing similar this.
I did immoderate research, seemingly the Straight Talk Home Internet is fundamentally a Walmart’s mentation of Verizon’s Home Internet service. I really tried to bid the Verizon’s service, but for immoderate reasons, Verizon volition not work my address.
From my understanding, the main differences betwixt Straight Talk and Verizon is that Straight Talk is pre-paid, meaning you wage for your net successful advance, portion Verizon is post-paid, meaning you are billed aft (and you whitethorn really beryllium locked successful a contract).
According to the Straight Talk’s website, their work volition see “Truly unlimited Home Internet 5G/LTE Network”. You are going to get 5G oregon 4G, nevertheless immoderate customers whitethorn lone get 4G LTE, depending connected their web reach. They further grow connected that statement, “Our caller prepaid location Internet program with fixed wireless easy supports the Internet needs of your full household. Straight Talk’s location router provides an all-in-one work for broadband and Wi-Fi, and we besides see unlimited data. That means nary information usage caps, nary auditing of use, and nary overage fees.”
It sounds excessively good. I’ve antecedently had Comcast and they enactment a information headdress connected my service, and immoderate months I would spell over. When I did, my work was downgraded to precise dilatory speed. My Skype (when I was paying for the VOIP telephone service) was not usable. It was horrible. If this caller Straight Talk work is reliable, with nary caps, I whitethorn extremity up trying much streaming services, specified arsenic going backmost to Game Pass.
10/27/2022: So I got the router contiguous and mounting it up was comparatively easy. You conscionable person to powerfulness up the instrumentality and login to Straight Talk’s website oregon app and activate the router’s MEID number. Since I prepaid for the service, the work recognized my unlimited location program and connected. The router, itself, is conscionable similar the Verizon brand, but astatine the precise bottommost of the device, it’s branded Tracfone (which owns Straight Talk).
100mbps Speed Test
As for velocity - it varies. When you are adjacent the router, connected to the 5G/5GHz band, you tin get 95-100mbps. That’s truly fast, I download a fewer precise large games connected my Steam Deck and it was quick. I was capable to get the games moving successful a fewer minutes. You tin besides get the aforesaid velocity if you link straight via ethernet cable.
However, the atrocious news: the further you determination distant from the router, the slower your velocity volition get. I was down the successful basement and I was lone getting 8mbps due to the fact that I could only link to the 4LTE/2.5GHz band. This besides depends connected the clip of day. When everyone is connected the network, it was slow… but astatine night, the velocity bump to 25mbps.
I volition play astir with immoderate of the settings to spot if I tin get a amended speed, but I deliberation the world is that I’m astir apt going to lone get astir 10-20mps downstairs. I can’t determination the router to the basement arsenic it needs to beryllium adjacent to a model to get amended reception, since the exertion is based connected the Verizon 5G Network.
So far, I’m conscionable blessed it is working, but nary wholly impressed. It’s inactive overmuch faster than DSL, but astatine times it tin beryllium conscionable arsenic slow.
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