Update on Straight Talk Home Internet: It's amazing! - TypePad

So present is simply a 2 weeks update connected the Straight Talk Home Internet service. I person to say, erstwhile everything is working, this is an astonishing work from Tracfone, which is ain by Verizon.

In my experience, I volition code the atrocious things first: you person to wage for the 5G Home Internet Router earlier you tin adjacent usage their service. This instrumentality is $99, and whitethorn really discourage radical from trying retired the service. This is simply a hard sell, due to the fact that if you determine to not proceed with their $45 location net service, you are going to person to devour that $100.

The Straight Talk router does not person a precise bully range. For example, I’m utilizing my desktop machine downstairs and it would hardly connect. When it does connect, I’m reduced to 10% of the velocity that was promised. I person solved that occupation by upgrading to a TP-Link’s WiFi 6 Deco 6000. Since utilizing the mesh network, I’ve consistently experienced implicit 80 to 100mbps downloads and 10 upload.

If you privation to maximum the champion WiFi access, is that your machine oregon instrumentality needs to person the latest WiFi spot to payment from WiFi 6’s speed.

You besides request to unrecorded successful a determination that tin payment from Verizon’s 5G service… truthful it mightiness not beryllium perfect for you if you don’t unrecorded adjacent a Verizon 5G operation oregon if you are roaming successful a mobile home. For mobile internet, I would urge conscionable getting the $30 Visible (also ain by Verizon) telephone work and utilizing the hotspot. That makes much consciousness to maine than possibly having a router that won’t ever enactment based connected your location.

Anyway, truthful far, I’ve acquisition 80-100 mean speed. It’s astir apt due to the fact that successful my area, less radical are utilizing the Straight Talk Home Internet network. This mightiness each alteration if much radical successful my country motion up… but close now, based connected my determination and usage, it’s been precise bully for me.

You person to recognize that I americium coming from precise dilatory archetypal procreation of Cable Internet (4mbps) and DSL (4mbps). I was paying arsenic small arsenic $35 to arsenic overmuch arsenic $75 (Comcast) for precise dilatory net speed. Plus, with Comcast (now Xfinity), they had enactment a information headdress connected their service. So, getting 100mbps for $45, with nary information cap, was a monolithic upgrade for me. For the archetypal time, I tin freely download each the games for my PC and Steam Deck, and watercourse successful 4k, without worrying astir a information cap. Things that I couldn’t bash before, specified arsenic GeForce Now (which I couldn’t usage successful 2019)… that’s each imaginable present with my accelerated net connection.

The work whitethorn not beryllium for everybody. Perhaps you’re paying little oregon getting overmuch faster velocity (such arsenic Fiber), but for my concern and location… this Straight Talk Home Internet is conscionable cleanable for my needs. I would highly urge it.

Yours,

- Weekend Gamer