Home Internet - 4G LTE vs 5G

I understand older devices won't be as fast but if I test with my new phone when connected to the gateway I get the 75-80 range. If I turn wifi off and connect to 5G it is faster but never close to the speeds you're getting. The tower is line of sight on my front porch less than a mile away and only get 3-4 bars.

I don't have any Wi-Fi 6 devices and am okay with Wi-Fi 5 speeds.  I was able to get 200 Mbps on my previous cable modem and would be happy to get back there again.  I would be happy just to have service that doesn't cut out so often really.  The 4G speeds are working fine until they completely drop out.

Yeah, I'm ok with the speeds but they are nowhere what I was promised. They put new transmitters up on the tower a few weeks ago so I anticipated an upgrade but nothing so far.  It's better than my cable which is always around 25 mps despite their ads that say 200 mps. I still can't figure out why I'm getting 3-4 bars when I'm line of site less than a mile and I've tried moving the gateway around in different spots.

I have to add that there was some upgrade as my phone now picks up 5G after the new transmitters but the gateway performance is the same as before.

da.down wrote:

Note: The primary signal will be for your 4G control connection. The secondary signal id for your data and will be 5G if it is available. If your secondary signal Band is "n41", then you are on 5G.

This is good to know.  My secondary signal is band n71.  Is that 5G as well?  Does this also mean that I should focus on getting better reception on my secondary signal to improve speeds?

Connected to b41 on the gateway, primary signal. Very rarely do I have secondary which is n71,n41. Why does my phone connect to 5g when I shut wifi off but not the gateway?

I found that I got a better 5G connection when I configured…

Network… Wi-Fi Networks… 5GHz… Channel Bandwidth: 80MHz

instead of Auto.

da.down wrote:

Note: The primary signal will be for your 4G control connection. The secondary signal id for your data and will be 5G if it is available. If your secondary signal Band is "n41", then you are on 5G.

@da.down Does this mean it’s the quality of the second signal which would affect my speeds?

@da.down Interesting.  So the primary signal is always 4G and used for call control and the secondary signal is always 5G and used for data transfer.  If my 4G is stronger than my 5G, is it transferring data over 4G and completely ignoring 5G or is it still using 5G for data transfer but the weaker signal is giving me slower speeds?

@da.down And if the secondary signal is using band n71 then it's a 5G signal, right?