How 5G Could Transform Your RV Park Internet Connection

[RV_]

When the 5G crazy predictions and speeds I could not see it with current cell towers. I'm sure some may know how they will execute but I had no idea they were going to use micro cells in the way they are. I could see this in every RV park and town beating and creating real competition to cable wend even fiber.

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" Verizon is about to launch home internet service using 5G. This new wireless standard isn’t just about faster data for your smartphone—it could finally offer competition for home internet, breaking the cable companies’ local monopolies and giving you a choice.

This is About Verizon, But It’s Not About Verizon

Verizon is the first company to deliver home internet service via 5G, so we’re talking about Verizon a lot in this article. We know the details of their service and can compare it to cable internet. But this isn’t an advertisement for Verizon.

AT&T also plans to launch home internet over 5G by the end of 2018. T-Mobile and Sprint are claiming they will launch a similar service if only the government lets them merge first.

This is all exciting. These are multiple companies that can compete with each other! It’s very unlike wired internet service in most places in the US, where there’s one big cable company.

Imagine having a choice between internet service providers. Competition might force Comcast to lift that data cap—or provide good customer service. Seriously, have you ever been to an old-school Comcast service center? It’s like going to the DMV. They’ve gotten better with their more upscale Xfinity stores, but most places don’t have those yet.

Your modem communicates with Verizon devices placed every 500 to 1000 feet in your neighborhood. These may be placed on streetlamp poles, for example. That’s because 5G takes advantage of “millimeter waves” for super-fast speeds. These waves can’t easily travel through solid objects, so the 5G network needs nearby “small cells”  to enable these fast speeds. 5G doesn’t have to use millimeter waves and small cells, but that’s where much of the speed improvement comes from.

Verizon promises typical speeds of about 300 Mbps and peak speeds up to 1 Gbps (1000 Mbps)—and no data caps. The service costs $70 a month if you’re not already a Verizon customer and $50 per month if you are.

I pay Comcast about $70 per month for about 150 Mbps, and that’s with a contract—Comcast will charge me more for this speed in the future. Comcast enforces a 1 TB data cap on me, too. So I’d jump at the chance to switch to 5G for home internet if it worked as promised.

Verizon is launching its 5G Home service starting October 1, 2018, in Houston, Indianapolis, Los Angeles, and Sacramento."

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OK this will not be mobile for moving phones the way they explain it, but the majority of RVrs are not watching TV on the move. But I can see a very good revenue stream for Verizon owners like me to get GB speeds for $50 bucks unlimited and ditch my monopolistic take it or leave it cable bundle jerks! (OK any the self appointed holier than thou defenders of the cable scammers please, weigh in 😊 )

All the pics, specs are in the article here:

https://www.howtogeek.com/366259/how-5g-could-transform-your-home-internet-connection/

 

 

[Mark and Dale Bruss]

After researching 5G as Mission TX is one of the early markets, the speeds are great.  But the need of transmitters every 500-1000 ft doesn't bode well for remote areas, like campgrounds.

[RV_]

Good point. Maybe they'll do a partial WiMax with microwave point to point for getting the bandwidth for actually remote parks. I guess it will only happen for suburban RV parks like here. Still a pretty interesting approach. And great competition for the cable companies.  If they have cable, odds are they could get this in the future. Maybe not we'll see.

[trailertraveler]

Not sure I would hold my breath for rollout in really rural areas. We have family in an area that doesn't even have Fios yet. The lines are so old that they are running out of pairs to switch to. There is so much static on the lines every time it rains that conversations are difficult and data speeds are affected.

[Dutch_12078]

I'm curious about how they will power all these closely spaced transceivers...

[Mark and Dale Bruss]

The real challenge is where to place all those transmitters.  The 5G roll-out is running into conflicts with communities that want improved internet without putting any equipment in place.  They don't want modules on their light poles, a common location. This is not new, the communities that bitch the most about cellphone coverage make it near impossible to put transmitters up.  Not-in-my-backyard is not limited to prisons.

[Jack Mayer]

11 hours ago, Mark and Dale Bruss said:

After researching 5G as Mission TX is one of the early markets, the speeds are great.  But the need of transmitters every 500-1000 ft doesn't bode well for remote areas, like campgrounds.

We can only hope that they make it available in Retama. Anything would be better than what we have now. Of course, you can buy a new home and get fiber.....

 

[Mark and Dale Bruss]

Yes it would be great for the monopoly, Greenfield Communications, to have some competition.

[Phil D]

39 minutes ago, Jack Mayer said:

We can only hope that they make it available in Retama. Anything would be better than what we have now. Of course, you can buy a new home and get fiber.....

 

Were Verizon inclined to do it, assuming they could achieve something close to the stated 1000' range, they could cover the vast majority, if not all of the homes in Retama and a substantial portion of Tanglewood from the utility poles on Military Road, without the need to access the street lighting poles in either subdivision.

I hadn't heard that they were now going to offer fiber in Retama, limited to new construction, but that certainly sounds about right.

[Jack Mayer]

27 minutes ago, Phil D said:

I hadn't heard that they were now going to offer fiber in Retama, limited to new construction, but that certainly sounds about right.

 

As far as I know, they have not said that, Phil. But since they have it right there, and they are offering it in Tanglewood, I'd speculate that they will offer it in the new phases. Why not put it in? It is actually easier and cheaper to do that the stuff they do now. (counting ongoing maintenance). Retrofitting it will never happen, though. If they DID put it in that would interest me in buying something in a new Phase. Otherwise, I see little that is compelling for me to move "forward".

 

[Mark and Dale Bruss]

Phase 5, where the new Cottages will go is going to have fiber.