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thrunabulax t1_j3o5b8w wrote

what they do not tell you...the cell phone towers have directional antennas that point along the major highways. if you are 30 degrees or so off of the highway axis, tough luck, you get no bars....even if the tower is only 1/2 a mile away!

verizon is the cheapest provider....they do not care

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lellololes t1_j3o1qm4 wrote

Xfinity can be deprioritized based on usage.

I've found Verizon is still fine, though maybe since 5g has taken over, there may be a few more dead areas due to signal propagation or something. I don't know if they have different frequency bands than they used to.

Just did a speed test now and got 170mbps on Verizon (4/5 bars of 5G). If something is slow where I am sitting right now, it's not a network issue.

The girlfriend has t-mobile - they are drastically improved compared to where they were 15 years ago, but there are still more gaps in rural areas. In urban areas, one carrier may be better than another in one spot and may well be reversed in another.

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OscarP808 t1_j3nuxsw wrote

Try asking on the Rennlist regional forum. Folks are usually pretty helpful there. Wish we had known about it before buying my wife’s Macan several years ago as Porsche’s option selection is a bit overwhelming. I think I’ve seen prepurchase checklists and/or common issues to watch out for with specific model years there too.

That said there is a lot of info on it so you might find yourself spending way too much time doing research.

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JJWhitman78 t1_j3nta1v wrote

If you’re in the market for really shitty cell service at a luxury price point, Verizon is the way to go. And they keep stepping up their game because their service seems to have steadily gotten worse over the last couple years. At this point my family would be better off with carrier pigeons than with my $400 a month Verizon cell service.

I have AT&T service on my work phone and it’s markedly less shitty than Verizon. When my contract is done with Verizon we’re switching to AT&T.

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