Verizon Wireless slow on Friday evenings

[RidgeTopWVA]

My internet is all through Verizon wireles unlimited and has been for years and I have been pleased with the service provided to me . This Friday evening and the previous 2 Friday's they have been throttling back the internet speed to a crawl and it usually starts around 04:30/05:00 P.M and lasts until around midnight. If the reason for doing so is a servicing/ maintenance reason's why would they not wait until after midnight to start doing it ?

 

[Cycledude]

How many Gigabites have you used this month ?

 

[DKCDKC]

I used to have Verizon but switched to Beam fixed wireless for speed and then to T-Mobile 5G Unlimited. I am in a very rural location and Verizon was never very fast here - about 20 mbps or so. And, as I recall, if I used more than a few hundred gigs it would slow. Service was unlimited - but not at full speed. I did also experience near outages a few times when they were working on the only tower near me. They never announced it - and cell phone service was poor too. Fixed wireless was great, but the company folded after a year. T-Mobile 5G is now pretty good. I get speeds from 40 to 150 mbps and have used a ton of data without any slowdown. The speed for all wireless systems drops a little during peak cell phone times - like rush hour, etc.

 

[RidgeTopWVA]

How many Gigabites have you used this month ?

Data

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You have unlimited data.​

1.07 GB data used


7 days left in cycle
Again like the last 2 weeks on it has now started working again at about 00:10 midnight.

 

[Roadworthy]

I had internet beamed to the house from a local mountain. The speed was supposed to be 3 GBpS but one became far more common as more users moved into the area. I got with the local phone company (Ziply in this case) who connected me with a DSL link. The price was about the same as my beamed signal but speeds have improved dramatically to about 12 - 15 GBpS. Upload speed it about the same.

 

[deserteagle71]

I am in a very rural location and Verizon was never very fast here - about 20 mbps or so.

Wow! I am also in a "very rural" location and I just wish I could get 20 mbps. Most of the time its lucky to hit 1 mbps...and then there's times it's just non-existent.

 

[RidgeTopWVA]

Wow! I am also in a "very rural" location and I just wish I could get 20 mbps. Most of the time its lucky to hit 1 mbps...and then there's times it's just non-existent.

Rural areas out west ARE much bigger than the rural areas than here in the east for sure. I could only guess how far out in the desert that you are.

 

[scootr]

Rural users should try Starlink if you don't mind $110 a month for 70g.
But it slows during heavy usage here because we are rural but near big city users.

 

[RidgeTopWVA]

Rural areas out west ARE much bigger than the rural areas than here in the east for sure. I could only guess how far out in the desert that you are.

 

[scootr]

I lived out in Joshua Tree in the 80s we had a 12' satellite dish just to watch TV. lol

 

[Dftodd]

My bet is Verizon has some sort of scheduled maintenance if it's happening every Friday like clockwork.

I didn't happen to notice which area you were in. But if west coast time zone, or mountain time zone, someone could have got their timing off if the maintenance was set up by someone on the east coast.

 

[RidgeTopWVA]

My bet is Verizon has some sort of scheduled maintenance if it's happening every Friday like clockwork.

I didn't happen to notice which area you were in. But if west coast time zone, or mountain time zone, someone could have got their timing off if the maintenance was set up by someone on the east coast.

I am in the east Ohio/West Virginia Ohio River Valley area

 

[Dftodd]

I am in the east Ohio/West Virginia Ohio River Valley area

That wouldn't be it. Either lots of internet traffic or someone goofed and set up maintenance to run early.

Who knows. But I can understand your frustration.

 

[RidgeTopWVA]

That wouldn't be it. Either lots of internet traffic or someone goofed and set up maintenance to run early.

Who knows. But I can understand your frustration.

Frustration has only been during Friday evenings , I don't know how I survived without the internet 30 yrs ago
.I probably watched tv or found something productive to do... Times have changed.
8 hours of slow internet time !!!!!
I must be getting spoiled with today's technology.

 

[Hay Dude]

I am in the east Ohio/West Virginia Ohio River Valley area

Near Athens/Parkersburg?

 

[RidgeTopWVA]

Near Athens/Parkersburg?

Yeppers

 

[dmccarty]

Get StarLink if you have an unobstructed view.

A few months back they put a limited, I think it was 1TB of data per month, but that has been removed, and we never got near the limit even with all of our Internet use.

Was just in a home in the NL that was getting 500-600 MBPS. Dang thing would drop connections all of the time. Some disconnects were the same time each night but disconnects happened at other times as well. PITA.

 

[ultrarunner]

I'm in a city of 450,000 and cell service is bad at my place to non existent which seems to be a theme with me no matter where I own.

Family phone Verizon is almost unusable in Oakland and Olympia.

That said T-Mobil was like that but the last two weeks has improved.

Still only one bar but data loads now where before I was pretty much limited to text messages.

I did have an advisory saying tower would be down for maintainence.

My question is why would Verizon be ok for voice and almost useless for data and at the same location T-Mobil data greatly improved to being somewhat usable?

Second question is I am continually getting mail and email about home internet through cell and always reply only to hear not yet available at my address... one would think they would not send to address with no coverage?

You don't have to rural in the middle of nowhere to have non existent cell coverage... even in a metro with 12 million and a view of the golden gate bridge tower is no guarantee.

 

[square1]

I live in a resort community. Verizon gets slow on summer weekends due to increased use (there's only so much bandwidth available). On holiday weekends, fuhgetaboutit!

 

[lman]

I'm in a city of 450,000 and cell service is bad at my place to non existent which seems to be a theme with me no matter where I own.

Family phone Verizon is almost unusable in Oakland and Olympia.

That said T-Mobil was like that but the last two weeks has improved.

Still only one bar but data loads now where before I was pretty much limited to text messages.

I did have an advisory saying tower would be down for maintainence.

My question is why would Verizon be ok for voice and almost useless for data and at the same location T-Mobil data greatly improved to being somewhat usable?

Second question is I am continually getting mail and email about home internet through cell and always reply only to hear not yet available at my address... one would think they would not send to address with no coverage?

You don't have to rural in the middle of nowhere to have non existent cell coverage... even in a metro with 12 million and a view of the golden gate bridge tower is no guarantee.

Isn't there any internet service(cable, fiber, DSL) available for internet there? I'm so rural here that I have no usable cell service. Fortunately My electric co-op installed fiber a year ago and now I can use my cell phone in the house and barn where I also have a router.
I never considered cell service to be reliable for internet and wouldn't use it unless you have no other options.