iPhone 12 5G Speed Test: Verizon vs T-Mobile vs AT&T! By Stetson Doggett

The new iPhone 12 is here, and it supports 5g. So in this video, I'm doing a 5g speed test of Verizon versus T-Mobile versus at t to find out which one offers the better performance and experience for you on your new iPhone 12. Let's just start with what you came here for the side-by-side 5g speed test, a Verizon ultra-wide band, 5g versus T-Mobile's, low band 5g versus at t 5g running a speed test here in the UCLA speed test application. First, the ping you can see: Verizon 6, milliseconds, T-Mobile, 48 milliseconds and a TNT milliseconds on the download Verizon crushes it here with over 1400 megabits per second down T-Mobile finishes with 121 megabits per second down and ATT finishes with 181 megabits per second down T-Mobile and at t getting around 33 megabits per second up, while Verizon does finish first with 49.9 megabits per second up. Those are the results of the 5g speed test. Verizon was fastest.

ATT comes in second and T-Mobile in third now, network speeds and performance can vary a lot by location, but in general I would say this trend is true. If you're connected to Verizon's ultra-wideband 5g network you're getting some of the fastest 5g data speeds available on the market, if you're on T-Mobile well, you have coverage in more places, but the 5g speeds are not really as noticeable of an improvement over LTE speeds in the same area and with at t you're getting pretty reasonable, fast 5g speeds and if you're connected to at t, 5g plus, which is what ATT calls their millimeter wave 5g network, then you will get absolutely ridiculously fast speeds more on par with what we're seeing with Verizon's millimeter wave 5g. Of course, this begs the question: how do these speeds compare with the LTE speeds in this area? Are they actually faster? I think these results will surprise you running a LTE speed test here you can see the pings of 38 milliseconds on Verizon 40 milliseconds on T-Mobile and 71 milliseconds on at t, uh looks like at t is in first right now getting over 150 megabits per second down T-Mobile, also very fast, at around 121 megabits per second down and Verizon in last place. Here, 26.7 megabits per second down over LTE upload speeds are also similar across the board and as the speed tests finish up here, you can see ATT again in first with an upload of 47.9 megabits per second T-Mobile in second, with an upload of 24.9 megabits per second and Verizon in last, with an upload of 21.1 megabits per second. Now, let's compare these LTE speeds with the 5g speeds to see.

If we actually got an improvement and on Verizon we most definitely did. We saw a 5870 increase going from LTE to 5g T-Mobile actually had a zero percent increase about the same on LTE and 5g, and surprisingly, on a t. We saw a decrease by about 20 in the data speeds, so in this particular location on at t, the LTE speeds were faster than the 5g speeds, not what I was expecting now I will say, while I was walking around Denver testing out the 5g speeds, I did pull up to 227mbps. Second down on ATT 5g and in another test, I got 73.2 megabits per second down over LTE and in the same location, got 177 megabits per second down over 5g, which is a pretty significant 141 increase in performance and, of course, the differences between LTE and 5g. Do vary a lot based on location.

How optimized the towers are what specific bands and frequencies they're using and again what technologies are deployed. So, while in this particular test, T-Mobile matched and was the same and at t actually saw a decrease in performance on 5g, there are certainly areas where connecting to 5g makes a huge improvement. Now, let's get on to the real world tests, I wanted to try and test out and show you guys what the real world performance is like using 5g on Verizon, T-Mobile and a t. So I did a video streaming test. I did a Netflix data speed cap test.

I tried downloading three episodes of a show over Netflix. Furthermore, I did an app download test. Furthermore, I did a Google Drive file upload test to test out those upload speeds and performance, and finally, I did a hotspot data speed test to see what kind of speeds and performance you could get. Sharing your 5g connection with your other devices via hotspot. There's a lot of interesting and exciting results to dive into here.

So, let's jump into it. First up is the video streaming test to do this? I used open signals, video test feature. This basically plays a short video and while the video is playing, it measures the loading time, the buffering time and the total playback percentage, and then at the end here we can see our results. Loading time is the amount of time. The video spent loading before it started to play.

Buffering time is how long the video paused during playback to load again and the playback percentage, is what percent of the test the video was actually playing back to us and not loading or buffering, pulling up a side-by-side test, and you can see Verizon and at t start playing. The video almost immediately T-Mobile takes longer to load, and then it actually pauses during playback to buffer the video okay, so not great performance on T-Mobile at t and Verizon finished strong. Let's take a look at these results. Verizon had a loading time of 0.7 seconds, spent 0 seconds buffering and had a total playback percentage of 95.5 T-Mobile had much weaker performance here, taking six seconds to load spent 5.5 seconds, buffering the video and only had a playback percentage of 23.8 percent at t finished, pretty strong here with a loading time of 2.3 seconds, spent zero seconds buffering and had a total playback percentage of 84.9 percent. You can see T-Mobile performed very poorly here, and I was wondering if this had to do with the standard definition video streaming limit that T-Mobile imposes on their magenta plan, which is what I was using for this video so to find out.

I ran a fast. com data, speed test. This connects directly with Netflix's servers and can indicate if video streaming speeds are capped at a certain limit, and immediately you can see here that Verizon and at t are uncapped getting 420 megabits per second down and 98 megabits per second down respectively, whereas T-Mobile is hard capped at 1.5 megabits per second for streaming standard definition, video content. This explains the poor performance of T-Mobile on the video streaming test, but this doesn't tell the whole story. You see.

It turns out that Verizon and at t also cap, the video streaming speeds on their plans. Let me explain with Verizon when you're connected to 5g ultra-wide band, as you can see, you get full speed, uncapped video streaming, however, when you're connected to Verizon's nationwide 5g network or their LTE network, video streaming speeds are capped by default. Verizon caps data speeds at 2 megabits per second for standard definition, video streaming. However, on their plans, you can go into your account settings and select to have video stream up to 720p, which is around four megabits per second. On a t, I was actually using a legacy, a t business plan which offered uncapped video streaming.

However, with the consumer facing plans that are available to most people at t by default caps, video quality to 480p on their unlimited starter and unlimited extra plans, which actually has the same 1.5 megabit per second speed cap as T-Mobile, and only on ATT unlimited elite. Can you turn the stream saver off to enjoy uncapped data speeds when streaming video content to support full HD quality? Something interesting I learned from running these tests is having a video streaming speed. Cap can actually impact not only what quality you can watch your TV shows and movies at, but also how fast they download for offline playback check it out for this test. I downloaded the first three episodes of the office season, one on Verizon, ultra-wideband. You can see these shows download very quickly and at t they start to download as well, but a little slower and on T-Mobile the only plan here with a data speed cap you can see they don't even start downloading at all.

In fact, I cancelled the T-Mobile test here because the shows took too long to even start downloading, speeding up the footage to finish the test. Here you can see Verizon downloaded the shows in an impressive 42.87 seconds and a t was honestly not far behind taking just one minute and 58.12 seconds to download all the shows. We had great performance on Verizon and a t here, thanks to the plans that I was using not having the data speed cap. But let's take a closer look at T-Mobile and let me show you exactly how a data speed cap impacts, the video streaming performance, tapping to load up the first episode of the office here, and you can see the playback controls and titles instantly pop up, but the show itself takes a full 36.46 seconds to even start playing. That is a long time and I think it's actually ironic that T-Mobile the carrier that includes free Netflix, when you have two or more lines, actually has some of the worst Netflix performance because of their standard definition video streaming cap.

But what? If there is a way to get around this data speed cap? Well, it turns out there is, and it involves using a VPN which brings us to our next test, which is how quickly can we download the express VPN app off of the app store? Expression is a small application at only 25.8 megabytes, so it's quick to download on all networks, taking just around four seconds for good measure. We can also download the Pok?mon Go app at 312.8 megabytes. This is a slightly larger application that took longer to download Verizon was fast this year finishing first with a time of 8.23 seconds ATT in second place with a time of 15.23 seconds and T-Mobile honestly, not too far behind with a time of 19.04 seconds. Okay, now that we have expression installed, let's go ahead and enable it and see what kind of speeds we can get on fast. com and boom.

You can see the data speed cap is now completely gone. We are getting full speed, 5g data, so we can enjoy our shows in full HD quality. To show you what kind of difference this makes here is playing the second episode of the office instead of taking over 30 seconds to load the show it starts playing after just six seconds. That's the kind of improvement you can see when using a VPN, and I love it. I've been using expression to enjoy my Netflix content and HD quality because they're one of the top-rated VPNs for streaming Netflix video.

If you're interested in checking out expression, you can go to expressvpn. com stetson to get three months free with your purchase of a one-year subscription. I will also leave my affiliate link in the video description now that we have thoroughly tested the download speeds. Let's test out the upload speeds and performance upload speeds are important for creators sharing video and photo content on social media for anyone who does any sort of live-streaming or honestly for just uploading, larger photo or video files to the cloud. In this example I'll be uploading, a 491 megabyte video file to google drive.

Now I could try and provide commentary here and make this test more interesting and try and build suspense or something uh but yeah. Let's just speed this video footage up and get to the results. Okay, wow surprising results here at t finished. First, with a time of two minutes, 0.4 seconds, T-Mobile finished right behind a t with a time of 2 minutes, 18 seconds and surprisingly Verizon finished last, taking over three times longer to upload the video file with a time of 6 minutes and 51 seconds, not what I was expecting. But there you go for this last test.

I wanted to try out the mobile hotspot capabilities because, with iPhone 12 apple enabled five gigahertz Wi-Fi over mobile hotspot. So you could share your 5g connection with your other devices over the 5 gigahertz channel, which should allow for some superfast speeds. So, let's check it out on Verizon's ultra-wideband 5g network 5g speeds were impressive. I averaged 426 megabits per second on the download and 74.7 megabits per second on the upload over the hotspot connection and on the T-Mobile network, while the speeds weren't necessarily as fast the performance was still excellent. I averaged 54.5 megabits per second down and 33.5 megabits per second up from running four tests, and these speeds were as fast as I was getting on the handset directly without using the hotspot and, unfortunately, with a t, it turns out the legacy at t business plan. Furthermore, I was using didn't support the hotspot feature that is Verizon versus ATT versus T-Mobile 5g on the new iPhone 12s to run these tests, I was signed up for Verizon's 90, get more unlimited plan, T-Mobile's 70 magenta plan and a legacy at t business plan provided by my friend Carlos shout out to Carlos.

Thank you man. I super appreciate it. You can find Carlos's channel linked in the video description. Also. I was running these tests in downtown Denver.

I found a Verizon millimeter wave, 5g node, just outside the Union Station and across from whole foods. Furthermore, I found ATT 5g just outside ball arena in downtown Denver, and I found T-Mobile 5g along with Verizon nationwide 5g, actually here in my apartment, in Longmont Colorado, because the coverage is honestly everywhere, even if those 5g networks aren't quite as fast as the other options protecting the Verizon iPhone 12 was mojo's new sleek and stylish premium leather case. Furthermore, I really liked the look fit and finish of this case and protecting the iPhone 12 Pro on a t was the armored fiber case from pit aka. This honestly has an amazing texture and look to it. I absolutely love the design.

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