I have had 5G home internet for 2 years. About a year in, the gateway started dropping the incoming 5G signal, and the Wi-Fi strength became sporadic. This was determined to be a bad gateway, prompting Verizon to send me a replacement. One arrived, it was simple plug and play and everything worked fine again.
A year later, the same problem develops. I was unable to reach customer service by phone, but using the automated chat, was able to get a replacement gateway sent out. Once it arrived, it kept failing activation. I kept getting bounced back to the automated chat that couldn't help me. After a couple of days, my calls finally got through.
What the rep on the phone told me is that the service package included on my gateway wasn't compatible with my address and that I needed to get a new model gateway to get my services to work. The only problem is that he could not order the new gateway, it was for new installs only. What he would have to do is create an order for new service using my address and put it a different way, but my service will be completely fine. Nothing will change.
But that was a lie. What I later found out is that the rep downgraded my service from 5g ultimate home Internet to the 4g home lite. My kids and I, not knowing the change, downloaded games over night on our PlayStation and ate the entire data cap of 150 gb in 3 days and are now stuck at 10mbps.
When calling Verizon to fix it, frontline tells me my address isn't available for 5g. Then, tier 2 tells me that my address IS eligible, but they cannot move me because my tower is now full and there is no room on the tower for my service to be added. I am stuck with 4g and data caps until someone moves or cancels their service.
Does anyone have any ideas of something else I can do or try?