Thank you, Gabe, for the thorough response! I've tried different things to change the sluggishness, but nothing has worked. I'm in the mid-Atlantic region -- don't know if this is significant regarding speed. I don't give much importance to actual speed -- it's perceived speed that I think counts (well, to me at least). With Gen 4, even though the speed was much less than now, the pages seemed to load faster. Maybe it's the Web acceleration that's not working properly. "Still, with the exception of downloading some large file and being pressed for time when doing so, the difference between your speeds and my speeds most likely wouldn't even be noticeable with the things we do." Exactly! For most things, it doesn't really matter. I was able to stream Netflx just fine today (with some buffering here and there), so that was fine. But oddly, some Web pages are very, but very slow to load up. Bring on the software/firmware updates. "As for you not being able to connect to the 5Ghz, neither my laptop, nor my notebook, can either, and both are capable of doing so. It could be some type of glitch that will be fixed with a software update in the future." I'm thinking that many things will be fixed with future updates. This is all very new and glitches are to be expected. I've been doing a bit of reading on the differences between the 2.4Ghz and the 5Ghz bands and I agree there doesn't seem to be much advantage of one over the other. "It reminded me of some Egyption monolith or something. LOL." Yep. A quilted one at that. LOL. Classy. " As for the data refills, from what I've been reading, it seems to only be happening with new signups, or with those upgrading from legacy plans, not those upgrading from Gen4 to Gen5. " That makes sense, and it's not really a problem. I was just curious. I also thought C0RR0SIVE had mentioned he was going through the daily refills, but maybe he was not a Gen 4 to Gen 5 upgrade.
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