Report on T-Mobile Home Internet

[MartyStickle]

So I've been running this for 3 weeks now. Dropped Spectrum on which I was getting around 200 down for $75/month. I'm now getting over 300 down and near 20 up for $50/month. So here's my setup. I have the T-Mobile garbage pail device in my TV room at the front of the house. It's plugged directly by ethernet into my apple TV and also directly into my whole house structured wiring by Ethernet. I have a network switch in the action so that my wyze base station can also be plugged into the router. (only 2 ports on the T-Mobile device). My iMac is in my office and that's plugged into the house wiring by ethernet. My wife's iMac runs off wifi to her office from the TV room. Just ran a speedtest on my iMac and got 440 down. 19 up and ping was 18. This is typical, although there have been times when I might get less than those numbers, but never too low to do incoming and outgoing zooms. My TV is through YouTube TV and that works just fine.

BTW, the $50/month deal ended last week I believe, but I'm grandfathered into it at $50. That goes along with the geezer rate on our phones of $60 for two unlimited lines. You do not have to use tMobile for phone in order to use the home internet. You can check the coverage map and make sure you can get 5G coverage where you live.

I am no expert on this, but would be happy to try to answer anyone's questions.

[Ombligo]

The T-Mobile map is very generous in its 5G coverage. It shows my house under it but we barely get a single bar of T-Mobile. Yes, technically we have 5G but even my body position can disrupt the signal.

[mrbigstuff]

It's too bad that they don't have some og subscription rates for users that have been with them for like 25 years.... And combined with phone service.

[Filliam H. Muffman]

This is was I was hoping would happen with 4G almost exactly 9 years ago.

T-Mobile seems to imply it isn't available near my address. Their 5G coverage map implies I have 5G but I guess it isn't good enough for over 100 Mbps.

Edit: T-Mobile 5G coverage map
https: //www.t-mobile.com/coverage/coverage-map

[Wags]

mrbigstuff wrote:
It's too bad that they don't have some og subscription rates for users that have been with them for like 25 years.... And combined with phone service.

Yeah. They are the only provider I've ever had, since they were VoiceStream. Customer loyalty seems low on their priorities.

[Fritz]

Customer loyalty. Wtf is that?
Ducks in a barrel loyalty.

Actually been T-Mo for a decade I think.
I've been happy with them .... mostly. Their website can be a pita when trying to pay a bill.

But their coverage maps are a joke, not that anyone elses is better, unless you're standing at 5th and Mad.

We're eligible for the geezer rate, but I've stuck with the gf unltd rate we've had thru my biz. Stoopit me.
Wish the 5G internet had a bigger blanky.

[Don C]

Had not heard of T-Mobile internet before this post (or forgot about it if I had) so went online to see what it was all about. Entered address and phone number to see if I have service and was told I did.

About 10 minutes later, my phone rang and it was T-Mobile asking if I had any questions and offering to send me a kit to get me started. Had a hard time convincing the fellow that I was only kicking tires and not buying anything.

[pdq]

I have had a much more mixed experience. I jumped at the chance of getting 150 MBP/S from T-Mobile for 50 bucks a month instead of the $90 we pay to Xfinity, getting 30 MBP/S (plus a landline). But the box they sent out only got 5 to 15 MBP/S no matter where I put it in the house, so I sent it back.

I was into a T-Mobile store a few months later and related this experience, and the salesman said did you get a white box or a black box? I said white, and he said try again with the black box, which has 5G – the white box doesn’t.

well, that’s irritating...

So I did, and I got a silver (small) cylinder this time that does have 5G, and while I don’t get anywhere near your speeds, I do get 30 MBP/S down, which is enough for me. Unfortunately, it doesn’t seem to let me connect to the entire Internet. On pages like Mac resource forums, photos which are visible with my Xfinity router (which I haven’t gotten rid of yet) show up as blank boxes using the T-Mobile router.

Also, if you go to this Travelzoo page:

https://www.travelzoo.com/vacations/sout...e=top20_us&utm_medium=email&utm_content=2912199&utm_campaign=us_top20_2021_11_deal%3a2912199

...and click through on the big blue button to “travel by Jen”, Xfinity brings up the page, but T-Mobile appears to be unable to, always saying “the page cannot be opened because the server stopped responding”.

Customer support on T-Mobile says I have to turn off my Xfinity router because there is interference, but I already have, like, six other devices in the house connecting via Wi-Fi – why wouldn’t they interfere?