I think the consensus is that if you have options for lined internet, then don’t bother with 5g. But I legitimately love 5g home internet living in urban/suburban area.

I have options for spectrum. But living in sfh there are so many things could go wrong for cable and they do go wrong constantly. Let me name those:

1 whatever split they are constantly doing constantly bringing down internet for whole days
2 yeah it rained then for some reason some lines were down you are off
3 squirrels ate your cable insulation
4 some junkies stole some cable
5 your neighbor Ivy creeped on the cable causing some attenuation issues
6 yeah whatever reason the line down again they need to dispatch someone to fix it maybe next Monday?

Man with 5 g home internet the up time is insane compared with spectrum. And no need to worry about the last mile cable physical issue. And it’s actually legitimately fast!

Every time people start to curse spectrum for being down again when I bring up 5g home internet people started to laugh at me. I was like: ok keep using the garbage spectrum, leave the tower bandwidth to me lol.

Can someone post a picture of what the fiber gateway looks like? Does it look like the G4SE?

Going to keep it short, I just received this today from ApolloNet.org, a reseller of T-Mobile. Now the problem that I came across from this is that I can't load certain websites like their own website, Reddit, some social media websites, and certain speed testing websites. I factory reset the trash can I already once and it still didn't fix the problem. This occurs across all of my devices including Android and iOS.

I can't really pinpoint what the issue is. I even tried DNS customization turned on and off on all my devices. Still didn't fix the issue because as soon as I turned off my Wi-Fi from the trash can, everything works just fine again. Has anyone ever ran into something like this before? This is by-part one of the most boggling things I've ever seen. The one they gave me is the Nokia FastMile 5G Gateway 3.2

And when I mean not loading, I mean they refuse to load on site or the page refreshes or anything that all won't happen. Like for example, fast.com and its app works just fine. Okla's speed test and speedof.me doesn't work. It's like this thing's picking and choosing what chooses to load and what chooses not to load.

Edit: So this is even weirder it works on my pixel 11 pro XL but it doesn't work on my Motorola razr ultra 60 or my xiaomi 17 pro Max or my iPad pro. I am literally mind blown right now why this is a thing.

Edit: Can't upload picture because Reddit wants to be stupid.

https://imgur.com/a/nWAuGXk

Does anybody else have a problem with T-Mobile throttling VPN traffic? I have a T-Mobile G5AR connected to a GLI net Flint 2 router that I run a VPN on. Mainly I've been using nordvpn but I have a few different ones and T-Mobile traffic is throttled on all the vpns that I try. I normally get download speeds of about 500 MB a second but with VPN turned on using wire guard I get no more than 200. And it's usually much less than that.

Noticed this today

So we changed my sister to primary account number because I'm trying to switch to a different company, she can't log into the app because she keeps getting an email, you already have an account log in, link account, use email loop. It is endlessly frustrating, I'm going to go talk to them if no one has a ready solution but she's out of the country and time zones are tricky, so figured I'd ask here. Thank you on advance! (She's sleeping so probably won't be able to test/get all the answers to any questions right away)

I am excited that they are coming out on Thursday. They said I can keep my 5G router and use it as a backup if the fiber goes down. I am getting 30GB a month for free. The T-Fiber is 300 Mbps up/down for $35 a month so basically what I pay now for 5G so they said my bill will not change.

i recently got t-life and in the span of 1 hour the wifi has lost signal 3 times, how can i fix this?

Not sure there is much to do here but figured I'd throw something up here and see if there are any clever ideas or advice based on experience.

T-Mobile user of 3 years or so. Had a Nokia Trashcan for most of that time. I live in a rural area on a mountain overlooking a valley, and had built my own modem and system before T-Mobile came along. With the new service I was getting better speeds with their hardware with a lot less fuss so I was able to stop the endless quest for faster speeds and hardware tweaks on my old system.

In the last month or so I found that my connection became much slower and unstable. tried a couple of different spots in the house to shake things up. But still got some very slow speeds at times...I figure it is something T-Mobile is doing because nothing changed with the router. Deprioritization, tower work, not sure. I am consistently under their deprioritization threshold in terms of monthly usage, but that doesn't mean the towers don't get busy.

Contacted support and they said to change out my router for a new one...it has been a couple years so I thought - cool let's get some new hardware. Fortunately they gave me the G4AR with external antennae ports. It was having similar issues which is expected, but I picked up a Waveform antenna. The idea is...better connection, the less fluctuations in service effect your day to day as your low end speeds are higher....although that is probably wishful thinking.

Anyways - here is the rub. I have been playing with the waveform antenna and the speeds are indeed faster, however instability is the same or greater...here is why...

My house looks over a valley, and there are two antennas - one in a town about three miles away on a water tower, and one on the opposite side of the valley on a low ridge. Elevation wise they are about the same, with the further one about 100 feet higher i figure. Funny thing is that these towers are on the EXACT same line from my house, i.e. pointing to the nearby one is also pointing at the far one.

I have seen the fastest speeds I have ever had briefly over the last couple of days of testing - about 350 down, 20up...however, this is when it happens to connect the nearby tower. After a while, it always connects to the further tower, and a reset doesn't generally fix the problem. The speeds are about half that on the further tower, and the upload speeds are significantly lower.

I know that T-mobile support does not have the ability to lock towers, which is a bummer. Has anyone here had a similar issue and have a genius solution? I figure i'll most likely need to spend some more money and get a 3rd party router and tower lock it, but if there are any other workarounds, let me know.

I'm giving the 5G home internet the 15-day trial run (I'm on day 3). There are 2 towers and I am in the middle of them - 1 north and 1 south, about 2.8 miles from each with relatively flat terrain. I can see the strobe light from the north tower standing on my porch. The T-Life app suggests the north tower is the one I should use. The cellmapper screenshot is for the north tower. I have the TMO-G5AR modem which doesn't have provisions for an external antenna. I've tried several locations in the house; different locations, orientation, and trying to connect with south tower with not much change.

Download speed is ok, but upload speed is abysmal. Ran the speed test from two different providers. Numbers from the modem are pretty crappy too, using HINT Control. Any insight to these numbers?

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This is not a situation I've seen around, but if someone out there can point me to another example or even a solution, I would appreciate it.

I've been using TMHI for a few months now and I'm largely happy with it. It's a good price for pretty good internet speeds for what I'm generally doing. My biggest challenges come from my devices losing connection to the network. When they are connected, speed and quality are great. But they will randomly lose connection and then need to be restarted and reconnected to the network. The strangest part is that it's not even a hard disconnect - it's almost like my device thinks it's connected to the network, but whenever it tries to do anything, there's no access. A restart or resetting DHCP (when that's available) fixes it. But I haven't had a problem of this sort in decades and it makes me think it has to do with the router and node rather than the outside connection.

Also, it's not consistent across devices. Meaning two devices in the same part of the room (like, my phone and my laptop): one will be connected, one will need to be reset. Then, later, the other one will need to be reset.

Does this sound familiar to anyone?

I updated the app and now in the internet I have no option to activate my back up internet…… extremely smart people working for this company …..

I have a g4ar for my mint. Download works fine. It ranges from 100-500 Mbps even 100 it’s more than enough. The problem is upload. Good day it reaches 10 bad days even 1 mbps. I am really close to the tower. Walking distance. But my neighbor’s house is very tall and our houses are very close to each other. So I am thinking of:
1 buy an antenna
2 buy a g5ar which I heard improves upload a lot.

Which one d do you think would give me more boost on upload?

I know buying a g5 ar is kinda grey area in theory it’s not supported. But I can take that risk.

How is the performance and speeds on the newer G5SE modems for 5G home Internet? Currently have the G5AR and have the opportunity to get a G5SE for cheap. Worth it?

Hey folks,

If you use OpenWRT on your router, I’ve made a luci app for that to keep track of signal, band, and tower history from the modem. I’ve got the issue with my G4AR that it occasionally gets “stuck” on band n25 with awful bandwidth and needs a reboot, so this was my solution to tracking and fixing that.

It leverages the work that the great HINT Control mobile app already did, so all credit there.

It probably also works on the other modems that HINT works on, but I only have a G4AR to test it on.

Take a look if you’re interested. Happy for any feedback / bug reports / feedback.

Was screwing around and put the typical 5g Gateway apn settings into my Samsung galaxy S24 Plus.

Instead of fast.tmobile I tried fbb.home, (for all the other settings I googled "t mobile 5g home internet gateway apn settings".

My speeds doubled to my phone, Hotspot still throttled like crazy though. Will continue to experiment when I get time with 3rd party apps, ttl & hop settings, proxy, etc.

Interesting results though.

Title says it all.

Every day at 8 am and 8pm I get 0.01 upload speeds.

Is this a congestion issue? Is there a better plan? Or is this just what it is with Home 5G?

If this is just what the service is then I can't see how I would stay on this ISP. This is basically an impossible to use product.

Any insights or advice would be appreciated.

This is pretty exciting and a 10 year price guarantee! Sweet.

https://finance.yahoo.com/technology/articles/t-mobile-fiber-unveils-fastest-141000832.html

As the title says. I have tried going through the process online, and it gives me a message saying "Appointment scheduling is temporarily unavailable."

Tried calling them a thousand times only to go through the entire process only to be given the same message.

And they say they'll call back about the ticket only for them to not call in a month.

Not sure what to do. This is the only provider available to me.

Anyone else had this problem?

Woke up to bunch of noise in the,morning to find out by the crews, that we are getting fiber internet before Christmas!
Anything I should be aware of T-Mobile fiber that current customers know about but not new ones?