BE WARNED IF YOU WANT TO USE THIS SERVICE WITH A VPN: I was given the opportunity to try T-Mobile home internet over a year ago as a beta participant. The speed was okay and nothing special. However, whenever I used it for work it slowed down to a crawl equivalent to dial-up speeds. No joke! It turned out using my work-required Cisco VPN for secure login interfered with the with this service. I contacted T-Mobile to see if they could help and they pointed the finger at my work VPN, but when I asked work to help they pointed the finger right back to T-Mobile. It was a frustrating two weeks. Not being a network engineer and not wanting to be one, I returned their hardware and canceled the service. Maybe they've resolved the issues but if T-Mobile is calling this a "Test Drive" then I don't think they've fixed it.
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T-Mobile Launches Test Drive Program for Home Internet
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Exactly, giving now pathetic the overall fiber deployment is in the US, the competition and bar is usually very low. We have been with T-Mobile home for 1.5 years and I’m having $80 a month vs my precious isp.
362Mbps Down/13.8 Mbps Up, ping 41ms Idle. The Download/Upload Ping and Jitter are pretty horrible. 499ms/84ms, 396ms/84ms.
I do end up having to reset it once a week or so to get the download speeds back to this level as it has a tendency to lock on to a lower band.
I don’t game over the Internet, so that’s not an issue for me.
Other than that, downloads are fast and uploads are adequate. Getting between two and three bars of 5G, mostly two where I live in BFE, same as my iPhone XR 4G/LTE. I’m not doing any advanced routing or hosting servers, so the drawbacks listed above don’t apply
to me. Spectrum is the only other provider around at a decent speed. Fiber isn’t available and DSL is a damn joke.
The price is right…pretty satisfied right now. Setup was easy, monitoring from a web browser is better than trying from the iOS app which works pretty shoddily, especially since it won’t let you reset the unit when your internet connection is down.
Not much more to tell than that.
I do end up having to reset it once a week or so to get the download speeds back to this level as it has a tendency to lock on to a lower band.
I don’t game over the Internet, so that’s not an issue for me.
Other than that, downloads are fast and uploads are adequate. Getting between two and three bars of 5G, mostly two where I live in BFE, same as my iPhone XR 4G/LTE. I’m not doing any advanced routing or hosting servers, so the drawbacks listed above don’t apply
to me. Spectrum is the only other provider around at a decent speed. Fiber isn’t available and DSL is a damn joke.
The price is right…pretty satisfied right now. Setup was easy, monitoring from a web browser is better than trying from the iOS app which works pretty shoddily, especially since it won’t let you reset the unit when your internet connection is down.
Not much more to tell than that.
I have been using this service as soon as it came out of beta, it’s been 1.5 years and we use Cisco anywhere connect for all WFH tasks (Remote Desktop or whatever all the tools you can think of) I have had no issues from the beginning.
I noticed the ping on 5G is too slow for gaming. 1 Gigabit Fiber is close to this price in my area with pings at around 2ms instead of 40ms.
I tried this out 3 months ago and the speeds sucked, not any better than my roof top microwave receiver. During the morning/day 10-30 Mbps, evenings 1-10 Mbps which is about what I get with my current setup that is slightly cheaper. Pings were 100-400 ms while my current setup is usually 80-100 ms.
Then began the 2+ month battle with T-Mobile to refund my first month and then to stop billing me since the T-Mobile store assured me that if it didn't work out at my location I could bring it back and be refunded everything. Luckily, the store fought most of that battle with corporate for me and eventually got things worked out.
I had high hopes I would finally be able to get high speed internet but low expectations and things worked out about like I expected.
Then began the 2+ month battle with T-Mobile to refund my first month and then to stop billing me since the T-Mobile store assured me that if it didn't work out at my location I could bring it back and be refunded everything. Luckily, the store fought most of that battle with corporate for me and eventually got things worked out.
I had high hopes I would finally be able to get high speed internet but low expectations and things worked out about like I expected.
I have had T-Mobile home internet, and had to dump them. The hardware is terrible, and requires a reboot daily or twice daily. I am talking of course about the "Nokia trashcan" rather than the new cube or whatever they offer now. They also refuse to send me a cube, so bye bye T-Mobile home internet as a whole.
Don't feel too bad. I look forward to the day when I can get any high speed internet. I literally have no options for high speed internet, period.
Weird. I have T-Mobile home internet and can use Hulu with it no problem.
Absolutely love our T-Mobile service. Was very skeptical, but the test drive process was seamless ("What do you mean, I just take this home and plug it in? Nobody's coming to my house?") and the speed was staggering.
We tried it in several places inside the house (ran speed tests). Final spot we settled on gives us 300+down 80-90 up, with a ping of 30-40.
No extra antennae, no booster, etc. We are 1800 feet from the tower in suburban Orlando.
Have heard Verizon is good, but just within a few blocks. Don't fancy seeing a booster on every other lightpost.
T-mobile for the win! Recommend you give the test drive a shot, you've got nothing to lose.
We tried it in several places inside the house (ran speed tests). Final spot we settled on gives us 300+down 80-90 up, with a ping of 30-40.
- We run 2 online games (via Stadia) with no issues, at any time of the day.
- Beautiful Wife works as an at-home agent for a call center--had to adjust our packet size, but that was simple.
- Eventually we bought a new router to support faster wireless speed.
No extra antennae, no booster, etc. We are 1800 feet from the tower in suburban Orlando.
Have heard Verizon is good, but just within a few blocks. Don't fancy seeing a booster on every other lightpost.
T-mobile for the win! Recommend you give the test drive a shot, you've got nothing to lose.
I get gig service from my fiber provider for 65 flat per month, taxes and fees rolled in so it’s always that flat number.
However, a few blocks over and this is actually cheaper than Spectrum’s base 200/20 plan. And their 1000/50 plan? 160 per month…
My wife runs that VPN, and we fixed the issue.
For anyone else struggling with this, you can tell your router to adjust your packet size -- go from the default 1500 to 1350 and you'll be gold. Am *definitely* not an engineer of any kind, but a quick Google came back with the info.
They do (did). When I switched from ATT years ago they gave me an iPhone 5s at the time for one week to try it out. Their current iteration of this is they send you a hotspot that you can connect your phone to and test their network in your area for 30 days.
I've had this now for I wanna say 6 months and haven't had any major issues to speak of. Previous service was through Spectrum here in SoCal which is pretty much Spectrum country and I had the 200Mbps down tier with them and now I am consistently getting 350-500Mbps down and over 25 up and saving about $30/month in the process.
The full-TV experience with Hulu (Hulu Live? Something like that) needs an internet connection that registers as a fixed location (fiber, DSL, cable, ATT Fixed Wireless, etc), and the T-mobile device looks to Hulu like a . . . wireless device.
Our "regular" Hulu has no issues, either.
Not available for me but I could see this as a good alternative to cable.
I’m fine with my cable internet, 200 down for $50 flat.
I’m fine with my cable internet, 200 down for $50 flat.
Meanwhile AT&T is trying to raise rates for older cell plans while still selling twisted copper plans for $55. Verizon makes use of 4G LTE mid band up to 300 Mb/s for home internet cell box at $70 to $80 or discounted down to $30 with a phone plan. Just shows you whose the stronger and weaker out there as far as competitors.
How much ping is enough for gaming?
Do you actually get download speeds of 10Gigabits? I believe most services limit the download speed of their servers on purpose to not overload their network.
Do you have only 1 cable company? shouldn't you be able to choose between different cable companies?
Why is port forwarding important?
Do you mind flipping the device over and tell me who is the manufacturer? Its usually Huwaei , ZTE, or Nokia. DO you have the cylinder one? because i am guessing that is a Nokia I am wondering about the newer black brick looking one
Anyone know if you need to allow for a credit check before the trial? I tried signing up before but they needed to do a credit check and I have mine locked down. I told them I had no problem unlocking one credit bureau but they said they checked all the credit bureaus and that seemed a bit excessive to me as it is a pain to unlock all three and then lock them after the check. I even offered to put a deposit down for the value of the router but that didn’t get anywhere either.
For online gaming, there is a general rule, anything less than 20ms is ok, less than 10ms is better, 5ms is best. Pings in the 50ms or higher range tend to be not ok or subpar.
That doesn’t make any sense, why would Hulu need a residential connection when it’s able to be streamed from mobile devices….