According to the representative I talked to today, yes. I’ll see when the device gets here in a few days.
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T-Mobile Launches Unlimited 5G Home Internet for $60/Month
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I will definitely try it out. Right now I'm on Charter/Spectrum for $75/month. They advertise 200 meg service but deliver only 114. If T-Mobile can deliver 100 meg or close for $60, Charter/Spectrum is history. I checked and T-Mobile home is not yet available here so I'll have to wait.
I have home 5G (non-US) and it's been much faster than my home cable.
I'm getting 400-600MBps down which is way higher than my landline can handle. And the latency is almost as good (7-15ms to local servers).
Don't underestimate it before you try it.
I'm getting 400-600MBps down which is way higher than my landline can handle. And the latency is almost as good (7-15ms to local servers).
Don't underestimate it before you try it.
This article says yes:
"T-Mobile's Home Internet gateway serves as modem and router, though you can also plug in an existing router or mesh network."
An Early Adopter's Hands-On Take on How T-Mobile Home Internet Compares With Cable
It's an affordable 5G-powered alternative to Comcast and others. Here's how it stood up to real-world use.
www.cnet.com
How's T-Mobile's coverage in your area? That might give you an idea about how TMo Home will perform when it arrives.
I'm sorry you're not getting the full 200mbps from Spectrum... but at least it's a hardwired connection.
Cellular connections can be more flakey.
I must be lucky... I get more than I pay for with Spectrum. I'm on a 300mbps plan... but I just got 383mbps on a Speedtest...
I'm remote, so this would be good... but I wonder what the speeds are at 7pm, certainly not 100Mbps. Although 5G is capable, having the throughput to every 5G hub is a completely different problem. But for $60, a real 100Mbps connection would be a huge step up for those that don't have broadband. And since it's mesh, I believe it requires minimal infrastructure at the actual "pole".
No. Truly rural areas (like your road is a dirt road and/or you are 15 miles from a gas station and/or nobody would hear you being killed by a chainsaw in your front yard) in the USA have crummy cell phone connections period. If you are defining "rural" as "suburbs" then the answer currently and foreseeable future in the USA is also no. Not viable at all.
5G has been out for several years now in the USA and has caught on about as much as the Betamax.
I live in the suburbs near main routes, shopping plazas, and 12 miles from the mall and there is no 5G here and clearly nothing planned. I would bet that a)5G won't be here until late 2023 and b)it will be a tad faster than LTE/4G/whatever my iPhone 7 uses now on ATT and c)part b is the case right now in about 80% of the 5G rollout in the USA.
5G is way, way, way overhyped in the USA.
Switch from WAP had nothing to do with iPhone and everything to do with the progress of the wireless technology. On GPRS, iPhone would be stuck with WAPs too.
I am on Charter/Spectrum and have been for 14 years. They are actually really good for tech/performance. Here are a few random tips:
1)They will increase (usually double) the downstream speed every 2-3 years FOR FREE but they WILL NOT TELL YOU. You need to call them every 12 months or so and inquire about the CURRENT pricing for the speeds and compare to what you are paying for. If there is a discrepency, they will gladly upgrade you for free. I've done this for 14 years.
2)If you are getting 1/2 the downstream, it can be a bunch of factors:
a)Charter wire to your house is bad
b)your cablemodem is older and doesn't support anything faster than X
c)the coax from the wall to your cablemodem is either loose or bad (this is unlikely but I have seen coax cables becoming loose and your speed then stinks)
d)your ethernet cable from the cablemodem to your computer or router is old (cat 5 or older) or kinked.
e)your cablemodem and/or "account" is provisioned incorrectly
f)don't test internet speeds using WIFI...it could be a dozen reasons why your WIFI router is not giving you great speeds. Plug your laptop into the ethernet port of your router or directly into the cablemodem.
g)if your laptop/desktop is using ethernet, are they CAT 5e cables or better? plain old CAT 5 maxes out at 100Mbit.
My charter/spectrum gives me 450 down/20 up for $45.99/month. It's been this price and speed since summer 2020. I live in CT. I get my full speeds.
I hope this helps.
With no other context that is both true and not. Meaning, for my parents it would be a speed upgrade and a cost decrease. For me it would be the same cost but lowering my speed. The comment is sort of myopic.
tldr - most people don't need NSA level security and what is offered "over the counter" can be considered good enough for most.
Are you saying this for the "general public" or for people who educate themselves about security? If you take appropriate precautions than you do what you can to mitigate risk. You can never be fully secure and connected, and security is not about that, its about mitigating risk where you can. T-Mobile will have their version of this risk mitigation. Educated users will likely add some additional steps on top of that. However, it does seem like your concerns are if people have intensely sensitive data and are just totally willie nilly with it. Which the original OP was basically speaking to services where data is end-to-end encrypted as a manor of showing layers of mitigation. That concept IS a good way of looking at security. You might want more layers because of how sensitive you deem your data, but that doesn't invalidate layering security so a public connection is not seen as a viable threat.
Yes, of course. Connect it via Ethernet. That said, I found that the built-in wi-fi worked better than the router I had planned to use with this.
Yes. You can plug in your own router via Ethernet if you choose. Make sure to turn off the built-in wi-fi if you do so to avoid double-NAT issues (same as you would do for a cable modem with a built-in router if you were using your own separate router).
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My experience differs, but your results obviously depends on whether it gets a solid signal in your home. One nice feature, though, is that it has batteries so that you can walk around your home and check the signal in various spots before you settle on one. You have to plug it in to actually use it, of course.
It really isn't that hard. 1 ACH stop payment and they forever can't debit your account until you remove it.
Yup. They actually launched this plan (for $50) a few months ago in limited areas. I told a co-worker about it. He moved from a suburb to a rural area & he lost his high speed internet. He tried satellite, but it wouldn't work with a VPN, so he switched to T Mobile through some third party service. They were charging him $150/month for the same thing. When I told him, he switched right away & is saving $1,200/year.
you must be 4x as productive - not. This comparison does not matter and on top, this is "mobile".
Turning off built-in Wi-Fi disables the NAT in the T-Mobile device? Normally those are two independent features.
Pretty easy. Call the bank and remove them from auto payment. Not difficult at all.
Because if there’s one thing rural America is known for, it’s a strong cellular signal.
Oh… wait.