2 years of getting the fastest speed from T-Mobile 5G Home Internet. Here’s what all I’ve learned, get the best signal and performance. I cover everything to cellular signals, bands, towers, gateway placement, external antennas, external wifi routers, 3rd party 5G routers, throttling, depriorization, DNS server, etc.
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Dude isn't teaching anything, he's just extending sentences and explaining thing we dont give af about like latency and speed. Instead of showing how to get best result.
I'm going to purchasing a home in a rural area where there no home internet service available..just satellite. I work from home for call center and I'm looking into doing the 4×4 panel external antenna + a highly recommended router because 4G is available there…I'm just wondering if someone can answer the following question: when it rains and thunderstorms; would I experience a high possibility of outages? I keep getting different answers. If anyone could help?
I've had T-Mobile internet for two years now. The first few months were pretty bad, inconsistent low speed (5 to 50 Mbps) but even that was so much better than the 100 Mbps Comcast/Xfinity service I paid for (no internet about 30% of the time and Kbps service the rest of the time). Eventually T-Mobile service got better and now I consistently get 100 Mbps to 160 Mbps. And it's so much cheaper than the Xfinity I paid for but never received. 😀😀😀
My Samsung S23 Ultra phone is now getting a full signal 1,200Mbps off the tower from inside my bedroom because there using B25, B41, B66, and B71 for 5G in my area.
I dumped T-Mobile broadband and switched over to gigabit optic fiber once it became available to the condo complex. The fiber modem is in the condo's electrical room and hooked into the phone wiring that runs from the electrical room to each unit. I'm pulling the full entire 1000/1000 speed over phone wiring.
Ziply Optic fiber broadband: ping ms 0 to 1.5
T-Mobile 5G broadbad: ping ms 32 to 47.
Was paying Consolidated Communications 50$ mo for 50mbps, then they jacked price to 75$, got TMHI 5g unlimited internet, found the best nearby tower, now we are pulling in 324 mbps paying 50$ with auto pay, worth it. We stream over Roku not had any trouble.
I’ve given T-Mobile and their support more than one year. Got my gateway May 2022, it’s now June 2023. I’m in the heart of Golden Colorado, been told I’m three blocks from the closest tower, one mile line-o-site from another. It continually drops internet multiple-on top of multiple times every day. It’s gotten worse and worse, so I can only guess they have over-sold their capability. The last three months have gotten absolutely terrible. I got a new T-Mobile Gateway three days ago, tried every window in my house, directed 2.4 and 5G to determined devices. It’s horrible. I’m done with T-Mobile in Golden, Co. I gave it more than a year trial.
After using MetroPCS since 2017 for my 4 phone lines I made the mistake of trying their Internet Deal. Free month of Internet is a joke. It costs you $55 for a (FREE) month. The sales person told me I would get my (FREE) month on the nest bill. LIE.
Then they billed me again in 18 days (NOT IN A MONTH)…. and cut my phone service off because of the additional bill which I wasn't expecting for another 12 days.. I was forced to pay again to keep my phone service. The REALITY OF THE INTERNET SPEED TRY 23 MEG on the OKOLA speed test, If your trying to watch a program on tv it will sputter and freeze. You TUBE CUTS OUT . If you have 2 devices they will not work at the same time… If you have 1 it might work. DON"T BELIEVE THE SALES HYPE…. THIS SERVICE IS CRAP / I AM CANCELING AS SOON AS THIS BILLING PERIOD EXPIRES. Then their is the customer service issue.. IF YOU CAN GET PAST THEIR COMPUTERIZED VOICE DEFLECTION SYSTEM. YOU CANNOT TALK TO AN AGENT. Even if you need one, It will just keep cycling you through and asking the same question over and over again.. BEYOND FRUSTRATING… ABSOLUTE WORST CUSTOMER SERVICE: BE WARNED… However you can go to the store and pay them $5 to help you as your only option. Sorry for the CAPS… Its just how I feel right now. Good Luck
So once I hooked up the mimo 4×4 I have almost no internet. Wired or wireless, my speeds went down to a crawl. I can barely watch Netflix and can't stream online at all. I followed you video and hooked up the wires in the order you said. It shows 4 out of 5 bars for signal, and it's pointed right at the tower, but it's way slower now. I am baffled, everyone I see talks about how great their internet is now. Why is mine worse?
You are hyping me up for this 4×4 MIMO Waveform Antenna I’ll be purchasing tomorrow. It’s currently late, but this definitely has so much value outside of just where I live currently.
This is just such good information, and as someone who has studied to pursue tech, this is just good knowledge to equip.
Keep it up, Nate!
I was ready to try the T-Mobile as Xfinity went up to $99, and trpically, since my property is dually wired I would switch over to Spectrums $50 special. Seemed like a good time to try T-Mobile since I am a Magenta/5G plan customer and they drop the home internet to $30/mo. Also heard (and confirmed with T-Mobile) that you can take it with you, just have to have a physical addess of record. When in the store, reality hit and had to walk out. Never heard discussed that if you have a mixes wired/wireless network, you need not apply. According to the store, it is wireless only as there is no WAN outlet like on a cable modem that allows connecting to a router to support a wired LAN. Granted I could add a wireless card to the desktops I built, but two components are wired only. The security camera system is wired and would require replacing all cameras with a wireless version, but that creates other security issues as easier to override. The one unit that cant be changed in a Synology NAS as I am not even aware if they make wireless NAS units. That said, the RV mobility option is enticing but would have two systems totaling less than my my current $99.
We had great speeds for about 18 months with T-Mobile Home internet. Fast, reliable, no issues. We averaged about 50 mbps, which was more than enough to raid in World of Warcraft. Then, about 3 months ago, our speeds became intermittent and slow. Most days we don't get above 3 mbps. We've done all the things trying to resolve this problem with T-Mobile, been given all of the excuses, and still we can barely watch videos, let alone do any online gaming. We added a router thinking that would help, but it doesn't seem to have improved at all. We are supposed to get, at minimum, about 30 mbps, which would seem like a miracle compared with what we have now. We have 5 bars of signal, so it's not the signal strength. Our computers are hard wired to the router. We live in a rural area, so our choices are limited. It's either T-Mobile or an overpriced cable provider. Have you heard of this kind of problem with T-Mobile? Do others sometimes see less than 1 mbps at times? I see people complaining about speeds of 120 mbps, but I'd be happy with just 12.
I can literally see the closest 5g antenna from my 5th story apartment. My cell gets constant 5g ultra at home and throughout my city which has about 140k pop about 60 miles from Twin Cities. Brought gateway to moms hour away smaller city of 20k had 5g ultra there to on cell, gateway averaged 170 mbps. Spectrum was average 200mbps for $60 total mt, was $80 mt! Tmob home similar average for $25. $25 for unlimited cell data/talk/text $50 total I'm not complaining. I don't online game anymore so any ills there are moot. Spectrum, Comcast, AT&T ect have all overcharged us for decades, now I see they're forced to lower prices and offer more packages so most don't get rid of cable/fiber. Can't wait for 10g ultra! Although that marks the beginning of the singularity transformation. We'll basically all be the Borg!
EDIT- Great video!
Is it possible to hide your wifi so that it's undetectable when others scan for it BUT still be able to connect your trusted devices by manually adding their IPs? Thanks in advance.
About to do a 2 week test drive
I am new to your channel. I have really enjoyed all that I have seen so far. I am searching through your video's looking to see if you have tethered the T-Mobile home gateway to a PePLink Max BR1. From watching other videos you have produced, T-Mobile locks based on I think IMEI so I cannot add it to the PeP directly but would like to add it as a tether device. Let me know if there is a video that I missed where you cover tethering T-Mobile home gateway. Thanks again and keep up the great work.
i moved to a house in walkerton the other day and im trying to boost my speeds i get lag spikes in the middle of my games sometimes ive tried everything i have the same box you had sitting on the desk
T Mobile says that there is no signal coverage in my area, however my son's T Mobile phone gets 3 bars of 5G. The coverage map says no service as well. There are no options for me for in home broadband other than Hughes satellite which is really not broadband because of the slow speed. Dial up is faster. Every year for the last 3 years Starlink has been saying we will have service, but so far no.
Got the silver trash can about 2 years ago. I originally was getting about 75 down….haven't done a thing other than add a fan. Still $50 a month. Last speed check was 589 down 🙂
Since acquiring this gateway, I frequently find myself having to manually connect to my Wi-Fi. Despite deleting the network and attempting numerous other troubleshooting methods, I have yet to come across a solution that works. Currently, I have to manually establish the connection every time I boot up my computer. 🤦♂
Hey Nater, I've been catching a few more of your videos, you have a nice niche in this 5G Internet space. Good stuff. So I went on a limb and upgraded today from the Home 5G Internet to the Business 5G Internet device. After talking to probably 12 people, some in the Philippines today, I finally found someone who understood what I was asking for and signed me up. A tech support person who also spoke American English said with this device, I'll be able to do the port-forwarding, vpn, Plex, etc. that I'm looking to get back to.
Good news is it's $30 a month for unlimited and was $35 to initialize the transaction today. More to follow. Thank, Ken
I actually decided to try the T-Mobile 5G Home Internet because of you and another channel that was promoting it as well. My reason was Comcast was going up to $95 from $65 and that did it for me. What I learned by getting the T-Mobile Gateway was I was not getting what I paid for from Comcast. I was paying $75 for Blast Internet and my speed never went over 70 mbps even though I was paying extra for the Blast. Now I'm paying a lot less and my speeds are rated at a very fast internet for streaming, video conferencing, and streaming content on 4K TV and using Roku on more than one device at the same time. I am so happy that I tried the T-Mobile internet plan. Thank you again for uploading those videos to tell us things regarding this system it sure helped me!
Hello, is there any way to disable 5G and make it 4G on the T-Mobile Arcadyan-KVD21 gateway?
Hi nate. I would like to ask if these modem has an option of band selection and band locking. And if it dont, do you have any tricks or firmware to do so. Thanks
I just got my T-mobile home 5G wifi so far its good 👍
Have you tried the inseego fg2000? I was getting a good signal with the inseego but the speed dropped from 200+ with my Arcadyan to 5- with the inseego. I don't understand this.
I have had T-Mobile Gateway since the end of September. Waited 7 months on the list for Unlimited. Since I was switched to unlimited, I was having to reboot my Gateway every day. They replaced my Gateway four times, and the SIM card once. I still cannot get reconnected to the Internet.
Oh if only there were "laymans" cheat sheet