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Posted: 9/24/2020 10:07:17 AM EST
[#1]
I have two neighbors using nolimit with t-mobile with good results.
If I can keep using this carrier direct t-mobile tablet plan, I think it will be the way to go. That way I'm not dealing with a reseller. |
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Posted: 9/24/2020 10:48:26 AM EST
[#2]
Quote HistoryQuoted: I do that. But everyone’s FUP fair use policy slows you down after a pre determined amount of data Verizon slows you down on unlimited ( shut up grandfathered plan master race ). After 22 gb Att normal plans. Slow you down after 22gb T-Mobile after 22gb. Or 50gb depending how you hide your data traffic The reaso. For this post is this reseller says no Slowdowns. That’s what I’m trying to verify AT&T only slows down if the tower is crowded. I have used over 1TB of data with no noticable slowdown (usually around 150-200GB). |
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Posted: 9/24/2020 11:13:26 AM EST
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Quote HistoryQuoted: AT&T only slows down if the tower is crowded. I have used over 1TB of data with no noticable slowdown (usually around 150-200GB). Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: I do that. But everyone’s FUP fair use policy slows you down after a pre determined amount of data Verizon slows you down on unlimited ( shut up grandfathered plan master race ). After 22 gb Att normal plans. Slow you down after 22gb T-Mobile after 22gb. Or 50gb depending how you hide your data traffic The reaso. For this post is this reseller says no Slowdowns. That’s what I’m trying to verify AT&T only slows down if the tower is crowded. I have used over 1TB of data with no noticable slowdown (usually around 150-200GB). Back when I was on OTR, I used 1TB pretty much every month (TONS of streaming and remote work), on both the AT&T and T-Mobile networks. But that was before all the latest drama. There is a difference between throttling and deprioritization. Throttling is your speeds being limited (usually very low) after X amount of data. I never saw that on AT&T or T-Mobile through OTR even using hundreds and hundreds of GB per month. Deprioritization is that you are ranked lower in the bandwidtch priority list than other customers, so when the tower gets crowded, your speed suffer. Most of us here are rural (hence the thread title) so our towers don't often get crowded. I'm only semi-rural, and I could occasionally see deprioritization at work when the towers near me got busy. |
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Posted: 9/24/2020 11:23:06 AM EST
[#4]
Just got signed up with at&t with the unlimited iPad plan. $20/month. Just have to use dc unlocker to change the imei on my nighthawk. Easy peasy
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Posted: 9/24/2020 4:42:06 PM EST
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I received my calyx package today. Preliminary results are not good. The top speed I've seen is 4.5mbps, and that was a fluke. Being around 1.5 is the norm.
Even when looking out the window directly at the nearest sprint tower, the best it can get us under 5. Hopefully I'll find some placement in the house where the Al gore infused Feng shui internet waves make it more powerful. People say these are very position dependent. I won't totally write it off until I can try it with the mifi. I put the sim in my 1120 (that was pulling 40 down/ 25 up on OTR Tmobile) and it was not able to get any service, suggesting that its not hitting any tmobile sites at this time (I don't think the 1120 hits any common sprint bands) Does the merger officially go "live" on the 1st? I won't write it off until I try the mifi with an external antenna. |
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Posted: 9/24/2020 4:44:05 PM EST
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Quote HistoryQuoted: I received my calyx package today. Preliminary results are not good. The top speed I've seen is 4.5mbps, and that was a fluke. Being around 1.5 is the norm. Even when looking out the window directly at the nearest sprint tower, the best it can get us under 5. Hopefully I'll find some placement in the house where the Al gore infused Feng shui internet waves make it more powerful. People say these are very position dependent. I won't totally write it off until I can try it with the mifi. I put the sim in my 1120 (that was pulling 40 down/ 25 up on OTR Tmobile) and it was not able to get any service, suggesting that its not hitting any tmobile sites at this time (I don't think the 1120 hits any common sprint bands) Does the merger officially go "live" on the 1st? I won't write it off until I try the mifi with an external antenna. My package was promised to be here yesterday but has yet to ship.  Sorry to hear your speeds suck ass, I hope I don’t have the same result. |
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Posted: 9/24/2020 5:35:24 PM EST
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I was able to find some locations that bring the average speed up to around 4 mbps. That's only over 5ghz wireless and you have to be right up on top of it. This device is... mediocre. I haven't bridged it to my router yet because I'll need to move my router. Signal strength is at best -92db, which almost got me to 6mbps.
That said maybe an antenna will get me where I need to be. If not I guess I'll be trying to screw around with a tablet plan. I can live with 12-15 mbps. It isn't unreasonable to think a better hotspot and an antenna will get me there or better. |
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Posted: 9/24/2020 6:11:26 PM EST
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Quote HistoryQuoted: I was able to find some locations that bring the average speed up to around 4 mbps. That's only over 5ghz wireless and you have to be right up on top of it. This device is... mediocre. I haven't bridged it to my router yet because I'll need to move my router. Signal strength is at best -92db, which almost got me to 6mbps. That said maybe an antenna will get me where I need to be. If not I guess I'll be trying to screw around with a tablet plan. I can live with 12-15 mbps. It isn't unreasonable to think a better hotspot and an antenna will get me there or better. I can live with a solid 10mbps, no sweat. I’ve been at 15-20 since my 4GAS days. Plenty to stream “hd” on a couple TVs, which is all I ever need. I’m thinking of hitting up ebay simply for external antenna support. I get -99db at best currently but still get 20mbps. Most towers near me have fiber optic backhaul so relatively good speeds even at poor signal strength. |
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Posted: 9/26/2020 8:16:33 AM EST
[#9]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Just got signed up with at&t with the unlimited iPad plan. $20/month. Just have to use dc unlocker to change the imei on my nighthawk. Easy peasy I was using OTR when we visited US past couple years. I could call week before we arrived, pay for 1 month and 8 - 10 months later when we went back to US pay for another month. Is one month at a time available with the ATT or T Mobile deals? Or does a guy have to commit to paying 12 months to get a month? |
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Posted: 9/26/2020 12:59:59 PM EST
[#10]
So I received my mifi8000 today. Using a cheap window mounted external antenna its getting around 25-30 mbps. Not bad!
What is bad is after 45 seconds or so of being active the unit states "your sim card has locked" and you have to power cycle. Im surprised it ever broadcasts at all in that case, but it is able to connect and is capable of good speeds and pings. I will call Mobile Citizen. As they previously issued these devices for use with the calyx program, perhaps they can activate it? Or maybe this is a device based problem? If so that seems odd, but I really don't know enough about it so say. Obviously it is unusable at present, but if i can resolve that it will be more than adequate. So yeah, the linkzone 2 sucks balls. |
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Posted: 9/26/2020 2:36:44 PM EST
[#11]
Quote HistoryQuoted: I was using OTR when we visited US past couple years. I could call week before we arrived, pay for 1 month and 8 - 10 months later when we went back to US pay for another month. Is one month at a time available with the ATT or T Mobile deals? Or does a guy have to commit to paying 12 months to get a month? Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: Just got signed up with at&t with the unlimited iPad plan. $20/month. Just have to use dc unlocker to change the imei on my nighthawk. Easy peasy I was using OTR when we visited US past couple years. I could call week before we arrived, pay for 1 month and 8 - 10 months later when we went back to US pay for another month. Is one month at a time available with the ATT or T Mobile deals? Or does a guy have to commit to paying 12 months to get a month? The at&t plan im using is a postpaid plan, meaning they bill you at the end of each month. I'm sure they have prepaid plans as well, but probably with data caps. TMo, no idea to be honest. I'm not sure what I'd recommend for a month at a time kind of deal. |
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Posted: 9/28/2020 8:17:11 AM EST
[#12]
Got my unlimited iPad plan up and running. Have the sim in my Nighthawk M1 with a modified IMEI using DC Unlocker. Put the Nighthawk behind a GL-inet Slate router with a full time VPN running. Works flawlessly. Speed test below.
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Posted: 9/28/2020 8:29:02 AM EST
[#13]
Quote HistoryQuoted: I JUST prayed to the Lord that a wild North American backhoe finds your fiber optic line soon Lol !! Should be easy to set up your own private 900 mhz/5 ghz link on little tower to someone close enough to get fiber or cable. |
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Posted: 9/28/2020 8:50:00 AM EST
[#14]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Got my unlimited iPad plan up and running. Have the sim in my Nighthawk M1 with a modified IMEI using DC Unlocker. Put the Nighthawk behind a GL-inet Slate router with a full time VPN running. Works flawlessly. Speed test below. https://www.AR15.Com/media/mediaFiles/177685/SmartSelect_20200928-091519_Speedtest_jp-1610518.JPG I am in month 3 with a we826-7511 combo with modified IMEI and some TTL modifications to prevent any other hotspot leaks. I'm not a huge consumer, usually around 150gb per month, but I have noticed zero problems and had no slow downs. Love paying $25 month. |
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Posted: 9/28/2020 12:03:04 PM EST
[#15]
No dice on the stand alone $20 at&t ipad plan. Rep in store said that is only an add on for existing customers.
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Posted: 9/28/2020 12:05:00 PM EST
[#16]
Quote HistoryQuoted: No dice on the stand alone $20 at&t ipad plan. Rep in store said that is only an add on for existing customers. Call the phone number posted above. They'll get you set up. Store was lying. Was it a corporate store or a 3rd party store? |
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Posted: 9/28/2020 12:42:30 PM EST
[#17]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Call the phone number posted above. They'll get you set up. Store was lying. Was it a corporate store or a 3rd party store? I'm fairly certain it was a corporate store. I'll have to give them a ring. |
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Posted: 9/28/2020 11:53:46 PM EST
[#18]
Quote HistoryQuoted: So I received my mifi8000 today. Using a cheap window mounted external antenna its getting around 25-30 mbps. Not bad! What is bad is after 45 seconds or so of being active the unit states "your sim card has locked" and you have to power cycle. Im surprised it ever broadcasts at all in that case, but it is able to connect and is capable of good speeds and pings. I will call Mobile Citizen. As they previously issued these devices for use with the calyx program, perhaps they can activate it? Or maybe this is a device based problem? If so that seems odd, but I really don't know enough about it so say. Obviously it is unusable at present, but if i can resolve that it will be more than adequate. So yeah, the linkzone 2 sucks balls. So, just as an update. Without being provisioned an off the shelf mifi 8000 is effectively useless. I reached out to a couple of places like mobile swap shop who told me that without an original sim in the device, they cannot swap my current plan to it. Mobile Citizen was completely useless for tech support. They redirect you to Calyx who redirects you to Mobile Citizen. So until Calyx offers a better device, I guess this thing will sit in a drawer... |
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Posted: 9/29/2020 9:26:14 AM EST
[#19]
We switched over to the TMobile HD plan through No Limit. The performance is ok, but we lose connection a couple times per day and have to restart the router. Customer service said there’s nothing they can do about that, but they are still pretty responsive.
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Posted: 9/30/2020 2:14:08 PM EST
[#20]
OTR (and former OTR) users be careful. They charged me $70 today, presumably for a plan being discontinued on 10/1. I called and spoke to their dumb chat bot for about 30 minutes before actually getting a human being and getting the charge reversed.
Well, I guess I didn't call. I tried to call but had to resort to their dumb chat but instead. |
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Posted: 9/30/2020 7:34:38 PM EST
[#21]
Quote HistoryQuoted: OTR (and former OTR) users be careful. They charged me $70 today, presumably for a plan being discontinued on 10/1. I called and spoke to their dumb chat bot for about 30 minutes before actually getting a human being and getting the charge reversed. Well, I guess I didn't call. I tried to call but had to resort to their dumb chat but instead. I'll be watching my card closely to make sure they don't charge me after I canceled last week. |
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Posted: 10/7/2020 10:49:41 AM EST
[#22]
Quote HistoryQuoted: I'll be watching my card closely to make sure they don't charge me after I canceled last week. Despite talking with their dumb chat bot twice and being assured twice that the charge had been voided (it hasn't, and it's been a week since it was issued) they instructed me to call my bank. I did, and issued a chargeback. OTR really needs to get it together. |
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Posted: 10/7/2020 11:06:21 AM EST
[#23]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Despite talking with their dumb chat bot twice and being assured twice that the charge had been voided (it hasn't, and it's been a week since it was issued) they instructed me to call my bank. I did, and issued a chargeback. OTR really needs to get it together. Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: I'll be watching my card closely to make sure they don't charge me after I canceled last week. Despite talking with their dumb chat bot twice and being assured twice that the charge had been voided (it hasn't, and it's been a week since it was issued) they instructed me to call my bank. I did, and issued a chargeback. OTR really needs to get it together. I went to their shitty website and tried to delete my account but couldn’t, tried to turn off automatic payments, nope. Tried to change payment source but it errored every time. I hate that company. |
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Posted: 10/7/2020 6:48:54 PM EST
[#24]
I'm running the NoLimitData plan at home and it has been ticking along fine at 15 to 20 mbps down.
The OTR recently/newish/AT&T SIM has been running for about a week at work for me to do some testing. I was comfortable with the speeds and took it out to my off the grid solar powered storage container to set up a video security camera system. Well, I hardwired my old MOFI directly to 12v load side of my solar system and it released the magic smoke.  Oops. I think I was supposed to use a voltage regulator or something on the 12vdc input side of the MOFI. I got used to everything being internally regulated. The bad news is that I can't watch live deer corn action tonight.So sad.  CHRIS |
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Posted: 10/9/2020 8:42:45 AM EST
[#25]
Check the availability or Tmobile fixed wireless in your area. Looks like as of 10/1 they opened up a bunch more locations. I can now get (legitimate) tmobile home internet for $50/mo at my house.
Downside is you have to use their modem, but it has ethernet ports instead of being a hotspot and seems to be a well made unit. I dont think it takes an external antenna, but that might be something that can be rigged up if you're brave. I'm sure it has carrier aggregation so I'm sure it will be better than my lb1120, which has been soldiering along at around 50mbps for the past several months. Pictures of the unit make it at least appear to be a higher quality option than the 1120. So yeah, definitely check their availability in your area. I last checked on 9/30 and it wasn't available but I checked again today and it was. |
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Posted: 10/9/2020 8:49:05 AM EST
[#26]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Check the availability or Tmobile fixed wireless in your area. Looks like as of 10/1 they opened up a bunch more locations. I can now get (legitimate) tmobile home internet for $50/mo at my house. Downside is you have to use their modem, but it has ethernet ports instead of being a hotspot and seems to be a well made unit. I dont think it takes an external antenna, but that might be something that can be rigged up if you're brave. I'm sure it has carrier aggregation so I'm sure it will be better than my lb1120, which has been soldiering along at around 50mbps for the past several months. Pictures of the unit make it at least appear to be a higher quality option than the 1120. So yeah, definitely check their availability in your area. I last checked on 9/30 and it wasn't available but I checked again today and it was. I just tried to check availability and the only way I can seem to do it is by signing up at $50/month. |
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Posted: 10/9/2020 8:55:27 AM EST
[#27]
I use OTR and we got cut off for 2 days by att due to high usage..first time that has happened
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Posted: 10/9/2020 9:05:54 AM EST
[#28]
If you're on AT&T through any reseller, you really should be jumping ship and going directly to AT&T. They are just reselling you the $20/month plan.
This is especially true if you have a device that is capable of having the IMEI "repaired". If you're getting cut due to high usage, you can buy 2 plans. Pay less than $50/month and swap the sim half way through the month. Divide your usage between 2 plans. |
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Posted: 10/9/2020 9:24:16 AM EST
[#29]
Quote HistoryQuoted: I use OTR and we got cut off for 2 days by att due to high usage..first time that has happened Some of thr ATT plans cut you off for high weekly usage in addition to overall monthly usage. |
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Posted: 10/9/2020 2:03:44 PM EST
[#30]
I just signed up for the T-Mobile internet plan. Took me forever to get through to them on phone but once I did, it was easy. We already use TMobile for our phone service so this makes it easy. Once the T-Mobile router arrives I'll cancel OTR.
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Posted: 10/9/2020 7:14:01 PM EST
[#31]
Quote HistoryQuoted: I just signed up for the T-Mobile internet plan. Took me forever to get through to them on phone but once I did, it was easy. We already use TMobile for our phone service so this makes it easy. Once the T-Mobile router arrives I'll cancel OTR. I'm considering getting it as well. Just got eligible today. Would then have the at&t tablet plan as back up, or try to use the OpenMPTCPRouter project to bond the two connections to get higher speeds... |
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Posted: 10/9/2020 7:55:03 PM EST
[#32]
Quote HistoryQuoted: If you're on AT&T through any reseller, you really should be jumping ship and going directly to AT&T. They are just reselling you the $20/month plan. This is especially true if you have a device that is capable of having the IMEI "repaired". If you're getting cut due to high usage, you can buy 2 plans. Pay less than $50/month and swap the sim half way through the month. Divide your usage between 2 plans. If you really care about reliability and avoiding cut-off, you can also go with Cricket (AT&T prepaid.) I was with Nomad Internet for all of two weeks before the SIM got nuked -- I'd used all of 10GB. Apparently the reseller Nomad uses got slapped by AT&T. I looked for high-reliability alternatives and someone suggested Cricket's data only plan -- 100GB for $90/mo. I got two plans to get to 200GB (have to swap SIMs or routers to get that, of course) and no issues so far. It's a hard cap at 100GB however, not a slow-down. Non-issue for us as we keep track of the usage. In my case the cost isn't as important as being reliable as I'm running my business in the middle of nowhere and can't afford downtime. |
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Posted: 10/10/2020 8:19:30 AM EST
[#33]
Quote HistoryQuoted: If you really care about reliability and avoiding cut-off, you can also go with Cricket (AT&T prepaid.) I was with Nomad Internet for all of two weeks before the SIM got nuked -- I'd used all of 10GB. Apparently the reseller Nomad uses got slapped by AT&T. I looked for high-reliability alternatives and someone suggested Cricket's data only plan -- 100GB for $90/mo. I got two plans to get to 200GB (have to swap SIMs or routers to get that, of course) and no issues so far. It's a hard cap at 100GB however, not a slow-down. Non-issue for us as we keep track of the usage. In my case the cost isn't as important as being reliable as I'm running my business in the middle of nowhere and can't afford downtime. Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: If you're on AT&T through any reseller, you really should be jumping ship and going directly to AT&T. They are just reselling you the $20/month plan. This is especially true if you have a device that is capable of having the IMEI "repaired". If you're getting cut due to high usage, you can buy 2 plans. Pay less than $50/month and swap the sim half way through the month. Divide your usage between 2 plans. If you really care about reliability and avoiding cut-off, you can also go with Cricket (AT&T prepaid.) I was with Nomad Internet for all of two weeks before the SIM got nuked -- I'd used all of 10GB. Apparently the reseller Nomad uses got slapped by AT&T. I looked for high-reliability alternatives and someone suggested Cricket's data only plan -- 100GB for $90/mo. I got two plans to get to 200GB (have to swap SIMs or routers to get that, of course) and no issues so far. It's a hard cap at 100GB however, not a slow-down. Non-issue for us as we keep track of the usage. In my case the cost isn't as important as being reliable as I'm running my business in the middle of nowhere and can't afford downtime. Why not just get the at&t tablet plan? $20/month unlimited data, no throttling. You're paying 9 times that for a tiny amount of data. |
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Posted: 10/10/2020 8:31:27 AM EST
[#34]
Those $20 tablet plans need an IMEI hack to work? Are the MOFI units capable of being modded?
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Posted: 10/10/2020 9:49:59 AM EST
[#35]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Why not just get the at&t tablet plan? $20/month unlimited data, no throttling. You're paying 9 times that for a tiny amount of data. Maybe I'm blind but I'm not seeing any type of deal like that on at&t website |
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Posted: 10/10/2020 11:10:15 AM EST
[#36]
Quoted: Those $20 tablet plans need an IMEI hack to work? Are the MOFI units capable of being modded? CHRIS Yea they do, and I BELIEVE the mofi can be modded. If not, sell it and get a nighthawk. Quoted: Maybe I'm blind but I'm not seeing any type of deal like that on at&t website Its not on the website. You have to either call or go into the store. Ask for the post paid unlimited tablet plan. |
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Posted: 10/10/2020 12:02:07 PM EST
[#37]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Why not just get the at&t tablet plan? $20/month unlimited data, no throttling. You're paying 9 times that for a tiny amount of data. Reliability, as I said in my post. If you don't care about that, the tablet plan (or one of the resellers like Nomad) is probably fine. If you do care about reliability, the purpose of my post was to point out there's an AT&T-based supplier (Cricket, their own pre-paid division) offering a decent amount of data with no risk of getting nuked. Another option would be to go with an AT&T business line and tether, but AT&T is monitoring those plans for streaming as well, which means using a VPN if you want to do any consumer-type behavior like watch movies. Tablet plans can, and do, get turned off. I know it works for many, but you're absolutely violating the TOS for the plan and AT&T can kill it at any time, which is exactly what happened to me. My entire business is run on the internet. If I had to pay $1K a month for a guaranteed connection that offered only 100GB of data, I would. Many resellers are either selling a repackaged tablet plan or just business lines with data, hoping they don't get detected by AT&T, and when they do, poof, no internet anymore. That's not an acceptable option in my situation. If this was just for streaming movies at home with no serious consequences from losing internet for a week (which is how long it was taking Nomad to get new SIMs out) the tablet plan would be worth the risk. That's not my case, and not worth the risk. Unfortunately there's no T-mobile here and AT&T isn't offering fixed wireless, which would be the ideal case for since that's literally what I'm doing now. |
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Posted: 10/10/2020 12:06:08 PM EST
[#38]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Maybe I'm blind but I'm not seeing any type of deal like that on at&t website Here's a helpful chart on the ipad plans:  Based on this, you want the "Unlimited Your Way Standalone" plan which is the only current ipad plan offering unlimited hot spot data. |
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Posted: 10/11/2020 8:49:10 AM EST
[#39]
Figures, just got at&t tablet plan all set up and working and now I'm eligible for tmobile home internet. Just got signed up with them, modem/router will be here in a few days.
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Posted: 10/11/2020 9:02:10 AM EST
[#40]
Quote HistoryQuoted: I just signed up for the T-Mobile internet plan. Took me forever to get through to them on phone but once I did, it was easy. We already use TMobile for our phone service so this makes it easy. Once the T-Mobile router arrives I'll cancel OTR. I just did this yesterday. We currently have wired ATT DSL that's $60/month for 12mbs down. I'm interested to see the speeds I get with T-Mobile. I noticed that over the last few weeks my cell phone download speed has increased from 20-30 to over 100mbs in some areas of the house. I'm wondering if it's because of the 5g rollout or if that's what I can expect from the internet service too. |
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Posted: 10/11/2020 9:28:42 AM EST
[#41]
Quote HistoryQuoted: I just did this yesterday. We currently have wired ATT DSL that's $60/month for 12mbs down. I'm interested to see the speeds I get with T-Mobile. I noticed that over the last few weeks my cell phone download speed has increased from 20-30 to over 100mbs in some areas of the house. I'm wondering if it's because of the 5g rollout or if that's what I can expect from the internet service too. Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: I just signed up for the T-Mobile internet plan. Took me forever to get through to them on phone but once I did, it was easy. We already use TMobile for our phone service so this makes it easy. Once the T-Mobile router arrives I'll cancel OTR. I just did this yesterday. We currently have wired ATT DSL that's $60/month for 12mbs down. I'm interested to see the speeds I get with T-Mobile. I noticed that over the last few weeks my cell phone download speed has increased from 20-30 to over 100mbs in some areas of the house. I'm wondering if it's because of the 5g rollout or if that's what I can expect from the internet service too. I'm not expecting too much for speed, even with 5 bars if 5G on tmo on my phone in lucky to break 120Mbps. On 4G, I usually get 40-50. I have seen speediest on this new home internet of well over 150Mbps though depending on location. |
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Posted: 10/11/2020 8:03:51 PM EST
[#42]
I also just ordered T-Mobile Home internet. Called on Sunday eve and was instantly connected to an actual person! 10 minutes later and my modem/router is on the way!
50 bux a month - NO contract At least 25 Mbps down and no data limit, Will report details and speeds when I get it in and installed. They said would be here in 5 days. Hopefully I can finally tell AT&T to shove their 56 buck a month 3 Mbps DSL up their ass! Only issue I have questions about is what IP version they will assign. I need a V4 address because my camera system won't work on a V6 address. |
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Posted: 10/11/2020 8:22:53 PM EST
[#43]
Quote HistoryQuoted: I also just ordered T-Mobile Home internet. Called on Sunday eve and was instantly connected to an actual person! 10 minutes later and my modem/router is on the way! 50 bux a month - NO contract At least 25 Mbps down and no data limit, Will report details and speeds when I get it in and installed. They said would be here in 5 days. Hopefully I can finally tell AT&T to shove their 56 buck a month 3 Mbps DSL up their ass! Only issue I have questions about is what IP version they will assign. I need a V4 address because my camera system won't work on a V6 address. What’s the details on the modem? They make you buy one from them or can you bring your own? 4G or 5G? I just checked and we can get it here at the house. We have been currently paying $80 with no limitdata for months now with no issues. It’s the same network. Just wonder if being a T Mobil user if I would have priority over 3rd party traffic. |
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Posted: 10/11/2020 8:35:52 PM EST
[#44]
Quote HistoryQuoted: What’s the details on the modem? They make you buy one from them or can you bring your own? 4G or 5G? I just checked and we can get it here at the house. We have been currently paying $80 with no limitdata for months now with no issues. It’s the same network. Just wonder if being a T Mobil user if I would have priority over 3rd party traffic. Modem is sent free. You just have to return it if you cancel. 5G ready is what they state. 5G not available in all areas yet. |
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Posted: 10/11/2020 8:43:07 PM EST
[#45]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Modem is sent free. You just have to return it if you cancel. 5G ready is what they state. 5G not available in all areas yet. 10-4 we live close to a major interstate so I’m sure we have 5G here. Seen on the wife’s phone she had 5G in town the other day which is a few miles down the road. |
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Posted: 10/11/2020 8:49:08 PM EST
[#46]
I just came across a piece of software that looks to be a game changer. I want to start off by saying that I have no relationship with them other than being a paying customer.
The software is called Speedify. What it does is take multiple internet connections and bonds them together. You can actually do a single stream over the bonded connection. I've got a Verizon phone from Visible, a WISP, and my AT&T phone. This software lets me bond all of them together. And my traffic moves between them dynamically. It promises seamless failover when a connection fails. |
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Posted: 10/11/2020 8:51:40 PM EST
[#47]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Modem is sent free. You just have to return it if you cancel. 5G ready is what they state. 5G not available in all areas yet. Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: What’s the details on the modem? They make you buy one from them or can you bring your own? 4G or 5G? I just checked and we can get it here at the house. We have been currently paying $80 with no limitdata for months now with no issues. It’s the same network. Just wonder if being a T Mobil user if I would have priority over 3rd party traffic. Modem is sent free. You just have to return it if you cancel. 5G ready is what they state. 5G not available in all areas yet. Show me where it says 5G ready for the home internet please. Everything I've seen says its 4G LTE. |
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Posted: 10/11/2020 8:54:30 PM EST
[#48]
Quote HistoryQuoted: I just came across a piece of software that looks to be a game changer. I want to start off by saying that I have no relationship with them other than being a paying customer. The software is called Speedify. What it does is take multiple internet connections and bonds them together. You can actually do a single stream over the bonded connection. I've got a Verizon phone from Visible, a WISP, and my AT&T phone. This software lets me bond all of them together. And my traffic moves between them dynamically. It promises seamless failover when a connection fails. I've tried speedify myself trying to bond my at&t and tmobile connections and its either the same speed as one connection or even slower than either one singly. Once my new TMo home modem comes I'll be setting up OpenMPTCPRouter using a Raspberry Pi for true connection bonding. |
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Posted: 10/11/2020 8:58:38 PM EST
[#49]
Anyone running the T-Mobile home internet had any issues with games? I play Modern Warfare with a few buddies and hopefully the NAT won't fuck anything up
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Posted: 10/11/2020 9:02:31 PM EST
[#50]
Quote HistoryQuoted: I've tried speedify myself trying to bond my at&t and tmobile connections and its either the same speed as one connection or even slower than either one singly. Once my new TMo home modem comes I'll be setting up OpenMPTCPRouter using a Raspberry Pi for true connection bonding. Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: I just came across a piece of software that looks to be a game changer. I want to start off by saying that I have no relationship with them other than being a paying customer. The software is called Speedify. What it does is take multiple internet connections and bonds them together. You can actually do a single stream over the bonded connection. I've got a Verizon phone from Visible, a WISP, and my AT&T phone. This software lets me bond all of them together. And my traffic moves between them dynamically. It promises seamless failover when a connection fails. I've tried speedify myself trying to bond my at&t and tmobile connections and its either the same speed as one connection or even slower than either one singly. Once my new TMo home modem comes I'll be setting up OpenMPTCPRouter using a Raspberry Pi for true connection bonding. That's very interesting. Very interesting. |
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