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Posted: 10/11/2020 9:02:51 PM EST
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Quote HistoryQuoted: 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 Can't speak about t-mobile but otr has worked fine for me on pc. From my understanding all cellular connections have closed Nats. |
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Posted: 10/11/2020 9:14:01 PM EST
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Quote HistoryQuoted: That's very interesting. Very interesting. Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: 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. The OMR stuff takes some set up and networking knowledge (and a VPS) but should work pretty well |
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Posted: 10/11/2020 9:17:04 PM EST
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Show me where it says 5G ready for the home internet please. Everything I've seen says its 4G LTE. I have read several articles about the modem.(tm-rtl0102). Supposedly it is built to 3GPP standards, and are currently sent with 4G LTE sim cards. But they could either send a new modem, update the sim, or upgrade the firmware to use 5G in areas where it is available. I am supposed to be in the 5G footprint, so it will be interesting to see what sim comes in it. Either way, I was on 3Mbps DSL(only thing available), and even 10 Mbps would be a huge improvement. |
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Posted: 10/11/2020 10:23:06 PM EST
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Quote HistoryQuoted: I have read several articles about the modem.(tm-rtl0102). Supposedly it is built to 3GPP standards, and are currently sent with 4G LTE sim cards. But they could either send a new modem, update the sim, or upgrade the firmware to use 5G in areas where it is available. I am supposed to be in the 5G footprint, so it will be interesting to see what sim comes in it. Either way, I was on 3Mbps DSL(only thing available), and even 10 Mbps would be a huge improvement. Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: Show me where it says 5G ready for the home internet please. Everything I've seen says its 4G LTE. I have read several articles about the modem.(tm-rtl0102). Supposedly it is built to 3GPP standards, and are currently sent with 4G LTE sim cards. But they could either send a new modem, update the sim, or upgrade the firmware to use 5G in areas where it is available. I am supposed to be in the 5G footprint, so it will be interesting to see what sim comes in it. Either way, I was on 3Mbps DSL(only thing available), and even 10 Mbps would be a huge improvement. Interesting. Thanks for the info. I have an S20 Ultra 5G and get 5G service here, although the speed is nothing to write home about. Maybe 120Mbps on a good day. |
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Posted: 10/11/2020 10:31:19 PM EST
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Posted: 10/11/2020 11:29:52 PM EST
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My Sprint / T-Mobile HotSpot gives me over a hundred megabytes down and sometimes over 200. That's a lot faster than the 6 megabytes that my DSL gives me. I live 25 miles from the nearest town.
I got the hockey puck through calyx institute, it's true unlimited and less than $50 a month but you have to pay in advance. 
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Posted: 10/11/2020 11:42:41 PM EST
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I use Basically the same thing you set up for your sister. Just through a company that provides the router SIM card and has contracts with the carriers. It works pretty well only hiccup was when T-Mobile and sprint merged. I didn’t check my email and basically sprint canceled their business accounts that the company used and switched em to t-mobile so my internet died for a few days while I waited for the new t-mobile SIM card.
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Posted: 10/12/2020 12:05:08 PM EST
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Show me where it says 5G ready for the home internet please. Everything I've seen says its 4G LTE. Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: 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. The shipping notice for mine says "ASK LTE WIFI GATEWAY KIT" so presumably its just 4g. That said isnt almost all rural "5g" really just 4g? The same stunt they pulled during the 4g rollout from 3g? I know the AT&T 5g "Evolution" stunt was essentially just that. I might just be making the mistake of conflating mmwave 5g with the stupid fast speeds with all 5g. |
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Posted: 10/12/2020 6:25:24 PM EST
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Quote HistoryQuoted: The shipping notice for mine says "ASK LTE WIFI GATEWAY KIT" so presumably its just 4g. That said isnt almost all rural "5g" really just 4g? The same stunt they pulled during the 4g rollout from 3g? I know the AT&T 5g "Evolution" stunt was essentially just that. I might just be making the mistake of conflating mmwave 5g with the stupid fast speeds with all 5g. Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: Quoted: 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. The shipping notice for mine says "ASK LTE WIFI GATEWAY KIT" so presumably its just 4g. That said isnt almost all rural "5g" really just 4g? The same stunt they pulled during the 4g rollout from 3g? I know the AT&T 5g "Evolution" stunt was essentially just that. I might just be making the mistake of conflating mmwave 5g with the stupid fast speeds with all 5g. Same with my shipping notice. The 5G i get here is the same speeds I see some people getting on 4G. Very depressing. I can't get over 40Mbps with great signal. |
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Posted: 10/12/2020 6:44:06 PM EST
[#10]
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 @Keymaster4225 So do you have to have a valid IPAD imei to go on the nighthawk? Or do you make up a number? Did you call to get the plan or go to a store? Thanks |
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Posted: 10/12/2020 7:08:23 PM EST
[#11]
Quote HistoryQuoted: @Keymaster4225 So do you have to have a valid IPAD imei to go on the nighthawk? Or do you make up a number? Did you call to get the plan or go to a store? Thanks 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 @Keymaster4225 So do you have to have a valid IPAD imei to go on the nighthawk? Or do you make up a number? Did you call to get the plan or go to a store? Thanks I generated one using this link. I'm also running all my traffic through a VPN on my GL.inet router. Originally I called to set it up, but had to go into the store because I couldn't get the sim to activate |
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Posted: 10/12/2020 10:29:46 PM EST
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Quote HistoryQuoted: The shipping notice for mine says "ASK LTE WIFI GATEWAY KIT" so presumably its just 4g. That said isnt almost all rural "5g" really just 4g? The same stunt they pulled during the 4g rollout from 3g? I know the AT&T 5g "Evolution" stunt was essentially just that. I might just be making the mistake of conflating mmwave 5g with the stupid fast speeds with all 5g. Got mine in today and I'm a bit disappointed. My 5g phone gets up to and over 100mbs and the home internet is barely squeezing out 12-15. I only played with it for a few minutes since I just got home after a 16 hour day, so I'll give it another go tomorrow. |
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Posted: 10/13/2020 7:04:15 AM EST
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Got mine in today and I'm a bit disappointed. My 5g phone gets up to and over 100mbs and the home internet is barely squeezing out 12-15. I only played with it for a few minutes since I just got home after a 16 hour day, so I'll give it another go tomorrow. Is this the T mobile home internet your talking about? |
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Posted: 10/13/2020 7:57:58 AM EST
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Got mine in today and I'm a bit disappointed. My 5g phone gets up to and over 100mbs and the home internet is barely squeezing out 12-15. I only played with it for a few minutes since I just got home after a 16 hour day, so I'll give it another go tomorrow. If you're in a true 5g area I guess that isn't unexpected. It seems like most people with tmobile are reporting 25+ mbps (the worker I spoke with said they weren't offering it in an area until they thought it could at least do that). For rural "unlimited" home internet, that's a game changer as it is. I'm getting better than 25 on my lb1120 as it is (without carrier aggregation). I get about 40 mbps with no antenna plugged in and a little on the good side of 50 with a cheap ass window antenna. I'm interested to see what the tmobile box will do, as I suspect it is a better unit than the lb1120, which doesn't even hit all of the local tmobile bands and none of the sprint ones (I have no idea if the tmobile modem hits those bands or not). |
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Posted: 10/13/2020 12:57:50 PM EST
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Quote HistoryQuoted: If you're in a true 5g area I guess that isn't unexpected. It seems like most people with tmobile are reporting 25+ mbps (the worker I spoke with said they weren't offering it in an area until they thought it could at least do that). For rural "unlimited" home internet, that's a game changer as it is. I'm getting better than 25 on my lb1120 as it is (without carrier aggregation). I get about 40 mbps with no antenna plugged in and a little on the good side of 50 with a cheap ass window antenna. I'm interested to see what the tmobile box will do, as I suspect it is a better unit than the lb1120, which doesn't even hit all of the local tmobile bands and none of the sprint ones (I have no idea if the tmobile modem hits those bands or not). I had a bit more time to play with it and move things around. I seem to be getting pretty consistently 20+, occasionally up to 75. For those gaming, on Modern Warfare my NAT type still says moderate like it did when I used my ATT DSL. When I tether a hotspot it says strict. |
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Posted: 10/13/2020 4:10:23 PM EST
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I noted it was a bit temperamental when running off of battery power- probably a means of saving battery, and probably because it wasn't well charged.
It does seem sensitive to placement. Kind of obvious I guess. I plugged it in and was pretty impressed. This is with 4 bars of signal strength on their app (it reads -92 db). These are peak hours too. I'm interested in what late night will be like. There is no prioritization or throttling of video services from what I have seen so far. This service is always subject to deprioritization but it seems unlikely anyone who needs it will have much worry about that.  So yeah, thanks Tmobile, for finally stepping up to the plate and giving me a reasonably priced ISP that isn't shady as hell. I hope you stay that way. ETA: the highest speed I have seen in off-hours is 122 mbps down, 30 up. The lowest speed I've seen since turning it on was still around 50, and I've taken it throughout my house to try and find the best spot. As long as tmobile doesn't do something to make it worse, this is fantastic. |
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Posted: 10/14/2020 7:57:05 AM EST
[#17]
Well my OTR AT&T 1 year plan finally expired. It actually stayed on for 5 extra days. I'm just happy I didn't get fucked after paying $660.
I started on Tmobile home internet a little over a month ago in anticipation of losing the OTR. I have been pretty happy with the TMobile service so far. I see DL speeds from 25-110, 10 is actually plenty for my needs so...It's also the cheapest at $50 extra on my phone bill.  For whatever reason my Nextbook cannot see the Tmobile wifi? It sees several of my neighbors wifi, my Mofi4500, my place of work wifi but not the TMobile. All other devices see the Tmobile just fine.  Anyway, I'm still living in town so I still don't have a solution for my place in BFE, AZ without OTRmobile. OTR AT&T works great there but my Tmobile phone is pretty poor there(5d/2u). The thing I don't like about the Tmobile modem is it has no way to attach external antennas. I guess when I finally move I'll just use pay as you go plans and supplement with my phone sim data as needed. |
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Posted: 10/14/2020 11:46:48 AM EST
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Tmobile modem arrived just now. Will update later once I get it set up. I will post speed tests from my at&t tablet plan in a Nighthawk, the tmobile modem by itself, and hopefully the two of them bonded with OpenMPTCPRouter.
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Posted: 10/14/2020 1:13:13 PM EST
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Can you run a router off the T-Mobile modem, and if so would it help get a stronger signal? I'm getting good speeds on mine but I lose connection if if I get to far away. On my nighthawk I ran a router and that helped a lot with the wireless signal.
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Posted: 10/14/2020 1:51:34 PM EST
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Can you run a router off the T-Mobile modem, and if so would it help get a stronger signal? I'm getting good speeds on mine but I lose connection if if I get to far away. On my nighthawk I ran a router and that helped a lot with the wireless signal. You can. Just plug it into one of the LAN (not WAN) ports. You can sign in to the tmobile router manually at 192.168.1.1 and turn off the 2.4g and 5g wifi that way. For some reason you can't modify that through the app. I am using mine with my amplifi mesh router. |
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Posted: 10/14/2020 3:12:59 PM EST
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Quote HistoryQuoted: You can. Just plug it into one of the LAN (not WAN) ports. You can sign in to the tmobile router manually at 192.168.1.1 and turn off the 2.4g and 5g wifi that way. For some reason you can't modify that through the app. I am using mine with my amplifi mesh router. Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: Can you run a router off the T-Mobile modem, and if so would it help get a stronger signal? I'm getting good speeds on mine but I lose connection if if I get to far away. On my nighthawk I ran a router and that helped a lot with the wireless signal. You can. Just plug it into one of the LAN (not WAN) ports. You can sign in to the tmobile router manually at 192.168.1.1 and turn off the 2.4g and 5g wifi that way. For some reason you can't modify that through the app. I am using mine with my amplifi mesh router. Thanks that worked. |
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Posted: 10/14/2020 3:22:33 PM EST
[#22]
Quote HistoryQuoted: I have had no limit data on t mobile for 4-5 months now and it’s been great. Did have to contact CS once due to it being down and a real person sent me a email and we had it going again in a hour. I dropped Never Throttle and went to No Limit once their AT&T plans were available about a month or two ago. So far their service and support have been great. I had Unlimitedville a year and a half ago and I'm getting the same levels of service for half the price. |
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Posted: 10/14/2020 4:47:33 PM EST
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Wel, I got my T-Mobile home router in today, and I will say I am very disappointed.
The speed was ....ok...at 10-11 Mbps, but not what I expected. That was sitting on my bar hooked up to laptop. When I moved it to my wiring closet. the speeds went to a miserable 500 Kbps. Ok, I can get around that by setting it up upstairs since my house is wired for cat 5, I can just use one of the room drops to feed back to wiring closet. Talked with the tech and he said "preaching to the choir", that they have been asking for an external antenna hookup (The modem has none) BUT, the killer was that NONE of my remote desktop PC's or my Camera system was accessible. Problem is that they use IPv6 and then NAT an IPv4 adress, but there is no way to access it from outside. I spent about 1/2 hour on phone with tech support and they finally said, "nope, can't do it, and can't do a static ip address." So, It goes back tomorrow. Back to miserable 3Mbps ATT dsl. I is sad.... 
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Posted: 10/14/2020 6:32:00 PM EST
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I took my Mofi and OTR AT&T sim out to my property today. I was seeing full bars on the signal strength but my MOFI wouldn't recognize the damn sim at all. Signal strength was MUCH better than at my house though.
I popped a Verizon card in from a nearby game cam and it recognized it but couldn't connect to the network. What I figured but it proved that the Mofi is actually seeing the SIM cards. I'm going to dump OTR now (don't want to work out getting a replacement card mailed and activated with the chatbot) and pick up another NoLimit card for the remote site. CHRIS |
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Posted: 10/15/2020 3:29:31 AM EST
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Wel, I got my T-Mobile home router in today, and I will say I am very disappointed. The speed was ....ok...at 10-11 Mbps, but not what I expected. That was sitting on my bar hooked up to laptop. When I moved it to my wiring closet. the speeds went to a miserable 500 Kbps. Ok, I can get around that by setting it up upstairs since my house is wired for cat 5, I can just use one of the room drops to feed back to wiring closet. Talked with the tech and he said "preaching to the choir", that they have been asking for an external antenna hookup (The modem has none) This I don't understand, why the fuck is a company that is trying to bring internet to rural areas, according to their website, not adding the ability to attach external antennas? Well at least I wasn't the only person complaining the way it sounds. Maybe they'll come out with a new modem with the ability. |
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Posted: 10/15/2020 8:28:14 AM EST
[#26]
Quote HistoryQuoted: This I don't understand, why the fuck is a company that is trying to bring internet to rural areas, according to their website, not adding the ability to attach external antennas? Well at least I wasn't the only person complaining the way it sounds. Maybe they'll come out with a new modem with the ability. Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: Wel, I got my T-Mobile home router in today, and I will say I am very disappointed. The speed was ....ok...at 10-11 Mbps, but not what I expected. That was sitting on my bar hooked up to laptop. When I moved it to my wiring closet. the speeds went to a miserable 500 Kbps. Ok, I can get around that by setting it up upstairs since my house is wired for cat 5, I can just use one of the room drops to feed back to wiring closet. Talked with the tech and he said "preaching to the choir", that they have been asking for an external antenna hookup (The modem has none) This I don't understand, why the fuck is a company that is trying to bring internet to rural areas, according to their website, not adding the ability to attach external antennas? Well at least I wasn't the only person complaining the way it sounds. Maybe they'll come out with a new modem with the ability. Was just reading the tmobile subreddit and there's solid speculation that a 5g modem with much better hardware will be coming 1Q 2021. |
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Posted: 10/15/2020 5:00:34 PM EST
[#27]
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. Couldn't you do that with a load balancing router? |
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Posted: 10/15/2020 6:56:17 PM EST
[#28]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Couldn't you do that with a load balancing router? 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. Couldn't you do that with a load balancing router? Load balancing =/= connection bonding. I'd like to try speedify on my raspberry pi but they make you pay for a subscription before you can use it for the Linux version. |
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Posted: 10/15/2020 11:02:07 PM EST
[#29]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Was just reading the tmobile subreddit and there's solid speculation that a 5g modem with much better hardware will be coming 1Q 2021. Makes sense. A big part of the appeal of true 5g was greater overall bandwidth and not just the speed. And the speeds it gets are still more than good enough to replace a wired connection for the overwhelming majority of people. |
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Posted: 10/16/2020 4:18:56 AM EST
[#30]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Was just reading the tmobile subreddit and there's solid speculation that a 5g modem with much better hardware will be coming 1Q 2021. |
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Posted: 10/16/2020 6:22:09 AM EST
[#31]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Does that matter if I can only get a very weak signal? Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: Was just reading the tmobile subreddit and there's solid speculation that a 5g modem with much better hardware will be coming 1Q 2021. I only get 2 bars of LTE on the tmobile modem and consistently pull 60Mbps |
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Posted: 10/16/2020 9:18:14 AM EST
[#32]
I got disconnected last night. I'm on chat with otr right now and they say my usage is excessive and has been suspended or slowed down until the new cycle starts on the 21st.
This sucks. I need something else. No DSL, fiber or cable out here. No cell reception either. I've got dual yagis on a 30ft pole just to get 1-2 bars from at&t for the otr service. |
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Posted: 10/16/2020 9:37:20 AM EST
[#33]
Quote HistoryQuoted: I got disconnected last night. I'm on chat with otr right now and they say my usage is excessive and has been suspended or slowed down until the new cycle starts on the 21st. This sucks. I need something else. No DSL, fiber or cable out here. No cell reception either. I've got dual yagis on a 30ft pole just to get 1-2 bars from at&t for the otr service. Give up on OTR. They suck. Try EvdoDepot wireless. |
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Posted: 10/16/2020 10:23:10 AM EST
[#34]
Quote HistoryQuoted: I got disconnected last night. I'm on chat with otr right now and they say my usage is excessive and has been suspended or slowed down until the new cycle starts on the 21st. This sucks. I need something else. No DSL, fiber or cable out here. No cell reception either. I've got dual yagis on a 30ft pole just to get 1-2 bars from at&t for the otr service. Fuck OTR. They are charging you $90 a month for a $20 post paid iPad plan. Go do some reading here: https://www.facebook.com/groups/LTE.HACKS/?ref=share You can use a nighthawk, mofi, or roll your own modem/router. In any case you’ll need to be able to use r00ter or DC unlocker. I won’t go into specifics of why. |
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Posted: 10/16/2020 12:09:16 PM EST
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If you don't want to use the Ipad only plan you could just find another reseller that uses AT&T service, there are quite a few out there. They are getting more and more expensive, but Gypsy wireless is $75 per month last I looked. I used them for month to see if they would work if my parents lost OTR and it was the same as OTR in terms of speed. Customer service was much better than OTR when I had it. I had to replace the sim card a couple days in (I have several on hand since they get burned pretty often on these reseller accounts), but after that it was fine for the rest of the month. They claim no data caps and unthrottled, but I would imagine that is subject to change like all these plans once AT&T catches on to whatever loophole they are using.
If you can get Verizon 4G LTE on your antenna Visible may be an option for you. It only works on LTE, it will not fall back to 4g. It is designed as a phone plan with unlimited data on your phone and allows you to use your phone as a hotspot for one device capped at 5 mbps I think. Data through Visible is low priority compared to other plans and some streaming is limited to 480p depending on the service. A VPN may work to get around the 480p on most streaming services depending on if they allow or watch for a VPN. Using the sim in a hotspot (after activation on a cell phone) may get you kicked off according to youtube vids I have watched on the subject, but it seems to depend on what modem you are using. With party pay and three other people it can be as low as $25 month. My parents OTR account still works the same as two years ago, but with the price going up to $90 next month and their other issues I don't know how much longer it will last. They have been lucky to survive this long without any major issues. |
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Posted: 10/16/2020 1:12:55 PM EST
[#36]
Quote HistoryQuoted: I only get 2 bars of LTE on the tmobile modem and consistently pull 60Mbps I meant does 5G change the general requirement for a decent signal? My Tmobile signal(phone) is poor at my place in AZ, the speeds are always very slow. Will 5G make any difference with that is what I am wondering. |
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Posted: 10/16/2020 5:21:16 PM EST
[#37]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Yes, I've had weak signals wirh good speeds too....and very strong signals with slow speeds. I meant does 5G change the general requirement for a decent signal? My Tmobile signal(phone) is poor at my place in AZ, the speeds are always very slow. Will 5G make any difference with that is what I am wondering. Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: I only get 2 bars of LTE on the tmobile modem and consistently pull 60Mbps I meant does 5G change the general requirement for a decent signal? My Tmobile signal(phone) is poor at my place in AZ, the speeds are always very slow. Will 5G make any difference with that is what I am wondering. That I can't answer. I have tmobile for phone service as well. I've seen full bars on 5G on my S20 Ultra and barely broke 100Mbps on a speed test. |
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Posted: 10/17/2020 4:36:40 PM EST
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Posted: 10/20/2020 6:20:40 PM EST
[#39]
Quote HistoryQuoted: The OMR stuff takes some set up and networking knowledge (and a VPS) but should work pretty well Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: Quoted: 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. The OMR stuff takes some set up and networking knowledge (and a VPS) but should work pretty well This is so much nicer than the speedify crap. I kept having to do captias everywhere I went with speedify. As a bonus I get free VPSs from my employer. |
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Posted: 10/20/2020 6:24:52 PM EST
[#40]
Quote HistoryQuoted: BUT, the killer was that NONE of my remote desktop PC's or my Camera system was accessible. Problem is that they use IPv6 and then NAT an IPv4 adress, but there is no way to access it from outside. I spent about 1/2 hour on phone with tech support and they finally said, "nope, can't do it, and can't do a static ip address." There is another option. https://portmap.io/ |
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Posted: 10/21/2020 9:47:46 AM EST
[#41]
I don't understand any of the devices, language, concepts, or anything.
What do I need to get internet in my home? People are talking about routers or something. Do these devices come with a data plan? If I buy one, do I now have internet? For example, this thing. If I buy that, do I now have unlimited internet with just a monthly payment? Or is this simply a device that sends and receives signals, but you need some other device and a plan, or something? I am really confused about the whole thing. All I want is unlimited internet that uses cell towers. How can I do that? |
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Posted: 10/21/2020 10:49:07 AM EST
[#42]
Any updates on T mobile Home internet?
Guys who have it still like it? Considering swapping from No limit data. It would save me $30 a month. |
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Posted: 10/21/2020 12:28:23 PM EST
[#43]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Any updates on T mobile Home internet? Guys who have it still like it? Considering swapping from No limit data. It would save me $30 a month. It's fantastic. If you can get, don't hesitate for a second.  Attached File |
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Posted: 10/21/2020 1:05:35 PM EST
[#44]
I hated to do it, but out of frustration I signed up with Viasat this week. The Silver plan I'm on is supposed to give 25 mps download speeds at $150/month. My location is not eligible for home internet service from AT&T, Verizon, or TMobile. We tried Hughesnet before years ago and canceled after our two year contract was up and have been using OTR mobile the past two years. In the evenings, OTR mobile's service slows down to the point that it is unusable.
If Starlink ever becomes available, I'll dump Viasat and give it a try. |
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Posted: 10/21/2020 2:22:00 PM EST
[#45]
Quote HistoryQuoted: It's fantastic. If you can get, don't hesitate for a second. https://www.AR15.Com/media/mediaFiles/177685/SmartSelect_20201017-181919_Speedtest_jp-1646748.JPG Nice think I will go foward with it. I guess you get the full support of T mobile CS. |
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Posted: 10/21/2020 2:47:20 PM EST
[#46]
Quote HistoryQuoted: I don't understand any of the devices, language, concepts, or anything. What do I need to get internet in my home? People are talking about routers or something. Do these devices come with a data plan? If I buy one, do I now have internet? For example, this thing. If I buy that, do I now have unlimited internet with just a monthly payment? Or is this simply a device that sends and receives signals, but you need some other device and a plan, or something? I am really confused about the whole thing. All I want is unlimited internet that uses cell towers. How can I do that? If you want simple that would work. The white box you see is a modem and router. The data plan that comes with it, Im not sure what carrier or how much data you get. The data plan comes "on" a sim card like your phone has. The sim card gets plugged into the white box that acts as a modem. Your devices then connect to that box with ethernet cables or wifi. There are other ways to do the same thing probably cheaper and probably better but that is a easy way to go. Other modem/routers you can use are a mofi4500 that I used for a while. You can find resellers of data plans to provide you a plan on any carrier and simcard you plug into the modem. Works the same way as the OTR. The thing to be careful of is what carrier has good signal at your house. Mine only had decent connection with ATT so I had to use an ATT reseller. Also depending on your signal you might need outdoor antennas to make the connection better. |
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Posted: 10/21/2020 3:20:26 PM EST
[#47]
Quote HistoryQuoted: I hated to do it, but out of frustration I signed up with Viasat this week. The Silver plan I'm on is supposed to give 25 mps download speeds at $150/month. My location is not eligible for home internet service from AT&T, Verizon, or TMobile. We tried Hughesnet before years ago and canceled after our two year contract was up and have been using OTR mobile the past two years. In the evenings, OTR mobile's service slows down to the point that it is unusable. If Starlink ever becomes available, I'll dump Viasat and give it a try. Welcome to Viasat, too. 
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Posted: 10/21/2020 11:36:56 PM EST
[#48]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Any updates on T mobile Home internet? Guys who have it still like it? Considering swapping from No limit data. It would save me $30 a month. Absolutely, if you have a no limit data plan you're likely to outperform it, for cheaper, without worrying about random shutoff. Total no-brainer. After relocating my tmobile modem I'm now pulling down 120mbps+ in off peak hours and I almost never dip under 80. It beats almost all wired connections where I live at this point. |
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Posted: 10/22/2020 1:46:44 AM EST
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With the T Mobile internet plan are you able to swap the SIM card over into a NETGEAR wireless modem? I'm currently using a Verizon sim in my NETGEAR LB1120 paired with a router and have no issues with it besides the data cap. Would love to try out T mobile if I can use their sim in my current setup.
I've been seeing some people mention that their Ipads aren't recognizing the wifi with the provided T Mobile modem so that's why I'm not 100% sold on the T mobile modem. |
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Posted: 10/22/2020 6:26:12 AM EST
[#50]
Quote HistoryQuoted: With the T Mobile internet plan are you able to swap the SIM card over into a NETGEAR wireless modem? I'm currently using a Verizon sim in my NETGEAR LB1120 paired with a router and have no issues with it besides the data cap. Would love to try out T mobile if I can use their sim in my current setup. I've been seeing some people mention that their Ipads aren't recognizing the wifi with the provided T Mobile modem so that's why I'm not 100% sold on the T mobile modem. You can only swap the sim if you're able to modify the imei of your other device. I haven't seen anyone mention having issues with the wifi. Even if there is, just connect it to another wifi router. |
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