[TriLUG] Wanted to share my experience with TMobile 5G Home Internet

[Peter Soper via TriLUG]

I hope you have a better experience than I've had. With my setup after roughly a year it is my opinion that Tmobile has no concept of QOS or the word "availability". I've kept my pitiful DSL so I can fall back during frequent outages. Vaguely 2-3 a month requiring fallback and a half dozen outages lasting just a few minutes. Also, my service makes me appear to be in Charlotte or Atlanta and that's a separate PITA.
Pete
Pete

Sep 26, 2023 10:12:08 AM brian mullan via TriLUG <trilug at trilug.org>:

> I thought I'd share a bit about my switch from Spectrum Cable Internet
> to TMobile 5G Internet for my Home Internet.
> 
> *Background*
> I'd been paying for and using a Spectrum Cable Internet for perhaps 7 years.
> My Spectrum Internet acct was paying Monthly for 200Mbps Down link and
> 20Mbps Up link.
> 
> Over those years I've usually had 3-5 Outages/Yr lasting from 1Hr to
> perhaps 8Hrs
> 
> I finally got turned-off from Spectrum not just because of the outages each
> year which
> although irritating I usually just dealt with those.
> 
> My last straw came over the past couple months where using Ookla
> Speedtest.net
> my actual speeds had been reduced to around 170Mbps Down link and 15Mbps Up
> link
> which is not close to what I was paying for.   Their tech support tried to
> tell me that  it
> was common for that reduction to happen.   Unfortunately for the Tech
> Support I let them
> know that I had been Cisco System Broadband (cable/wireless) Manager for
> Advanced
> consulting services for 15 yrs and supported all of the US Cable MSO's,
> Telstra in Australia
> and a large MSO in Spain/Europe and that I knew what they were telling was
> BS.
> 
> So I decided to try out TMobiles 5G Home Internet.   They offer a 15 Trial
> so if its not
> what you expected you just return their 5G Modem/Gateway.
> 
> I was blown away by how fast the 5G Home Internet has been.
> 
> My 5G Internet speeds (using Ookla Speedtest) over a 10 days of my 15 day
> Trial period was consistently *350-430Mbps Down link and 65-85Mbps Up link*
> !
> 
> And *the 5G Internet was 1/2 the cost* of the Monthly cost of Spectrum'*s
> Cable 200Mbps Internet.*
> 
> *I cancelled my Spectrum account the next day* and have been using the
> TMoblile
> 5G Home Internet ever since.
> 
> Couple pieces of info you should know:
> 
> Verizon also offers 5G Home Internet.  Its about $20 more per month than
> TMobiles 5G
> Home Internet but I read reports that Verizon provides a bit faster
> transmissions Down/Up.
> 
> Both TMobile and Verizon's 5G Home Internet offerings include:
> 
>    - No Contract
>    - Locked in Price for as long as  you keep the Service.
>    - Provide the 5G Gateway/Modem at no cost.
>    - and the 5G Gateway/Modem's have built-in WiFi 6 routers.
> 
> *Just for reference my TMobile 5G Home Internet is only $40/Month (keep in
> mind thats for ~400Mbps Down link speeds and ~75Mbps Up link speeds!*
> 
> *I hope this was okay to send to the Trilug Mailing List but I imagine many
> people*
> *will find the information useful.*
> 
> *Brian Mullan*
> 
> *Raleigh*
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