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

[David Burton via TriLUG]

On Tue, Sep 26, 2023 at 12:37 PM brian mullan <bmullan.mail at gmail.com>
wrote:

> *#1*
> Regarding Distance from a TMobile 5G tower.
> My house is perhaps 3-4 miles away from the nearest TMO 5G Tower shown on
> their coverage map.
> You can look up TMobile's 5G Coverage Map: * https://www.t-mobile.com/coverage/coverage-map
> <https://www.t-mobile.com/coverage/coverage-map>*
> Just enter  your Zip code and the map will show all TMobile Towers nearby
> (5G Ultra, 5G extended range & 4G)
>

Thanks, Brian.

When I do that it doesn't show me the tower locations. Here's a screenshot:

<https://sealevel.info/TMO_coverage_map_2023-09-26.png>

           *  (click image to enlarge)*


Do I need to select an option of some sort, to get it to display the tower
locations?


On Tue, Sep 26, 2023 at 1:41 PM Peter Soper via TriLUG <trilug at trilug.org>
wrote:

> 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.
>

Thanks for that info, Pete.

Do you know how far you are from the nearest TMO antenna tower?

Dave