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

[brian mullan via TriLUG]

Yeah, to see the Towers I had to click the + button to scope deeper into
that Map.   Keep
clicking the + button until they show up.

On Tue, Sep 26, 2023 at 3:34 PM David Burton <ncdave4life at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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
>
>