Unlimited High-Speed In-Home Internet Services from T-Mobile $50

Despite many being extra critical on the "slickness" of this deal, it may be VERY useful in some situations.
However, I run into difficulties trying to get this.
1) it's "unavailable in your area" although Jax, FLA has a decent coverage T-mob.
2) why does it require my cell ##? doesn't it come with a separate card/##?

3) more of an advice needed: if traveling frequently, is this an easy and wise choice? THis to be used in FL, KY and OH. Potentially WA and NY

Is service limited to one address? Could I get this to take on the road?

Xfinity is $10 for me a month. This crap from tmob is over $50

Where are you living. How do you get $10?
After introductory, I was able to negotiate but still over $40.

Better than other came companies is a really low bar. Spectrum has raised my price every year. This year it went up to $75 for 200mbs down and 10 up which is 166% the lettuce I started at. I had to spend 45 minutes on the phone with 4 different departments to convince them to give me a promo to $60 again. Sand they still made me pay a month at $75.
This service would be about the same price with a higher upload and slower download. I'd be happy if they don't jack up the price every year.
Does the modem / router have wired ports to connect to your own access point? I see that you cannot disable it's routing function. Can you at least forward ports?

I've had T-Mobile Home Internet for about 14 months now. Overall, I've been very happy. A couple of times, I've been unhappy.

Pros:

This is the best thing available in my area. I live in a rural mountain town in an area with about 30 people per square mile. I used to have DSL and I was getting about 3 Mbps down and 0.6 Mbps up. I am just beyond the reach of Spectrum, so that isn't an option. Luckily, there is a T-Mobile tower here.

I was just using our phones as hotspots. I added T-Mobile One Plus International back when it was available because it was $25/mo per line for unlimited hotspot. However, they can throttle that after 50GB. So I was thrilled when I could get 4G LTE Home Internet without a cap.

Now I get about 25 Mbps down and 22 Mbps up without a cap. Whereas it was tough to stream a full movie without the thing freezing up before, all of my various devices (laptops, tablets, Google Home, Google Minis, Apple TV, etc) work smoothly now. That just wasn't possible for me before.

Cons

I did have an issue on weekends on May and June this year where service crept down to unusable (like literally getting 0 Mbps down). Customer service "sent a tech" to the tower who confirmed all was well, but it wasn't. I also had problems with our phones on those weekends. They eventually played it off as congestion, but in an area with 30 people per square mile, that wasn't it. I don't know what caused the problem. Luckily, it resolved itself.

But the big con is that after they supposedly sent a tech to the tower, there was nothing more they could do. Unlike my old DSL service, T-Mobile has no mechanism to send a tech to the house to show someone that stuff isn't working. They basically just threw their hands up verbally over the phone and said that it must be congestion and should get better in a couple of days. In each case, it did get better in a couple of days, but that was no less annoying for the days when we had issues.

Bottom line

For me, despite the hiccups over the summer, this service has been incredible. It has otherwise been reliable and provides much better speed than I could otherwise get where I live. I now have a couple of different 5G phones and one gets 5G service at home while the other doesn't, so I know I'm on the edge of 5G coverage. I'm hopeful that there will come a time in the future when I can get the home internet on 5G, but in the meantime this service has been excellent and has helped us stay under the throttle cap on the mobile hotspot.

I have been using this since Monday of this week. T-mobile advertised an avg down speed of 25 Mbps, but I have been getting more around 100 Mbps down and 20 Mbps up (YMMV). Although that is good and comparable to my current Spectrum, my teleworking has been more sluggish than usual when using the T-Mobile.

From my quick research, T-Mobile is shipping new devices that are 5G capable, so they are not enabled yet... Also to mention, the new devices they are shipping will not allow you to change any settings except for wifi name/password...

Is there an ethernet port or is it strictly wireless? I need another failover isp since I dumped Spectrum but the price may be a stumbling block.

Edit: Guess I should have read the whole thread before asking...

Not that it's your specific situation, but there've been localized outages everywhere as T-Mobile aggressively consolidates the Sprint infrastructure...you can google around to see. They've been upgrading/migrating/consolidating something like 50k towers per month since the merger was approved.

If anyone has both internet and a TMo 5g network it'd be an easy check to see if both devices have similar outages during the same period after which (perhaps) the 5G device is getting faster speeds.

I'm paying Spectrum $75 month. this would work for me but unfortunately its not available in my area.

You probably have a low income deal.

my first year. negotiated plan