T-Mobile is offering their
T-Mobile Home Internet Customers Only: Google Nest WiFi Router for
$54/each (
Up to 3 Units) when you enter your T-Mobile phone number to begin the redemption process (
you will then be prompted to logged into your T-Mobile account).
Thanks to community member
AJayJay1987 for finding this deal
Note, offer valid for active T-Mobile Home Internet customers only. These are the standard Home WiFi System/Extended Mesh Router versions
If you are a T-Mobile Home Internet only customer, please find your assigned billing phone number on your bill under '
connected devices'
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And over past week, numerous Tmob customers, cell and home have had data connection problems, where you get disconnected from internet even though have full bars. Takes a minute or two to come back. The eggheads on reddit are helping tmob troubleshoot.. Something about ipv4 tunnel exit.
Problem seems to be the worst in New York State.
There's a way of doing it by creating a server somewhere that has public IP then you tunnel to that. It's complicated for most and even if you pull it off, then you added lag etc.
Also, last time I had it, there's no bridge mode. This thing is so simple it's designed for simple things.
Ask yourself why you would consider switching from your current ISP?
1. Is your current ISP reliable (uptime)?
2. Is your current ISP too expensive?
3. Is your current ISP's connection too slow?
4. Is your current ISP imposing a data cap?
For me it was #1. I got tired of Breezeline outages, and not interested in Spectrum due to prior experiences. Signed up for Starry Internet when they were announced here last year and never heard back.
Be aware that they are now offering T-Mobile Home Internet Lite in addition to the unlimited, which is different than the original unlimited offering (data caps). My experience is with unlimited.
I have the Arcadyan KVD21, Ethernet cable to Orbi RBK50 mesh router (Wi-Fi 5 with Tri-band), Ethernet cable from Orbi router to Orbi satellite. Running Pi-hole with the Orbi, turned off Wi-Fi on the Arcadyan. Orbi has ipv6 passthrough enabled, Orbi is set to router mode with MTU set to 1420.
Generally 150-200mbps down, 20-60mbps up. Ping is around 20 idle. 0% packet loss. Even higher speeds after 8am (to 6pm) and 12am (to 6am). People on the tower must commute to work, which I don't miss. 😁
0.75 miles from the tower and I can see the top of it from the window where the Arcadyan is located. Spent the time finding the best location. Close to a window on the second floor, up high on a shelf, rear of the Arcadyan facing the tower. Use Cellmapper to see where the tower you are connected to is located. Connected to b66/n41 99% of the time. Tower switching is rare for me. Signal to Noise Ratio (SINR in the app) is rarely less than 20 for me, and can reach up to 30 for 5G on a good day.
I work from home via corporate VPN 5 days a week, lots of Teams meetings with cameras and screen shares. I game on Xbox Series S at night (Ethernet cable plugged directly into the Arcadyan). Wife games on Switch. Xbox NAT says open after performing "Test NAT" a few times. Never had a problem streaming anything on Roku TV and Fire sticks, probably 50+ devices connected to the Orbi routers, including PCs, TVs, phones, fridge, oven, window ac, Nest thermostat, MyQ, bulbs, plugs, Wyze cams.
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And over past week, numerous Tmob customers, cell and home have had data connection problems, where you get disconnected from internet even though have full bars. Takes a minute or two to come back. The eggheads on reddit are helping tmob troubleshoot.. Something about ipv4 tunnel exit.
Problem seems to be the worst in New York State.
And over past week, numerous Tmob customers, cell and home have had data connection problems, where you get disconnected from internet even though have full bars. Takes a minute or two to come back. The eggheads on reddit are helping tmob troubleshoot.. Something about ipv4 tunnel exit.
Problem seems to be the worst in New York State.
I may try the 15 day trial and see how it goes, setup a separate home network and compare speeds against spectrum. I am tired of the yearly call and threaten to cancel game to get a better price.
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I may try the 15 day trial and see how it goes, setup a separate home network and compare speeds against spectrum. I am tired of the yearly call and threaten to cancel game to get a better price.
Wife works from home, so an overall faster and more reliable internet is worth the extra for us.
Tmobs home was $50 while spectrums is $75. These days, $25 isn't that much money.. Hell I piss away more than that in coffee per month.. So Spectrums somewhat less aggravation is worth paying for until we get another provider in area.
I just got the 2 pack (router + point) on sale at Target and decided not to keep it. Very basic options on this router. You can't manually set the channels (Google search says it does it for you but it did an awful job for me because it selected channels all my neighbors were using). You can't set different SSIDs for 2.4 vs 5. And the signal strength was weaker is different areas of the house - even in direct line of sight across the short living room. I was surprised.
The deciding factor was that my current network has extender nodes that have a different SSID but same password (since it's all my main network) and about a third of my smart devices are connected to the node SSID. Since I couldn't set different SSIDs with the Nest router I tried to get around it by using the guest network, but it wouldn't let me have the same password for the guest network. So I'd have to run around and manually reset/re-connect various smart devices and I really didn't think it was worth it at that point.
If you decide to get this I'd suggest you leave all your current stuff in place so you can try the Nest out but still have the option of reverting easily if it doesn't work out for you.
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Wife works from home, so an overall faster and more reliable internet is worth the extra for us.
Tmobs home was $50 while spectrums is $75. These days, $25 isn't that much money.. Hell I piss away more than that in coffee per month.. So Spectrums somewhat less aggravation is worth paying for until we get another provider in area.
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