T-Mobile is offering their
T-Mobile High Speed 5G Internet for Life for
$25/Month w/
AutoPay when you
activate a new Home/Small Business Internet Line on an eligible plan or have/add a voice line on an eligible plan (New/Existing Voice Customers).
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Note, this offer/value will be price lock guarantee when you take advantage of this promotional offer.
What is this new Voice Line + Home Internet offer?- T-Mobile postpaid consumers who activate an unlimited Home Internet line and have or activate at least one qualifying paid voice line can save $25 per month on the Home Internet service via monthly bill credits—that's 50% off our regular price after auto pay discount
What plans are eligible?- All consumer voice rate plans are eligible, except $0 subsidized rate plans and customers with Hometown Discount offer pricing
- Only Unlimited Home Internet/Small Business Internet is eligible for this offer; Home Internet Lite and Small Business Internet Lite plans are not eligible
Who is eligible?- T-Mobile postpaid customers who activate at least one eligible HINT line of service and have or activate at least one paid voice line of service qualify for $25 off their Home Internet service
- Customers getting the Hometown Discount offer are not eligible for this Home Internet offer
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I wonder if this is portable as long as you have an oulet for power?
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yeah this was an underrated positive back when i had it. you have one box with one power cord only, vs nasty coax that doesnt bend at right angles, and a router and a modem with cable. and being tethered to 2-3 coax locations in the house. feels like the future in that respect. if you want to wire your bedroom pc direct with ethernet move it next to your pc. if you'd rather wire your xbox direct in the living room, put it in the living room.
Easily beat out by Verizon and AT&T where I live. AT&T 5g right next to tower is 700mbps down. Verizon 4G is 100mbps.
Their service isn't worth $25 a month unless you live close to an uncongested tower.
for this deal, i really want it. and with cable and gig fiber going for around 70 a month tmo kinda only makes sense at around 25-40 dollars. however i'm not a tmo cell customer. wish theyd accept mint mobile.
The latency and connection stability is not comparable to a wired ISP. Both the weather and 'network load' affect my ping and connection in games. (Thankfully, I'm not big into gaming much anymore). It's not uncommon for me to 'drop' to just my CenturyLink DSL connection so my buddy (on the other side of the state) and I can play a Co-Op game together.
The biggest problem (that I've learned to live with) is absolutely no way to port-forward or really manage your own gateway at all. That means Remote Access and Server Hosting (whether for games or E-mail, etc) are effectively impossible.
(You can disable Wi-Fi on the TMHI Gateway, but in a 'roundabout' way. I had to go through and disable every SSID on my 'Grey Trashcan')
I can clearly recall being able to manage my gateway, port forward, etc. on Cox, Fios, Spectrum, Xfinity, and CenturyLink.
Neither can you 'legitimately' purchase and use your own Gateway device on TMHI (unlike every ISP I've had prior). Though, I've read of people 'spoofing' the t-mo-supplied gateway, but you are in clear violation of your ToS in doing so.
Edit:
I forgot to mention one of the biggest 'boons' for TMHI: Upload Speed.
If you 'content create' or U/L large files to a remote server (for work, etc) TMHI is hard to beat.
IIRC, I regularly get U/L speeds of 30-40+mbps on the rare occasion I upload something. (DSL and lower-tier Cable both typically have abysmal upload speeds.)
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By T-mobile's own admission (and my personal experience), your 'experience' can vary greatly simply by where (and what orientation) you've set the gateway up in your home.
My experience has been 'bretty gud', including T-Mobile's Support overnighting me a new gateway when mine bricked on an OTA update. However, I've read through the support forums over @ T-mo, and have read many an experience here... Your Mileage *Will* Vary.
The service is 'worth the try'. My friend that had to cancel his service, had 0 issues getting his service cancelled and his gateway returned, free of charge.
Easily beat out by Verizon and AT&T where I live. AT&T 5g right next to tower is 700mbps down. Verizon 4G is 100mbps.
Their service isn't worth $25 a month unless you live close to an uncongested tower.
All I want to know is...
Will T-Mobile PREPAID voice lines (i.e. - $10 / mo) be able get this deal??!!
There are many posts here and in other forum said they get decent speed in first month or few months and speed become very slow afterward.
Get a t-mobile prepay and check downloads speeds where you will normally use it. $50\month as a backup and used for travel, its worth it to me...
Just my two cents...
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