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).
Thanks to community member
007_bond for finding this deal
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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Then I moved and took the device with me. I'm a lot closer to the tower now. The speeds I get are around 300 mbps on average.
Overall, it just really depends on your location if it's going to be worth it or not. There's no way of really knowing until you test it. I recommend overlapping your old service and TMHI for about a month. If it's pretty bad, just return the TMHI gateway. If it's good, then cancel your old service.
However, the Gateway does have (and use) a GPS unit, and it is part of the agreed upon terms of service that it is for fixed location use.
(I bet there's some regulatory/legal reason for it).
Without further breaking of the ToS (and possibly the law) to prevent detection, eventually T-Mobile will cut ya off. (but they do seem to 'give the customer some wiggle room'. I'm guessing to make 'moving' a smoother process)
If someone were staying somewhere for an extended period of time, one might be able to 'move' to that address (in the T-Mobile account), then back again afterwards. Not sure if T-Mobile has any stipulations or limits, however.
T-Mobile only allows a certain amount per street as they don't want to compromise wireless customers.
e.g. every small VPN
This TMHI plan is not a lump sum in front. It's a locked monthly rate. Definitely a different scenario that doesn't mean they expect to fail.
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any workarounds ?
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Since I had the service for over a year I have come up with a few tricks that have tweaked the service for me. I used to get four bars, now I get five bars. I manage to do this by cutting up an Amazon cardboard box and lining it with aluminum foil and creating a reflector. I positioned the reflector to block n71 bands but reflect n41 because the modem would regularly lock onto the n71. I used the cellmapper website to locate the towers.
I also place AC Infinity MULTIFAN S3 fans top and bottom to circulate heat in one direction, straight up. The Nokia trashcan modem is prone to overheat and degrade speeds. The fans are inexpensive and are sold on Amazon.
The third thing I did is added a smart tp-link smart switch that has a timer function on it. I set it up so the switch toggles the power at 4 in the morning when everyone's still asleep. Rebooting the modem seems to help a lot so I just automated the process. Since the timer function works locally on the smart switch and doesn't rely on the cloud, it isn't affected by the temporary loss of internet service..
The fourth thing I did is to make sure the modem is facing a window. So I do have it with a direct point of sight with the tower. I made sure the bug screen on the window doesn't block the path as I think that can cause a faraday cage since its made out of metal.
Those four hacks/tweaks made it bearable. It would be nice if they extended the $25 offer to existing Home Internet customers. A new fiber company that is local to my town in Central Connecticut is currently trenching fiber and supposedly that process will be complete by August of 2023. Frontier is yet a second company offering fiber and they have been very busy statewide wiring fiber on power poles. But I wouldn't mind keeping t-mobile as a second WAN backup to a fiber connection, especially at $25/mo
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