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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Either way, I setup my Asus mesh network. On the TMO gateway i switched the wifi to be 5gh band only and hid the wifi network. On my Asus mesh I took advantage of the wan aggregation to use both lan ports from the 5G gateway into my router.
Overall, my wifi 6 speed at home hover around 250 down and 40 up while my fiber connection was around 600 down and 700 up.
Is it worth it for me? So far, if things stay this way, I will say a huge Yes. Because this is $55 bucks cheaper per month over my att fiber connection.
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Which antenna did you get exactly?
1. MIMO 4x4 or 2x2?
2. "Panel" (i.e. directional) or "Log Periodic"?
MIMO Panel Antenna Kit by Waveform | +9 dBi Gain | 2x2 600-2700 MHz | for 3G, 4G LTE, 5G Modems, Routers, & Cell Boosters | TS9, SMA, U.FL Adapters (Twin Cable)
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Speeds I get are highly variable depending on where I put it. I'm not sure where the closest tower is, but sometimes I get around 70mb/s down and 12 mb/s up as a low. But I have seen it as high as 400+ mb/s down and 40 mb/s.
Despite the variability, it's still far better than what I ever got in my car. Totally useable. My only snag so far is the lack of port forwarding and Sling detecting my connection as if it were being viewed on a discontinued device.
Oh well..
Since this deal is still going on, hopefully within few months after most of the new users signup start really using their Tmobile home internet, you will get a better picture what kind of speed, ping, and disconnection, etc you get after those few months.
And for someone that their cellphone and home internet are critical so can't loss both at the same time. If someone switch both their cellphone plan and their home internet to use the same Tmobile cellphone tower, if Tmobile infrastructure in their area is down or just the cellphone tower near them has problem, both your cellphone and home internet would be down at the same time and you won't be able to access internet or any VoIP/zoom/google voice, etc. And can't even contact Tmobile support to know what's going on.
But if you use someone else as internet provider, hopefully either Tmobile or your other internet service provider still work so you can contact the outside world.
It is highly recommended if you can't loss both your cellphone and home internet at the same time, make sure you have some kind of backup like a backup cellphone plan that use AT&T or Verizon network, etc so you can still contact the outside world or contact T-mobile service for support. Or if you work from home and in the middle of a meeting, you can quickly rejoin using your backup network device.
Either way, I setup my Asus mesh network. On the TMO gateway i switched the wifi to be 5gh band only and hid the wifi network. On my Asus mesh I took advantage of the wan aggregation to use both lan ports from the 5G gateway into my router.
Overall, my wifi 6 speed at home hover around 250 down and 40 up while my fiber connection was around 600 down and 700 up.
Is it worth it for me? So far, if things stay this way, I will say a huge Yes. Because this is $55 bucks cheaper per month over my att fiber connection.
MIMO Panel Antenna Kit by Waveform | +9 dBi Gain | 2x2 600-2700 MHz | for 3G, 4G LTE, 5G Modems, Routers, & Cell Boosters | TS9, SMA, U.FL Adapters (Twin Cable)
A couple more questions, hopefully the last.
2x2 antenna can be connected to 5G or LTE U.Fl connectors on the TMO router, depending on 5G cell service is available or not your location
Which one did you use?
If you use TMO router WiFi, do you see any difference in signal on clients between 2.4 and 5 WiFi?
Thank you!
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So I went to T-Mobile store yesterday and got the latest 3rd gen gateway ("S1" model) to replace my almost year old "trashcan" model ("N1"). I didn't cancel my previous line and turned off the old one and turned on the new one.
I immediately saw an increase in speed to 4 bars out of 5 and now have 550-600Mbps. Also without asking, got the $25/mo promo. Called today to cancel the older internet line.
VERY HAPPY.