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T-Mobile High Speed 5G Internet for Life Offer

(New/Existing Voice Customers w/ Added HSI)

$25/Month w/ AutoPay

$50

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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

Editor's Notes

Written by Discombobulated | Staff
  • This offer is 50% Off their regular price after auto-pay discount
  • Must activate or have at least one paid voice line on a qualifying rate plan and activate one unlimited Home Internet line on your account
  • Your required paid voice lines and Home Internet must remain active to continue receiving your bill credits; credits may take up to 2 bill cycles; credits will stop if you cancel any lines or change plans
  • Promotional discount is limited to one line per account during this promotion
  • Offer valid while promotional offer/discount last
Additional Notes
  • Please refer to the forum thread for additional details - Discombobulated

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Written by 007_bond
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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

Editor's Notes

Written by Discombobulated | Staff
  • This offer is 50% Off their regular price after auto-pay discount
  • Must activate or have at least one paid voice line on a qualifying rate plan and activate one unlimited Home Internet line on your account
  • Your required paid voice lines and Home Internet must remain active to continue receiving your bill credits; credits may take up to 2 bill cycles; credits will stop if you cancel any lines or change plans
  • Promotional discount is limited to one line per account during this promotion
  • Offer valid while promotional offer/discount last
Additional Notes
  • Please refer to the forum thread for additional details - Discombobulated

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Kouskous44
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Great price but most of the reviews state it isnt consistant speeds and has frequent drops.

I wonder if this is portable as long as you have an oulet for power?
bigdeebird
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I had this from its inception, originally it wasn't too bad-as time went on the signal got worse and buffered like nuts, 3 TV's a pc and phone. I finally gave up after 7 months and terrible to non-existent customer service. The price is definitely tempting, btw, their newer modem was worst than their first, I had a pc fan underneath to cool it down, no difference.
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If true it's a no brainer. I have the service. You can expect 100mbs-300mbs. Down time nonexistent.

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if anyone is interested in adding an external antenna on the ARC KVD21, check out this thread along with Nater Taters YouTube channel. Remember, breaking the sticker may void the warranty but you can try using a heathen to remove the adhesive without damage the sticker.

https://www.waveform.com/a/b/guid...et-gateway
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apokrif
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Quote from coloradoman_in_socal :
I'm not the one you asked but I can tell you that you do NOT automatically get a static IP with the SBI internet plan. You need a special Inseego gateway for that which seems to be impossible to get. Only with that gateway you can book a static public IP for $3 per month.
Huh, that's something new...
Anywhere I can read more about it?
The good thing, it's doable, at least!
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coloradoman_in_socal
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Quote from apokrif :
Huh, that's something new...
Anywhere I can read more about it?
The good thing, it's doable, at least!
Doable only if you can get your hands on that specific gateway and THAT seems to be the real hurdle here…
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Quote from nwtian :
East Bay Pittsburg, CA

Backyard outdoor is 200+Mb download, Garage 100+Mb download, inside house or near window or even next to the wall outdoor is 10Mb. My house is stucco with wire netting like a faraday cage, so best option for me is garage with existing Arcadian gateway router. It's a backup for my occasional blackout from the cable that gives me about 400+Mb download.

Other options are to put unit in attic (no wire netting) or paid $200 to $400 for waveform Mimo antenna and risk breaking the gateway connectors.

I only get 3 bars good even inside the house or outdoor.
It seems the speed for downloading is not indicative by the number of bars. The signal bars seem to indicate how close you are to the tower but the downloading speed is affected by how many interference from your buildings/walls. Just tested again, even putting a box next to the gateway will affect the signal, orientation of the gateway too.

So the gateway is not really omnidirectional, you probably need to turn it facing a certain direction.
Speed is proportional to bars. 3 bars ~200-300Mbps, 4 bars ~500-600Mbps. Test only with LAN cable to obtain true speed of data transfer. Heavy traffic will drop speed to 100-200Mbps range. The internal microware antenna is directional. 5-10 degree can alter speed by 100-200 Mbps.

Attic placement near windows facing the transmitting tower should provide performance close to outdoor scenario. Disable the build in WiFi and run LAN cable to another quality router.
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YCG
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I have had this service for 3 months; I am near a major city and the service was great. Then, in the past week, I have had more problems (drops or speeds under 2 MB) than I did in the prior 3 months. Probably related to this promo. Might be time to go back to Comcast.
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vicosphi
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Quote from YCG :
I have had this service for 3 months; I am near a major city and the service was great. Then, in the past week, I have had more problems (drops or speeds under 2 MB) than I did in the prior 3 months. Probably related to this promo. Might be time to go back to Comcast.
Same issue here. I used to get 250 Mbps down and 20 up, since last week I am getting 12 to 20 Mbps down and 8Mbps up

My Tmobile phone gets 240Mbps...
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Scatter4200
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Quote from SlickRailway9460 :
Let us know what happens
Looks like it worked!
New router arrived so I hooked it up and called Tmobile to cancel my current internet.
I tried to keep the convo quick, so I gave them the SimNumber for the $50 service to make sure they killed the right one.
To avoid the "how can we keep you?" conversation, I just told them my work is now providing internet for WFH employees Smilie

Checked mytmobile portal this morning, account shows just the $25 internet and my 2 phone lines.

Stoked!
Now just waiting on the $100 prepaid gift card after 45 days Smilie

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Quote from dvdrdiscs :
Day 2 of using the service. It's still wildly sporadic even sitting in the same location. Yesterday, I went from 50/40 to 8/0.5 to 4/1 and everywhere in between. This is during mid-day so not anything to do with evening traffic congestion. Today, it took a long time for it to connect to a tower. Speed went from 80/40 to not connecting at all and back.

As a point of comparison with my T-Mobile hotspot using 4G, my hotspot pulls a consistent 10/10 or so. Not the fastest but very reliable. If I had to make a guess, it's' because 5G is simply not reliable due to the nature of it's reach versus 4G. I'll see if I can disable 5G on the modem. I don't necessarily need blazing fast speed in the hundreds.

I'll probably still hang onto it for at least a few months since T-Mobile is giving a $100 gift card making those months almost free.


EDIT: Can't find a setting to disable 5G on the modem through the T-Mobile internet app. If anyone knows if we can disable 5G and just use 4G towers, please let me know.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FTI9AOaYedc

What is your signal to noise at the unit? The 5G signal should remain stable unless the SNR is bad/drifting. Move the unit North/South/East/West near a windows and retest using the LAN cable. Rotating the TMO unit can also help with data transfer due to the directional nature of the internal. Do not use WiFi for speed test since it is unreliable.
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akula1488
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my internet speed DL/UL has not changed much from July 2021 to today, so hopefully it keeps this way.
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Quote from Scatter4200 :
Looks like it worked!
New router arrived so I hooked it up and called Tmobile to cancel my current internet.
I tried to keep the convo quick, so I gave them the SimNumber for the $50 service to make sure they killed the right one.
To avoid the "how can we keep you?" conversation, I just told them my work is now providing internet for WFH employees Smilie

Checked mytmobile portal this morning, account shows just the $25 internet and my 2 phone lines.

Stoked!
Now just waiting on the $100 prepaid gift card after 45 days Smilie
The billing system is going to cancel your $25 credits once your cancellation of your prior home internet service propagates through the system
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Quote from E4300 :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FTI9AOaYedc

What is your signal to noise at the unit? The 5G signal should remain stable unless the SNR is bad/drifting. Move the unit North/South/East/West near a windows and retest using the LAN cable. Rotating the TMO unit can also help with data transfer due to the directional nature of the internal. Do not use WiFi for speed test since it is unreliable.
Signal to Noise ratio? Are you referring to the signal meter displayed on the modem? I get EXCELLENT most of the time and sometimes VERY GOOD.

I actually hooked up a third-party router as someone suggested since the WiFi could be the issue. But nope. Same deal. Very inconsistent connection.
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So I got mine yesterday. A brand new Arcyan version. It was so easy to setup. I am getting 40-95 mbps, no matter what Window, direction, or even it i try it outside. We're a family of 5 and I work from home and host webinars, etc. My comcast is 250 mbps, I am just wondering if this will work for me as a total replacement. I guess I'll keep testing it. Not much to lose if I keep it at least 4 months with a $100 gift card coming from Tmobile. What speed are others getting? I am not sure if it is the distance from the tower or just the capacity in our area is tuned for this. I guess I'll find the actual tower and drive over near to it and do a speedtest. If that gets a big increase I may look at the third party antenna mod.
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Folks, just wanted to share this, if you are really interested what to do with one line requirement.

I got my Gateway yesterday delivered, set it up, and activated the voice line sim that I had ordered along with Gateway. My voice line was default set to Magenta plan $70.

Today I had a chat with an agent and mentioned that I really don't need additional line. Could they put me on $5 plan for tablet that I have and can use. Without a glitch they said yes and put me on $5 plan that is useful my tablet and now my total comes to $25 for Home Internet and $5 for tablet, $30 (Yes, Taxes and Fees included!!) in total for life for unlimited data.

btw, I haven't located the best spot for gateway but with just 3 bars I get at least 280 Mbps down and 40+ Mbps Up.
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hvtran4
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Quote from JasonJ6420 :
So I got mine yesterday. A brand new Arcyan version. It was so easy to setup. I am getting 30-40 mbps, no matter what Window, direction, or even it i try it outside. We're a family of 5 and I work from home and host webinars, etc. My comcast is 250 mbps, I am just wondering if this will work for me as a total replacement. I guess I'll keep testing it. Not much to lose if I keep it at least 4 months with a $100 gift card coming from Tmobile. What speed are others getting? I am not sure if it is the distance from the tower or just the capacity in our area is tuned for this. I guess I'll find the actual tower and drive over near to it and do a speedtest. If that gets a big increase I may look at the third party antenna mod.
I'm getting around 250 Mbps down but continuing to have network issues when I'm in Microsoft teams calls. Luckily for the $100 GC, I will keep the service for now (4-month trial run) and see if the network improves.

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Quote from hvtran4 :
I'm getting around 250 Mbps down but continuing to have network issues when I'm in Microsoft teams calls. Luckily for the $100 GC, I will keep the service for now (4-month trial run) and see if the network improves.

My line of thinking. Without the gift card, I'd probably ditch it within the next week if things don't improve.

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