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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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Quote from theking_z :
I like the idea of separating the modem and router function in two different devices. My AE is the most stable router I have ever owned. Its outdated in tech and old but I never have to worry about it being hot, sluggish or dropping connection. It just works without drama.

People also reported turning off the wifi function on the gateway keeps in cool. Not to mention, if i can use my existing wifi router, my transitions to about 30 devices become seamless.
Not recommending anything here, just pointing out that you can rename the T-Mobile's gateway wifi name/SSID to the same one you use on your router and use the same password and your 30 devices will connect to it making it seamless too.
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Quote from milca035 :
Here is the screenshot of the speed test.
Attachment 12681685
That's seriously jacked up. You can't run anything UDP like voice or Zoom, etc. with that. I'm surprised the bandwidth is that high with the retransmissions. Do you happen to have a VPN on your phone running? Some VPNs cause trouble with speed tests
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Quote from wkendrvr :
for the folks thinking they will avoid the $35 activation fee, you might not... https://www.cnet.com/tech/mobile/...nsactions/
They waived mine without asking. As always, YMMV
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Quote from sarfraz :
Is this deal available in stores too?
When I went on Tuesday to pickup the T-mobile Tuesday Gift they had a sign right by the gifts with this promo's details, ie yes they have it in store. Multiple people on this thread also confirmed they got it from the store.
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Quote from Dealzez :
Do Sprint kickstart members qualify?

Also, it says no data caps. Is that true + no capped throttling? What kind of speeds do people get?

I think max I do is 2-4 devices streaming at once
It's not capped. But it is deprioritized data. You need to get one and see what speeds you get. Everyone is different. I get 200/20 during peak and around 400/50 off peak. My phone is always faster on the same tower.
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Quote from SlickDillie :
It's not capped. But it is deprioritized data. You need to get one and see what speeds you get. Everyone is different. I get 200/20 during peak and around 400/50 off peak. My phone is always faster on the same tower.
Thanks for sharing your experience. I think that's fine enough for my usage. Definitely worth trying to see, if Sprint Kickstarter accounts qualify
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Quote from wkendrvr :
for the folks thinking they will avoid the $35 activation fee, you might not... https://www.cnet.com/tech/mobile/...nsactions/
The Uncarrier making carrier moves. In my opinion online self served transactions should be free. $35 for customer reps doing stuff for you sounds not customer friendly but I would understand it more, however it should be more like $15 fee, $35 is too much.

Also, T-mobile latest free line promo basically forced you to reach out to their customer service, they are on purpose creating more unnecessary work load for their reps and increasing costs. But whatever all we can do is vote with our wallets.
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Quote from Dealzez :
Thanks for sharing your experience. I think that's fine enough for my usage. Definitely worth trying to see, if Sprint Kickstarter accounts qualify
Hopefully someone knows. I have seen many people with Sprint accounts say they had to go in store. You get 15 days free trial. But if you factor in the $100 rebate, it's basically 4 months free to test out. Also, for what it's worth, I suspect the speeds we are seeing now will increase next year.
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Quote from SlickDillie :
Hopefully someone knows. I have seen many people with Sprint accounts say they had to go in store. You get 15 days free trial. But if you factor in the $100 rebate, it's basically 4 months free to test out. Also, for what it's worth, I suspect the speeds we are seeing now will increase next year.
For sure. Will only get better over time I'm sure as 5g gets more robust. I'll be stopping by a store tomorrow to see
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Quote from wbs3333 :
Not recommending anything here, just pointing out that you can rename the T-Mobile's gateway wifi name/SSID to the same one you use on your router and use the same password and your 30 devices will connect to it making it seamless too.
I tried that but some of my devices couldn't reconnect to the T-Mobile wifi if I change it to my current router ssid and turn off my router. For example, my ring system failed to reconnect even after a reboot; eufy was fine, MyQ garage opener also failed. Any thoughts?
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Quote from sarfraz :
Is this deal available in stores too?
Yes, I was recently out shopping and walked into a T-Mobile store as they had no customers. I'm not sure if it matters whether it's a corporate or franchise store, mine was a corporate T-Mobile. Whole process took about 15 minutes, it would have been faster if I didn't ask a few dozen questions. They had the Arcadyan KVD21 in stock, you can see it's the Arcadyan KVD21 model on the outside of the unit. I can return it within 2 weeks with no charge, that reminds me I should set it up.

The only tricky part was the address portion, I have 3 addresses. My home, my UPS store box and my relatives address (the intended location). Unfortunately only the UPS store qualifies as service so I chose that one, hopefully that won't backfire on me later on. No I haven't read all 20000+ pages of the thread.
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Quote from jeffkhlam :
I tried that but some of my devices couldn't reconnect to the T-Mobile wifi if I change it to my current router ssid and turn off my router. For example, my ring system failed to reconnect even after a reboot; eufy was fine, MyQ garage opener also failed. Any thoughts?
Given the very little settings, options, and info that the T-Mobile Gateway has available for the users it would be hard to know. The T-Mobile gateway might have a setting enabled that is not compativle with those devices, like protected broadcast packages but who knows.

Good luck getting the AE setup.
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Quote from jeffkhlam :
I tried that but some of my devices couldn't reconnect to the T-Mobile wifi if I change it to my current router ssid and turn off my router. For example, my ring system failed to reconnect even after a reboot; eufy was fine, MyQ garage opener also failed. Any thoughts?
Some devices are smart enough to see it's not the same router even though it's the same SSID. It's to prevent spoofing I believe
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Quote from Zelo :
Yes, I was recently out shopping and walked into a T-Mobile store as they had no customers. I'm not sure if it matters whether it's a corporate or franchise store, mine was a corporate T-Mobile. Whole process took about 15 minutes, it would have been faster if I didn't ask a few dozen questions. They had the Arcadyan KVD21 in stock, you can see it's the Arcadyan KVD21 model on the outside of the unit. I can return it within 2 weeks with no charge, that reminds me I should set it up.

The only tricky part was the address portion, I have 3 addresses. My home, my UPS store box and my relatives address (the intended location). Unfortunately only the UPS store qualifies as service so I chose that one, hopefully that won't backfire on me later on. No I haven't read all 20000+ pages of the thread.
I have, the summary is that based on the terms you are supposed to use it on that address. T-Mobile can check where the gateway is based on the Towers it is connecting to and supposedly the gateway also has GPS which some are guessing is used to confirm address where it is being used, but to be honest they could be using it to gather signal strength data based on your GPS location and not to find the gateway.

Anyways, several users have said that T-Mobile currently is not enforcing or geolocking the gateways and that you can move them around. That doesn't mean that in the future they might. I wouldn't worry too much about it for now.

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Quick questions, I have connected a device directly to the gateway. This device doesn't have a monitor or a way for me to query it other than connecting to it through the LAN. But the tools I use to find it can't find it's IP when I scan the network. Is there any menu or way to get the IP Addressed of all the devices connected to the gateway? My other option is connecting a router to it but don't want to complicate things just yet.

[Update]
I think I found my answer:

Quote :
On the TMO Home internet mobile app:

https://www.t-mobile.com/home-internet/app

One of the options is to show connected devices. Note, there appears to be a bug where a device that is connected via ethernet is still displayed as connected via wifi. Unfortunately, you cannot change the name of the device or change the IP to static so write down the MAC address of you device once you find it.
Last edited by wbs3333 December 16, 2022 at 09:25 PM.

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