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Get home internet for $30/mo. with Magenta® MAX.
Savings via $20 monthly bill credit. Limited-time offer; subject to change. Qualifying credit, voice line, and unlimited Home Internet line required. Existing customers must visit myT-Mobile.com. Credits may take up to 2 bill cycles; credits will stop if you cancel any lines or change plans. Limit 1/account. May not be combined with some offers or discounts (e.g., Price Lock); see FAQs at T-Mobile.com/plans. 5G Home Internet General Terms: During congestion, Home Internet customers may notice speeds lower than other customers due to data prioritization. Not available in all areas. $35 device connection charge due at sale. Plus taxes & fees for accounts currently paying for a T-Mobile wireless line with additional taxes & fees: Monthly Regulatory Programs (RPF) & Telco Recovery Fee (TRF) totaling $1.40 per data only line ($0.12 for RPF & $1.28 for TRF) apply; taxes/fees approx. 3-12% of bill. Credit approval required. For use only with T-Mobile Gateway for in-home use at location provided at activation. If canceling service, return gateway or pay up to $370. Video streaming resolution depends on available speeds. For best performance, leave video streaming applications at their default resolution setting. Not compatible with some live TV streaming services. AutoPay Pricing for lines 1-8 on account. Without AutoPay, $5 more. May not be reflected on 1st bill. Network Management: Service may be slowed, suspended, terminated, or restricted for misuse, abnormal use, interference with our network or ability to provide quality service to other users. See T-Mobile.com/OpenInternet for details. See Terms and Conditions (including arbitration provision) at www.T-Mobile.com for additional information.
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Note: You'll find complaints here about reliability or speed, but this varies by region. Many people have no problems. That's part of the reason they let you try it out cheaply. People also have different needs, so someone with typical bandwidth usage may be fine, and someone with demanding needs may or may not.
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expiredDLS4U | Staff posted Feb 10, 2023 9:48 PM
T-Mobile Magenta Max Plan Customers: Home Internet Service + $150 Gift Card
$30/month
$50
w/ Autopay (New Customers)at T-Mobile
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Think of it this way, when you are traveling around with your cellphone, is there some place you have no signal and some place you have good signal? If you go to some place that has no (or very poor) signal, in reality, you can't even connect to internet or very slow. If you are at some place that has very good signal, then depend on how crowded the cellphone tower you connect to, it can be <10Mbps (extremely crowded) to >500Mbps (not very crowded).
If you go back and read all the posts in those Tmobile 5G home internet threads, many people has posted all kind of different speed. I think people should take what number people post with a grain of salt.
As many posts before mentioned, the speed and ping varies by location. Location will play a huge role in stability and consistency of connection. Kind of like a "location lottery".
And when you add tons of new users because of this deal, the chance of winning this "location speed/ping lottery" is getting slimmer. And this deal likely has big impact to existing home internet users also.
Remember Tmobile doesn't guarantee the minimum speed you get. The only way you know is try out few months first and then decide if this is right for you. And you can't figure out how reliable it is based on using it for one day. Time of day (and or day of week) also matter if you live in crowded area. Many people here mentioned certain time of the day, the speed is acceptable. But during the time when most people home using internet, the speed is so slow or inconsistent that playing YouTube video may stop for few seconds every min or two. And that also mean during long holiday like Christmas, Thanksgiving, the usage pattern may be different and have to adjust your own usage if the speed suddenly become very slow. People also mentioned weather also affect 5G signal especially if you are a bit further away from the 5G tower. Good weather day during off peak hour, the speed may be decent even if you are a bit further away but during bad weather, the speed may be inconsistent.
However, their billing is a nightmare. I speak from repeated personal experience and those close to me as well.
Additionally their router is known to need reset too much for my own style.
While service is dependent on variable, the hardware and billing much less so.
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I'm getting at least 400/60 with 25ms ping on TMobile. I live 1 mile away from the tower. It took me an hour to find the best positioning which even an inch move makes 50% difference. I'd say during congestion I might drop to 250/30. I've had 0 downtime, no latency issues, and the device had been stable.
IMO, it's worth seeing if it works. If it doesn't, just return it. I'm saving $600+ a year for something faster and more reliable than spectrum. Even the new fiber coming to my area is 60/mo and not worth paying more than 2x the price.
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Patiently waiting for AT&T fiber to be available at my address. Anyone who would think to compare this to fiber is nuts. I would pay $100 a month for fiber tomorrow. Until then, this is just fine.
No dropped connection and no buffering. Streaming everything on multiple devices, MW2 on Xbox no problem with Open NAT on my own router, remote working with lots of Teams calls. This service can be great for some, give it a shot.
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I don't understand why people are happy to save $5 but don't want to do ten minutes of reading to pay a third of the price
I have a $10 tablet line in a router for some IP cam's at a rental property, but I don't believe using the service that way is something I'm entitled to, and know that it is something that they can (and have in the past) put a stop to at any time.
Well…so far this has been a pleasant surprise. Left Frontier Fios over a month ago after testing this for a few weeks. Not a single issue so far. Just as good as fios was.
Haven't seen speeds fluctuating and I have tested numerous times a day/night. Speeds consistently 300+ up and 40+ down. Never below.
The $50 is cheaper than the 65 I was paying for 20m vs now with this I am getting around 100m steady.
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The service works for many but not in my case and I'm waiting to cancel once I get my $100 rebate which will offset my costs and a little extra for my problems.
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