Slickdeals is community-supported.Ā  We may get paid by brands for deals, including promoted items.
popular Posted by benq35 • Apr 2, 2024
popular Posted by benq35 • Apr 2, 2024

Get $200 back when you switch to Tmobile Home Internet

T-Mobile
133 Comments 55,741 Views
Get Deal at T-Mobile
Good Deal
Save
Share
Deal Details
Get $200 back when you switch to T-Mobile Home Internet.
Sign up now online or via chat to get a $200 Virtual Prepaid MastercardĀ® back. Plus, our 5G Wi-Fi Gateway is included at no additional cost and shipping is FREE.

https://www.t-mobile.com/home-int...5117009#gc
Community Notes
About the Poster
Deal Details
Community Notes
About the Poster
Get $200 back when you switch to T-Mobile Home Internet.
Sign up now online or via chat to get a $200 Virtual Prepaid MastercardĀ® back. Plus, our 5G Wi-Fi Gateway is included at no additional cost and shipping is FREE.

https://www.t-mobile.com/home-int...5117009#gc

Community Voting

Deal Score
+27
Good Deal
Get Deal at T-Mobile
Leave a Comment
To participate in the comments, please log in.

133 Comments

Sign up for a Slickdeals account to remove this ad.

Apr 2, 2024
25 Posts
Joined Sep 2019
Apr 2, 2024
MagentaTent3961
Apr 2, 2024
25 Posts
Anyone have experience with tmobile internet? Is it reliable
Apr 2, 2024
922 Posts
Joined May 2006
Apr 2, 2024
knv8
Apr 2, 2024
922 Posts
i dont see any pricing
Apr 2, 2024
6,647 Posts
Joined Nov 2012

This comment has been rated as unhelpful by Slickdeals users.

Apr 2, 2024
438 Posts
Joined Apr 2009
Apr 2, 2024
degenerated
Apr 2, 2024
438 Posts
Quote from MagentaTent3961 :
Anyone have experience with tmobile internet? Is it reliable
In socal it has been. Family hasn't noticed we switched. Speed tests can vary depending on time of day, but experience has been good. Upload speeds better than cable I had through spectrum.
Apr 2, 2024
2,647 Posts
Joined Feb 2004
Apr 2, 2024
phdeez
Apr 2, 2024
2,647 Posts

Our community has rated this post as helpful. If you agree, why not thank phdeez

Quote from MagentaTent3961 :
Anyone have experience with tmobile internet? Is it reliable
T-mobile Home Internet is hyper dependent on location (and I don't mean SF vs LA, I mean your home address vs a neighbor on another street 300yds away). Since it's going over cell towers, moving it from one side of your house to another could influence which tower you connect to and therefore, what type of speeds you can see.

Ping times can vary dramatically, so if you have any online gamers (PC, Xbox, PS5, etc) they will immediately notice a difference if the tower you are connected to is oversaturated.

TMHI is also the lowest priority on the tower, so your data will always be the last to leave the tower to the network (and on to the internet). This is not a problem if the tower has appropriate capacity, and is not overloaded. If it is overloaded, it'll be difficult to stomach.

I have this for my in-laws who don't have any other options for home internet other than satellite, and it works great for them (no DSL, no cable, in the boonies).

I also have it for my backup internet at my house to Spectrum (although an alternative $10/mo plan for 30gb of data, instead of unlimited - but it's using the same Tmo home internet router). My wife is 100% WFH, and I'm about 30-40% WFH. It has picked up the slack when Spectrum has gone down.

Also note, TMHI uses CG-NAT (carrier grade network address translation), so you can't do any port-forwarding if you host anything at your house. Not a problem for most people (as you're consuming stuff from the internet, not the other way around). There are a few technical solutions to get around this...

Best option is to give it a shot - swap it in. Don't tell the family, and see if anyone notices. If you're seeing outages and problems, you have 14 days to return the device and from what I understand, you won't pay anything (meaning, you get your bill refunded). Keep it 15 days or longer and you're just paying for the monthly service, which isn't a huge cost.
Last edited by phdeez April 2, 2024 at 09:11 AM.
7
Apr 2, 2024
2,959 Posts
Joined Oct 2007
Apr 2, 2024
crownline266
Apr 2, 2024
2,959 Posts
Quote from MagentaTent3961 :
Anyone have experience with tmobile internet? Is it reliable
We had it for four months until fiber was installed in our area. We now have fiber and I wish we had T-mobile back!!! We loved it, but it is dependent on your area. SIL is in a remote area and everything there is spotty. I'd try it out, though!
1
2
Apr 2, 2024
105 Posts
Joined Nov 2019
Apr 2, 2024
Karkos
Apr 2, 2024
105 Posts
It was reliable but slow. I had issues with Zoom meetings and gaming. I had 8 devices connected to it. I returned it. I lost speed/ping compared to COX

Sign up for a Slickdeals account to remove this ad.

Apr 2, 2024
220 Posts
Joined Jun 2019
Apr 2, 2024
MediocreMan
Apr 2, 2024
220 Posts
Quote from phdeez :
T-mobile Home Internet is hyper dependent on location (and I don't mean SF vs LA, I mean your home address vs a neighbor on another street 300yds away).
This. I tried them twice during their introductory period, about 6 months apart just to see if there was an improvement. Sadly, the towers are just too far off to get me any good reception (SolCal).

Reiterating to try them out first to see if your location is good. Would have loved it because of that no data cap alone.
Pro
Apr 2, 2024
9,596 Posts
Joined Oct 2006
Apr 2, 2024
sd_junky
Pro
Apr 2, 2024
9,596 Posts
Quote from Karkos :
It was reliable but slow. I had issues with Zoom meetings and gaming. I had 8 devices connected to it. I returned it. I lost speed/ping compared to COX
I have AT&T Fiber. One area that they support in this awful city. I have T-Mo as my cell service. I get 2 to 1 bars of signal in my house. Not even going to try to get the T-Mo home internet.
Last edited by sd_junky April 2, 2024 at 10:52 AM.
Apr 2, 2024
2,717 Posts
Joined Feb 2010
Apr 2, 2024
Hoolagain
Apr 2, 2024
2,717 Posts

Our community has rated this post as helpful. If you agree, why not thank Hoolagain

Service is okay, but my submission was denied for "Ineligible Activation Source" with no further explanation. Had to contact CS and had them take the promo off my bill rather than make me wait even more time for the prepaid card. (Supposedly she was going to give me both, but the card was never processed.)
Last edited by Hoolagain April 2, 2024 at 10:52 AM.
1
Apr 2, 2024
105 Posts
Joined Jan 2011
Apr 2, 2024
kingnez
Apr 2, 2024
105 Posts
Quote from crownline266 :
We had it for four months until fiber was installed in our area. We now have fiber and I wish we had T-mobile back!!! We loved it, but it is dependent on your area. SIL is in a remote area and everything there is spotty. I'd try it out, though!
There is no way your speed should be slower with fiber. You might want to call your provider. Fiber optic is the most reliable you can get.
Apr 2, 2024
83 Posts
Joined Dec 2016
Apr 2, 2024
ChanonitaF
Apr 2, 2024
83 Posts
Gf has this in long beach, ca and it can be spotty at times. But can't beat the price. It's not available in my area.
Apr 2, 2024
2,163 Posts
Joined Nov 2014
Apr 2, 2024
TurtlePerson2
Apr 2, 2024
2,163 Posts
Quote from MagentaTent3961 :
Anyone have experience with tmobile internet? Is it reliable
I switched about a month ago. Works fine for watching Netflix, playing games, etc.

I need to VNC into a remote machine for my work and my T-Mobile internet isn't consistently fast enough to do this. 99% of the time it works fine, but that 1% of the time I'm getting 1MB/s of download speed and that's not fast enough. I previously had Comcast (Xfinity), but they were gouging me. They sent me a letter advertising $25/month for a slower speed than I had before, so I'll probably switch back.
1
Apr 2, 2024
2,959 Posts
Joined Oct 2007
Apr 2, 2024
crownline266
Apr 2, 2024
2,959 Posts
Quote from kingnez :
There is no way your speed should be slower with fiber. You might want to call your provider. Fiber optic is the most reliable you can get.
We've had them out. It's not slower, but it drops out. We never noticed and dropouts with T-mobile. Just this morning, it was out for a second or two. We're paying $75 and getting drops. T-mobile was $45 for us and we didn't have drops. We were/are good on speed for both.

Sign up for a Slickdeals account to remove this ad.

Apr 2, 2024
1,193 Posts
Joined Dec 2010
Apr 2, 2024
azad814
Apr 2, 2024
1,193 Posts
If you live near a tower, it's great. run a speedtest on your phone if you have tmobile and that will basically be the speed you will see on your home internet. I have had it since they had the $30/mo promo and its been great, especially since I was able to ditch concast

Popular Deals

View All

Trending Deals

View All