If anybody here wants to give T-Mobile a try, you send you a hotspot and give you 30 days or 30 GB, whichever comes first. I got mine yesterday and trying it tonight. Decent speeds, so far.
T-Mobile Test Drive
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What download speeds are you getting.....
UPS has mine I guess. The tracking hasn't changed from label created, but it's being sent 2nd day air. Oh well.
I called and checked their plan pricing before trying the hotspot. Way to high for a single line and limited data. I will stick with Sprint for now with unlimited talk and text and 2 gigs of data for 30 bucks a month.
I am looking at it to see if the speeds would be suitable for home internet use. My family and I have Total Wireless (Verizon MVNO) for our smartphones ($100 for 4 lines) and the $20 unlimited AT&T deal for home internet. While it is highly unlikely that I could beat the $20 per month for unlimited home internet, it is nice to compare speeds.
It looks like the T-Mobile Home Internet service will be a flat $50 for unlimited. A number of my neighbors will probably jump on that and flee Frontier DSL service, which costs more per month and has slower speeds here.
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It looks like the T-Mobile Home Internet service will be a flat $50 for unlimited. A number of my neighbors will probably jump on that and flee Frontier DSL service, which costs more per month and has slower speeds here.
T-Mobile Home Internet
T-Mobile Home Internet uses the award winning T-Mobile network to provide home internet service. T-Mobile Home Internet is is only available by
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Their home internet option with "no data caps" is an interesting option. Despite living in the shadows of metro Atlanta about 10 miles from downtown, I'm stuck with two turdy options for home broadband: AT&T Turdverse, which still sends essentially pair bonded DSL at a whopping 50 megs down MAX (which I usually get around 40-48), or Charter, who is so bad people run far far away from. AT&T is expensive, and they love to play games with the bill when their promotional discounts are over. And, if you don't bundle their overpriced IPTV service (formerly known as U-Verse) or DirecTV (unavailable due to tree cover), you have a 250GB a month cap, thus limiting your ability to stream 4K, without being charged overages. Absurd.
T-Mobile has LTE+ on a cell site about 500 yards from my house and saturates the area with solid -85 to -90dbM on both AWS and 700MHz from the site. Their service is flawless here. My only concern is for those of you using their LTE based fixed internet:
1. Do you get consistently good performance? Latency? What is your average speed? How does it stack up to real fixed broadband tasks like handling multiple streams of 1080/720 video (not this "DVD quality" crap), security cameras, VoiP telephony, etc?
2. How much data do you use in a month?
3. What are the REAL terms of service? Do they actually have no data cap or is it more fine print (can't find the actual ToS on the link provided). I'd be curious as I am SURE there is some language "unlimited does not mean unreasonable".
$50 a month would be a good option if one is close to a well connected cell site(s) which I am, offer potentially more speed than the one or two selected turdbag wired broadband operators who play games with the bill and often have absurd caps to prevent one from streaming quality video, of course they want you to pay for their unwarranted RIPOFFS for 80 percent of channels you can't view and not "cut the cord". Going wireless broadband is truly cord cutting IF one can actually get what they pay for and have the same level of service without the silly games. I can get all the local HDTV OTA for free with a modest indoor antenna here. I'd love to tell AT&T to kick rocks.
The last time I tried fixed wireless was Clearwire in 2006-2008. It worked very well for being WiMax and the closet site was the very same site where T-Mo and Sprint are. I got 20-30mb down with 3-5 up (at the time, AT&T/Bellsouth could barely get 6MB ADSL here and Charter couldn't even keep analog cable on reliably), and it Clear was cheap ($35 a month). All that was great until....you used more than 50GB a month and they began throttling to such ridiculous speeds you couldn't even pop your email let alone load any web page with graphics. Take your gateway to another part of town, and it sped up. These pricks, despite advertising and selling a FIXED wireless device for FIXED use started implementing traffic shaping and throttling. No wonder they went out of business.
I'd love to hear from those who have been using T-Mobile as a fixed wireless ISP under this program.
T-Mobile has LTE+ on a cell site about 500 yards from my house and saturates the area with solid -85 to -90dbM on both AWS and 700MHz from the site. Their service is flawless here. My only concern is for those of you using their LTE based fixed internet:
1. Do you get consistently good performance? Latency? What is your average speed? How does it stack up to real fixed broadband tasks like handling multiple streams of 1080/720 video (not this "DVD quality" crap), security cameras, VoiP telephony, etc?
2. How much data do you use in a month?
3. What are the REAL terms of service? Do they actually have no data cap or is it more fine print (can't find the actual ToS on the link provided). I'd be curious as I am SURE there is some language "unlimited does not mean unreasonable".
$50 a month would be a good option if one is close to a well connected cell site(s) which I am, offer potentially more speed than the one or two selected turdbag wired broadband operators who play games with the bill and often have absurd caps to prevent one from streaming quality video, of course they want you to pay for their unwarranted RIPOFFS for 80 percent of channels you can't view and not "cut the cord". Going wireless broadband is truly cord cutting IF one can actually get what they pay for and have the same level of service without the silly games. I can get all the local HDTV OTA for free with a modest indoor antenna here. I'd love to tell AT&T to kick rocks.
The last time I tried fixed wireless was Clearwire in 2006-2008. It worked very well for being WiMax and the closet site was the very same site where T-Mo and Sprint are. I got 20-30mb down with 3-5 up (at the time, AT&T/Bellsouth could barely get 6MB ADSL here and Charter couldn't even keep analog cable on reliably), and it Clear was cheap ($35 a month). All that was great until....you used more than 50GB a month and they began throttling to such ridiculous speeds you couldn't even pop your email let alone load any web page with graphics. Take your gateway to another part of town, and it sped up. These pricks, despite advertising and selling a FIXED wireless device for FIXED use started implementing traffic shaping and throttling. No wonder they went out of business.
I'd love to hear from those who have been using T-Mobile as a fixed wireless ISP under this program.
Here is what I got from a service rep last night. I am in a iffy area of their coverage. I told her I had spectrum for internet, but want to change my phone to TMobile. I said I would try the hotspot, but before I do, I would like to know what it will cost per month. After reexplaining that a few times she firgured out what I meant. So the answer was, cheapest phone plan with my own phone, $70. Another $50 for the hotspot. Plus taxes and fees. I said thank you and hung up. Right now I get Spectrum internet at 200 down and 20 up, very reliable and $49 a month fixed price. Sprint charges me $30 for unlimited talk and text plus 2 gigs of data. I never have used a gig of data. So it looks like I will change my phone to spectrum for $15 dollars a month with unlimited talk and text and one gig of data. Bottom line $65 plus tax.
P.S. I have zero sprint coverage at the house, so my phone runs off of Spectrum 90 percent of the time anyway.
P.S. I have zero sprint coverage at the house, so my phone runs off of Spectrum 90 percent of the time anyway.
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