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Gateway changing towers/bands
My dad got T-Mobile Home Internet this Thursday & brought home the Sagemcom Fast 5688W Gateway. The speeds are great between 20-110mbps download/ 1-3mbps upload but then drops to less than 1mbps for...
Those are some interesting stats. Serive is pretty poor from your location. N71 is an odd one never seen sinr of 40.
Id recommend looking for a.better location in your home for a signal, and possibly exchange for Arcadyan g4ar/se which can use an external antenna
The most important factors for performance from these devices:
- Signal (high SINR value +15 (+20 recommended), lower RSRP (-60 to -90dBm. worse than -110dBm is poor)
- Site traffic itself (i.e. are you connected to a site that has most of the traffic in town, or a site that’s literally “all yours” for the using ?
- T-Mobile’s deprioritization - this will tank your speed, especially where site traffic is a question.
The “white” Arcadyan g4 AR/SE gateway has its antenna towards the back of the device.
If you know where your tower is … face the back of the gateway towards the tower. This is according to their own docs.
