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Is download speed affected by cellular activity?
I'm trialing T-Mobile home internet. Got the new white 5G gateway. I get 3 bars pretty consistently from a tower about 3 miles away in an industrial area. I've noticed considerably slower download...
This can be from a couple of items.
- As mentioned - deprioritization this hits some areas worse than others. I've been lucky enough to not really have this in my area (suburbia)
- Overall signal quality/congestion. At times, your device may switch from 5G n41 + LTE to 5G n71 + LTE to … LTE only. When this occurs for me, +400/20Mbps → 170/70Mbps, and it is typically due to SINR/RSRP values. If your SINR is low, its either congestion (spectrum) or interference (objects). When I go below 8 on SINR for n41, it often drops to n71. SINR of 15 or better, and I'm rocking. I'm only ~1200' away from T-Mobile tower, but there's a building in between blocking
Man that all sounds greek to me. I'm guessing I can see SINR and RSRP under Advanced Cellular Metrics? I don't follow about 5G n41 LTE etc. Under Advanced Cellular Metrics the top bar has LTE on left and 5G or right. When LTE is underlined I have SINR 3.1 and RSRP -106. When I underline 5G SINR is 12 and RSRP -99. Status shows POOR for all 4 values for those. However right now I am getting download/upload 204/5 according to Ookla SpeedTest. Everything I do seems to work fine at those speeds.
