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Network Congestion
I would like to know if there is a way to modify the home internet gateway to run with 4g data rather than 5g? Yes a bit backward question I know, but the T-Mobile home gateway I have is clearly suff...
Tbh, the gateways run both 4g lte and 5g… and at the same time (5g NSA mode).
You're more than likely a victim of deprioritization. Check the stats values on your Tmobile gateway for the advanced metrics for signal on both 4g lte and 5g
Being behind trees is something that doesn't help much. I've had service for ~1 year, and did notice that my service SINR/RSRP does take a 'bit' of a hit during summer months of a few db. There aren't many trees, but during summer, they have a lot of leaves (won't have that with pine).
SINR here on LTE can drop to ~4dB at times, and up to 14 on LTE B2. 5G n41 is more stable, with SINR around 7.4 to 12. If I move the device outside, LTE SINR can reach over 20, and n41 can reach around 18. I'll be a polling cron on the device to map metrics
RSRP doesn’t change too much, but is typically in the -98 to -103 dBm on LTE B2, and around -103 to -105 on n41.
Middle of the night metrics can be a little better, but in general performance can gain about 100Mbps.
SINR is basically anything that can degrade signal - whether it is congestion from many users or external 'noise'. Being rural, I wouldn't expect too much traffic on the signal (i.e. too many users), but I don't know the area or what kind of backhaul there is.
Oddly enough, when T-Mobile first deployed 5G in San Simeon, CA, it was on a T1 (T-Mobile provided that in a written statement to California PUC). Speed on cells were < 500kbps, with a few hits above 1Mbps. SINR was …. 30, and RSRP was -57dBm, distance was ~500'.
It was blamed on … congestion, which was partially true. It was congested because T-Mobile pushed 5g traffic through a T1 circuit. Once updated, it hit +300Mbps. Now with n41, its hitting +1400Mbps on a Samsung S21/S23.
If anything else will help, the newer Arcadyan model has carrier aggregation on 5G carriers + LTE.
in my case, n25 is great on the mobile … however, existing Acradyan kv-21 doesn’t support n25, or 5g aggregation (i.e. no n41 + n41 or n41 + n71, or n25 + n71 combos).
If the SINR is poor on … n41 (likely), n25 could help. As more bands are switched over … this will help.
Similarly the newer Arcadyan model has ports for antenna build in.
As far as backhaul/deprioritization … I can't help on that one. Also, it still doesn't affect my area (yet!).
