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tmobile gateway router
How has people's experience been with the 5g gateway router performance? I have the device hooked up to a 4x4 MIMO and get "very good" signal from the tower. But network devices are having a hard tim...
Forget about the internal router, it's garbage. I have a decent seperate tplink router and it smokes what the gateway can do. Worth noting that you should also move the gateway all over the house in order to find the "sweet spot". I had it in front of a window aimed in the direction of the tower and got decent (200+ down, 15 up) speeds with ho hum pings (40 to 50). Moved it to another bedroom, aiming it slightly away from where the app directed me and through a wall. Download speeds tripled, uploads quadrupled and my ping is below 30 consistently. Was thinking about buying an external antenna. Why bother?
I didn't have that issue before I moved. When it said "Very Good" it was reliable and the connection was flawless, made me wonder how "Excellent" would be. Since I've moved, to a more underdeveloped area of Austin, it's been stuck at just "Good" and it's incredibly annoying. Feels like I'm using a Nokia phone sometimes. I get it, there's probably no towers here, but the massive jump on connection speeds is depressing at times
