T-Mobile 5G Connection Issues causing missed Texts, Calls, and Voicemail - NO DATA!

csengineer wrote:

formercanuck wrote:

I can't speak for your area and devices, but I have a Samsung S21 and don't have issues in my area on 4G.LTE or 5g.  I have disabled 5g n71 (SA/NSA) as it typically has performance issues in urban areas.  4G LTE will typically give me 150-400Mbps, and 5G UC will give 500-1400Mbps.  As far as Apple goes, i can't speak much for it, but have heard of some issues.   If you disable  n71 (easy on Samsung), you'll at least get LTE 600 in weak areas.

What are these mystical speeds of which you speak? Going through my entire speedtest history on my S21, highest I've ever seen on mobile is 232 Mbps and that was on 5G (my home wifi is routinely 450+). And that test was made somewhere in downtown Austin, which tends to get early roll out of every new Cellular technology.

Even that speed though doesn't bother me, I have no heavy demands on data, mostly just streaming Spotify and using Google maps driving around. What is getting me is when I have 5G signal but no data AT ALL. I'd wouldn't notice if it was over 10 Mbps, really I wouldn't 99% of the time, but ZERO is unacceptable when it says I should have data (and the S21 can't figure this situation out).

I will look up disabling n71, see if maybe that helps.

I'm just north of LA, and speeds vary quite a bit, as TMobile has about 1 in 4 sites updated, which ends up with decent  LTE and weak 5g n71.  service is only as good as its weakest link.  This often makes 5g worse than LTE alone.

Leaving n41 nsa/sa enabled gives great speed in many areas.  Neighboring Ventura County has 40MHz of n41, while LA county has 100MHz.

This was N41 (100Mhz) 5G NSA + B66 (20x20) LTE + B2 (15x15) LTE