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 get speeds between 150mbps and 700mbps in the Baltimore/Washington area with T-mobile 5g. At home, in Hanover Maryland (Anne Arundel County), I get faster speeds on my S21 Ultra and iPhone 13 ProMax than I get on my T-Mobile Home Internet device. 500mbps vs 200-350 mbps. But the home internet was fast enough that we gave up 600-850 mbps Verizon FIOS ($100/month vs $40 per month). I have to check to see which bands the phone connect to. As for the Nokia Gateway, it uses B66 for primary signal and n41 for secondary signal.