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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?
A Reddit thread indicates that WOA3 security might be a problem. Its unstable apparently. I set the router to use WPA2 and reconnected the device so we shall see. On my phone i first had to forget the network because of the security change, but the Roku handled it ok.
