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5G Internet Showing Incorrect Location
Recently installed 5G home internet and it won't give me the correct location. Google Maps has no idea where I'm at but more importantly my local channels on FuboTV are not showing up anymore. How do...
Location for T-Mobile's 5G service reflects where the signal from the towers connects to ground based servers and infrastructure. This can sometimes be hundreds of miles away and even further. This is how the service works.
Hey MikeJoe7g. Thanks for sharing. Your conclusion is probably right. Which means that I will probably be going back to Spectrum in Raleigh, NC soon. At least for 12 months, or until their promotion runs out. Then maybe back to TMO long enough to make Spectrum miss me again. Stupid games they play!
One thing that you might like to know about YouTubeTV is that you can override the false geo-location provided by your ISP to reset and restore your account to your actual home location so you get the right channels and more on YouTubeTV. YouTubeTV allows you to use your phone's GPS to determine your actual location. This works because your phone has GPS and knows your real location unless you have turned off location services. How you do it varies somewhat depending on what device you use to access YouTubeTV, but the method involves going into your profile settings in the YouTubeTV client (for me that is usually on an Amazon FireStickTV) and choosing to set your current location. Then select use my device which will be your phone. At the same time you do that you will need to be in the YouTubeTV app on your phone, in settings, and select to set my current location. Then your proper location will be set on both devices. A YouTubeTV rep taught me this. Of course this won't get the desired result if you and your phone are not in your home (base) location. I'm not sure how long this location reset will last in the YouTubeTV account as TMO's false geo-location data may override that at some point. Time will tell on that, but it did let me reset my YouTubeTV account and restore my service to my local channels that I want to see. With YouTubeTV you can use the service when you travel out of base for something like 90 days (but don't quote me on that as I'm just going from memory) before you must use your service in your base or lose access. So this is just a work around for YouTubeTV and not the real fix that TMO should provide their Home Internet 5G customers as I stated in my last post. I do hope this information will be useful to you MikeJoe7G and the Community at large.
