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Did T-mobile willfully lie to me about it's home internet service?
I installed & activated the 5G gateway on 6/11/21. I tried it for 3 days and since the service was great (50 Mbps-120Mbsp down plus normally 20-25 Mbps up) I cut off Xfinity. 3 days after cutting off...
Looking at the cellmapper data, you may be latching an antenna aimed more for covering highway traffic (like for 41). May not be the best option for various reasons. May be leaving you on the edge of usable signal, or you may be getting heavily deprio'ed because of oversaturation from mobile customers (home internet packets take a back seat to mobile).
May be worth reorientimg the unit to see if you can lock a cleaner link, even if it isn't registering a "stronger" signal (bar wise). A stronger RSSI can be killed by a low SNR... it will restrict your QAM, which effectively caps your throughput considerably. Wireless depends on much more than the raw power of the signal received--it needs to also be clean to avoid bad error rates.
They also have been running into issues upstream as well... at the peering level. Has nothing to do with the wireless aspect, but the upstream congestion you may face when you get handed off to other network segments. This can present itself when you run speed tests to other locations... somewhere further away may suddenly double the throughput. I always test cross country and even into Montréal for comparison to the local spot it automatically chooses. If you see that happening, you MIGHT be able to reclaim some quality through a VPN. Hit and miss for various reasons with how a VPN works, but sometimes it can level out weird latency spikes, making things a bit more responsive.
