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How to Connect to a Consumer VPN on T-Mobile Home Internet (5G Nokia Gateway)
I am NOT paid or endorsed by any VPN company or anyone else to make this post. This is simply what works for me and my particular VPN client. I am using the Nokia 5G grey tube router, and I've seen a...
Thanks for posting this. I just got TMo Home Internet on Friday. I also use PIA VPN. Based on another post, I thought I wouldn't be able to use PIA with TMo, but your post cleared up that concern.
I ran some speed tests using different PIA configurations and found the best is WireGuard with small packets. It is BLAZING fast compared to our old Uverse, like DL/UL speeds of 180/70 Mbps compared to 46/6 with Uverse fiber-optic WITHOUT PIA enabled.
However, a couple hours ago, my computer was no longer able to connect with PIA enabled unless I reconfigured it to OpenVPN, which has terrible speeds, even slower than Uverse. I don't know if there was a glitch in the PIA servers or what, but after messing with it (reconfiguring PIA, rebooting computer) it seems to have cleared up and am back in business with WireGuard.
