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I wish the T-Mobile Home Internet Gateway was JUST a modem!!!
I just left Breezeline due to horrible service for over a month, and when it went out from home, my T-Mobile iPhone became my hotspot. After realizing it was more reliable than my landline Internet, ...
I just got T-Mobile Home Internet, I'm reading through the above posts re: turning off wifi, HINT app, etc I don't understand why you would want to turn off wifi or the need for Hint,etc. Is this a way to improve signal or something? Any explanation I would greatly appreciate.
Some of us have more elaborate needs than a dumbed-down consumer device will provide.
In my case, I have a >$200 Asus router with mucho better WiFi than the T-Mobil gateway and the kinds of customization that I want for my own LAN - things like multiple devices behind the Internet gateway with fixed IP addresses for each of them. It also reboots itself every Sunday in the middle of the night (to clear the RAM) and has a provision for embedding my Proton VPN right into the router instead of running an app on all of my connected devices.
And so on.
When I was using residential DSL, the DSL "modem" had a setting for "Bridge Mode," i.e., its WiFi was disabled, it did not provide Network Address Translation and did not give IP addresses to connected devices; it became a simple signal passthrough to the extremely-capable — and a alta velocidad — Asus router.
That's what I want to do with T-Mobile's supplied 5688W gateway, except that it's locked-down for reasons known only to God and Her angels.
