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Chari
Roaming Rookie
Hace 2 años

Wfi Sucks

My home internet sucks!!! I wish I would've stayed with the cable company. It's always kicking us in and out of internet connection. We have to unplug it multiple times a day. And if it's raining or snowing it's worst. When I call they always say they're working on the tower but it's been months if this. Not to mention I can't connect my printer to the WiFi so my business is suffering behind this. Does anyone have any solutions to the sucky connection and how to connect to the printer? 

  • litewavve's avatar
    litewavve
    Transmission Trainee
    Chari wrote:
    litewavve wrote:

    It is not clear to me if you have problems with T-Mobile internet or local Wifi.  If it is a Wifi issue, you can get a better Wifi router or a Wifi mesh system to improve your home wifi connectivity.  If your problem is weak 5G or LTE signals (slow speed, broken internet connection), you can add an external MIMO antenna to the T-Mobile gateway. There are youtube videos showing you how it can be done. (Hint: Waveform 4x4 MIMO antenna).

    I did mention it is my home internet service and I mentioned connecting the printer via the WiFi meaning the WiFi from the home internet service.
     

    The issues are my devices loose WiFi connection to my home internet service all the time and I can not connect my printer to the home internet via the WiFi. I hope that made it clearer. 

    If I am not mistaken, your pritner is only used within your local area network, not by anyone from outside of your home. In this case, it is a wifi issue.  Did you try to set up your wifi network to use WPA2/WPA instead of the default WPA3/WPA2? Older devices are not compatible with WPA3 and WPA2.  If your printer is a 2.4GHz only device, you may also want to separate 5GHz and 2.4GHz Wifi netoworks with different SSIDs. Hope that these two steps will help you to resolve your printer connectivity problem.

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    Chari
    Roaming Rookie
    GThurman wrote:

    Where are you located? We are North of San Diego; the towers around here have been getting worked on since the first of December! Odd, that's the same time we signed up.  Every time I complain, even to the USA Techs in New Mexico they send me a message, all is well, everything works now. All lies, I get less than 1-2mbps all day long, maybe a whole 5mbps in the evenings. 

    I was promised 188-250mbps when I fell for the salesman's BS. Wish the customers that bought into this crap could force the head techs and CEO at T-Mobile to read these community posts all day. They never even check in here to see what's really going on in their company. 

     

    I’m in Westchester NY so it’s mind blowing tj here you’re hearing the same thing way across the country. 

  • Chari's avatar
    Chari
    Roaming Rookie
    VodouPriest wrote:

    Generally it doesn't matter about the location if you're in a good area to get excellent signal you should receive internet, it's congestion issue. TMobile sucks for support, because they can't fix this issue without building more 5G Towers' thus a congestion in the network everyone being on it is causing the problems.

    That makes sense. SMH they should’ve been totally transparent when marketing this but then again we wouldn’t have selected the service right 🤣

  • Chari's avatar
    Chari
    Roaming Rookie
    litewavve wrote:

    It is not clear to me if you have problems with T-Mobile internet or local Wifi.  If it is a Wifi issue, you can get a better Wifi router or a Wifi mesh system to improve your home wifi connectivity.  If your problem is weak 5G or LTE signals (slow speed, broken internet connection), you can add an external MIMO antenna to the T-Mobile gateway. There are youtube videos showing you how it can be done. (Hint: Waveform 4x4 MIMO antenna).

    I did mention it is my home internet service and I mentioned connecting the printer via the WiFi meaning the WiFi from the home internet service.
     

    The issues are my devices loose WiFi connection to my home internet service all the time and I can not connect my printer to the home internet via the WiFi. I hope that made it clearer. 

  • VodouPriest's avatar
    VodouPriest
    Transmission Trainee

    Generally it doesn't matter about the location if you're in a good area to get excellent signal you should receive internet, it's congestion issue. TMobile sucks for support, because they can't fix this issue without building more 5G Towers' thus a congestion in the network everyone being on it is causing the problems.

  • GThurman's avatar
    GThurman
    Transmission Trainee

    Where are you located? We are North of San Diego; the towers around here have been getting worked on since the first of December! Odd, that's the same time we signed up.  Every time I complain, even to the USA Techs in New Mexico they send me a message, all is well, everything works now. All lies, I get less than 1-2mbps all day long, maybe a whole 5mbps in the evenings. 

    I was promised 188-250mbps when I fell for the salesman's BS. Wish the customers that bought into this crap could force the head techs and CEO at T-Mobile to read these community posts all day. They never even check in here to see what's really going on in their company. 

     

  • litewavve's avatar
    litewavve
    Transmission Trainee

    It is not clear to me if you have problems with T-Mobile internet or local Wifi.  If it is a Wifi issue, you can get a better Wifi router or a Wifi mesh system to improve your home wifi connectivity.  If your problem is weak 5G or LTE signals (slow speed, broken internet connection), you can add an external MIMO antenna to the T-Mobile gateway. There are youtube videos showing you how it can be done. (Hint: Waveform 4x4 MIMO antenna).