MLB TV doesnt work through 5g home internet

peterell wrote:

I spoke to texh support yesterday and they said they have a "known issue" with some streaming channels due to the inability to furnish an IP Address location, or something like that.  I asked them to ha e someone contact me to  tell me what the fix or the prognosis is.  Im gkad Im in my free month so i can cancel if it doesn't work.

That appears to be a legit explanation. All major league sports have local broadcasting policies and restrictions so the apps need to know where you are physically watching, at least within a zip code of accuracy. On smartphones that's not an issue because the apps rely on GPS location. For home internet, apps started using the public IP address of your router to give an approximate location since most laptops and PCs don't have GPS capability. For TMO gateway device, it's basically a cellphone and even has GPS built in so that TMO can make sure you don't use your gateway outside your home.

The way the cell networks work makes public IP geolocation extremely inaccurate and can be 100s of miles away form your physical location. Even as I type this, my public TMO IP says I am 180 miles south of where I am physically located.

There are a couple solutions for this:

• TMO figure out how to assign public IPs that are accurate to your physical location. TMO already knows where you are because the gateways have GPS.
• Browsers and apps abandon public IP for geolocation and use GPS instead. There are apps that do this. For example on YoutubeTV, when you want to set your geolocation from your laptop or streaming device, it will ask you to login to your smartphone app so that it can access GPS location.

If TMO really wants to replace cable based home internet, they absolutely need to find a solution soon.