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5G Home Internet vs. phone data speeds
So I'm a Magenta Max customer and mostly happy with my service. We live in a town where the 5G can be very strong depending on time of day/which part of town you're in. So I started considering ...
The difference between the two is somewhat explainable. On the T-Mobile 5G cellular network phones on the same cells/frequencies as the gateway devices will have priority due to being phones. Often people overlook the cellular antennas and chips in the devices. They are not equivalent so the difference in the two cellular hardware components has to be considered. If you are running testing from the gateway is is probably tested over IPv4 whereas your phone could well be IPv6 not IPv4 so the routing for the two can different. There would also be a bit more overhead with the gateway over IPv4 due to the 464XLAT and the translation from IPv4 to IPv6 and back to IPv4. Plus you also have to run a speed test against the same server in many cases. The "optimal" server the test each uses also can be different and render results that are not even close.
