Home internet not the option for rural areas that was hoped for.

ka79535 wrote:

I am not upset with T-mobile. but this is a caution to anyone considering this as an option to guard your expectations. Obviously, T-mobile wants to sell you their service and can claim all sorts of things…...but in a rural area with no clear line of sight to a tower, I suspect others will find they are having the same issues as I am experiencing 

I understand you point. Can I ask what the walls of your house is built from? I had a house in Ohio that had some insulation board and it contained metal fibers and blocked all cell signals. Also people with stucco on the walls have a metal mesh under the stucco. Then the house can act as a Faraday cage.

I just wanted to clarify one part as I defiantly don't have a clear line of site to any tower. In fact my signal was pretty low inside my house with my T-Mobile phone until I updated to a 5G T-Mobile phone and I dont have those same dead spots I used to find traveling thought the mountains.

Part of T-Mobiles 5G extended roll out was acquiring a lower frequencies in the 600Mhz range. and 600/700Mhz range for the extended 4G LTE. Unlike most cell signals in the 2Ghz and higher these lower frequencies pass thought buildings/trees and other obstetrical better.