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My experience with the new T-Mobile Home Internet (NOK5G21)
I have always used my T-Mobile router (ASUS) and T-Link modem with Spectrum service, Speed has always been a solid 230Mbps down and 12Mbps up. Very stable and never had any issues. Works perfect. ...
Glad to know that others have same scenario.
Couple updates since my post:
On several occasions, all my wifi devices lost connectivity at the same time. I suspected that the router froze, so I just powered off the router (press button) and then pulled the power plug. Powered back up and devices all connected again. So yes, it froze for an unknown reason. At night time (non busy times), I get a clean/consistent 120 down / 25 up via wifi. Not bad at all. Day time performance not so great, but livable. Personal laptop with ProtonVPN works fine (at least for what I use it for),
For now, I no longer use custom SSID/Keys. I keep it at default because I am tired of reprogramming the wifi settings after a router reboot causes all settings to go back to default. Now, when the router reboots, default settings stay the same. I always watch the router firmware version (via GUI) to see if TMO silently sends a new firmware package. (bug fixes..etc).
Since I already know about the nuances about this router and how to get around them, I will stick with TMO. TMO support has not been helpful in any of these issues. I understand, they are probably new people, thus networking not their skill.
Incredible that Nokia/TMO released this router with these obvious problems. But I guess they needed to release a product to get service up/running and fix later.
BTW: I will have to add a 40.00 UPS to this router to prevent router downtime since we can’t trust the battery.
