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My experience with T-Mobile home internet since January 2021 has been that they do what they want when they want and don't provide any advance notification when maintenance or upgrades are done to the tower/cell system. It just happens when it happens. I would agree maintenance should take place during the hours of a day when it is least likely to impact customers but I don't see evidence of that. 

Today and tomorrow it may be that there could be some impact to radio systems due to the solar storm that is expected to arrive. I don't know if the initial projections regarding that were exaggerated or what might be the reality of all that. We will see.

Disruptions to service with the cellular internet delivery seem to be so hard to pin down. There could be regional impacts for any number of reasons. It is hard to know if the behaviors are due to the cellular transmission or the gateway or the third party delivery practices or some unforeseen external influence. I have just learned to live with the things that are outside my control and not let them rule.

When you see that condition where the gateway shows it has good connectivity but clients report no internet go to one client and manually set the DNS to say google.com or cloud flare or quad9 and see if it changes the equation. I have seen times when the DNS resolution from the standard use of the gateway address fails but pointing to one of the public DNS servers works. It might surprise you and work. T-Mobile does not discourage the practice and it is necessary at times.