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Hugely variable speeds
About to cancel service (which we hate to do because we are very happy with TMobile otherwise). In a matter of minutes, speeds will switch from 100+Mbps to nearly 0Mbps. Just now the speed test retur...
I guess I'm the exception here. My TM 5G is meeting/exceeding my expectations.
For over 10 years I was grandfathered into a legacy status with Time Warner. Spectrum finally found a way to force me to upgrade.
As a legacy customer I got 50 MB down and 5 MB up that in reality was 60 down and 6 up. Yes, that improved to 200 (240) down and 10 (12) up with the large price increase.
So, my frame of reference is 60 down and 6 up.
My gateway seems to have locked onto band B2 for 4G and switches (for whatever reason) between bands N41 and N71 for 5G.
Downloads are 100-150 on N41 and 250-350 on N71.
Uploads are around 70 on N41 and 30 on N71.
I want to do offsite backups and 5x worst case and 12x faster best case, makes me every happy and whatever download speeds I get are fast enough for my needs.
I can't see any tower from my house but the gateway is on the second floor with a window toward the one tower available to me. I consistently get 4 bars. The gateway has been running for 13+ days now with no known total outages.
