Newly Installed LTE Home Internet, Now Slow Speed...

olysounder wrote:

DrMan217 wrote:

Side note, we are a large family with easily 15-20 devices that would connect to the router. 

 

This article pretty much sums it up.  In short, says HASTA 10 devices can connect to each band, even though it recommends no more than 8 to each band. Also says for heavy data devices to use ethernet connections instead.  Hate to agree to the bearer of bad news, but I think Nikon is right. Even with all the devices connected and they're all using it at the same time, you're going to have a dumpy online experience.

Out of curiosity, did you kick all the devices off of the gateway and run that speed test?  Curious what speeds you're getting.

So after much research, yes you are right, our internet needs cannot be met by this router/service T-Mobile at this time. Turns out LTE doesn't support the bandwidth and speeds needed by a heavy internet using family, aka the rare heavy internet users. So needless to say we are going to switch back to DSL for now and eventually go to fiber once it's available in our area. This day and age with more and more smart devices and "smart homes" requiring internet and wifi, the need for faster and better wifi is growing. Sorry T-Mobile, but it's just not for us at this time. I do want to say T-Mobile has been great to us and we are definitely keeping our other services, cellular and home phone, and their customer service has been phenomenal!!! We love T-Mobile and we're saddens when their home internet didn't work out for us. 
 

...Yes, with everything off except my phone the download speed was almost 50Mbps and upload almost 12Mbps. I do believe that for a smaller/lighter internet demand family, this is definitely the way to go.