tmobile home internet speed issues

magenta10423868 wrote:

I just read on Reddit that the unit will often switch to the strongest channel, irrespective of whether it is LTE or 5G. This may be what mine is doing. The LTE channel on the tower is much stronger than the 5G channel (RSP of -68dBm vs -89dBm). The problem is, I get only ~ 10up/3 down mbps on LTE. This may OK for random browsing and email but not so good for group Zoom calls.

 

I think they need to change the way the unit chooses which channel to use.

I'm speaking on the rural area that I live in. I spoke with a technician from Tmobile and their excuse is, a lot of people signed up for Tmobile internet in the rural areas which is causing congestion with the tower's signal. I also tried rebooting my cylinder tmobile router to get the secondary signal but it didn't work so I pulled the sim card out of its slot and put it back in then rebooted the router and it worked. Both Primary and Secondary signal came on. That actually gave me 5-7mbps more than my original speed which brings me up to around 17mbps.