Slow 4G connection only, but only sometimes -- SOLVED

justintyme2 wrote:

justintyme2 wrote:

 

I want to add that I'm also connecting to Sprint b25 as well. But mostly staying on b41 on all devices.

I see. Interesting. Indeed, B25 is a 4G LTE Sprint band, along with B26 and B41. T mobile merged with Sprint but I didn't know they were using any other bands than the ones I listed in the chart, which is the ones they say they are using for their T mobile home internet 5G (gray cylinder gateway) service.

There's a little confusion here, in how they are naming these bands, and I find it that way since "b" or usually "B" could be construed as just short for "band." But that is not how it appears in the GUI. So you will know you are on 5G the first time you see a band you are using in the secondary signal that is an "n" band such as n71 (low frequency/slow, long range), n41 (mid frequency/faster), and  n260 or n261 (mmWave/fast, short range).

n41, the mid frequency, mid-range 5G band was part of T mobile's interest in merging with Sprint. It carries a signal which yields good speeds farther from the tower, compared with n71, even though the signal doesn't reach as far. It reaches much father than the mmWave high-frequency bands which are only good for one mile, and tend to work with the fastest speeds when you are a block or less from them, with no obstructions. 

Verizon is making a bigger push with the short-range, fast speed mmWave nodes.

So what is your average download speed, approximately, on the bands you get now, the speed you are happy with for now?