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Slow home internet even with extender
I have t-mobile home internet. It was slow from the gitgo, but this is literally the only service I can get out here. I can't even get DSL. I decided to try an external antenna to see if that wo...
You have two problems:
- You have no 5g connection. This gives the best download performance.
- Your LTE connection is B71 which is 600 MHz for distance instead of bandwidth plus your signal quality is so so.
Are you sure you connected the external antennas correctly?
kkjfjns2014 wrote:I'm fairly technically inclined, so I'm pretty sure I got them on there right. Here is the setup.
I realize it will probably always be 4g because the tower is like 8 miles away. I randomly connected to 5g this morning for like 15 minutes i noticed and was getting like 15mb down. No idea how that worked our.
Since you were able to sign up for 5g home internet and you are unable to connect to 5g, I would take this up with Tmobile and if they can’t fix it, drop down to a 4G LTE plan if it’s cheaper.
