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slow streming
I only stream to watch tv (Netflix, appleTV, HBOmax etc.). Will my internet slow once I stream so much?
Your experience with the content delivery could be dependent upon the level of the service your plan is and load upon the uplink equipment. Also the quality of the cellular signals will be a factor. If your gateway receives at least 3-4 bars and the signals are clean service delivery should be good. There are some locations where users seem to experience delivery problems but not all users have service problems. Only time will tell if you are fortunate to be in a good place for service. If the cell tower equipment and upstream routers are all provisioned to carry the subscriber load it could be just fine. If there are periods of the day/night when bandwidth is more limited just keep in mind you can plan ahead and download some content during off peak hours for offline viewing.
iTinkeralot, do the bars represent speed or just reception? I always have three bars and my download speed is always around 250. If I had four or five bars, would my speed be greater? Not that I need more speed. Before I got my eero 6+, it was usually around 100. After the eero, it went up to 180, and then higher with T-Mobile. The upload speed now is what amazes me, though. It was always around 5 before T-Mobile, but now it's like 20!
iTinkeralot, I am going to have to print out all the helpful info you provide here. Thanks for the reboot tip, too. My gateway just says it's a T-Mobile 5G Gateway.
Mine is the cylinder. Fast.com showed my speed at 240 just now, while Ookla showed it as 306. This morning the eero app showed it as 362! There are no T-Mobile towers in my city, but there are two Sprint towers.
iTinkeralot wrote:
So with the Nokia gateway you have the cellular metrics available to you via the web browser interface and you can easily manage it. That is great. Those Sprint towers are probably upgraded and serving both subscribers.
Sorry, correction . . . I have the Arcadyan gateway.
iTinkeralot wrote:
I would guess your gateway connects to a cell with the n41 frequency given the speeds. If you have an iPhone you with 5G you could put it into Field Test Mode and confirm what it reports for cellular connection. It is probable that both would connect to the same tower. Here both my gateway and my iPhone 12 Pro do connect to the same cell. With the PCI values you could probably still confirm tower location through CellMapper.net. I don't know if the mobile application provides the cellular metrics for the Arcadyan gateway or not. I thought I had seen some posts where users had gathered the info with the mobile app. I seldom use it as it does not play nice on my iPhone. It tends to crash or just refuse to do anything but try to set up the gateway.
According to the information on the app store version 2.9 of the T-Mobile HI application is supposed to provide more information on the cellular metrics. That appears to have posted 2 weeks ago to the Apple app store. It only gets 2.8 stars so I don't expect great things. Maybe if all the settings are default it might work. If you have turned off the wireless radios on the gateway it for sure will not work.
Sorry, no iPhone ever. I have never seen the point of spending so much for a cell phone. I buy one Moto or other when one is on sale at Amazon or Motorola.
iTinkeralot wrote:
Well, in some ways that is good. You can get a network scanner application from the play store and there are a number of them that run on Android phones and they are quite good. The Apple phones don't allow the network scanners access so that is why I suggested Field Test Mode. I know CellMapper.net has an application that runs on Android. It is commonly used to find the cellular tower information and also with an account on cellmapper.net data from the findings can be uploaded to the database. That should provide metrics, assuming you have a 5G cell phone. If you only use a 4G LTE cell phone then it would only help for 4G information.
My phone is only 4G. My next one will be 5G. I'm waiting for a good sale price. :)
