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t-monile home internet is barely providing basic data speeds sometimds.
My t-mobile internet, especially lately, has been the worst internet I have ever bought/dealt with. My wife with her iPhone 12 Pro gets medium 5g coverage most of the time at our house. Why does our ...
Log into the gateway (forget the app useless) open a web browser go to http://192.168.12.1/ primary and secondary signal info off the Overview first tab. Then Status tab and same primary and secondary info. You have to expand them with click the down arrow to see the data.
This is the data that shows your connection.
I'm seeing similar issues, I get 200mbps for a while then it drops to 3-4 mbps, power cycling the modem (Arcadian) sometime get's it back to 200. It has got to the point where I have a smart plug on the modem so I can power cycle it from my phone. I'm almost ready to start scripting the power cycle when the speed drops :-)
Here is a graph of the last 24hrs (speed test every 30 mins on both my primary T-Mobile Home Internet and backup AT&T Wireless Internet connections - policy based routing on pfSense to direct the speed test traffic)
I thought it might be falling back to 4g but bands are B2/N41 consistently with 4 bars each, the cell ID doesn't change, SINR, RSRQ and RSSI are stable and don't change when the speed drops. Pixel and iPhone both get consistently good speeds with manual tests when wifi is disabled and they are on the cell directly).
All test on gigabit ethernet (not wifi) from a linux VM on ProxMox server running speedtest-cli.
TMHI tech did some sort of remote reset / re-provision and it hasn't helped. They have me scheduled for a call back in a week and if it hasn't improved they want to swap out the modem.
[I’m software / network engineer, I work from home and my setup has a *lot* of monitoring]
