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Taking the 5G Wifi Gateway to places other than your home
I don't just use my Nokia 5G Home internet gateway at my home, I also take it to friends places, the public library, and it still works well and is stable while mobile with it. Shockingly, specific addresses where T-Mobile claims their 5g home internet isn't available, I take my gateway in that area and it works fine.
Has anybody else experimented with it in this way? I love patterns and have a curious mind.
I take mine to our cabin and it works great we have a tower across the lake. Use it for streaming, phone, internet always has a fast connection. That's one of the reasons I got T-Mobile. Just cause I'm not at home why should I have to pay for two cable services? I'm the same person using it. It's just a big portable WiFi!
I Love It
I think this post helps: https://www.reddit.com/r/tmobileisp/comments/q80kl0/using_tmhi_several_locations/
It appears they really aren't enforcing anything at the moment, but could whenever they decide to. Usually it's a safety measure added to their terms of use agreement in the event that someone abuses the network capacity in a way that affects a certain location and there isn't enough capacity to account for all the data being used by a single tower, node or cell site.
I wonder how big of a geofenced area the gateway is limited to… apparently, it's not tower-specific. Anyone know if it's zip-code, or county, or metro-area restricted?
