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TMobile Home Internet causes phones to not work
I have just recently started using TMobile Home Internet (the 5G Nokia device that looks like a tall coffee can). When the device is plugged in, our TMobile phones (multiple versions of iPhones) lose...
rwilson2 wrote:Speed vary a lot during the day - sometimes they are below 20Mbps too… But they still work for my needs.
I turned off the WiFi on my phone and I do now see 2 bars of signal. Not sure why the WiFi would affect my LTE signal (note: we have both a 4G iPhone and and 5G iPhone, and both see the problem). Also, my phone isn't connecting to the TMobile device's WiFi. Maybe I should just try turning that off too?
Update… find the problem, 3 phones & gateway competing for signal/bandwidth? Possible, inelegant solution is use VOIP (Wi-Fi-based calling) at home with call-forwarding… just beware at this point not all are compatible/supported (Google Voice purposely does).
