way to see if my tower near me is 5G

Before I got the T mobile home internet 5G gateway 5 days ago, about three weeks ago I had looked at coverage maps which showed my rural neighborhood had 5G coverage, but when I put in my address, I got “not available at your location.”

So I waited, and then the price dropped to $50 and incredibly, I tried for yet another time on the availability screen and it was available in my location this time, and I happily signed up. And it has been phenomenal, with the minimum of a 10x speed increase on both download and upload, and only $5 more than I was paying for DSL, good ping and no lag. I get a steady 3 bar signal, whereas my 4G phone often fluctuates to 1 bar.

However, if you have either a 5G phone, or you have the T mobile Home internet 5G gateway, the way to tell if you have 5G at the tower is by checking the Web Gateway User Interface (GUI) online at 192.168.12.1 (for the gateway anyway, not sure about the phone) and if it shows that you have both a Primary and Secondary signal, your tower has 5G and you are receiving it.

Maybe it's just me, or I'm missing something, but the app does not show my secondary signal, even when I have it according the to GUI. So people relying on the app for more detailed data are missing out on a lot by not using the GUI.

Here is an explanation of the role of 4G (Primary signal) in relation to today’s 5G from wiki’s writeup on 5G: “The new 5G wireless devices also have 4G LTE capability, as the new networks use 4G for initially establishing the connection with the cell, as well as in locations where 5G access is not available” 

The “cell” being referred to there is of course the coverage area surrounding a transceiver and antennas on the tower.